May 28, 2011 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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Welcome to the Political Cesspool, known worldwide as the South's foremost populous radio program.
And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
All right, everybody, welcome back to the political cesspool radio program holiday weekend edition of TPC.
I'm your host, James Edwards.
It's Saturday evening, May 28th, Memorial Day weekend.
But yet here we are, still live, unrehearsed, and uncensored.
We're not putting a tape in the can and running a previously recorded broadcast.
No, we are here live, still doing our jobs, even during a holiday weekend.
Welcome back to the second hour of tonight's broadcast.
I'm here with you at AM 1380 WLRM Radio.
And of course, going out to the AM FM affiliate stations of the Liberty News Radio Network and simulcasting online at thepoliticalcesspool.org and libertynewsradio.com.
I want to thank Keith Alexander for his services this evening.
I just walked downstairs here at the radio station and walked Keith out to his car in the parking lot during that last little break we had.
And as soon as we got to Keith's car, he opened the door and cranked it.
And there were our commercials airing right there on 1380 and AM 1600 here in the Memphis area, our newest affiliate station.
But I don't know, you know, even after all these years of doing this show, seven years now and going strong, it's still a little bit of a novelty to turn on the radio and hear your voice coming through the car, the speakers.
It's something that I don't think many people can say they've been able to do.
And we still enjoy it after all these years.
And we're certainly very proud of our work.
And a man who has been with us since the very beginning rejoins us tonight, Political Cesspool co-host Bill Rowland.
Bill, how are you?
James, I'm hot as white lightning with a whiskey chaser.
Well, and there's many reasons for that.
It's, you know, as we said, near 100 degrees outside today here in Memphis.
And, you know, white lightning, that's a pun we could go in any number of directions with.
Exactly.
In fact, there's a tattoo for that.
But in any event, you know, the reason that I'm on the show tonight is to talk about the situation at the Veterans Hospital here in Memphis.
Yeah, Bill, if you could, I'd like to set the stage for that.
This is something, this is obviously the story we have been featuring tonight on the broadcast, both on the blog at thepolitical cesspool.org.
We've given you a teaser, and then I mailed it out to our extensive email list this morning.
So this is the meat of the program tonight.
Although I'm going to be covering a lot of different stories during tonight's third hour, this is going to be our primary focus this evening, this story.
And the headline, of course, is a local hospital, a Memphis hospital, takes a Confederate flag away from a 92-year-old Korean War veteran.
I'm going to quickly read a few facts about this story brought to you courtesy of the Asheville Tribune.
And it reads as such, on behalf of an elderly dying veteran, Asheville Southern Heritage activist H.K. Edgerton on April 27th challenged officials at a Veterans Administration hospital in downtown Memphis, Tennessee for confiscating a tiny tabletop Confederate battle flag on a stick and stand next to his bed.
In the aftermath, Edgerton noted that Kirk D. Lyons, an attorney, is in the process of filing a lawsuit against the hospital.
The patient, Sergeant William Thrasher, 92, is a Korean War veteran who is receiving care in the VA's spinal unit.
Now, so there you go.
Basically, there's the story.
You got this 92-year-old Korean War veteran, perhaps on his deathbed.
He had a tiny Confederate flag on the desk near his hospital bed, and in comes H.K. Edgerton.
And Bill will give you a little more information about who H.K. Edgerton is.
But this is a very interesting story with several intriguing aspects to it, not the least of which is the participation of Edgerton himself, who Bill and I are both personally familiar with.
Bill has inside information about this story, in addition to the nuts and bolts facts that I just shared with you.
And there is where I would like Bill to come in.
We've got a couple of minutes left in this segment.
We're going to be covering the story extensively throughout the course of this hour.
So Bill, with just a limited amount of time left this segment, where do you want to begin?
Well, very quickly, let's not be deceived by what would appear to be a happy and not, well, I wouldn't say a happy, but an upbeat story about a black Confederate showing up in the room of a disabled United States Korean War veteran, and that he's there out of the goodness of his heart.
In fact, I think what my report will indicate is that there is much more of the green than the gray in Mr. Edgerton's and Mr. Lyons' efforts on behalf of Sergeant Thrasher.
