{"id":5746,"date":"2008-12-07T09:57:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T17:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5746"},"modified":"2008-12-07T09:57:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T17:17:39","slug":"from-the-white-house-to-whites-only-footnote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5746","title":{"rendered":"From the White House to Whites-Only: Footnote."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To build on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/07\/from-the-white-house-to-whites-only\/#respond\">Jeff Fecke&#8217;s last post<\/a>, I wanted to point out that Katon Dawson, current chair of the South Carolina Republican Party and, more importantly, candidate for the chairmanship of the RNC, <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/11\/candidate_for_rnc_chair_was_me.php\">belonged to a whites-only country club for 12 years<\/a>, resigning his membership just 4 months ago, when he realized that it just <em>might<\/em> become an issue.<\/p>\n<p>I kind of hope he takes the chairmanship, actually. As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;ct=res&amp;cd=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonmonthly.com%2Farchives%2Findividual%2F2008_11%2F015797.php&amp;ei=5wM8Sau4G6GksQOO6KClBA&amp;usg=AFQjCNGj8IhXdHOdOd1QHj11MaMFkOLBlg&amp;sig2=ELGGpQ9NIYT9S8brcjk1CQ\">Steve Benen put it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The symbolism in 2009 would be pretty powerful wouldn&#8217;t it? We could have as chairman of the RNC a former member of a country club that would exclude the president of the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So we may actually have the most recent Republican President moving to a recently whites-only subdivision and the chair of the RNC only recently resigning from a whites-only country club?<\/p>\n<p>Gosh, I just can&#8217;t fathom why African Americans generally vote Democratic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t comment unless you accept the basic dignity, equality, and inherent worth of all people.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To build on Jeff Fecke&#8217;s last post, I wanted to point out that Katon Dawson, current chair of the South Carolina Republican Party and, more importantly, candidate for the chairmanship of the RNC, belonged to a whites-only country club for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5746\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}