Field Negro (HK Edgerton), Supports the Confederate Flag...

[Teresa]

 HK Edgerton travels to different Southern States, supporting the Confederate Flag. During a time when most African Americans, are in protest against the Confederate Flag Flying above State Capitals and on federal funded buildings and grounds. Tax paying citizens , whose money is used , for State purposes, yet who's voice, isn't heard when it comes to the symbol of Confederacy. 

 

" I find it hypocritical that I could fly the Confederate flag, calling it,"Southern Pride" but If I were to fly the Nazi Germany flag, calling it,"Aryan Pride" I would get beat. There's no penalty for the Confederate flag, then why the Nazi flag? Under these Flags wars were started ,  blacks were hated , and they both started multiple racist cults. What's the damn difference?!", is what a protester said when he wanted to fly a Nazi Flag.

 

The Confederate Flag , is a  symbol of oppression, that continues to remind us of what use to be, and to its supporters , what it still should be . The South's Secession from the Union was because, of there unwillingness to free the slaves, although many talking heads will dispute this fact.

On the other side, Confederate Flag Supporters say that it's all about Southern Pride, honoring the soldiers that fought , and the Flag being the True representation of the South which in my opinion is nothing to be proud of !

 

Is there any thing substantial, that an African American can use, as an argument , supporting the Confederacy ?, and why is it that you can't Fly a Nazi Flag, without reprimand ?

[Mark Wells]

I'LL DON'T THINK THERE'S A MORE DISRESPECTED PEOPLE IN THE WORLD THAN PEOPLE OF COLOR IN AMERICA; BUT THEN AGAIN, WHEN THERE'S NO UNITY AND LOVE AMONGST US ;THINGS LIKE THIS CAN SURVIVE BECAUSE IT'S OPPONENTS ARE NOT IN THE RIGHT MENTAL CONDITION TO FIGHT INTELLIGENTLY !!! 

 

[Teresa]

The conditions that we were placed under, configured the characters, that  we all see today. From the Uncle Toms, to the Thugs, baby momas etc. . With out that knowledge to help us cross over the obstacles placed before us, most of us don't know what to do, how to do it, and where to do it at, and then you have some that just don't want to know. I'm using bait, to lure some of them into my site, then i'm going to switch up on them...lol...

[Mark Wells]

I WONDER HOW MUCH THIS BROTHER GOT PAID!!??

[Teresa]

Just the attention of a ________ is good enough for him. He's been in Columbia SC recently, making a fool of himself. You should have seen the crazy looks, that even the white people were giving him. He is truly a representation of a Black Man who hates who he is, and doesn't respect what little he knows.

[Teresa]

The " Mental State ", which (i believe), isn't that stable . There are a lot of videos , on youtube with him, traveling around the South promoting this flag, and he doesn't seem to be all there. Just like you said, " you can justify just about anything ", look at how the slave master used the bible to justify there treatment of our ancestors...

[Eric HannaH]

This man is Crazy as H**L..............

[Teresa]

You are RIGHT ! ! ! LOL !

[thor bergers]

yes   there  is  the  next. the  nazis  are being  considered  as the  epiphany  of evil   after  the second  world war. how  could  the, according to many,  the  most civilised  nation  of the then  world,  germany,   sink  so low   so  quickly, to become  the  most  evil  empire  of the world. worse  than   now  north  korea. it was  the evil that  had become visible,  and that  had annhilated  not  only 6 million jews, but  equally gays,   gypsies, schizofrenics, communists,  and some  i forget.

that  evil   was  so unexplicable  that  after the war  its  problems created new philosophies  in france  and italy. and it   was   soit  out together  with its  symbols. like  the  nazi  flag   and the   ss  logo.  but germany  as such,  again,  is a civilised respected nation;   non in the least  cause  germans  themselves  distanced  themselves  from  tihis horrid  past, that  the declared  an episode  and quarantained.

so there  are two aspects,  a limited period  of time    whose  evil  has  been engrained  in the collective memory  of everyone,   both  victim  and   actor. and even  then  there  are negationists that deny anything bad  ever  happened.

but  society  at large  sees those  as what  they really are. sick dangerous  people.

as  for  the confederation and its flag,   there is a double  problem... even  if  for the blacks,  or afroamericans,   slavery  and the  forced  transition  from  africa  to  america,  is the definition   of pore  evil,  as  nothing  else,   it s not  like that  for most other  americans. nazism to  an afro american  is less  evil  than  the slavery,   yet  the whites in america ( that even got the nerve  to call themselves  americans,  instead  of  euroamericans,  as  if  there  a category  of pure  americans  and  an  inferior group  of  imported  ones)  don t feel  the savagery  of slavery, cause  they  did  not live it.

and  of course what you  did  not feel,   can t hurt  you that much.

there is  another  problem.   right  after  the  end  of the secession war, most  southern states  started  to enact  jim crow  laws, and if you are honest,  some  still do that.

so the  period never  has been ended,   and the flag partly  symbolises  that  in the south  those  ideas   of the slavery days  are  not  yet seen  as evil,  only  hostoric....

and then  what  is wrong  with    living your  own history,   that  s the  excuse.

so the flag  is more a symptom of    an existing pest, rather  than   something  else...

and the  one thing to  do, is , make it clear to all  citizens how  evil  slavery  really  was

[Teresa]

Thank you for that well thought out comment Thor. The comparisons, are actually two similar realities for the victims but for  African Americans this is a never ending story of institutionalized passive enslavement of a people. To continue to fly this flag is to totally disreguard another's suffering and to not see the wrong, which is sick !

[thor bergers]

yes indeed...suppose us, just   for   a minute, that  the city  of  hamburg still would fly a nazi  flag, just   for historic reasons, or  that a  former ss general would be organising  summercamps based  on honor and dignity. it   s  not only   about similar  realities for the victims, yet  most  germans,  descendants  of the  perpretators, are  even   shocked  by the  acts  of their parents. and   that, i think,  is the  main  difference between the two similarities. even   if   a lot  of africans  only immigrated  to  the states  since Teddy Kennedy made  immigration  more easily, they   still  are all or most identified   with   second class kind  of citizen. and  in the  face of  todays actual    or subliminal  harrassment,      flying    symbols  of a past self acclaimed   supremacy   only  adds  insult   to injury.

the  fact  that so many  mainstream americans don t  get  bothered  over   this, i think, shows  that the individual and  impressive  careers  of so many,    does  not  trickle  down to all afro  americans. that  is a very  worrysome    thing.  a solution  to that, i don t  simply  have to offer. it should  be more than being  upset   by symbols, but how  that you  can have the   american  masses become  genuinly be sorry   for the  slavery days,   which not  only  was  limited  to  the  confederacy, is one   of the main issues  to tackle, before america  can really   declare  itself  the land  of the free. some  times  i do think comparisons  may help to clarify   how  un tenable   some   positions   are, after  all thousands of american  families,    of every  corner  race   and opinion  were  willing  to send their sons to be killed  on the battlefields  of europe,   to eradicate  the  evil  of nazism, yet   can t  see and recognise  the onliving even more  cruel  evil   at home.