The truly disturbing part is when you venture over to Edgerton.'s website. Edgerton disputes that Slavery was the primary cause of the Civil War. Even more troubling, Edgerton defends slavery, painting the relationship between slaves and their owners as harmonious and loving. He also claims that African Americans fought for the confederacy, which is a questionable claim. From what I have read, they were not allowed to be soldiers, but did have roles where they assisted on the battlefield.

One would wonder what would make a man seemingly betray his own heritage. Well, take a look at THIS. It turns out that at the events that H.K. attends he is not simply showing up at over a sense of confederate unity. H.K. charges an appearance fee. H.K. charges a 20,000 dollar appearance fee, plus mileage.

So, is Edgerton for real? People who knew him as a NAACP president have expressed shock over his recent shift in views. Does Edgerton really believe what he preaches, or is he cynically selling himself to Confederate apologists as a way to erase their guilt? Maybe he laughs his way to the bank.

Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post–Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves.

And after a steady diet of lies and abject denial about those lies, undoubtedly millions of Conservative meatheads have come to believe that all of it is true, in the same way that millions of North Koreans believe that North Korea won World War II and is now the dominate superpower on planet Earth. The difference, of course, is that while the average North Korean is imprisoned in on all sides by walls and mines and machine guns and are pounded with propaganda from cradle to grave, the average Conservative could easily find out just how completely they have been brainwashed and how monstrously they have been lied to with a few clicks of a mouse or by changing the channel.

But a Conservative will eat a ball of barbed wire, and then spend a month shitting blood and blaming Obama for it, and then do the same thing all over again, because they don't want to know the truth.

They dare not know the truth.

And every one of us knows it.

And with the help of their enablers and co-conspirators in the mainstream media, this strategy of complete, uniform denial of factual reality has been enormously profitable and has worked remarkably well for decades. And, quite predictably, as this groups of criminals and lunatics figured out that since there are no longer any cops on this beat -- that the fourth estate long ago abandoned its post and gave up on the idea of reporting the "facts" for fear of offending the crazies -- there is no one left to stop them no matter depraved, dangerous and overtly nuts their antics have gotten.

And I don't know about you, but I'm god damned tired of watching the simple facts of 8th grade American history become something so "controversial" that no blow-dried millionaire newsreader in the mainstream media dares to speak its name:

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-- the problem of race in America has always been about white male supremacy.

And white supremacy in America has always been about Jefferson Davis' Almighty God locked in mortal combat with Reverend Martin Luther King's Almighty God.

And it continues to astonish me the number of times we on the Left are called upon to drum this basic fact of American history into the skulls of America's Greatest Conservative Public Intellectuals.

A lot of those poor Southern whites were conscripted in 1863 and 1864, states sent out bounty hunters for draft-dodgers. By 1863, the planters were figuring out how to send other recruits in place of their offspring.

All of my ancestors in the Civil War but one were conscripted. That one was out by 1862 and never went back but was the most patriotic Confederate veteran ever. The brother of my great grandfather is reported to have hidden out in the Pee Dee swamps to avoid conscription. Another tale is that he wasn't conscripted, but he was hiding out because a local rich guy wanted to send him in place of his son.

It's much to late to know motives of poor whites in the Civil War. And after the war, they never could be honest about what they actually thought; night riders could be touchy about that sort of honesty.

Ely Samuel Parker (1828 – August 31, 1895), (born Hasanoanda, later known as Donehogawa) was a Seneca attorney, engineer, and tribal diplomat. He was commissioned a lieutenant colonel during the American Civil War, when he served as adjutant to General Ulysses S. Grant. He wrote the final draft of the Confederate surrender terms at Appomattox. Later in his career, Parker rose to the rank of Brevet Brigadier General, one of only two Native Americans to earn a general's rank during the war (the other being Stand Watie, who fought for the Confederacy). President Grant appointed him as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the first Native American to hold that post.