Carolina and Clemson Republican trustees struck mute on Lindsey Graham, Trump and the Black vote Reckoning

   Last night I watched the PBS American Experience documentary on Marian Anderson, the black woman who stood up the Daughters of the American Revolution for their refusal to allow her to sing in Constitution Hall and was ushered with the Help of the Roosevelts and a strategist with the NAACP to sing at the Lincoln Memorial, a Free Concert, on Easter Sunday 1939 in front of 75,000 people. It was just twenty years after the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial when the Klan was most powerful and the few blacks were there were shuffled off into the weeds.

   It was a powerful documentary that coincided with a same day reading of a piece at religion dispatches of how Lindsey Graham is promoting the disenfranchisement of the Black vote with his coddling of Trump post impeachment

       https://religiondispatches.org/when-white-terrorism-goes-unpunished-trumps-acquittal-and-the-persistence-of-anti-blackness/  

    You can't miss the story at the site, Big picture of a sly grinning Lindsey Graham. Can't miss ie.

       I felt convicted to leave a message on the phone of David Wilkins, one of the most powerful Republicans in the state of SC, a recent chair of the Clemson Trustees. I also left a message on the phone of Furman president Elizabeth Davis, a good Baptist woman who is on an Upstate Committee with influential people about racial equity.

     I don't see how that committee comes to much without an earnest conversation with the likes of David Wilkins and his counterparts on the U South Carolina trustee board informed by the religion dispatches piece.

    Last summer I talked to both Darrien Rencher and Trevor Lawrence at the June 13 Clemson BLM march. They are "woke". The will read the religion dispatches piece and talk about it in the NFL, The ACC The ACC and looks like a reckoning coming.

    At same time I am reading the collection of essays on the Appalachian Reckoning, a 2017 response to JD Vance's Hillbilly Elegy.

    I hope David Wilkins will dive into that as well, because to paraphrase the Sheriff in No Country for Old Men when he came up on the bodies in the shootout early in the movie, if Jan 6 wasn't a Mess, it'll do till the Mess gets here.

     Today in the Cherokee Chronicle of Gaffney SC Janet Morris Belvin had a column about Central Elementary School where she was about ten years ahead of me. Her Father was pastor of FBC Gaffney of which my Dad's Bethany Baptist Church was a mission. It may be her father her contemporary in Gaffney Jerry Shinn had in mind when he wrote the novel Dixie Autumn, historical fiction based on the dynamiting of a doctor's home in Gaffney in 1956 on College Drive, just up from Central Elementary School, also the alma mater of actress Andie Macdowell.

    Rosie "Andie" had a January interview where she talked not only about some new revelations of her Firefly ad for Calvin Klein Jeans of the early 80s, but also her memories of race relations in Gaffney.

   I digressed, but as David Wilkins wife Susan Clary came of age with Janet Morris and Kit and Polly Sossamon, she knows of the incident as well.

     Janet on her facebook post of Jan 7 made reference to the Trump insurrection and was appalled by "thugs" encouraged by a "deranged president."

   Trump's daughter in law looks to aspire to become the second coming of a mashup of Jesse Helms and Phyliss Schlafy in a Senate Run in NC. It's time for this to stop, to end in Jesus name.

     The former Head of the UNC System, Bill Friday told leading progressive Baptist pastor Cecil Sherman in the early 90s, the most significant event of the 80s in North Carolina was the fundamentalist takeover of the Baptist Seminary in Wake Forest, SEBTS. Cause As Friday said, Helms and his right wing republican fundy Baptist friends knew that with that seminary they could get in the heads of Baptist preachers in every hamlet, suburb and precinct not only in NC but across the SE.

    Now we have Trump religion across the Southern Baptist Convention as John Pierce shows today in a piece at Good Faith Media dot org.

    It is way passed time for the alumni of Furman, Wofford, Davidson, Mars Hill, Presbyterian College and liberal arts school across the SE, alums sprinkled in small towns and medium sized towns to caucus, call for public discussions with their school boards and defeat the likes of Mrs Trump in NC and where ever Trumpism raises its ugly head.

   The Reckoning is upon us, in Pickens and Cherokee County SC, Floyd County Ga, Dekalb County Alabama.

    It's here.

  PS Also google or url this piece by my friend Ron Rash

   https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/opinion/appalachias-sacrifice.html

    And google Digging in the Trash, David Joy, Bitter Southerner. 

     In my mind Lara Trump and Lindsey Graham are not the way forward for blacks , NOR the white children of Appalachia and the sons and daughters of textile mill workers left in Piedmont. Fundamentalism is not gonna heal the soul of America molested by the likes of Donald Trump and his enablers.