What Dabo got right and a few things he missed

  I attended the Clemson football team Black Lives Matter March at Bowman field Saturday June 13 with about 3,000 plus in attendance. I got to talk to QB Trevor Lawrence of Barnsley Garden Community Ga and His Mother; and Had brief chat with Darien Rencher of Anderson SC, a walk on the team whose father ran track at Clemson in the early 80s.

    It is my understanding Darien was a driving force for the event and spoke at Dabo's New Springs mega church a couple weeks ago. It is my impression New Springs has a conservative culture kinda like Church of the Highlands in Alabama where Tua was a member. Whether New Springs is as stealth political for Trump's America as Highlands, I haven't been able to figure out; though it appears some influential people on the margins of the program are a little touchy about it.

    I thought Dabo did a great job Saturday and I told Trevor and his Mother I was proud of him.

    Will come back to this later but a transparent conversation at Clemson and across the ACC and |SEC that matters will look at the White Trump culture of Country Club Republicans in the Upstate or for Bama Richard Shelby's complicity to date on Trump's SOB Comment. In the Upstate it will look at Lee Atwater's infamous morph of the Nword strategy and his compatriot Carroll Campbell. Also Tom Edsall's Audacity of Hate, NY times piece is out there and a few weeks ago, the Greenwich Rebellion, by Evan Osnos at New Yorker.

    And Trey Gowdy's, now William Timmons SC 4th can take a close look at Marty Cohen's Moral Congress. A synopsis of Atwater's legacy can be found there for the good folks at Christ Church.

   And of course there is no legitimate conversation that makes a difference at New Springs or Christ Church Episcopal, or Nick Saban's St. Francis Catholic in Tuscaloosa that doesnt include Joe Crespino and in SC his book Strom Thurmond's America.

     That goes for Paul Finebaum too.

      I asked Trevor how he came down on Drew Brees tweet exchange with Trump suggesting Trump appeal to the Flag as a strategy was a "distraction". Trevor said he hadn't had a chance to talk to Deshaun Watson about that specific aspect of the country's ordeal in the last month, but he, Trevor thought people should have the freedom to express their concern in the manner that was most appropriate for them.

    I read that to say Trevor is with Drew and Deshaun and has reservations about Trump.

   More later.