HK Edgerton

Over a year ago on a change encounter I snapped THIS PICTURE. After some research I found that the man in the picture was the enigmatic HK Edgerton. The former head of the Asheville chapter of the NAACP who has made it his personal mission to defend the confederate flag marching from NC to Texas in order to spread his gospel.

 

And an extremly controversial gospel it is: Edgerton claims that slavery wasn't the horrible institiution that there was a harmonious relationship between slave and slaveowner. He likens his work to that of Martin Luther King, but civil rights leaders refer to him as a white supremist.

 

I most certainly do not agree with his viewpoint, but I fully recognize him as a remarkeable charcter and a living legend of the South. I have been quite fascinated and curious about him.

 

While viewing a local Christmas parade, HK popped up in front of me....flanking Santa Clause himself, no less. After seeing him pass I took off after him, injecting myself in the parade and nearly bowling over another confederate soldier so that I could snap this picture.

 

I ran up to him and asked if he was indeed HK Edgerton (Don't tell me their are TWO black confederates). He shook my hand and said "Yes sir, I am" and then he was whisked away in the current of the parade.

 

I am dissapointed that I didn't get to talk to him in more detail, but I am happy that I finally got a decent photograph of him.

 

Here is Edgerton's web page southernheritage411.com/index.shtml

And here is an artilce on him www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=252

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