I have done some investigative work on this.
I have asked some questions around, come up with some very interesting information about what's going on with Sergeant Perry Thrasher and the black Confederate in his costume parading around Memphis to get publicity.
So, you know, of course, when we come back after the break, we'll go into this in depth.
You know, I think most of our audience knows now the background on it.
So we're going to come up with some pretty interesting information.
And I think the main thing I want to say is that when it comes to the Southern Legal Resource Center, the matter of litigants, beware, because I've had some information about that group, that outfit as well.
So that is all forthcoming as this hour continues to unfold tonight of the Political Successful Radio Program.
But just to reiterate a fact that Bill already has shared with you, H.K. Edgerton, the man who seemingly came to the aid of this 92-year-old Korean War veteran who had his flag taken from him, is indeed black, and he goes to just about every Southern or pro-Confederate event decked out in full Confederate uniform and regalia.
So, you know, what's the story behind the scenes there?
Even back in 2005, H.K. Edgerton was a guest on this very radio program, and we treated him quite well and welcoming.
But was that before, you know, additional information came to light about his activism?
Because, you know, honestly, and I can say this without any degree of hesitation, you know, if there are blacks out there who sincerely, you know, support the South and support the Confederate cause, then God bless them.
You know, I wish there were more of them.
But unfortunately, not many of them do seem to exist.
And perhaps there is at least one who is doing it all for the wrong reasons.
Well, again, we're going to be exploring that and much more about this during the course of this hour.
Also, other news related to this topic.
The SCV, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, we reported to you a couple of months ago how they had 78-year-old newspaper publisher Olaf Childress arrested for apparently passing out free copies of his newspaper, The First Freedom, at an SCV event without their permission.
Well, they're back in the news and back in court for another matter.
And there's an interesting double standard there as well.
And keep in mind, ladies and gentlemen, you know, there is no mainstream media broadcast in operation today who is more supportive of the Southern cause than the Political Cesspool radio program.
You know, but at the same time, we have got to bring you the facts and not let you be fooled by the charlatans and the phonies.
And that's what we're going to be doing as we continue to present to you more facts about Sergeant William Thrasher, the 92-year-old Korean War veteran whose civil rights were violated at the hospital here in Memphis this week.
It's been a big story in town.
All the local television affiliates reporting on it, and now we will as well, right after these words from our sponsors.
Bill Rowland, co-hosting with me this hour.
He's got the inside scoop, so stay tuned.
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All right, my friends, the table has been sufficiently set.
You know the headlines.
You know the facts.
92-year-old Korean War veteran in the Memphis VA hospital has his Confederate flag confiscated, and in comes the circus claiming they are here to defend this veteran and support the flag.
Now, first of all, Bill, before we go any further with that, and of course we gave everyone a little bit of the background info on H.K. Edgerton and Kirk Lyons.
But before we go any further, a rhetorical question must be asked.
Let's say this 92-year-old Korean War veteran had a adopted rainbow homosexual flag or a Jewish flag or a Nation of Islam flag or La Raza, anything.
Does it get taken away for any reason?
Well, I don't, you know, that would be hard to answer.
I do know that the Veterans Hospital says they don't allow any flag but the U.S. flag on their properties, yet they do fly the Tennessee state flag and the MIA flag, the black MIA flag in front of the hospital.
So I think it's a little bit slippery to say that they don't allow any other flag.
For instance, if Mr. Thrasher, Sergeant Thrasher had a Tennessee flag in his room, would that be offensive to someone?
It's interesting that at the entrance to the Veterans Hospital, there's a sign that said, here you see the price of freedom as you walk in the doors.
And so all of these veterans fought for the very freedom that Mr. Thrasher with his little flag is trying to exercise.
One of the freedoms that he fought for was freedom of speech.
And certainly fighting against the North Koreans who still don't have freedom of speech.
So the irony there is that here's this man that had a little small Confederate flag on his table next to his bed.
And, you know, it was taken away from him because the flag offended a nurse or an aide or something in the hospital.
And so this veteran loses his flag.
We don't know anything about the nurse or the aide, whether they ever serve their country in war, whether they're even American.
