Open Letter & Report: The Mayor of Broward Co., FL & Dixie Highway
February 10, 2020
The Mayor of Broward Co., FL & Dixie Highway
Dear Ms. Lunelle,
I would hope that Mayor Holness of Broward County, Florida would table the proposal to change the name of Dixie Highway.
Mayor Holness & Dixie Highway
In speaking with a member of his staff, I would express to her my wish that he not support this action for the reason that so many decent people recognize as the continuous efforts toward Southern social and cultural genocide.
The same thing was done during the so-called period of reconstruction; utilizing black folks as the weapon of choice to legitimize this false narrative with their talking points of the worldwide economic institution of slavery used to divide Southern blacks and Southern whites that was totally rejected by black Civil Rights organizations like the Pole Bearers, and Knights Monumental Associations as they began to see the light just like Fredrick Douglas finally did.
I grew up in the Jim Crow era, attended schools both Primary to High School, and we sang Dixie every morning, recited the Lord's Prayer, and the Pledge of Allegiance.
During this Month so deemed Black History Month, we should be looking back to the place of honor that was earned by the likes of Ms. Minerva Morgan, Aid de Camp to the Honorable General John Hunt Morgan, and who was with him when he was assassinated by the Yankee army in Greenville, Tennessee.
And never to forget some of Florida's finest Black Confederate soldiers ....... "Dr. Alexander Darnes, Aid de Camp of the Honorable General Kirby Smith, and the first Black Doctor in the City of Jacksonville, Florida”, Anthony Welters, Musician in the Confederate Army, Christopher Columbus Quarls, a Black Confederate soldier who became famous for his sea bearing accomplishments, and on and on we could go.
I would also tell the Mayor's staff member that I had read his bio, and was very proud of his work that in a lot of ways mirrored my own. And, I can only reiterate that he not get caught up in the works that are now being used to separate black folks from their Southern white family. I hope that a copy of this correspondence reaches his desk. God bless you!
Your brother,
HK
Chairman of the Board of Advisors Emeritus of the Southern Legal Resource Center
Member of Save Southern Heritage Florida
Honorary Life Member of the Judah P. Benjamin Camp 2210 Sons of Confederate Veterans
Honorary Life Member of the North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia Orders of the Confederate Rose
Honorary Life Member of the Augusta Jane Evans Chapter 2640 United Daughters of the Confederacy
Kentucky Colonel
Past 1st Vice President & President of the Asheville, Buncombe County NAACP
Past Program, Planning and Implementation Chair of the Buncombe County Drug Commission
Past Committee Member of the Buncombe County Commission that re-wrote the Asheville Buncombe County Minority Business Plan
Recipient of the Asheville Police Department Citizenship Award
Honorary Life Member of the Texas and Kentucky Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans
Recipient of the Mississippi Division of the John F. Harris Award. (An award given in the name of a former slave and Black Mississippi State Senator, black Confederate soldier, who gave the deciding vote to fund the building of the Confederate soldier’s monument on the State Capitol grounds)
Editors Note: If you would like to send a polite message amplifying Mr. Edgerton to Mayor Holness, he can be reached at 954-357-7009 and on email at dalevch@gmail.com