The Law of the Sea Treaty, Sand Mountain and the New York Giants

    For the last thirty years Ive lived in NE Alabama between Sand Mtn and Lookout Mtn. My good friend in Collinsville recently deceased, Herman Kerley, said on a statewide shown Documentary about the region there used to be a sign up at the Top of the Mtn on 68 going West: Read Nigger Run, and if you can't Read, Run Anyway.

     I think things are better now as Collinsville Basketball team hasn't had to take their team off the court competing against the all white teams on Sand Mtn in some time, especially since Solomon Stanton and Mark Dutton and those boys spanked most of the 90s.

      But Sand Mtn voted upwards of 92 percent Trump this last election as the entired county was 87 percent Trump.

      That brings me near despair as there are a lot of great folks in the county. You just have to attend one Sacred Harp Singing at the Liberty Church in Henegar in July for that to sink in deep. Except for their voting dispositions, salt of the earth people whose patriotism and fear of God is authentic and deep.

     But I think folks like Will Ainsworth and my friend Jordan Doufexis with this election of Tommy Tuberville are selling them a shallow political bill of goods.

    This is the pocket of the world I know best. You know similar frustrations where you live. Gaffney SC isn't much different from Sand Mtn, the voting disposition of white folk though Gaffney is upwards of 40 percent black within the City limits and in the public schools, where Sand Mtn is about 98 percent white with some towns having an influx of Hispanics.

          So the challenging lessons of insightful Christians at goodfaithmedia.org and The Christian Century, The Methodist Reporter etc aren't resonating.

      There are products of Dekalb county who understand. I could name about forty without getting started but they are outnumbered and except for a few asides in a Sunday School class or some Study Club don't say much. I'm not sure the school board members, any of them have read a book in the last 12 years that would begin to challenge their foundational disposition.

    But the polarization want stop with influencers like Southern Baptist leadership left to fundamentalism and every Baptist preacher knowing any vote of fifty percent in a congregation and his belongings are on the sidewalk. And it just takes a super Trumper or two, or a member blinded by their guns or abortion politics to get a preacher out of a congregation.

    So all that said to taunt you into reading the following analysis and then listening to an interview I heard two days ago on NPR. If you live in Rainsville, Alabama or Ft Payne and See Jordan Doufexis or a school board member at Kelly's Diner or the Cracker Barrel, or some folks at NACC in Section, ask them if they know Stuart Stevens and What he said. Same for the Cracker Barrel in Guntersville if Will Ainsworth Stops in

     Here, check this Out!

 

https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/11/12/republican-party-lincoln-project