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Here is a video of Edgerton debating Don Lemon:
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The man behind the Rebel flag
by Clint Parker
The Asheville Tribune
Sept 26, 2002
An interview with local Southern heritage activist H.K. Edgerton on his
upcoming march to Texas, on his critics, and more
Editor’s note: On a fall afternoon Confederate flag waver and concerned Southern
historian H.K. Edgerton sat down with Tribune reporter Clint Parker for
an interview about his October walk to Texas.
H.K. Edgerton is a man of strong opinions, who is not afraid to speak his
mind. This was the case this week when Edgerton was interviewed about his
October walk from North Carolina to Texas.
Edgerton, the former head of the Asheville branch of the NAACP and for the
last five years a defender of the Confederate flag and other related causes,
plans to leave for Austin, Texas Monday, October 14th by foot. When asked
what he was doing, Edgerton responded with a big smile, “Walkin’ across Dixie.”
The official title of the project is “March Across Dixie” and,
according to Edgerton’s press release, has three purposes.
First, Edgerton says he wants to expand the awareness of the need to defend
Southern heritage, history and the rightfulness of the Confederate cause
here in the South and across the entire United States. The south had every
legal right to secede and never should have been attacked for wanting to do so.
Second, Edgerton views the walk as part of an educational effort to show
that Southern symbols are part of a proud heritage that should be defended,
not scorned, as many liberal politicians, media and special interests would
have you believe, he says. Southerners have a cultural experience of their own,
and that culture needs to be defended from historical revisionists. The current
‘segregation’ of Southern culture, and particularly the Flag, by the uneducated
liberals is no different from the ‘segregation’ that the blacks faced earlier.
Third, he plans to raise money and gain support to build a permanent heritage
defense fund to be split between the Southern Legal Resource Center and the
Sons of Confederate Veterans to guarantee “...our heritage and history
survives and prospers despite the current attacks.” “Lying about the south and
re-writing history so the people remain ignorant of what really happened only
continues to separate the races.” Edgerton says he hopes to raise $2 million.
According to Edgerton, the Southern Legal Resource Center, a non-profit law
firm that defends Southern heritage cases such as the flying of the
Confederate Flag, currently has 12 cases that are about to go before the US
Supreme court with hundreds of cases being phoned in “...all the time.”
“I’ve influenced a lot of babies across the south land to stand up,”
explains Edgerton, “Now they’re being sent home from school or forced to
remove their Cross of St. Andrew (the original name of what’s now known as
the Confederate Flag).” They’re calling on legal help from the center and
Edgerton wants to help raise money for their defense.
The 1,300 mile walk is a tall order for the 55-year-old man. He’ll be
carrying a Confederate flag the whole way. Edgerton plans to take the
journey 21 miles a day, six days a week. He plans to attend a local church
on Sundays, give speeches and “kiss a lot of babies.” He thinks the journey
will take about four months to complete.
Edgerton considers his crusade a “fight for civil rights” and says, “I’ve
fought for civil rights all my life and it doesn’t get any worse than this.
It’s high time to have education for black and white folks about Southern
history.”
Edgerton’s knowledge of the Civil War era differs greatly from what the usual
textbooks, which he calls northern propaganda, teach.
Edgerton instructs that secession was an act provided for in the U.S.
Constitution. No state had ever agreed to enter into a perpetual Union when
it ratified the Constitution, and the South was not the first to discuss the idea.
According to Edgerton, the New England states talked about secession during
the War of 1812, and in 1814 the New England Federalists even held a secession
convention in Connecticut.
Here are a few other insights Edgerton presented about the Civil War:
“Blacks fought for the South.”
“Lincoln fought the South to keep all the Southern tax money.”
“Southern generals have been made out to be traitors when they were very
honorable men.”
“Blacks could certainly walk around the south, but not around Lincoln’s
Illinois.”
“America will never ever be great until the truth (about the Civil War) is
told.”
“The only thing Lincoln did was to pit black and white against each other”
"The Constitution is what started the Civil War - taxes and states’ rights -
not slavery.”
“Many blacks were free and they even owned slaves.” (This was documented in
an Asheville Tribune article about the 1800s Sulfur Spring Resort in West
Asheville.)
“Most white folks didn’t even own slaves.”
“The first legalized slave was owned by a black man.”
According to Edgerton, the greatest Union desertion rates occurred just after
Lincoln announced his Emancipation Proclamation. Edgerton asserted, “Union
Soldiers said they didn’t get into to this war to save the
s.”
He believes the United States did a great disservice to the South after the
war. Edgerton points out, “We (the United States) rebuilt Germany and Japan
(after World War II), but we never rebuilt the south land. We need a
Marshall plan for the South and we need it now.”
