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In 1987, the NAACP declared the Confederate flag was a symbol of "divisiveness, racial animosity and an insult to black people throughout the region," The NAACP's membership in 1987 was 1.7% of the American black population. NAACP membership was 0.11% 0.11% percent of the American population made a decision for the other 99.89% Think about that.












Is this a good time to remind everyone that Jefferson Davis had an adopted black son?




FREE BLACK. ENSLAVED. CONFEDERATE. YOUR ANCESTOR. YOUR TRUTH. History gave your ancestors one story and told you it was the whole truth. It wasn't. Free Black men enlisted and served in the Confederate army. They drilled, they marched, they fought. Not because anyone made them. Because the South was home, and home was worth something. Enslaved men went to war alongside the men they had grown up with. Some as body servants, some as laborers, some in combat roles that records barely captured before those records were lost or ignored. And the ones who stayed behind held the farms together. They protected the women, the children, the old men left behind while the armies moved. They fed families. They buried the dead. They kept life from coming completely apart. Then the war ended. And history flattened them. Not into silence. Into a single, simple story that had no room for complicated people living complicated lives. A story that decided in advance what they must have thought and felt and wanted and never asked. A story that erased the free Black Southerner who fought and came home and raised a family whose descendants are alive right now, not knowing he existed. Maybe in your family. This is not about sanitizing what the war was. Telling the whole truth means carrying all of it. The suffering and the service. The bondage and the loyalty. The things that don't fit neatly into anyone's preferred narrative. Your ancestors were not footnotes. They were not props in someone else's story. They were people who made choices inside an impossible world, and those choices deserve to be known. How do you know who you are if you don't know the truth about where you came from? The H.K. Edgerton Equal Protection Initiative is about our shared heritage. There are an estimated 80 million CSA-Americans alive in the United States today. If your family comes from Southern states, that makes you a CSA-American. Black, White, and every heritage in between. Your heritage matters. Your ancestor's story will not survive unless you tell it. Fill out the affidavit of CSA ancestry. It takes minutes. southernindependenceassociation.org It creates a permanent record. It says your people existed, they mattered, and you refuse to let history bury them again. Do it for them. Do it for yourself, your children, grandchildren, and future generations. Mindy Esposito/ March 3, 2026/ Nashville, Tennessee.





the Good'ole boys are making a comeback!

Robert E. Lee was a better American than Ilhan Omar.


















