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Soul Food from the Hood by Keith Hood long enough to secure my future with my now wife. It was a great tour. All of that made me an alumnus for the Toccoa Falls music program. The invitation went out for I had the privilege of singing with the Toccoa Falls Singing Men for the National Anthem at the Atlanta Braves game last week. I’ve never sang with the group before. I’m an alumnus from Toccoa Falls College of the year 1988. My wife and I sang for touring groups used for promotion. It was not uncom mon for a singing group to visit 60 churches over a Summer. I joined the choir to sing with my freshman sweetheart my Keith Ho0 d freshman year. Did that one semester, just Submitted Photos LCES third graders enjoyed signing yearbooks. alumni to sing. I figured that since my son would be sing ing with them, so would I. I had the National Anthem sent to be via email along with the song recorded. I memorized it as was the requirement. Then the day came for the trip to Atlanta to join the other singing alumni men of the choir for the National Anthem. I get this little text. It’s from my son. “I think I might stay tonight.” My little reply? “What!!!” He wasn’t going to join us for the National Anthem for the Braves game. I could not believe it. We had purchased the tickets, planned the trip. Now at the eleventh hour, we get this message. Long story short: it’s crunch time for him to graduate and pri orities are studies. Time is the premium for finishing projects and studying for exams. I had just about decided not to go. My wife heard the news about our son’s not going and met it with disappointment of course. She didn’t, however, con sider not going ourselves. I didn’t tell her until afterwards that I had about thrown in the towel. One of the ones with whom I traveled couldn’t make it due to being relocated due to the hurricane. He is now a Major in the Air Force as a Chaplain. Now he’ll be on his way moving to Las Vegas. So, there I was driving 80 plus MPH to get to Sun Trust Stadium before 5:30 PM meeting time. Oh, hello Reggie. You’re a re ally good Sherriff. But we did make it. Didn’t make the acquaintance of any other law enforcement of ficers, local or otherwise. But I digress. All of the men met up outside the stadium. We were all given a blue polo shirt with Toccoa Falls insignia. We marched to a place for warmups. I ended up on the outside of the group, on the front row. Now, for the first time, I sing the song with the group. I did pretty well. The time came to march in. The lady in charge of the groups who sing at Sun Trust Park, gave the marching orders. Guess who gets to be the first person to walk into the stadium ahead of the choir! Marching orders arrived. The Lee County Ledger, Wednesday, May 8, 2019, Page 7 A We stopped at the outfield wall. “Don’t step on the chalk!” came the call. I peered out from the left field into all of the stands. There was a collective giddiness in the group of 40 men. Then com menced the charge of the light brigade. There was Ozzie Albies and Acuna speaking Spanish to a big guy from the Padres who would later hit two home runs. We sat up and we waited. Then the call came for people to stand and gentlemen to remove their hats for the singing of the National Anthem. We were announced. We started singing and the echo was behind our voices. I knew from when I used to do the emcee ing for the Lee County Band not to listen to that Household gar bage cannot be accepted a tthe Lee County Land fill. Household garbage may be taken to the Terrell County Dumping Satation located at 3370 Albany High way in Dawson. If you have an que- tionsplease call 229-995-5165 but to focus on what I was saying. The Conductor held command. We fin ished and the crowd went electric. On the exit I said to the Choir Director, “Congratulations, Mae stro!” He said, “Thanks! 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Four mil lion went to Brazil and 1 million to Cuba and the rest to European possessions in the New World in the Caribbean. When America got into the slave trade business it started with Massachusetts in 1637 where the 1st American slave ship “The Desire” was fitted out in Marble head. Massachusetts was the 1st colony to legalize slavery by statute in 1641 at the request of Jewish businessmen but had been enslaving Indians since the Puritans arrived in 1620. Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and New York followed. The port cities of New England grew to prosperity based on the nefarious business. The economic infrastructure of New England depended on the trade. Virtually all slave ships were owned by Jewish Americans. Aaron Lopez was the largest of the slave traders and records show the names of the Slave Ships under his ownership and control. The Jewish DeWolf family owned most of the slave auction houses. In Virginia from 1607 to 1655 a 7 year servitude existed to pay for the ship voyage to America. Truth can be stranger than fiction. In 1619 20 blacks arrived at Jamestown. Anthony Johnson worked off his servitude and became a Virginia landowner. In 1654-1655 he went before the courts of Virginia (English) and was granted lifetime ownership of fellow black John Casor. THE FATHER OF SOUTHERN SLAVERY WAS A BLACK MAN. The Southern states initially tried to resist slavery but Southern planters succumbed to sales pressure from the Yankee slave traders. Virginia tried over 30 times to stop slavery but England refused. Slavery was supposed to have never been allowed in Georgia. BLACKS PARTICIPATED IN SLAVERY. In the state of LA in 1860 there were at least six free blacks who owned 65 or more slaves. Widow C. Richard and her son P. C. Richard owned 152 slaves. Antoine Dubuclet owned over 100 slaves. In Charleston, SC 125 free blacks owned slaves. Six of them owned ten or more. Mistress L. Horry, of South Carolina owned 84 slaves in 1830. In 1830 one fourth of the free black slave masters in SC owned 10 or more slaves. According to the U.S. 1830 Census over 3000 free blacks owned over 12,000 black slaves albeit some were family members purchased. When the slave trade became unprofitable the hypocritical New England Yankees accused the South of grave moral sin. Slavery was a dying institution in the South and orderly emancipation was taking place. Radical fanatical criminal corrupt New Englanders demanded instant abolition and 68 of 117 Republican politicians signed a resolution supporting terror ism against the South. All wars are fought over land, resources, money, and power. The upcoming Yankee Morrill tariff tax of 47-51% was one of the main reasons for Southern secession and was the only reason Lincoln invaded the South. Northern Industrialists and bankers refused to give up the 60 to 70 million dollars they were getting annually from an unfair sectional tariff tax from which the South was being forced to pay 75 to 85% of the money to operate the Federal Government. And 10% tariff rates in Southern ports would have put the Northern ports out of business. Two years into the War for Southern Independence (aka Civil War) Lincoln brought in the slavery issue to prevent England and France from supporting the CSA. Since Southern surrender in 1865 Yankee lies (by omission of facts) and propaganda have successfully placed virtually all responsibility for American slavery on the South. The Confederate flag nor the flag of any Southern colony or state ever flew over any slave ship but the U.S. flag “The Stars and Stripes” flew over many. The above references to Jewish slave traders should not be considered as an anti-Semitic statement and in no way places blame on today’s many fine Jewish Americans. Contact me for my article “The 10 Causes of Southern Secession” James W. King, jkingantiquearms@bellsouth.net, Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) Camp 141, Commander Albany Georgia. Lt. Col. Thomas M. Nelsons Rangers