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The man behind the Rebel flag
by Clint Parker
The Asheville Tribune
Sept 26, 2002
An interview with local Southern heritage activist H.K. Edgerton on his
upcoming march to Texas, on his critics, and more
Editor’s note: On a fall afternoon Confederate flag waver and concerned Southern
historian H.K. Edgerton sat down with Tribune reporter Clint Parker for
an interview about his October walk to Texas.
H.K. Edgerton is a man of strong opinions, who is not afraid to speak his
mind. This was the case this week when Edgerton was interviewed about his
October walk from North Carolina to Texas.
Edgerton, the former head of the Asheville branch of the NAACP and for the
last five years a defender of the Confederate flag and other related causes,
plans to leave for Austin, Texas Monday, October 14th by foot. When asked
what he was doing, Edgerton responded with a big smile, “Walkin’ across Dixie.”
The official title of the project is “March Across Dixie” and,
according to Edgerton’s press release, has three purposes.
First, Edgerton says he wants to expand the awareness of the need to defend
Southern heritage, history and the rightfulness of the Confederate cause
here in the South and across the entire United States. The south had every
legal right to secede and never should have been attacked for wanting to do so.
Second, Edgerton views the walk as part of an educational effort to show
that Southern symbols are part of a proud heritage that should be defended,
not scorned, as many liberal politicians, media and special interests would
have you believe, he says. Southerners have a cultural experience of their own,
and that culture needs to be defended from historical revisionists. The current
‘segregation’ of Southern culture, and particularly the Flag, by the uneducated
liberals is no different from the ‘segregation’ that the blacks faced earlier.
Third, he plans to raise money and gain support to build a permanent heritage
defense fund to be split between the Southern Legal Resource Center and the
Sons of Confederate Veterans to guarantee “...our heritage and history
survives and prospers despite the current attacks.” “Lying about the south and
re-writing history so the people remain ignorant of what really happened only
continues to separate the races.” Edgerton says he hopes to raise $2 million.
According to Edgerton, the Southern Legal Resource Center, a non-profit law
firm that defends Southern heritage cases such as the flying of the
Confederate Flag, currently has 12 cases that are about to go before the US
Supreme court with hundreds of cases being phoned in “...all the time.”
“I’ve influenced a lot of babies across the south land to stand up,”
explains Edgerton, “Now they’re being sent home from school or forced to
remove their Cross of St. Andrew (the original name of what’s now known as
the Confederate Flag).” They’re calling on legal help from the center and
Edgerton wants to help raise money for their defense.
The 1,300 mile walk is a tall order for the 55-year-old man. He’ll be
carrying a Confederate flag the whole way. Edgerton plans to take the
journey 21 miles a day, six days a week. He plans to attend a local church
on Sundays, give speeches and “kiss a lot of babies.” He thinks the journey
will take about four months to complete.
Edgerton considers his crusade a “fight for civil rights” and says, “I’ve
fought for civil rights all my life and it doesn’t get any worse than this.
It’s high time to have education for black and white folks about Southern
history.”
Edgerton’s knowledge of the Civil War era differs greatly from what the usual
textbooks, which he calls northern propaganda, teach.
Edgerton instructs that secession was an act provided for in the U.S.
Constitution. No state had ever agreed to enter into a perpetual Union when
it ratified the Constitution, and the South was not the first to discuss the idea.
According to Edgerton, the New England states talked about secession during
the War of 1812, and in 1814 the New England Federalists even held a secession
convention in Connecticut.
Here are a few other insights Edgerton presented about the Civil War:
“Blacks fought for the South.”
“Lincoln fought the South to keep all the Southern tax money.”
“Southern generals have been made out to be traitors when they were very
honorable men.”
“Blacks could certainly walk around the south, but not around Lincoln’s
Illinois.”
“America will never ever be great until the truth (about the Civil War) is
told.”
“The only thing Lincoln did was to pit black and white against each other”
"The Constitution is what started the Civil War - taxes and states’ rights -
not slavery.”
“Many blacks were free and they even owned slaves.” (This was documented in
an Asheville Tribune article about the 1800s Sulfur Spring Resort in West
Asheville.)
“Most white folks didn’t even own slaves.”
“The first legalized slave was owned by a black man.”
According to Edgerton, the greatest Union desertion rates occurred just after
Lincoln announced his Emancipation Proclamation. Edgerton asserted, “Union
Soldiers said they didn’t get into to this war to save the
s.”He believes the United States did a great disservice to the South after the
war. Edgerton points out, “We (the United States) rebuilt Germany and Japan
(after World War II), but we never rebuilt the south land. We need a
Marshall plan for the South and we need it now.”
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