Dear Ms. Lunelle,
I had been forewarned by my Home School babies of Tennessee that they had invited some of their Black Home School friends to come to their Home School Class to hear me speak during Black History Month.
They had even sent them some of the DVDs and March Across Dixie Photo Journal authored by the Honorable Terry Lee Edgerton to review before my visit. Even so, they expressed that it might be a tough sell for me because they were believed to be Unionist in their thinking.
They had done their homework and no sooner than after arriving and being introduced, a Black baby girl would raise her hand to ask…
“Mr. HK, it makes no never mind that you make a compelling case that in lieu of the economic institution of slavery, Southern White folk, owners or not of slaves, had a deep respect and admiration for their black counterparts. And in too many cases to count, I'd say love existed between them, however it is defined.
A vast majority of Southern White folk came here to the South after being dragged out of the King's Poor House, and into a different form of slavery (Indentured Servitude...just like the family of the Honorable General Thomas Stonewall Jackson.)
So, in our struggle to understand the words of Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence that “all men are created equal”, and the propriety of others to express his anguish as the excuse for a lie as there he was he, himself, the owner of a man called slave, while he sat before him drinking of the finest wine, and helping himself with sex from his slave concubine; emulating the King.
What say you, Sir, was the God of your Southern family thinking as he watched and allowed this inhumanity to man unfold?”
I would reply that.......
God bless you!
Your brother
HK
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