Dear Ms. Lunelle,
The young home school babies, of whom I could speak to on Thursday, September 26, 2024, wanted to know if I could tell them what would I have said to those gathered had I come. I will oblige.
"Looking at the Black Confederate soldier and his White peers is looking at the truth and dispensing with hate. Horace King, Levi Carnine, Holt Collier, Dr. Alexander Darnes, Reverend Mac Lee, Christopher Columbus Quarls, and the Honorable Napoleon Nelson were Black Confederate heroes from amongst many thousands more whose names are not called out during history classes, and especially during Black History Month.
The trained cadre of black men and women on plantations all across the South who made the implements of war, went off to war, or their families that produced the products that made the South into an economic power before the war are only spoken in terms of slaves being chained and whipped every day and living in misery. This is a painted picture of pure poppycock!
The problem for a Black man or woman who dares tell the real truth about the relations and relationships that existed between the Southern African and Southern White man; he or she will be stereotyped as an “Uncle Tom” or
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