But nevertheless, the political correctness prevails, and he loses his flag.
So whether there was another type of flag or not, I don't think it's relevant.
I think what's relevant is the sign that's posted at the hospital, which said, come, you know, here, see here, the price of freedom.
These wounded disabled veterans in this hospital.
Now, Mr. Thrasher does have in his room, as I understand, a black veteran who is one of the four or five men in his room.
And I don't believe his neighbor ever complained about the flag, and that's the most significant part of it.
So, you know, the other men in the room, who essentially this is their residence for the rest of their lives, did not complain.
So, someone just walking in the door saying, I'm offended, is really violating their privacy as well as their First Amendment rights in terms of what they might have on the table.
And does this also apply to a book that somebody might not like?
What if you had a copy of the Koran or a copy of Marx's Das Capital or some other book that might offend a veteran from a particular war, Mein Kampf?
Would that book be seized as well?
So, you see, there's a lot of gray area here as far as what the First Amendment rights are.
But nonetheless, Mr. Thrasher probably has a case legally.
The issue here is who claims to be represented.
Now, H.K. Edgerton, as we know, has for the past, for a number of years, made a career of dressing up in a Confederate uniform, unfurling a big 3x5 Confederate battle flag, and claiming to be the voice of Confederate heritage in the South.
Well, of course, what allows him to make this claim is the covering of his skin, the fact that he's black, that he's a novelty, and that he is often employed by groups like the SCV or some other heritage organization to be a sandbag against criticism, particularly accusations of racism.
Now, not that that stops attempts to do away with battle flags, it doesn't.
It simply is a distraction, a decoy away from accusations of racism.
And he's capitalized on this for many years now.
In fact, if you go to H.K. Edgerton's website, you'll see one of the first things on the front page is a place where you can click to go make a donation.
This is one of the first things you see on his page.
There is also a list of costs in terms of getting him to come and speak at an event and so forth.
So, he is doing this as a vocation.
He is not doing it free.
He is not doing it from patriotic motives.
He's doing it to make a buck.
And the proof is his webpage.
If you go there, you see very quickly that he does have a financial motive here.
So, judging from what you see on Edgerton's own webpage, I can deduce that someone furnished him the money to come to Memphis to make this theatrical drama take place at the Veterans Hospital,
where he goes in with his brother, he unfurls a big flag, he takes pictures of mostly of him with the flag, and one little photo of him with Sergeant Thrasher.
And then, of course, he gives an interview to a local CBS affiliate here, Channel 3, the CBS affiliate.
He grants them an interview.
Now, the purpose of this, from what I can gather, is that most of all, most importantly, Edgerton is a point man for Kirk Lyons at the Southern Legal Resource Center.
Now, as you notice, that organization sounds very much like the Southern Poverty Law Center.
That's not by accident.
Attorney Lyon has often wanted to be the SPLC of the South, but that's what he claimed.
But in fact, if you go into the record of the Southern Legal Resource Center, and I'll get to more of this in a second, you find that the record of actually taking and winning cases is very slim, very almost non-existent.
And in fact, what Kirk Lyons and H.K. Edgerton are very skilled and are very motivated and are extremely eager to do is raise money.
And almost every case, they will take a situation like Sergeant Thrasher's.
They will do a big internet appeal, a big email appeal.
Oh, we've got to help this poor veteran.
His First Amendment rights are being violated, and all we need is your money.
And this is not the first occasion where he will have done this.
There are numerous occasions throughout his supposed legal career where Kirk has taken on, you know, dramatized certain violations of Southern heritage or First Amendment rights and made a big drama out of these things.
And they were real dramas, but exploiting these situations in order to raise money.
One, for instance, that I'm ashamed to say this, but I'm actually getting some of this information from the Southern Property and Law Center website.
But I think it does illustrate what Kirk Lyons often does with regard to these very important cases.
This is the story of a boy 10 years ago by the name of Ryan Alecki.
When he was just 13 years old, he was beaten up near his high school in Houston, Texas, by two blacks who were angry over the fact that he was carrying a library book that had a picture of a Confederate flag on it.
He was just carrying a library book, and this boy was severely beaten by two blacks at the school.
