An interesting article I found.  I'd post this in GD or Team GD, but I'm not in the mood to read page after page of anti-South replies from all the northern and western members.

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Black Men say Rebel Flag Flies for Freedom



For an hour, the Confederate battle flag flew over the former site of the Eight Flags Display on U.S. 90.

Dressed in Confederate gray, a black man named Anthony Hervey marched with the banner clutched in his hands. His brother, Harry, accompanied him, wearing jeans and a Robert E. Lee T-shirt.

Hervey's devotion to the flag began when he discovered that a great-great-uncle, James Hervey, was a black American who fought for the Confederacy during the American Civil War. James Hervey served in the Army of Mississippi and was killed at the battle of Shiloh.

Further research helped Hervey discover records of at least 100,000 black Confederates who fought in the war.

"I am marching for freedom," Hervey said. "The battle flag stands for freedom and states' rights. The U.S. flag is the flag of slavery. It flew over 100 years of slavery, and Native Americans were annihilated under that flag."

For his march, Hervey chose the site where a Confederate flag once stood, one of eight representing entities that have governed the Coast. Harrison County removed the flags because of protests over the Confederate flag, a racist symbol to many, flying on the public beach.

Hervey's crusade also has taken him to Jackson. In the Jackson City Council chambers June 13, Hervey showed up wearing his battle grays, wrapped in the flag. A scuffle erupted between a Jackson man, who said he supported Hervey, and a city councilman who exchanged words, according to published reports. Hervey was not involved in the shoving match.

Hervey sees a correlation between the past and today's controversies over the flag.

"We currently live under a psychological form of reconstruction," he said. "Whites are made to feel guilty for sins of their ancestors, and blacks are made to feel downtrodden. This keeps all of us from communicating. The political correctness of today is killing the pride of the people."

Hervey is the founder of the Black Confederate Soldier Foundation, an Oxford-based, not-for-profit organization. Its stated mission is to foster new thought on the Civil War. Claims that the Confederate flag is a racist symbol are, to the group, part of a nonissue. Black Confederates, the group says, have been misrepresented in historical texts.

Hervey wants to build a memorial that will include the names of the black Confederates who fought and died in the War Between the States.

As the Hervey brothers continued their march, shouts of support and anger could be heard from passing motorists. A group of young black men hanging from car windows shouted at the pair. Hervey instructed his brother to look forward "like a true soldier."

"Don't even look at them," Hervey said, citing the young men's behavior as an example of black psychology today.

"They will yell a lot and want you to confront them, but they will not do anything," Hervey said.

"I found it appalling what happened in South Carolina, and I'm afraid this is going to happen in Mississippi." Hervey said. "We seek only to correct the errors in history - to right the wrongs done to the memories of these brave soldiers.

Source: The Sun Herald, June 22, 2000

The damn yankees, etc. are just pissed because they know they have been lied to about the War of Northern Aggression and as a result of the war, freedoms are being lost.

There is a fella here in Jackson, MS that hangs around all the politcal gatherings dressed in a southern civil war uniform and carries a conferate flag .... I cannot remember what message he is trying to convey. I will try and look him up on some local news websites. I bet I wont find anything on him.

Oh yeah, he's black ......  

Quoted: The damn yankees, etc. are just pissed because they know they have been lied to about the War of Northern Aggression and as a result of the war, freedoms are being lost.

Not to mention, one of the reason why Union has more resources to fight and win the Civil War was Tzar Nicholas of Russia using the Russian Navy in the Union Blockade of the South.  

Damned Yankees did not have enough ships to do so...so Russia helped out w/ a bunch of their ships.

Russia's help to the Union literally bankrupt the Russian economy.  

Check the book, "The Creature from Jekyll Island" by G. Edward Griffin (it's about the private corporation called the Federal Reserve as you and I know from greenbacks in your wallet)  There are picture of those Russian Navy during the Civil War under Union Flag.

man, this really should be posted in GD. but you're right, it would cause controversy

Quoted: man, this really should be posted in GD. but you're right, it would cause controversy

+1

I met that guy down on 90. He was in LongBeach carrying that flag. Its amazing that there are some people that actually think and read for themselves still.

Quoted: There is a fella here in Jackson, MS that hangs around all the politcal gatherings dressed in a southern civil war uniform and carries a conferate flag .... I cannot remember what message he is trying to convey. I will try and look him up on some local news websites. I bet I wont find anything on him. Oh yeah, he's black ......

I saw that guy at the Jackson gunshow in 2004.

Quoted: Quoted: There is a fella here in Jackson, MS that hangs around all the politcal gatherings dressed in a southern civil war uniform and carries a conferate flag .... I cannot remember what message he is trying to convey. I will try and look him up on some local news websites. I bet I wont find anything on him. Oh yeah, he's black ......   I saw that guy at the Jackson gunshow in 2004.

Yeah, I think I remember seeing him at a gunshow also. ...

I saw a program on APT a couple of years ago about the soldiers who made up the Confederate forces in the Mobile area. The program cited the numbers for Indian, black, Jewish, creole- all sorts who made up the Southern units. It was really interesting.