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Dawson’s Not So “Whites Only” Country Club

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  December 17th, 2008 at 01:29 AM  | 

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Following the spirited defense of SC GOP Chairman Katon Dawson by Glenn McCall (which you can read about in this Minority Report exclusive), we now have reporting from the National Review’s Jim Geraghty that indeed Dawson would not have been aware of the “whites only” rule in the charter.

George Bunch, the president of the club, said that the deed’s restriction has been “invalid” since 1964 (under the Civil Rights Act). Nonetheless, the club has no African-American members, and Bunch said that to his knowledge, no African-American has been put up for membership. However, members do invite African-American guests regularly, and so on any given day, it is common to see African-Americans on the golf course, in the clubhouse, at club events, and so on.

Dawson says he actually played golf with African-Americans at the club. So his explanation that he did not know of the discriminatory language in the deed during the twelve years of his membership would appear to hold water; if someone saw African-Americans around the country club, one could reasonably assume they were members.

I’m wondering if all of the breathless commentaries of “How can we elect someone as the head of the RNC who belonged to a club that wouldn’t even admit our President-elect?” will cease. Clearly the journalist who was preparing an article to appear in The State brought the existence of the policy to Dawson’s attention and he did the adult thing and challenged that policy. [Yes Philip Klein, this comment is directed at you.]. You can re-commence examining the candidates on the real issues now.

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  • 1SGinTN

    I would bet that the members of Forest Lake Country Club back in 1964 who put the whites-only provision into the charter were Democrats. The same party whose members imposed poll taxes, wielded the water hoses, loosed the police dogs, and opposed civil rights for minorities all those years.

  • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com LJ “Beaglescout” Miller

    After the Civil War. I’m not sure what the Southern Strategy was that Nixon used, but it’s biting Republicans now. How about we push members of our party to make speeches in front of black crowds talking about how Republicans were historically the party for the black man and how we should still be the party of the black man.

    We have traditional values like blacks overwhelmingly do. We support tried and true methods of wealth creation, by earning it, as opposed to the Democrats who don’t want blacks (and other people who are down and out) to create wealth but only to be given a pittance by the government that takes wealth from others. We oppose abortion, which kills 1/3 black babies before they get a chance to be born, and planned parenthood, which intentionally locates its clinics in inner-city black neighborhoods and perpetuates its genocidal program. We support school choice that would allow blacks to get out of their broken inner-city public schools and into schools where their kids actually learn, and we support home-schooling which is remarkably effective for all students, and especially for black and other minority students. We support the right to work, not the right for people who are already in union jobs to keep new, black workers, out. We support the right of people to keep most of the money they earn through legal employment, instead of reducing workers to poverty by taking their money so those who are down on their luck can be lifted to a barely tolerable level of misery. We believe that the curse of living on government aid is that it creates new plantations in government projects, with people being paid an insufficient wage on which to live so they can sit on the porch or in front of the TV and waste their whole lives away. We believe in marriage of one man and one woman, who have all their kids with each other and stay married for their whole lives. We are not in favor of encouraging more unmarried teenagers to have two abortions and give birth to four kids, each of them with a different father, where the fathers, rejected by the mothers of their children, drift into a life of crime and eke out a bare and lonely existence after spending their best years behind bars.

    It’s time to take back the Republican’s identity as the true black party. We have the platform in place. All that remains is to get the word out.

  • 1SGinTN

    Your points are well stated and illustrate the error of my thought process. I referred to history in my off the cuff comment, but recent ‘history’ has shown that most of the electorate not only has not lived half the history I have, but have no inclination to study it. I like the way you put those points in the here and now.