Hervey wants 'March on Jackson'
Rashaun Ellis
DM Entertainment Editor

A man, who in May marched around Oxford with the Confederate flag, said at Thursday's meeting for the Society of Cogers he has more marching in store.

Anthony Hervey said that he is planning to have a "March on Jackson," which would consist of 30 black men with Confederate ancestry to advocate the building of a memorial to all of the black Confederate soldiers. The march would begin in Oxford and the soldiers would march to Capitol building in Jackson while waving the Confederate battle flag.

From the march on Jackson would stem a resulting march on Washington that would end at the Lincoln Memorial, Hervey said.

"We're gonna put a face to history," he said.

Hervey and several of his colleagues, including Greg Stewart, Oxford lawyer and member of the Oxford Chapter Sons of Confederate Veterans, discussed the march, and issues dealing with Southern culture and the Confederate flag.

He said that the media portrays blacks as "poor, starving, and pregnant victims" and ends up ignoring white victims of poverty. He also said that liberal whites are the real racists because they use blacks to attack their own enemies, conservatives, by using symbols like the Rebel Flag.

Hervey said that he hopes that through the release of this information blacks will learn who the real racists are and "pick up their battle flags and shout, 'No more! No more!'"

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