In fact, so badly beaten that he suffered brain damage.
And then just less than a year later, his mother was murdered by two black women while she was driving in her own car.
I don't know whether that was a carjacking or what.
But in any case, Kirk Lyons and the Southern Legal Resource Center jumped on this case and contacted relatives of Ryan wanting to represent him in court and trying to sue the school where Ryan attended, even though, yes.
Bill, hold on right there, buddy.
If you can put on the brakes just for a second, we've got to take a break.
But folks, we've got a lot more interesting information about this story.
I'm telling you, we're about to blow your socks off.
Stay tuned.
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All right, everybody.
We're continuing on with our extensive coverage, and I hated to interrupt Bill in mid-stride there right before that last break, but we're now back from commercial and continuing our extensive coverage about the story of the local Memphis VA hospital confiscating a small tabletop Confederate flag from a 92-year-old Korean War veteran.
We're also covering the help, quote unquote, that he received, most notably from H.K. Edgerton, a black man who travels the country in a Confederate uniform, and Kirk Lyons, an attorney who Bill has also been providing us with information on.
Now, we never begrudge any help that we receive.
And as I said before, if there are blacks who are sincere in their support of the Southern cause, then God bless them, you know, be a part of the solution.
But I'm looking here, Bill, at hkedgerton.com, his website.
And I encourage anyone who is about to contest the information that I'm about to give you to visit hkedgerton.com and look for yourself.
You know, granted, the political cesspool is a listener-funded broadcast entity.
Without your financial support, without your generous support, we can't stay on the air.
Every organization has to have the support of its constituency in order to survive.
And we're no exception.
So, yes, we ask for donations, but a top-end donation for us, we get very excited over a $100 donation.
We always try to give you a gift in return for a contribution of that size.
Most of the contributions we receive are $25, $50, something like that.
So here's H.K. Edgerton.
It was reported, and I know Bill knows this to be true, he was even trying to shake down the local TV affiliate that was trying to cover the story for asking them for a $200 appearance fee.
But if you go to his website, to cut back to the chase, Bill, hkedgerton.com, you can click on the link that says schedule an appearance, and it reads that H.K. Edgerton is available for speaking engagements.
Below are some of the comments of people who have heard him speak, and then it gives you his rates.
H.K. Edgerton's speaker's fee, as listed on his own website, $20,000, it says, plus travel expenses of 62 cents a mile, travel, food, lodging, and out-of-pocket expenses will be applied.
That's on his website.
I couldn't imagine the man getting $20,000 per gig, but that's what's up.
And we know that he's at least paid by these organizations to come out, which again is okay.
But, you know, the bigger problem is, do we always have to have a black man to legitimize our heartfelt concerns?
And Bill, you might also be delighted to know that your friend Lee Miller had a hand in bringing him, apparently, to Memphis last week, according to H.K.'s website.
That doesn't surprise me because, you know, the SED here very rarely will go public and put their own personal safety or interest at risk for the sake of somebody like Sergeant Flasher.
As we know from the Confederate park fight, the SCB, at least here in Memphis, actually, for the most part, worked against our efforts to stand up to Al Sharpson.
So, you know, we're well aware that those who claim to be your friends are not always the best people to trust in situations like this.
But I'm not surprised.
And as I was going to say, you know, after the break, that certainly somebody paid for HK to come to Memphis and once again put on his big burlesque hat at Veterans Hospital.
And of course, that accomplished nothing except to get H.K. on television.
Well, as I said, I did some research.
And one of the things I found out, of course, was about this attempt by H.K. to shake the local reporters down for $200 for his appearance on a news broadcast, as a subject of a news broadcast.
And the reporter herself was black.
So, you know, there was no, obviously, this must have been quite a shock that she comes out and interviews somebody and they want to check for the appearance.
But this very definitely establishes a real motive behind H.K.'s appearance in Memphis.
Now, once again, getting back to Kirk Lyons and the Southern Legal Resource Center, to wrap it up quickly, the case of Ryan Leckie, after Ryan's mother was murdered, Kirk Lyons approached the family and said that they would represent Ryan against the school he attended.
