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Michael Quattlebaum was just 10 years old when he attended a high-dollar Republican fundraising dinner in South Carolinas state Capitol. His father was active in his local chapter of the GOP and eager to pass on the tradition. They were a Southern Baptist family from Anderson County, where Donald Trump won nearly 70 percent of the vote, including Quattlebaums. Its pretty deeply ingrained in my lifeblood, Quattlebaum said of his conservatism. Hes now married with five children, including a son in the National Guard who just returned from Afghanistan.
But George Floyds death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer and the protests that followed pushed Quattlebaum to examine a conflict between his political and moral beliefs. Ive never considered myself a racist, but I have been complicit in it because of my silence, he said. He wants the elected officials that represent him to be angry about this situation, but the politicians he has voted forlike Trump and Sen. Lindsey Grahamare not. It makes me embarrassed to be a Republican.
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On his desk, Jaime Harrison keeps a quote from Ben Pitchfork Tillman, the former South Carolina governor and senator who, in 1876, led a white paramilitary gang that murdered six innocent African Americans in what was known as the Hamburg Massacre. We have done our level best, Tillman said of the states efforts to disenfranchise Black voters. We have scratched our heads to find out how we could eliminate the last one of them. We stuffed ballot boxes. We shot them. We are not ashamed.
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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/11/jaime-harrison-lindsey-graham-south-carolina-391886
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)I don't recall ever having seen one before this election. Up until now, he has been able to get by with just having an "R" after his name, not just as a senator, but as a congressman. (Yeah, this shitbag was once the alleged "representative" for my district. Not that the asshole we have now, YouLie Wilson, is any less of a shitbag.)
GoCubsGo
(32,084 posts)Jeff Duncan is one of the biggest fucking loonies in Congress. He's Louie Gohmert stupid.