We’re Not Getting Into Bushwood?
As much as it was our life’s ambition to kick back in white, wicker rocking chairs with rich white people – sipping mint juleps and whistling Dixie while being attended to by uniformed “Negroes” every day all day for the rest of our lives – apparently that’s not going to happen now.
Why not?
Well, we got an angry phone call yesterday from a member at Bushwood … err, Forest Lake Country Club (S.C.) informing us that we would “never be granted a membership” at the prestigious ‘whites only’ club, not after our website published stories identifying two Republican gubernatorial prospects as club members, anyway.
Damn … we were really hoping to get on the “preferred waiting list” this year.
Anyway, since we broke the news that S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster and fellow 2010 gubernatorial prospect Carroll A. “Tumpy” Campbell III were members at the controversial club, we’ve been feeling quite a bit of heat from the blue bloods.
We’ve also been feeling the heat from political people wanting us to more thoroughly document our claims. To which we can only say …
Yeah … those would be entries from the club’s 2008 membership directory, of which relevant portions were provided to FITS.
Oh, and in case you were wondering what the numerical designations are in those pictures, they represent the club’s way of keeping track of when its members joined. The first two numbers refer to the year the individual joined, the second two numbers refer to what their “position” was during the year they joined.
For example, Henry McMaster was the 45th member to join the club in 1979 – thirty years ago. Campbell was the 9th member to join in 1998, a decade ago.
As noted in previous stories, Forest Lake Country Club refuses to admit blacks as members because the deed to the property on which the club currently sits forbids it.
Jews were also not allowed to join in previous years, but the club changed that policy after a similar PC firestorm in the late 1980’s.
Current SCGOP Chairman Katon Dawson – who is running for Chairman of the Republican National Committee – resigned his membership this August shortly before announcing his candidacy.
Below is evidence of Dawson’s prior membership, which shows that he was the 48th member to join the club in 1996:
Dawson apparently isn’t the only political opportunist to bolt Forest Lake due to national scrutiny, though.
Sources tell FITS that former University of South Carolina Board of Trustees Chairman William C. Hubbard also recently resigned his membership in order to become an officer with the American Bar Association.
Anyway, stay tuned … there’s much more to come.
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The General And Tumpy, Too
Sources: McMaster A Member At ‘Whites Only’ Club
Comments
By For the Record on December 31st, 2008 at 10:24 am
The “deed to the property” excuse for not admitting blacks is a bunch of BS. Those sorts of restrictions were invalidated decades ago by the courts (including, I believe, the US Supreme Court). They are unenforceable as a matter of law.
That’s not saying they should or should not — it is their Club, and there are groups that don’t allow whites, for that matter..private association is perfectly legal (and should remain so) — but blaming the lack of black membership of some deed restriction is a red herring.
By You'll have nothing and like it Spalding on December 31st, 2008 at 10:27 am
Lets see will, Hammond, First Pres., Presbyterian College, you were born in that white wicker rocking chair. Not that theres anything wrong with that.
By nope on December 31st, 2008 at 10:28 am
At one point, women weren’t allowed to be members at Forest Lake either. Has that changed?
By You'll have nothing and like it Spalding on December 31st, 2008 at 11:15 am
The rumor was that they offered Alex English a membership and he declined, but that is just rumor as far as I know.
By Gen. Longstreet on December 31st, 2008 at 11:37 am
Gillon, where are you, sir? Why won’t you appear and defend this racist club — just as your hero, Pitchfork Ben, would have done? You try to insult my reputation by calling me out for supporting Reconstruction and opposing Jim Crow, and then when I respond you skulk in hiding. I call you out, sir. I demand satisfaction!
By George Chell on January 25th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
“That’s not saying they should or should not — it is their Club, and there are groups that don’t allow whites, for that matter..private association is perfectly legal (and should remain so)”
Dont know about groups that do not allow whites except black frats or sororities which were created in response to the exclusion by white frats and sororities. Anyhow, this should be no problem as long as whites dont complain about non-whites sitting in groups in school cafeteria and not assimilating into the mainstream.
By Dan on March 21st, 2009 at 4:15 am
Why does anyone care? it’s a PRIVATE club, they are free to do what they please. Not only that there are plenty of “black only” associations. See leave them alone.