And he had met with Betty Rice, Ryan's grandmother, and promised that he would get busy.
And of course, the first thing he did was start a fundraising campaign.
And when nothing ever transpired, there was no action.
There was no court action.
And eventually, Lyons even had the gall to go to Ms. Rice herself and ask for $5,000 to pursue a civil rights case.
Anyone who knows anything about civil rights law is a lawyer who takes that case.
If he wins, is guaranteed payment.
And any reputable civil rights lawyer or constitutional lawyer is not going to get a down payment for pursuing a constitutional or civil rights case.
It simply never happened.
So, you know, once again, there's Kirk Lyon's motive in clear view.
And clearly, he's setting up Sergeant Thrasher for exploitation in order to raise money.
And that's what's going on with Kirk Lyons, in my opinion.
And my opinion matters because a number of years ago, I contacted Kirk Lyon about taking the case of a Bartlett high school student who had been ejected from his bomb, which was on private property, for wearing a Confederate flag vet.
And this young man was held by security and threatened.
He was thrown out by a black assistant principal.
And in fact, who had no right to even approach him because, as I said, this was on public property.
The young man's parents were all for the lawsuit.
They were good, solid middle-class people with absolutely impeccable backgrounds.
And I approached Kirk about this case and raised myself, I raised $1,500 for him to pursue this matter.
And I know that other money was raised for him.
And the fact is, he never filed a suit.
He wouldn't even write a letter to the Shelby County School Board protesting what happened to the young man.
He did absolutely nothing.
And as you see, if you go to Wikipedia and look up Southern Legal Resource Center and Kirk Lyons, you will see that there is a pattern here of neglect of cases and of the failure to pursue cases or taking cases and raising money and then saying, oh, there's no case here.
So as I say, this is not a situation that will come out favorably for the Thrasher family.
I do know, I have from inside sources learned that Mr. Thrasher and his daughter are pursuing other avenues besides the Southern Legal Resource Center, Kirk Lyons, and his actor comedian H.K. Egerton.
So we hope that certainly everything goes well for the Thrashers.
We want them to win this case.
Of course, any good Southerner would want to see them prevail.
But it's very doubtful, I think, judging from past experience, that Kirk Lyon would be the vehicle for success.
Bill, I'm reading also now, again, on the HKEdgerton.com website, and he said that he spoke words of MacArthur to Sergeant Thrasher and let him know that I shall return and I shall return.
And I'm reading directly from his website again when I raised the funds to do so.
And he hopes that that will be soon.
But look, you know, again, it's easy to laugh, okay?
And in this case, you should laugh when considering the source.
But again, I don't want to sound hypocritical.
I mean, for me to go out and to give a speech, you know, and for anyone, anyone, Pat Buchanan, anyone that's sincerely on our side, I mean, everyone asks for travel expenses to be paid.
And if they're very generous, a small honorarium, something like that.
I mean, as working class people, Bill, you and I, as we are, you know, to do this show costs a lot of money.
We have families.
You know, we need help, you know, because this is a big operation.
So I don't begrudge a man asking for travel expenses, but I think $20,000 is a little excessive.
And even if it was a typo on his website and there was one too many zeros, even $2,000 is excessive when you're doing something out of the goodness of your heart.
But nevertheless, HK is going to return to Memphis and continue the fight on behalf of Sergeant Thrasher when he receives the funds to do so.
All this stuff is on his website.
I mean, people ought to go check it out.
But it leads again to come full circle.
It leads again to the biggest question of all.
Why are organizations like the Sons of Confederate veterans who, without a doubt, have great people that make up their membership?
It's their leadership that is failing them.
Why do organizations like the SEV and increasingly individuals as well always need to justify their beliefs by having a black or another non-white serve as their spokesperson?
This is going to be a question that we explore as we wrap up our coverage on this issue right after this commercial break.
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All right, Bill, we got one more segment with you, and I want to take advantage of every minute of this time we have remaining.
Again, ladies and gentlemen, we're giving you the facts about the attack on this 92-year-old Confederate flag, this 92-year-old Korean War veteran.
We're giving you background information about Kirk Lyons, an attorney that supposedly defends these, represents Southerners in these sorts of cases, also about H.K. Edgerton.
