Black Man Carries Confederate Flag From NC TO Texas

Spartanburg Herald-Journal ^ | Oct.16,2002 | Tony Mator

[N8VTXNinWV]

here's ya a big ole southern pinger.....

[nanny]

[Both the NAACLP and the Ku Klux Klan are hopping mad and lying down in the same bed for once -]

Isn't that too funny'

I found the quote from the 'Civil War Buff' [ Rydin, who called the Confederate flag a symbol of slavery, said the North did not commit any more crimes than the South did during the war. He mentioned an incident when Southern soldiers bayoneted a group of black men for supporting the Union army], a little strange. He made it sound as if they were out getting petitions signed or having a protest and carrying signs. You know, just peaceful demonstrations.

I do hope his quote of reparations, if true, was sarcasm.

Someone posted his route the other day, is there a website we can keep up with his progress? He will be coming quite close, Texas speaking, to where I live.

[STONEWALLS]

"Civil War buff and Flat Rock resident Ted Rydin, who is white, said Edgerton’s view on war crimes and reparations “is so far out of line I can’t believe it. It just doesn’t make any sense at all.”

.....I take Rydin's comments with a grain of salt.....Flat Rock is an upscale community full of retirees from all over the country.....the South is merely a geographic convenience for many folks these days....they have no loyalty to it because they have no family history connected with it....

Good luck to everybody!

Stonewalls

[Non-Sequitur]

So should I take that to mean that you believe that one of the purposes of Mr. Edgerton's walk is in support of reparations for the south? And if so then how can you and he claim that reparations for southerners is appropriate but reparations for slave decendents is not?

[rebelyell]

Tell us the truth...did some mean old Southern boy steal your girlfriend back in the 10th grade? You have an unnatural obsession with attacking anything to do with The South. Change your handle to yankee troll and we might take you more seriously.

[STONEWALLS]

"So should I take that to mean that you believe that one of the purposes of Mr. Edgerton's walk is in support of reparations for the south? And if so then how can you and he claim that reparations for southerners is appropriate but reparations for slave decendents is not?"

...it sounds like Edgerton's support of reparations for the South is a tit-for-tat comeback at the idea of black reparations....my view is that nobody should get reparations...BUT...I'm open to the concept of black reparations as a 'one-time last-time' solution to the divisiveness engendered by preferences, set asides, quotas, carve outs ect....as a country we've got to figure a way out of that mess or I expect we're headed for race war...

Good luck to everybody!

Stonewalls

[Non-Sequitur]

Tell us the truth...did some mean old Southern boy steal your girlfriend back in the 10th grade?

No, all the women I dated had a preference for men with all their teeth and who bathed regularly. Even though I was stationed in Charleston for almost 9 years I still had the good sense to marry an Ohio girl I met at school in Rhode Island.

As I pointed out before, I had no qualms with Mr. Edgerton or his march. I think that some of the statements that he has made were wrong but I was prepared to debate them. But then he interjects this totally bogus bullsh*t about southern reparations. If he truly believes that then he has drifted from heritage supporter to southron clown because because I can't see any difference at all between this kind of reparations and the slave reparations. How can someone say that they believe one is justified without the other being justified as well?

Now, having said that how about you taking a stand? Where are you on the question of reparations? Care to lay out your position or will you cut and run?

[The Southern Right Winger]

I thinking he was joking. However I would point out that America the South would be a better place if we had gotten a Marshall plan instead of Reconstruction. It is too late for that now since the people who were oppressed are long since dead but "we" sure took care of Germany better than Alabama.

[Non-Sequitur]

I thinking he was joking.

I hope he was. I fear he wasn't.

[Non-Sequitur]

I thinking he was joking.

I hope he was. I fear he wasn't.

[4CJ]

Godspeed Mr. Edgerton, this is one Southerner that thanks you and is dang proud of what you're doing

You have company - many are proud and thank Mr. Edgerton for his service. Deo vindice.

[mhking]

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[don-o]

I would hope Mr Edgerton was being somewhat sarcastic considering the argument coming from the far left.

He mentioned the same reparations thing to me is a conversation I had with him. I did not press the subject, nor can I speak for him. But, I would take it as a rhetorical device to counter the silly, yet serious goal of certain ones to receive reparations for slavery.

[Liz]

Must be a FReeper.