Posted on 07/04/2005 8:34:24 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
Good. Words.
HK on the move!
I hope he walks right past Wlat's house.
Kweesee history bump...
I wish I could march with him!! I think many of us do... God bless him!! Yes, it's about heritage and not hate. We love HK!
He might want to be careful. Does he know what happened to Martin Luther King when he started talking about a colorblind society and freedom and heritage?
Edgerton is an anomaly!
Sure,one can admire his courage and iconoclasm but please,people,he NO WAY represents anything close to black sentiments on this issue.
Every black person I have ever known,in a school,work,or social setting,has never had anything but scorn for that Confederate Flag.
And thats North and South,liberal and conservative,young and old.
That doesn't mean they are RIGHT.I think many of the white,pro-flag folks are motivated by true love of heritage,not racist hate mongering.I'll take their word on that even though it still makes ME,a Northern bred white guy,uncomfortable.
Yet to pass Edgerton off as someone who represents some below the radar mass of black flag supporters is completely ludicrous.
So......I guess the strategy should be to perpetuate the leftist PC view of this?
Mr. Edgerton is NOT an anomaly if you actually follow SCV/UDC and Southern cultural events. You might be surprised, but if you just follow the MSM, you're not getting the entire story.
There's a lot folks who hate Old Glory, too but I don't hang around them.
Then you have never met any of the 40% of Mississippi black voters who voted to keep the Confederate Battle Banner on the state flag of Mississippi a few years ago.
And just how many black people do you really know? Far less than the number who support the flying of the Confederate flag I'll bet.
"The Rebel flag has always been a big part of the south, they ought to keep it there"
An indictment of public education. The flag has no more historical business flying over Blount Country than it does over Boston Massachusetts. As we discussed on the other thread, Blount County was strongly pro-Union during the war. The county voted by over four to one to stay in the Union.
If they want to embrace their heritage and honor their Unionist forefathers, they should choose another symbol than the flag that their ancestors were so opposed to.
Oh, Lordy! Call an ambulance! There's going to be an apoplexy explosion!
Tell the EMS guys to wear latex gloves....and DON'T tell them they're going to fetch an apoplectic scalawag!
And as someone may have failed to point out to you, the people in Blount County were bound by that vote to secede with the majority of their fellow-citizens, who in the whole, acting as their State, were the sovereign power and were authorized to take the step of secession, and to bind everyone in the State to the will of the whole People thereof.
What a silly statement! What sort of basis of comparison is that? Every person only knows a limited number of people -- what is your point?
he is just one of the million or so black CSA descendants, who has re-discovered their Confederate HERITAGE. (over 100,000 brave, black southerners volunteered & fought VALIANTLY for a FREE dixie republic. to quote Nate Forrest, "better rebels never drew breath!")
every day that passes, more and more black southerners cleave to the Cross of St Andrew & become SOUTHRON, which is quite different than being a southerner.
MANY black, loyal, southron patriots are joining the SCV & UDC. (i wish that EVERY one of them would!)
free dixie,sw
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