Dear Ms. Lunelle,
I spoke recently with John North of the Asheville Daily Planet and he quoted me in a story he wrote (read below)
Your brother, HK
The efforts of the Community Reparations Commission — which is trying to decide what compensation, if any, should be given by the Asheville community to local blacks to redress them for, in many cases, their ancestors’ suffering through discrimination and slavery — is fueling a strong negative response from H.K. Edgerton, a black Asheville native who grew up here in the Jim Crow era and who bills himself as a Southern heritage activist.
As for reparations, “We’re past that. This is not reparations (what the commission is doing), it’s just crap,” Edgerton said in a telephone interview with the Daily Planet on Jan. 26.
What’s more, if he had a chance to address reparations commission Chairman Dwight Mullen (who is a retired professor or political science at UNC Asheville), Edgerton said he would say, “If you want to talk about reparations, Dwight, give me my $5 million (as is the amount being proposed to give to blacks in San Francisco). It’s a trick!”
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