And Bill, it is now confirmed that H.K. Edgerton was toured around town by Lee Miller.
And that's telling to me because for people who aren't aware, back in 2005, when the Political Cesspool radio program single-handedly defended Al Sharpton's attacks on the three Confederate parks here in Memphis, it was Lee Miller and some other leaders of the local Sons of Confederate veterans that opposed us.
Their tactics were to let Al Sharpton come into town, offer no resistance, don't give the media the other side of the story, our side of the story, and just let the chips fall where they may.
Well, we couldn't stand for that.
We successfully defended the parks.
We organized a vigil at Jefferson Davis Park.
We Got on the news and the political cesspool became a very well-known media entity then, and the rest was history thereafter as we have become known around the world.
But during that whole ordeal, we were opposed tooth and nail by the SCB leadership, but now they can come out and tour H.K. Edgerton around town.
Bill, this story has gotten a lot of emails, a lot of posts on our website about our coverage of it.
But we got one in just now, an email, that I would like you personally to respond to.
And this goes back to the question: why our people feel the need that they have to have a black to justify their message, otherwise it isn't legitimate.
And here's what this email reads that just came in, Bill, during the commercial break.
I resent the attack on H.K. Edgerton, who is, in capital letters, the ambassador for the South and has been for many years.
He goes on to say it's a pretty long letter, but he writes that after hearing this report attacking H.K. Edgerton, I'll never listen to your show again.
And I'm white.
Your show is not a radio station of Southern truth.
You push the usual D.C. Federalist lies and indoctrination.
We had over 300,000 blacks who proudly fought for the South and who are Christians and love the Confederacy.
I'm very disappointed in the lack of historical knowledge of the political cesspool.
Well, first of all, that is complete brainwashing by that person has been completely a victim of cultural Marxism because who is he screaming at?
He's not screaming at him.
Lots of capital letters.
Lots of capital letters this evening.
Of course, of course, that means that's the sign of an agitated mind that's had its sacred cows shot in front of his eyes.
But the fact is that all that information is wrong.
And who is he attacking?
He is attacking the one show that has consistently defended Confederate heritage since we came on the air.
This is the one show that has never backed down on any Confederate heritage fight.
When H.K. Edgerton came to Memphis in 2005 on the Confederate parks issue, what did he do?
He went to the public meeting on the park downtown.
He showed up.
He stood up on the front row, threw a tantrum, waving and screaming, and stormed out of the auditorium.
You, James, remained behind to argue the case for the park, while H.K. did nothing but put on a big explosive display of temper and storm out.
How did that benefit Confederate Heritage?
I'd like to know exactly one Confederate flag, one Confederate Heritage battle that H.K. Edgerton has ever won.
I would like to know one time when he has ever showed up anywhere that he wasn't paid.
So this man's opinion is some black hireling should represent Southern Heritage when we've been doing it for years without a penny coming into our pocket.
It's an insult to my ancestors for anybody to say that he's the ambassador for Southern Heritage.
Who made him ambassador?
It wasn't Jefferson Davis, wasn't Robert E. Lee, wasn't it Stonewall Jackson, and it wasn't my Confederate ancestors.
The people who made him ambassador for Confederate Heritage are the ones who are too gutless to stand up for it themselves.
And that's a fact.
And I don't care if the SCV gets upset about it.
I don't care who gets upset about it.
The one organization that backed us in the park fight was the United Daughters of the Confederacy.
They had more testosterone than the SCV here in this case.
And that's a fact, too.
And let people challenge those facts.
But H.K. has never done anything he wasn't paid to do.
And he makes money off of every appearance.
He makes money off of every one of his little speeches.
He makes money every time he goes anywhere.
And I doubt Lee Miller would deny that either.
I've never made any money off being a Confederate, ever.
And I've been in this fight for 20 years or more on symbols, Confederate symbols.
And my resume and history with this is very long, and I've never made any money off of it.
So, you know, if somebody wants to say that a black man should, who is, by the way, the former field director of the NAACP.
Yeah, let's not let that fact escape us.
Oh, no, let's not talk about the NFACP now representing our Confederate heritage.
