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Federal Court Proceedings / Anderson County Tennessee An Open Report


After reading the Federal Court Ruling denying a preliminary injunction to Candice
Hardwick in the Latta High School Case, and seeing the similarities
in the Case of the Anderson County High School District in Federal
Court in Knoxville, Tennessee ; I am afraid to ever be optimistic
that the people of the Southland will attain justice in any Federal
Circuit other than the 6th Circuit. It does not take a rocket scientist
to see that there is a bias against the display of Confederate symbols
in our very own Federal Courts as the parameters set down in cases
such as Castorina and even Tinker are pushed aside. Attorney Kirk
D. Lyons so brilliantly laid out the case before the Court in Hardwick
that there had been no disruption in the school because of her wearing
of Confederate apparel. The broad stroke that these school administrators
are now being given in their supposedly anticipation of disruption
is merely only a guise to move forward the same Reconstruction modus
operandi that continues to divide Southern Blacks and Whites, as
the North continues its planned process of blaming the economic
institution of slavery on the Christian White folks of the South
; while denying it’s complicity, and the loyalty of those Africans,
and their heroism in the army of the Southern soldier.

I
sat in disgust in the Federal Court in Knoxville as the school
administrators and their attorney tried to blame every incident
they proclaimed to be racial on our Southern Cross, even though
it was not even present on those occasions in which there seem
to be trouble between students of White and non-White persuasion.
The attorney for the school described an occasion when two young
Black men entered their school from New Orleans after Katrina.
They proclaimed that a Confederate Flag that bore the message
Heritage not Hate was placed their to intimidate the two men;
never concluding that just maybe these two men who came from a
State that had such great Black Confederate heroes like Levi Carnine
might have placed it there themselves, or that the message was
not hateful, but factual. My disgust only mounted as I watched
as they continued to use Black people as an excuse and tool to
move their agenda forward to rid the environment of any vestige
of the Southern Cross, or the place in history where that African
earned a place of honor beside his Southern family.

I have spent most of my life fighting in the Civil Rights arena
, and is my very own conclusion that if the Southern Blacks and
for that matter the Southern Whites don’t wake up and realize
that those of this nation who do not like our culture, mores,
and religious principals, and who seek to attain our lands, will
stoop to anything to keep us apart. We as Black people have had
systematically inculcated into our thinking processes via the
public school system and media that the White folks of the South
are our enemy, and that we should hate him and all things Southern;
the irony is that none of the turbulence between us would continue
if we would only seek out the historical truths that have kept
us together as this nation is bent on keeping us apart. We as
Blacks have been led to believe that there is no justice for us
in the judiciary of this land; the irony is that the White man
of the South(our family) has felt this same injustice since the
Honorable Robert E. Lee signed the treaty at Appomattox Court
House on April 9, 1865. The events that are unfolding against
our Southern Cross will only lead to another century of hate between
our people as the table of brotherhood moves farther away. The
love that was founded in those cotton fields of the South between
that man who called himself master, and that man who was called
slave had endured the test of time as every means to put it asunder
has failed. However, if we don’t wake up and realized that no
matter how much we want to believe that the enemies of our ancestors
mean us well ; what they do will only keep us apart. This does
not mean that we should be or are unpatriotic; we have proved,
and continue to prove that we are faithful to those ends as our
children continue to carry the brunt of the load in our national
armies. We just want to be left alone to honor our ancestors ,
and raise our children in a Judaea-Christian environment without
girls gone wild. Our babies like Candice Hardwick, and Amanda
Horkey in South Carolina, Brice and Justin in Missouri, Joseph
and Anna Warnke of Georgia, Amiee Robinson and all the brave children
of Maryville and Blount County, Tennessee, and my baby boy Tom
Defoe who made his stand yesterday in the Federal Courthouse of
Tennessee, along with a young Black Southern girl La Deidra Dukes
from Mississippi deserve the right to see their Southern Flag
worn , or flown without fear of intimidation from politically
correct administrators who called themselves educators, and as
we speak began to celebrate so called Black History Month without
remembering the names of the Black men and women or their exploits
in the defense of the Southland of America, and the partnership
they forged together to build this nation, and the complicity
they had in building the economies of the entire civilized world.

We must bring our resources to the table to institute a modus
operandi of Heritage Offense; until we do so in the Court of Public
Opinion , we shall watch in vain as our Constitutional Republic
continues to fade away.