Timothy Fredrikson - 10/29/2010 Status Comment HK ... Once again ... YOU stand as one of the few voices of reason, & of THE TRUTH, in a world that chooses to put on blinders, & throw a wet blanket over anything that even "offends" them ... for whatever petty reason that they may have!! It has been proven over & over again that it doesn't matter that it's an important part of [...]
Bill Thereptile - 10/29/2010 Status Comment I knew when I met you some 15 years ago that you were a history maker and I see now you are a history preserver. We had a great conversation over the course of the next few years concerning Your knowledge and my Great grandmothers memories of a post civil war life in North Carolina. I proudly call you my friend and I will never forget [...]
Gail Callicott - 10/29/2010 Status Comment Thank you, Mr HK. Always a voice of reason and reasonable questions. I think if there were more people who could see this, for what it is.....we would ALL be better off. Black OR white.
Debbie Smithson - 10/29/2010 Status Comment It is a crying shame that we have such ignorant people sitting on the bench. We must continue the fight for the truth to be exposed so that our children and grandchildren can wave the Confederate flag with Honor and Dignity it is our heritage and our right as Southeners to do so. Despite the white supremist who have adopted the flag for their own purposes. [...]
Back to the main articles page An Open Report / The Irony / The Appeal Of Ms. Candice Hardwick On October 27, 2010, as I exited the security check point of the 4th Circuit court in Richmond, Virginia where the Honorable Attorney Kirk D. Lyons was set to argue the appeal of young Candice Hardwick of Latta, South Carolina, I would be approached and greeted by a Black U.S. Marshal. Great shirt, [...]
Confederate records found By Carole Hawkins Staff Writer Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010 Daphne Hopson, clad in white gloves, slowly opened the document. It was amber with age and slightly lighter along the creases where transparent tape once kept it from tearing. "I don't want to hurt it," she said. Spidery handwriting inside revealed it was a muster roll from the Thomson Guards, a McDuffie County company that had been part of the [...]
Virginia Text Will Be Revised; Black Confederates, Brown Bear To Be Removed October 26, 2010 by Bill Chappell The Virginia history textbook that sparked outrage by claiming that thousands of blacks fought on the side of the Confederacy during the Civil War will be amended, its publisher says. Until the new books are available, the publisher, Five Ponds Press, is reportedly offering white stickers to cover up the sentence, which reads: "Thousands [...]
History in class, not a fairytale The Amherst New Era-Progress October 27, 2010 History — the events of the past that make up our collective experience — are immutable and carved in stone. The interpretation of those events, however, are as malleable as a lump of clay. That was brought home this week when news trickled out that a new Virginia history textbook, distributed this fall in fourth grades across the Old [...]
The First Amendment protects hate speech even when it's disguised as heritage Fly Your Flag, Lady by Dwayne Green If neo-Nazis have a right to march through a Chicago suburb populated by Jewish Holocaust survivors, then Summerville resident Annie Chambers Caddell certainly has a right to fly her Confederate battle flag in a predominantly black neighborhood. With apologies to those of fragile sensibilities not well-versed in constitutional rights, the Supreme Court of [...]
Beneath an infamous rebel flag in east Tampa By Thomas Becnel Wednesday, October 27, 2010 TAMPA - Every day, Marcus Fowler rides a bike to his job at a furniture warehouse. Every day, he pedals along U.S. 92, a gritty industrial strip off Interstate 75. The 139-foot flagpole, holding a 30- by 50-foot Confederate flag, sits on a tiny triangle of land overlooking I-75 and I-4 in Tampa. Every day, the 48-year-old [...]