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Black Confederate-flag supporter irks some on march to Texas
AP ^ | October 27, 2002

Posted on 10/27/2002 5:22:25 PM PST by stainlessbanner

CANTON, Ga.(AP) - H.K. Edgerton is a proud black Southerner who has no grievance with the Confederate battle flag.

And he's willing to march 1,500 miles across the South from Asheville, N.C., to Austin, Texas, decked out in a gray Civil War uniform and waving the Rebel flag to bring attention to the flag issue.

Edgerton sees the banner as a symbol of Southern heritage shared by blacks and whites rather than one of racial division.

"We were family," said Edgerton. He was in the Canton, north of Atlanta, on Saturday to visit Cherokee High School before marching west to Montgomery, Ala., on Monday.

In September, school administrators banned its overwhelming white student body from wearing to class anything depicting the Confederate battle flag.

Edgerton's "March Across Dixie" began earlier this month in Asheville, where he was a former president of the local NAACP. He's also a board member of the Southern Legal Resource Center, a nonprofit group that provides legal support to people fighting efforts to remove symbols of the Confederacy.

Edgerton blamed Northern reconstructionists for pitting blacks and whites against each other after the Civil War.

"This is Dr. Martin Luther King's dream, that we would all sit down at the same table together," he said.

But some Canton residents disagreed with Edgerton.

"He's an outsider from another state who doesn't know what he's talking about," said Krystal Thomas, a 1999 graduate of Cherokee High, where administrators in September banned students from wearing anything depicting the emblem.

"It's not the flag itself but the attitudes of the people who were wearing them," Thomas said.

Michael Julian Bond, duty director of the Atlanta NAACP, had stronger words about Edgerton's view.

"Nobody can argue with the fact we want racial harmony," Bond said in Sunday's editions of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "but for anyone to think that the Confederate flag is a unifying symbol must be utterly mad."

Edgerton hopes to reach Austin by mid-February. He'll ask officials there to put back plaques honoring Texas Confederate veterans . The plaques were removed from the lobby of the Texas Supreme Court in 2000.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: confederate; dixie; dixielist; flag; heritage; honor; south
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1 posted on 10/27/2002 5:22:26 PM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: *dixie_list; archy; BurkeCalhounDabney; bluecollarman; RebelDawg; viligantcitizen; ...
HK Bump!
2 posted on 10/27/2002 5:23:08 PM PST by stainlessbanner
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Black conservative ping

If you want on (or off) of my black conservative ping list, please let me know via FREEPmail. (And no, you don't have to be black to be on the list!)

Extra warning: this is a high-volume ping list.

3 posted on 10/27/2002 5:23:33 PM PST by mhking
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To: stainlessbanner
Michael Julian Bond and his ilk are the ones who want to keep the race card alive.
4 posted on 10/27/2002 5:23:50 PM PST by goldstategop
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To: stainlessbanner
"Nobody can argue with the fact we want racial harmony," Bond said in Sunday's editions of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution"

You ain't foolin nno one you race hustler
5 posted on 10/27/2002 5:26:05 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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To: stainlessbanner
Uh oh. Damage control. It looks like a slave has escaped from the Democrat/liberal Thought Control plantation.
6 posted on 10/27/2002 5:28:17 PM PST by LiberalBuster
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To: LiberalBuster
Edgerton blamed Northern reconstructionists for pitting blacks and whites against each other after the Civil War.

Sure it was. What about before and during the war? From Article II, Section VII of the 1861 Georgia Constitution.

1. The importation or introduction of negroes from any foreign country, other than the slave-holding States or Territories of the United States of America, is forever prohibited.
2. The General Assembly may prohibit the introduction of negroes from any State; but they shall have no power to prevent immigrants from bringing their slaves with them.
3. The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves.

7 posted on 10/27/2002 5:36:48 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: stainlessbanner
Just a note of interest.

