Nikki Haley Sundowns for Loeffer in Forsyth; Gregory attempts to Redeem Criswell 1956 Address to SC Legislature

   Friends, a veritable avalanche of insight and venality the last few days with great significance for the Direction of the US Senate and the Georgia vote January 5th and Warnock/Loeffler race.

    Over the weekend Former SC Gov and UN Ambassador  Nikki Haley made clubfooted appearances to All white audiences in North Georgia ceiling her legacy of mediocrity and atonal politics. She Took down the Confederate Flag and she was gracious during the nightmare of the Charleston Nine but here she is showing no education from those events nor time in the UN with her endorsements of Loeffler; not to mention any lessons from her hometown and the Orangeburg Massacre.

     She campaigned in Forsyth County a Sundown town for 9 decades of the twentieth Century whose lynching history was recently made bare in Patrick Phillips rivetting book Blood at the Root. Forsyth just a few years ago was where Oprah and Coretta Scott King marched drawing national attention. Charles Stanley's son Andy is now a megachurch pastor there on the outskirts of Gainesville and Cumming at the Browns Bridge Church.

     And Stephen Reeves Of the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship today at Goodfaithmedia.org has a scorching piece, while not naming Haley, shows just what kind of shenanigans she is participating in.

     All this in the larger context of spotlighted new looks at Faulkner and the lessons of the Civil War. Haley could read Michael Gorra on the Civil War, or better to help her understand, google the Drew Gilpin Faust review in the Atlantic, and even better than better therein click on the link to the 2016 piece that breaks it down for the venality in which she dances with the Trump base in support of Loeffler.

     Joel Gregory tried to redeem an aspect of some of this with a dissident view, taking issue with the six seminary presidents of the SBC on Critical Race Theory.  You can read that at baptistnews.com or google for Baptist News Global. in the 90s Gregory was co pastor of FBC Dallas Texas with the infamous WA Criswell. In 56, and Nikki Haley should know this, at the invitation of Strom Thurmond, Criswell delivered a harangue of a race baiting diatribe to a joint session of the SC legislature saying among other things " You wouldn't call a chigger a chiggerow, now would ya.?"

      UN Ambassador Haley by ignorance or feigning dismissal was  playing the same game over the weekend in Georgia.

   And it will be a shame if Warnock doesnt bring Deshaun Watson of Hall County and Trevor Lawrence of 30 miles West of Forsyth in Barnsley Garden just off the Kingston Hwy into the conversation. June 13 Trevor told me he was with Deshaun Watson and  Drew Brees in the twitter dustup against Trump; and that friends puts Watson and Lawrence at odds with Haley and Loeffler in these matters.

     Clipping along while this could get dense in a hurry which is part of the slimey game Karl Rove plays in these contests, or what Atwater called spreading the fog, Ossoff may have the best ad with his contest against Perdue. He has a hard scrabble working class white man with a credible accent, authentic as Hell cutting through all this mirage of Loeffler and Perdue, cutting through the fog to say they don't give a damn about the welfare of the average working fellow, white black or Brown

   That's what's a stake as was with the Tuberville shenanigans in Alabama.Working class white folks voting against their own economic interests with hide and seek Venality, mendacity of the politics of abortion.

    Furman grad, Vandy Doc Ansley Quiros of the History Department of UNA in Florence Alabama got to the guts of it last fall before the election with this sterling piece.

   Cut and paste or google key words for 

           https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2018/07/26/dont-call-christians-who-support-trump-hypocrites-convert-them/?noredirect=on

       

The Peelers of Gaffney South Carolina and Raw Buttermilk

  It was last Thursday I think it was my sister and I took an hour long retrospective of Gaffney's Peeler family sparked by a facebook post of my fellow Citizen of the Month the fall of 68 at Gaffney High School, Susan Peeler. I think I was nominated by Lillian Ashley who played Basketball with Susan and was in the Latin Club, later to find out a first cousin of Flossie Black, the first lady of Gardner Webb College for a couple decades who preceeded me as a Furman grad by just a few years.

    But this is about the Peelers a political force in the state with many branches. Susan's brother Bob was in a room with Karl Rove in 2000 at the Hyatt in Greenville SC where the group made presidential history deciding go negative on John McCain and flipped GOP primary results by 30 odd points and propelled George W to two terms in the White House. Bob was Lt Gov at the time and two years later lost to Marc Sanford in the GOP gubernatorial primary. Their brother Harvey, the oldest is now the House Speaker of SC. And there is twin Brother Bill who married Pam Lipscomb of the Beta Club and they saw my sister at Pete's in Easley about three years ago on the way to Clemson.

    And I got to say Bob is in the Frontline Documentary of Dubya rise to power shown back in the fall of 2000. I'm watching and the drama thickens and all of a sudden there is a lineup comes out from behind a curtain in Columbia and W is in the center and among the eight or so is Bob Peeler and I'm thinking Ive know this guy since fourth grade at Central Elementary in Gaffney and all of a sudden though i'm well into my forties at that point the whole world has weightier dimensions.

    So that said, Susan's posting of a picture of her Mother's Ladies Society at Limestone Baptist opposite the College up from the quarry was a lot of fun. Various of Susan's cousins, and there are a bunch of them started weighing in but it was left, proud to say, a former member of my Dad's Bethany Baptist Church, Margaret Wilson, who gave the definitive answer at the request of Susan's Cousin Frances Peeler to name them all.

   And that sparked a conversation between my sister and me about Clyde Peeler, now deceased, in her class and Kent Clary, another cousin who made the highest score on the SAT of anyone I knew of at that time and went to Duke School of Hospital Administration. We tried to figure among the Brothers Smith, Clyde and two others who was who and where did Kathy Peeler who went to Emory and later to Libya fit in. And that got us to LD Peeler a year younger than me, who I think may be Frances Brother, not sure though my sister found em all; and turned Up LD down in Starr SC with his own 30 odd Jersey cows now at Milky Way Farms you can find online.

   He testified on video at his site about drinking Raw Milk with his Uncle Smith--Susan and the politicians Dad--at Peeler dairy of the sixties. They always had a special page in every Gaffney Cherokeean Annual, of a child and their classmates drinking Peeler's milk. I am pretty sure Peeler's had to contract for the entire county school district so you can see right there where Politics has its rewards.

    So upshot was LD site says you can purchase his brand at select outlets in the Upstate including Winslette's in Easley which by the Grace of God is about two miles from my sister's house.

    So when my niece Katie picked me up Friday to take me to my current living situation, we had to stop in and get a quart. I'm about to apply it to some cornbread for my whitefish filet in about two hours.

     Little pricey but I think I'm in at least quarterly if the cornbread is good here not long now. But I got to tell the Peelers this. Late Friday night I opened the fridge door and took a swig of what I thought was some two percent generic brand, but turned out I had gotten a dose of the Raw Buttermilk from Milky Way.

     A little bit of a shock but not bad at all. Hope all the Peelers appreciate this with as much affection and fun as I just had in the display of it all. In fact me and many products of Central Elementary owe it to them for those glass bottles with the straw hole in the top that was a communal test of our dexterity at lunch when the world was new and most was yet to come!