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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.

Sunday, November 17, 2024

An Asterisk on Furman's Timmons Arena

     The morning of November 14 I had a fourteen minute conversation with Congressman William Timmons of SC 3rd District. Just elected to his third term he has pledged to step down in four years if reelected twice more.

      His grandfather loved basketball and gave the key gift to build Furman's Basketball arena on campus after a glorious run in Greenville's Downtown arena where Frank Selvy scored his hundred and Clyde Mayes led a great decade in the seventies. 
    I am concerned about the Current William Timmons embrace of Turmp and  the fundamentalist christian nationalist politics of North Greenville Tony Beam and his so called "christian" world view. Marty Cohen's book Moral Congress is great look at how the third got this way from Liz Patterson to Trey Gowdy and now Timmons.
     Timmons family runs in the blue blood circles of old Greenville and Christ Church Episcopal Congregation and Prep School.
     In a delightful but times charged conversation Timmons wanted to know why a "crazy old man would want to disparage" his grandfather's love of Basketball.
    I said it was not about his grandfather, but about him and his current extended family that may embrace the mendacity of Trump. I said there seemed to be a big disconnect between Furman's Seeking Abraham initiative of 2017 and his embraced of the CRT Debate, silence on Project 2025 and the mendacity of Trump politics.
     He said he thought the Abraham initiative was a "piece of revisionist history Furman would come to regret". His father resigned from the Board of Trustees over the initiative and it appears most of his current extended family shares the view of the father Rick Timmons.
     Seeking Abraham is a strong look at the slaveholding of Furman's founders. Many of the names that once adorned the campus have been diminished and names of their slaves or other people of color during Jim Crow replacing them
  Come back Tuesday and WEdnesday for the conclusion of this blog

  Part two will include examination of Timmons relationship with Trump DOJ nominee Gaetz and a look at the Atwater N Word memo as a foundation for CRT politics Billy Tee has embraced not to mention Project 2025 and the politics, the mendacity of his politics of abortion, guns etcs and the dumbing down of History education 

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