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Nathan Bedford Forrest High School Jacksonville, Fla.
From: hk.edgerton@gmail.com
As I made my way to Jacksonville, I would be made aware of the hate filled
rhetoric that the NAACP had launched the night before to members of the alumni,
staff, and community about the Honorable General Nathan Bedford Forrest as they
lobbied to have his name removed from the High School.
I would arrive Wednesday morning at 5 AM, December 11, 2013, change into
the uniform of the Southern soldier, and because of the high volume of traffic
and members of the Forrest staff already arriving; I would phone the Honorable
Henry Russ, and post the Colors in the Public Easement at the front of the
school at 5:45 AM.
I have posted the Colors in many places over the past decade, but nothing
and nowhere I have ever done so would prepare me for the onslaught of hate
filled rhetoric that would come my way from the members of the public who would
pass me by on this dark morning.
By the time Mr. Russ would join me, the lights from the Police Traffic
Officer were already flashing and the Vice Principal and another Black male
would approach us. The Vice Principal would tell me that I would have to leave,
and that he didn't care about me being in support of not changing the school
name, but my Flag had to go. I told him he could forget it, and that and I was
in the Public easement expressing my First Amendment Rights. He said we are
going to see about that as he crossed the street and approached the Police
Officer to help him with his demands to forcibly have me removed. Failing to
secure help from this officer, he demanded that the Officer take his request to
a higher ranking person, and came back to inform me that he was working on my
removal.
I wish that I could spell the name of the young Black female who would come
and hold dialogue with us alongside a Black man and the other members of the
Sons of Confederate Veterans who had also now joined Mr. Russ and myself. It was
a spirited debate that would last for more than three hours about not only the
man who had been a true friend to the African people before, during, and after
the War for Southern Independence, but also about the Southern White man
who had tried so very hard to do the same. God bless them both for their decency
and willingness to hold meaningful dialogue.
We would be interviewed by several members of the press. I could not help
wondering how the Principal and his Vice as Black men could take a position at
Forrest High and not know or want to know about the man himself who was loved by
the people of his time, be they White, Black, Red, Brown, freed or indentured,
or the forty plus Black men who would ride by his side in honor during the whole
duration of the war.
The NAACP brings a new meaning to hate as they have accepted the monies
from the very people whose ancestors derailed the African people from the path
of social vertical mobility already taking place in the South as the whole of
the country moved toward the industrial revolution. The NAACP has now moved the
Dream of King to the back of the bus as he had forewarned them and his own
lieutenants would happen if they attacked the Confederate Flag; a Flag that
belongs to the Southern people and their ancestors who are left to protect it
and those who served under it.
The only reward for this treason will go to the poverty pimps and scant for
their organizations, and for those who put them up to it just like their
carpetbagger ancestors, a clear path for more stealing. Black folks duped again
as time will show very soon for those who commit this sacrilege. God bless
you.
Your brother,
HK
Your brother,
HK
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