Gawker: Group of Confederate flag lovers, including African-American man from Asheville, disrupt meeting

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   Curious December 8, 2013

   “Edgerton has made a living for years off the the controversial contradiction he embodies . . .”

   “Making a living” implies that he is earning a salary or getting paid in some way for what he does. Is that accurate? Does he get money for attending these rallies?

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      Jason Sandford December 9, 2013

      Curious, he was, at one point, getting paid. Not sure about now.

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         Curious December 9, 2013

         Thank you for clarifying.

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   theOtherBarry December 7, 2013

   These two links will tell you everything you need to know about HK and his relationship with Confederates:

   http://deadconfederates.com/2012/08/09/black-confederates-a-subsidiary-of-dixie-outfitters/

   http://barberandcompany.com/barber_store/view_details?department_id=20&item_id=13652

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   Big Al December 6, 2013

   Hey H.K., before you get on your rant about how blacks and white neo-confederates have so much in common, let’s consider the legions of black Union troops massacred at Fort Pillow, TN and at Plymouth, N.C. (1864).

   And what about those Union regiments of southerners from NC, TN and KY? Are these SOUTHERNERS also to be denied memorials in the south because they fought for the other side? The Civil War was not fought between North and South (those were just points on a compass) but by Union Preservationist vs Seperatist Rebels, with northerners and southerners serving both sides (Confederate General Pemberton was from the north while Union General George Thomas, the “Rock of Chickamauga”, was from Virginia).

   We should not let H.K. and his ilk confuse this issue. “The South” belongs to ALL Americans, not just the ones whseo great-grandaddy fought for Marse Lee.

   Union troops should be honored for what they were: AMERICANS who LIBERATED Florida (and the rest of the Confederacy) from an illegal seizure by an illegitimate government.

   And I say this as a descendant of no fewer than THREE Confederate soldiers.

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