(UPDATE 12:00 p.m. – The Facebook user who posted the video has made it private, and it can no longer be viewed.)

VALDOSTA – A former Valdosta State University student who sparked a national media firestorm when he was seen walking on an American flag during campus protests almost one year ago addressed several current VSU students during a video conference call this week.

A video posted to Facebook shows Eric Sheppard speaking to a small group of students gathered on campus. The apparent focus of the event was to discuss Sheppard’s philosophical approach to social activism, including what he described as the “main threat to white society.”

“The main threat white society is consumed with, overly consumed with, is, essentially, the black man’s penis, or, like I said–like I said to y’all earlier, testicular fortitude–for black men to actually act as men and not want to be the white man’s (inaudible),” Sheppard said.

“The main thing prohibiting the progress of all society, humans and non-humans, is our lacking of bare necessities of life. People are worried about paying their mortgage for a house. Birds don’t pay mortgages. Lions don’t pay mortgages. Giraffes don’t pay mortgages. But humans and non-humans pay mortgages,” Sheppard said. “We are worried about paying utilities and water bills–for food and things like that. This is called slavery. It’s called–you are basically a zombie because you are working for the bare minimal. You are working to get nowhere, essentially.”

Sheppard was arrested last year after eluding law enforcement for a month after he was charged with leaving a firearm inside a backpack after a campus protest at VSU.

“The formal charge is a gun charge, but we know for damn sure it’s not about no motherf****** gun,” Sheppard said during the video conference.

Sheppard was part of a group which held several protests in which an American flag was placed on the ground and repeatedly walked on. The protests gained national attention after Air Force Veteran and former Playboy model Michelle Manhart was briefly detained but not arrested by campus police for taking the protesters’ flag during a demonstration.

Sheppard has yet to stand trail on the campus gun charge, but bond conditions prohibit him from using social media in any form, either directly or indirectly, including Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

Any violation of those conditions may result in Sheppard’s incarceration in the Lowndes County Jail until his trial date, according to court documents.

(UPDATE 4/8/15 – District Attorney’s office says Sheppard violated the “spirit” of his bond agreement but not the conditions. Read the story here.)