And you'll notice that when H.K. comes around, he always talks about all the blacks.
There is not one documented piece of evidence anywhere that 300,000 black Confederates existed at all.
That number comes from another bogus black historian named Leonard Haines, who was a Dr. Reverend, by the way, at a black university.
And just like H.K. Egerton, he was paid a lot of money to parade around and dance and sing about the Confederacy, and he was just as useless in the end.
You know, if we can't stand up for our own heritage, having some black front man or some black actor do it for us ain't going to work.
It's never worked.
And so, you know, that's all I'm going to say on that table.
But nobody, I've challenged the so-called advocates of black Confederacy to produce one muster card to me showing a black enrolled in the Confederate Army.
Never seen one.
Not one.
And so I present that challenge to Mr. 300,000 Black Confederates.
You're not going to find it.
It ain't there.
So, you know, again, it's these crazy cultural Marxist ideas that have penetrated so that our own people turn on us.
They turn on each other over falsehood.
And so when you give them the fact, they're going to defend the falsehood.
They hate their own people because they've been indoctrinated with cultural Marxism.
And H.K. is an agent of that.
Well, Bill, and all this is very important.
I don't think there's anything more important than encouraging our people to proudly stand up in defense of their ancestry for what it was and not the politically correct watered down version that some misguided, supposedly pro-Southern advocates are rewriting it to be to fit the modern-day script.
I mean, what our ancestors did was noble and honorable, and it's worthy of defense and adoration as it was.
We don't have to write in 300,000 fake black soldiers because, frankly, they just weren't there.
And so that's important.
That's something that we want to stress to people.
Be proud of who you are and what you were, and don't add anything else to it.
You don't need to.
It's all worthy.
It's all worthy as it is.
And then, of course, Bill, we've been focusing on a little bit of the sideshow surrounding the case of Sergeant William Thrasher.
But to come full circle and to get back to his fight and his struggle and the attack that he endured, having his flag confiscated, you know, because you did go up to the hospital and you have spoken with people that they are going to continue to fight this.
They're not going to let this interrupt you here.
James, while we've got time, let me interrupt you.
And all of our listeners out there, get a pen and pencil or pencil and a piece of paper, because in just a second, I'm going to give you an address, an address, where you can send Sergeant Perry Thrasher, not William Thrasher, but Sergeant Thrasher a card wishing him well and supporting him because I understand he loves to have visitors and that he loves to have people come and see him and his fellow Southerners especially.
But to go on with this, the fact that this wonderful ambassador of Confederate Heritage, H.K. Egerton, exploits a paralyzed veteran in a hospital as a fundraising gimmick is disgusting.
And believe me, if they raise any money, you're not going to see a lawsuit come out of it.
And if they raise the money, it's going to go straight into their pocket.
And the SEV will never ask what happened to it because it's H.K. Edgerton, and he is above question, and he's above reproach.
Well, there were other cases where Edgerton has been accused of pocketing money that was supposed to go to Southern Heritage.
And one of those cases was in Georgia.
And we may cover that on another broadcast when I can actually talk to the people who are involved in that.
But, you know, that's another case.
So all this glory, glory, glory over H.K. is really about, for him, money, money, money.
And only a fool would not realize that once they visit his website.
Well, Bill, we've had a pretty lively hour of broadcasting here, most particularly the last 10 minutes.
Looks like you're fired up.
And now it's time to send you to the showers, my friend.
Your tour is over for the evening.
You and Keith coming in this evening and providing excellent commentary, opinion, and analysis on the award-winning Political Accessible Radio Program.
Great work tonight, Bill.
I want to thank you for your service to the program, as always.
James, I've got the address here.
For all of you who are listening, send a card or letter to Perry Thrasher, Final Cord Unit, 1 West, Hair of VA Medical Center, 1030.
That's 1030, Jefferson Avenue, Memphis, 38104.
Once again, Perry Thrasher, Final Cord Unit, 1 West, Hair of VA Medical Center, 1030, Jefferson Avenue, Memphis, 38104.
Bill, you got it in just under the wire, my friend.
God bless you, buddy.
We'll talk to you next time.
One more hour of political cesspool coming up right after this.