Dear Ms. Lunelle,
The Webster New American Dictionary defines "loving-kindness" as tender consideration; affectionate regard or kindness. When one dons the uniform of the Southern Soldier and post the Southern Cross at the Ellenboro Fair in Ellenboro, North Carolina, this is what they will receive from just about all, if not most of the patrons in attendance.
For four straight days in the County where my dad was born (Rutherfordton, North Carolina), alongside Commander Jim Kennedy of the Rutherfordton Rifles Camp of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and not to forget the Honorable Tim Greer of the Cleveland County Sons of Confederate Veterans, we would pose for many a camera shot and listen to stories about the patrons ancestors from which most had lived here all their lives and would have a family member who had served in the Confederate forces.
One young Black man would cause a stir among a group of people gathered around me when he asked...
Mr. HK, "Why are we in the South so bent on saving the Confederate Monument at Arlington National Cemetery from being removed"? I believe that after what Meigs did in an attempt to desecrate General Lee's family property by planting Union forces with the thumbs up from the Federal government, we in the South now should follow the original thoughts of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and remove every Confederate Soldier from the continued place of evil to the Hollywood Cemetery in Virginia, to include the New South Cenotaph which the terminology of reconciliation should be dismissed as it is clear that Yankee scalawags like Elizabeth Warren and the Department of Defense and the many Yankee scalawags with their Reconstruction like Yankee owned (NAACP, Black Lives Matter, etc.) organizations continue to work to divide Southern Blacks and Southern Whites with their distortions of our history, heritage, and love for each other in lieu of the world wide complicity in the economic institution of African slavery that had a huge difference in modus operandi in the South that if alone would have come to the prescribed teachings of love as defined by Jesus Christ.
I would tell the young man that men like General Robert E. Lee believed that our nation could not survive unless the South found a Christian way to forgive the evil perpetrated by Lincoln and his carried out policy of total warfare. President McKinley thought that if he could convince the ladies of the South that if they would build this Shrine of Reconciliation it would come to pass. I believe that the South has tried to make it so. However, we now once again do face a great evil. God bless you!
Your brother,
Chairman, Board of Advisors Emeritus, Southern Legal Resource Center
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