Click the link below and watch the video of the news cast. I’d hug this man. Actually, I wouldn’t mind having a cup of coffee with the man. I like people who know history. H.K. Edgerton, if you ever find yourself on this side of the state, the offer of coffee and conversation with this displaced Yankee stands.

He (H.K. Edgerton) said the graffiti artist protested incorrectly.

H.K. Edgerton is a former president of the North Carolina NAACP and one of few African-American members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. (Credit: WYFF)

“I’m not going to blame it on a Yankee because I’ve seen some southern folk around here that are real questionable too that don’t know anything about who they are and their families and the honorable people in the southland of America, red, yellow, black, white and brown,” Edgerton said.

He said the Confederate flag needs to continue…