I have a book of photgraphs from the War of Northern Aggression. In this is a photo of Confederate prisoners from the 5th Virginia Cavalry. In the first row are at least 3 and possibly 5 blacks. I thought that was very interesting...
8 posted on 10/27/2002 5:47:28 PM PST by dixierat22
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To: stainlessbanner
Bump
9 posted on 10/27/2002 5:48:59 PM PST by Fiddlstix
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To: LiberalBuster
Mr. Edgerton will be entering Alabama soon. I wonder if he was aware that the Alabama Constitution adopted in 1861 contained the following clause, "No slave in this State shall be emancipated by any act done to take effect in this State, or any other country?" Or that in the 1840's the Alabama legislature seriously considered legislation that would have deported all free blacks to Africa and charged the county they were living in for the passage? But, like he said, it's all Reconstruction's fault, isn't it?
10 posted on 10/27/2002 5:50:55 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: dixierat22
I have a book of photgraphs from the War of Northern Aggression. In this is a photo of Confederate prisoners from the 5th Virginia Cavalry. In the first row are at least 3 and possibly 5 blacks. I thought that was very interesting...

That would be the same Virginia whose Constitution adopted in 1861 contained the clause, "Slaves hereafter emancipated shall forfeit their freedom by remaining in the Commonwealth more than twelve months after they become actually free, and it shall be the duty of the General Assembly to prescribe proper regulations for reducing such negroes to slavery." Now do you suppose that the men in the picture where slaves or just serving time in the army before being reduced to slavery again?

11 posted on 10/27/2002 5:54:33 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: stainlessbanner
"He's an outsider from another state who doesn't know what he's talking about," said Krystal Thomas, a 1999 graduate of Cherokee High..

Go change yer diaper, kid.

12 posted on 10/27/2002 5:55:14 PM PST by TomServo
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To: stainlessbanner
Julian Bond wants racial harmony... HA! He has to keep races divided or he doesn't get paid.
13 posted on 10/27/2002 5:59:33 PM PST by Levy78
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To: dixierat22
Can you post this picture? There is nothing as refreshing as REALITY!
14 posted on 10/27/2002 6:12:03 PM PST by Graewoulf
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To: Non-Sequitur
Well, well, well, doesn't the title of this thread just tell it all?
15 posted on 10/27/2002 6:17:41 PM PST by shuckmaster
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To: stainlessbanner; All
In case you all haven't figured it out by now, ol' "Stainless" here is one of those "Johnnie One-Note" types of FReeper that we get on occasion. The ONLY thing he ever posts, the only posts he ever replies to, are about the Rise of the New Confederacy(tm).

Yeah, he and a few others like him have their heads firmly stuck an entire century and a half ago, and why they think the rest of us care so deeply as they do about their "History Channel Live" fantasies is really, truly beyond me.

16 posted on 10/27/2002 6:20:48 PM PST by Illbay
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To: dixierat22
In the first row are at least 3 and possibly 5 blacks.

Those were the GUARDS, meathead!

17 posted on 10/27/2002 6:21:56 PM PST by Illbay
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To: Illbay
Search on my posts, jackson - I post on lots of issues. I just posted an article on BBQ. I mostly try to avoid antagonists such as yourself.

I noticed you didn't have any comment on the article, you chose to attack the poster. Some things never change.

18 posted on 10/27/2002 6:32:18 PM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner
Bravo, H.K. Edgerton, for taking a brave stance deserving of respect and honor.

As for the war -
"It's the economy, stupid."
The North was jealous of Southern prosperity and tried enacting Byzantine legislation, which would hogtie the South & promote the interests of the North. When that failed, they devised other means, including armed aggression, to achieve their ends. Finally, when the Union was losing both popular support and the war, the Northern stratagists whipped up the populace over slavery, which was previously a non-issue, and thus forever branded the South as racist in it's entirety.

A number of hisorical studies have shown that slavery in the South was steadily declining & would have died out naturally in another 20 or 30 years. The North however, couldn't afford to wait because of their declining economy.

Have faith - the times, they are a changin'.

FReegards,
RebelTex

Rebel Flag Texas Flag

19 posted on 10/27/2002 6:49:00 PM PST by RebelTex
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"Damage control. It looks like a slave has escaped from the Democrat/liberal Thought Control plantation."

Bingo!

20 posted on 10/27/2002 6:50:38 PM PST by sweetliberty
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