Editor’s Note: Mr. Edgerton’s letter below was in reponse to the persecution of the Florida History Teacher by a so-called “TicTok” “Infuencer” who was leaked an internal “School News” nideo which was produced by a Florida History teacher and resulted in an ‘investigation’ of him and disruption of educational activities last week at the school.
April 21, 2023
Dear Principal Dyer,
My name is HK Edgerton, and I have been depicted as a Southern Heritage Activist. In all my time spent in the Civil Rights arena, I don't believe that I have heard or seen anything more offensive to me than the lady who used such vulgarity to express her position of a tape played by one of your teachers to his class during a time that may or may not still be recognized as Confederate Heritage Month. She would not be a mother that I would want my children to visit if this is the best language, she can use to express her disagreements.
After hearing the negative rhetoric that seemed to attack his character and motives, I felt compelled to reach out to him and lend him any support he should accept. What I found in my conversation with this young man was a young educator who had no idea that in his desire to teach his children another side of a tale too mean that was not indicative of who, and what the people in our Southern homeland truly were. What he did not gauge or expect was the underpinning of hate he received.
With the establishment of the public school system of the North in the South in 1865 and the bringing of its Northern School Teachers who began to inculcate into the minds of our children that the Southern White man was a Rebel and Traitor, and to farther to divide Southern Blacks from Southern Whites because that the Southern religion was no good because if it was, then the Southern White man would have freed them.
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