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Born May 18, 1953; got saved at Truett Memorial BC in Hayesville, NC 1959. On rigged ballot which I did not rig got Most Intellectual class of 71, Gaffney High School. Furman Grad, Sociology major but it was little tougher than Auburn football players had Had three dates with beautiful women the summer of 1978. Did not marry any of em. Never married anybody cause what was available was undesirable and what was desirable was unaffordable. Unlucky in love as they say and even still it is sometimes heartbreaking. Had a Pakistani Jr. Davis Cupper on the Ropes the summer of 84, City Courts, Rome Georgia I've a baby sitter, watched peoples homes while they were away on Vacation. Freelance writer, local consultant, screenwriter, and the best damn substitute teacher of Floyd County Georgia in mid 80's according to an anonymous kid passed me on main street a few years later when I went back to get a sandwich at Schroeders. Had some good moments in Collinsville as well. Ask Casey Mattox at www.clsnet.org if he will be honest about it. I try my best to make it to Bridges BBQ in Shelby NC at least four times a year.

Thursday, October 01, 2020

Collinsville's Casey Mattox quoted in October 1 Tom Edsall Piece NY Times on Amy Coney Barrett

   I met both Casey and the writer Edsall in 1986 and made comments this morning at the History section of Baptistlife.com forums. You can see my comments there where I name names from Collinsville who affirm and oppose Casey's thinking on ACB and abortion in particular. Been frustrating today because yesterday I used the word "miscreant" at Yellowhammer News facebook discussion where I was practically lynched online with all the religious right comments at a media site alleged to have been created by Mike Hubbard and Cliff Simms, the former House speaker whose son clayte is a Furman grad but may not know much about Marshall Frady.

    Met Edsall at Atlanta SBC in June of 86 where we had a good twenty minute chat before his pivotal piece on page A4 Sat june 6 headlined New Right now Controls Huge SBC. Met Casey in December of that year when I subbed for his sixth grade class for Miss Smith. Allison Myers, Julie Arthur, Mark Morgan, the Dawg Nine, Brent Killian rising quarterback, Dale Rogers were all in class that day best I remember.

  I guess miscreant is abusive bullying language on Yellowhammer News but Trump calling two of Nick Saban's Heismann Trophy winners sons of bitches is Not.

    I will come back to this later but wanted to lay this firebrake down. Meantime you can explore some of the faith direction of Casey's Collinsville contemporaries at Bl dot com in the History of Collinsville and the special post on Casey.

   With all the penumbra of Amy Coney and the way it is going down, don't be surprised if 60 Minutes comes to Collinsville to update what Casey and Gloria Morgan portend for DACA justice for the burgeoning Hispanic community there. A Coney appear to know a lot about Federalism and White Supremacy under the skirts of the fetus, but not much about Justice of the Gospel of Jesus, MLKing, Dorothy Day and Oscar Romero to name a few; and of course Bonhoeffer.

    Collinsville Has been the subject of documentaries by Mick Jagger's great friend Brett Morgen, and U Bama's media Mike Letcher. Two separate documentaries shown on statewide Television, so 60 minutes should not be surprising, not a reach at all. Great chance for Jennifer Wilkins of the Auburn University Democracy Project to Shine.

 

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