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Black Man Carries Confederate Flag From NC TO Texas
Spartanburg Herald-Journal ^ | Oct.16,2002 | Tony Mator

Posted on 10/16/2002 4:10:42 AM PDT by Captain Shady

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To: Captain Shady
Day 2
42 posted on 10/16/2002 2:48:54 PM PDT by don-o
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To: Non-Sequitur
>I thinking he was joking.
I hope he was. I fear he wasn't.

It's pretty clear to me that he was. We say things like that (and worse) all the time here.

It's a statement designed to draw attention to the fact that the question of who owes whom isn't as simplistic as the mainstream reparations crowd would have it. That's why we often respond with "Hey, where's my reparations for X?" We don't really want it, but it's a way of letting the pro-rep folks know that the road they're travelling won't lead to where they want it to go.

I think that his actions prove that this person is for real. He's literally walking the walk.

43 posted on 10/16/2002 3:37:37 PM PDT by pupdog
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To: don-o
Thanks for the day 2 info. I'm sorry I haven't been able to respond to all ,since I was busy at work on first shift today .Men like Mr. Edgerton are rare in this day and time. I'm thankful that my local paper included this article.
44 posted on 10/16/2002 3:39:46 PM PDT by Captain Shady
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To: Captain Shady
Men like Mr. Edgerton are rare in this day and time. I'm thankful that my local paper included this article.

And you did well in getting it posted first thing this morning. All Southrons on the March route should follow your lead.

March Map

45 posted on 10/16/2002 3:58:29 PM PDT by don-o
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To: don-o
PING!!
46 posted on 10/16/2002 4:12:04 PM PDT by varina davis
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
You have company - many are proud and thank Mr. Edgerton for his service. Deo vindice.

So true, our hearts are with him.

47 posted on 10/16/2002 4:13:38 PM PDT by varina davis
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To: Captain Shady; Gracey; The Bat Lady; DrewsDad; TheSarce; basil; tarawa; TXBubba
Hey, y'all see this? Should the HOT Chapter arrange to meet Mr. Edgerton when he gets to Austin?
48 posted on 10/16/2002 4:20:06 PM PDT by austingirl
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To: Captain Shady
Big Dixie Bump and a Rebel YELL to go with it. HE is making a good point aganinst slave reparations and all the PC attitude towards southern heritage.
49 posted on 10/16/2002 4:30:58 PM PDT by dalebert
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To: BurkeCalhounDabney
I never thought I'd live to see the day when a black man carried the confederate flag.... maybe I was dead wrong, here: old thread where I argued with BurkeCalhounDabney

"Southern Redneck Conspiracy"... when is the album coming out? I'll buy it.

50 posted on 10/16/2002 4:32:14 PM PDT by Rytwyng
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To: Captain Shady
He said the North stole their gold, raped their women, and after the war was over, robbed them of their history.

Yep, send me my check!

51 posted on 10/16/2002 4:45:23 PM PDT by RightWinger
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To: Captain Shady
btt
52 posted on 10/16/2002 6:03:06 PM PDT by don-o
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To: pupdog
I would feel better if it weren't for the fact that a significant number of southerners have joined in on 'The Other Reparations Movement'. As evidenced by this link people like DiLorenzo himself are 'walking the walk' in that direction. Perhaps Mr. Edgerton does as well?
53 posted on 10/16/2002 6:24:53 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: goldstategop
No doubt Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will shortly denounce him as a tool of the Southern redneck conspiracy.

LOL -- and the KKK will be calling it "the Northern blackneck conspiracy"!

Maybe Al and Jesse and Professor Jefferies and Cynthia Tucker of the Atlanta Constitution and Sheila Jackson Lee could all get together with the local Klavern over bourbon and branch at the nearest red-neck watering hole and figure it all out! Then at least they'd all be on the same page about who to blame for Mr. Edgerton. It would become a historic meeting: the Dew Drop Inn Compact of 2002. It'd go down in history.

Any takers for that one?

55 posted on 10/17/2002 7:52:57 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Non-Sequitur
'The Other Reparations Movement' Well, hell, boy, as long as we're drinking on the Yankee North, let's just line 'em up on the bar, and everyone gets a turn!

Indians up first, then the black people, then the South .... then the Chinese....and who else have we got? Anyone else like some? The Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and Columbia classes of 1940 through 2001 are paying......

56 posted on 10/17/2002 7:58:11 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus
....and New England, and New York State, and Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and New Jersey......come on, boys, get the money up!
57 posted on 10/17/2002 7:59:28 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: Captain Shady
"Civil War buff and Flat Rock resident Ted Rydin, "

Flat Rock is Lincoln Country, courtesy of "Connamara"(sp?)Carl Sandberg's home which is located there. Because he wrote, what at the time was the definitive biography of Lincoln, Sandberg is revered by those who can afford to live around his old farm home.

58 posted on 10/17/2002 8:03:54 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: goldstategop
H.K Edgerton bump! Both the NAACLP and the Ku Klux Klan are hopping mad and lying down in the same bed for once - how dare a black man celebrate the South???

H.K. Edgerton is marching because he found some boobs that will give him more than 15 minutes of fame.

Walt

59 posted on 10/17/2002 8:18:38 AM PDT by WhiskeyPapa
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To: catfish1957; THUNDER ROAD; Beach_Babe; TexConfederate1861; TomServo; LibKill; ...
DAY 3 Wednesday October 16, 2002
HK CROSSES INTO SOUTH CAROLINA REACHES GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA 22 MILES

Entered South Carolina on Old Highway 25 at 9:45 AM greeted by Melissa Capps and her young son and Robert Owings of the Pickens Camp. Proceeded down Old 25. Seven miles down the mountain, our host in Flat Rock, Michael Arrowood and his friend Christie met us and walked 2 miles with us. Another Gentleman and his wife joined us at the 10 mile marker and walked a couple of miles with us. Lots of people stopped along the way to give us water, support and love. A man from the Pickens Camp and his son brought us lemonade.

When we arrived on New Highway 25 we met 3 ladies, Becky Westmoreland, Claire Cummins and her daughter Mary Jo, brought us water and crackers and a donation, took 20 pledge forms.

The ladies and I were interviewed by WYFF TV in Spartanburg and Bob Dill of the the Times Examiner stopped to take pictures and drop off copies of the Times with my handsome self on the front page. Greenville News also came by for an interview and because of the abysmal ignorance of the reporter, I delivered to the young man a free history lecture - no charge.

We then walked into Travelers Rest and was stopped by several people including a student at Greenville High School, Chelsea, who will report on the march to her school. At a local gas station, Liza Henson and her friends threw an impromptu party for us. Dimples & Bentley Willis, lifelong Black residents of Travelers Rest, told us how very proud of us and our March they were, and wished us Godspeed. We walked half a mile further to the stopping point, the intersection of Highway 25 and Highway 123. Total miles for the day was 22.

A young man from Camp 1987 Capt P. D. Gilreath from Greer, SC brought a donation from his Camp and his Mother. We will publish his letter on the webpage - but my warmest thanks to all my compatriots in Greer.

Thank you Robert Owings of the Pickens Camp for all your help & support.

TOMORROW: Easley and Liberty SC.

Respectfully Submitted,
HK Edgerton

PLEDGE TODAY!

60 posted on 10/17/2002 8:20:58 AM PDT by shuckmaster
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