Former North Carolina NAACP president, H.K Edgerton wants us to know that we’ve got this Confederate?flag issue all wrong.

You see, for years many Americans have associated the?Confederate flag with racism. Edgerton finds this misconception to be unbelievable. It seems that just because racist organizations like the KKK and the CofCC use the Confederate?flag, it doesn’t mean that the flag represents racist ideals. Silly people.

Edgerton recently went to show support for the Confederate flag after some unscrupulous protesters marked the memorial of some stupid confederate general who’s name and ?accomplishments? does not warrant mention in my article. The protesters wrote ?blacklivesmatter? on the memorial, transforming the memorial into something meaningful for the first time.

Edgerton dressed in his Confederate uniform, which he proudly wore as he’s one of the few black members of the Sons Of Confederate Veterans.

Edgerton wants us to know that the meaning behind the flag is a common misunderstanding, he said this:

“I’m not going to blame it on a Yankee because I’ve seen some southern folk around here that are real questionable too that don’t know anything about who they are and their families and the honorable people in the southland of America, red, yellow, black, white and brown,” Edgerton said..

“Black folks earned a place of honor and dignity with this flag; black folks and white folks in southland America are family,” Edgerton said. “This is our flag. This was my message when I walked to Texas; that was my message when I walked to the White House. And it’s my message still.”

Okay people lets debunk an unbelievable myth right here and now. Edgerton and other like minded idiots believe Blacks freely fought for the south. Here are the facts.

Jim Loewen, author of “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong” (Touchstone, 1996) and co-editor of “The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader: The ‘Great Truth’ about the ‘Lost Cause'” (University Press of Mississippi, 2010).

The argument over whether blacks took up arms to fight for the government that enslaved them is a bitter one, but historians have busted this myth, Deaton said.

“It’s just balderdash,” he said.

Loewen agreed.

“It’s completely false,” Loewen said. “One reason we know it’s false was that the Confederacy by policy flatly did not allow blacks to be soldiers until March of 1865.”

The idea had been brought up before, University of Tennessee historian Stephen Ash wrote in 2006 in the journal Reviews in American History. In January of 1864, Confederate Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne proposed enlisting slaves. When Confederate President Jefferson Davis heard the suggestion, Ash wrote, he “not only rejected the idea but also ordered that the subject be dropped and never discussed again in the army.”

About three weeks before the Civil War ended, however, a desperate Davis changed his tune. By that point, the war was lost and few, if any, blacks signed up.

White officers did bring their slaves to the front, where they were pressed into service doing laundry and cooking, Loewen said.

“It’s about heritage, not hate.”

You can find variations of this phrase all over the south on various Confederate apparel. There has been a huge movement to mainstream the flag of traitors and slavery promoters since about the 1940s.

But here’s the kicker. The Confederate flag that we see today isn’t the flag they used in the civil war. The Confederate flag is just one unbelievable example of how many Americans often fail to get their own history right. Here are the THREE real Confederate flags used during the civil war, but not even known about to most of these “heritage lovers.”

Now here is the flag racists?CREATED in the 1940s to protest things like De-Segregation, and outlawing lynching.

So as you can see, the modern Confederate flag was not flown on any Confederate battle field EVER. This is something that I’m not sure if Edgerton and other Confederate flag supporters realize.?The modern Confederate flag was created specifically as a symbol for racism.?

Okay, maybe it’s not about the flag. Maybe it’s about honor the “brave” Confederate soldiers who died fighting for state’s rights? That’s right, many Confederate lovers like Edgerton swears the Civil War was fought over “states rights” not “slavery.” So in a way, the freedoms we enjoy in each individual state were somewhat — if not completely — preserved because of these “brave” Confederate soldiers, right?

WRONG

The civil war was about slavery, and not much else. Here are quotes from the declarations of secession for various southern states who tried to secede from the Union.

Sounds like those southern states were fighting for “states rights” –?primarily the right of those states to have slaves.

So both Edgerton and Bill O’Reilly seem to be on the wrong side of history. But I’m sure the truth won’t hold them back.

Here are two video reports, the first is from our friends The Young Turks and the second is a news report.

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