Socastee church members learn about the Confederate flag's history from African American Activist
by Erin MacPherson
Posted: 56 mins ago
... H.K Edgerton was the guest speaker Sunday. He is a African-American activist for southern heritage, a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and the former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Asheville, North Carolina ... "He brings a whole new side to it. I feel that we are the worst in my life time. I'm 43. In race, I have never been called a racist until I moved here, because of that flag," said Squirres. Squirres has a Confederate battle flag flying on their church sign ...
http://www.carolinalive.com/news/story.aspx?id=1241487
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of the president of the local NAACP. The picture depicted the local president with Kirk Lyons and Neil Payne, Lyons' brother-in-law partner in CAUSE, laughing as they wore napkins on their heads to simulate KKK hoods ... Once again, in its annual listing of "Active Hate Groups", the Southern Poverty Law Center included the CAUSE Foundation ...
http://www.main.nc.us/wncceib/98whole.htm#Item%202
... Pictured here are H.K. Edgerton, Kirk Lyons and Neill Payne having a good laugh by placing napkins on their heads and posing as Klansmen ...
http://guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/2006/11/celebrating-kkk-grand-wizards-at.html
Kirk Lyons is a white supremacist lawyer who co-founded and serves as the "chief trial counsel" for the Southern Legal Resource Center (SLRC), which has effectively become the legal arm of the neo-Confederate movement. Billing itself as a defender against "heritage violations" — attacks on the culture and symbols of the Confederacy — the SLRC was formed in 1996 by Lyons and his brother-in-law Neill Payne, and it has handled a number of cases involving the Confederate battle flag. But controversy has dogged the SLRC because of Lyons' extensive extremist background, which includes his infamous wedding at the Aryan Nations compound in a ceremony officiated by longtime Aryan Nations leader and Christian Identity preacher, Richard Butler ...
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/kirk-lyons