South’s unlikeliest supporters/defenders

[Nelson3]

This is richeven if partly yankeefied by accident -- from the British guardian.co.uk, "one of the highest-traffic English-language news websites. According to its editor, The Guardian has the second largest online readership of any English-language newspaper in the world, after the New York Times" (Wikip).

The writer damns CHICAGO and gew York deliciously. I would like to clarify only one thing she says -- "Bigotry traverses the Mason-Dixon line, you see" -- more like "The Mason-Dixon line is the bigotry line."

SHNV

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Deep Prejudice About the Deep South</font></font></h1>

by</font>
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Jilani

The Guardian</font></font>
Edited by: Nelson3

[Nelson3]

This from HK Edgerton, former head of the Asheville NC NAACP! Have picketed with him against the oppressors of today's South many times.


<div style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;"> Open Report</div>
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<div style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">February has been deemed as so called Black History Month. And I
would like to thank DixieOutfitters, Ms. Lunelle Siegel and the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, the Order of the Confederate Rose, the
Sons of Confederate Veterans, Zaks Furniture of Tennessee,
DixieBarbecue of Johnson City, Tennessee, and so many individuals for
their supportin allowing me to present a side of history that has been
squashed from the memory of the American people of the role of the
African people in support of the Southland of America before during, and
after the War Between the States.</div>

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<div style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">My little brother Terry Lee and I would begin the month at the Lee
Jackson Banquet at the invitation of Commander TimMassey of the John
Hunt Morgan Camp 2053in Greenville, Tennessee.</div>
<div style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;"></div>
<div style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">Alongside the Honorable Ron Huff of the Jackson Rangers Sons of
Confederate Veterans, on February 5, 2011,I would speakto the eight
grade class in Charter Summit School located in Cashiers , North
Carolina. Thestanding ovations Ireceived by the class, it's history
teacher and principal was most heart warming.</div>

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<div style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">At the invitation of Lt. Commander Mike Heat of the Rebels In Grey
Sons of Confederate Veterans, to a full house at the Toxaway Baptist
Church in Union, South Carolina, I would again receive a very heart
warming standing ovation, not to mention the Tan Brain hat that I would
talk a mighty fine gentleman out of on the Battlefield where the Battle
of Oconee Countytakes place yearly.</div>

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<div style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">On President's Day, February 21, 2011, donned in the uniform of the
Southern soldier,I would arrive in Latta, South Carolina, home of the
Honorable young Candice Hardwick who needs no introductions. Andaround
6;00 AM, station myself across the street from the front door of Latta
High school.</div>

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<div style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">After 6 hours, I would be joined by young Candice in the vigil I
had staged that morning to the delight of so many who would pass and
those who would just gawk from the school house. I don't believe the
Principal was having a good day. Candice and I would spend another three
hours being championed by the students and community. God bless those
individuals from the houses where we stood who bought food and drink. It
had been a very long day. To a packed house at the Masonic Lodge in
downtown Latta, at the invitation of the Col.E.T. Stackhouse Sons of
Confederate Veterans Camp 1576, in honor of the contributions of
theAfrican people during the War Between the Statesand so called Black
History Month, I would praise Candice for her glorious stand for
Southern heritage andto a standing ovation, I would deliver the keynote
speech.</div>

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<div style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">Tuesday morning February 22, 2011, I would journey to East Flat
Rock, North Carolina , and alongside the Honorable Ms. Melissa Capps and
Mr. Harold Wilson father of the young Ms. Ms. Michaela Wilson, stage
another vigil outside the doors of Flat Rock Middle School where young
Michaela's Principal had banned her and other students from wearing
shirts that bore the Southern Cross.</div>

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<div style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">On February 24, 2011, the Asheville Tribune Newspaper coverwould
carry the following caption: Local Middle school: Guilty of Southern
cultural genocide.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;">To end out this month of so called Black History celebrations,I
would receive an email message from Ms. Devita Howellof Pensacola
Florida, whose young daughter attending Ferry Pass Elementary School had
chosen to do a report on myself for Black History Month, only to be
told that I had not done anything for the black community and that she
would have to choose someone else. Discrimination at it's very best! </div>