Right Wing Bigot and BBQ Mogel Maurice Bessinger has passed away in South Carolina....

[Cofitachequi]

http://www.thestate.com/2014/02/24/3288326/barbecue-eatery-owner-segregationist.html



Made lots of racist waves in the state over the years. Now there is an opening for Gov. Brewer in Arizona to seize the mantle of the most backward state in the union and leader in segregation. I guess we'll have to see what happens.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. er mer gerd!

In addition to triggering a boycott of Bessinger products, the disclosure of his pro-slavery views prompted SCANA to ban company vehicles from being parked in his restaurant’s parking lots.In the 1950s and 1960s, Bessinger was a crusading white supremacist, doing everything he could to deny blacks equal rights. He put signs in his stores saying blacks weren’t welcome, He believed, he said in interviews, that any form of race mixing might lead to impure dilution of white blood."YOU are WHITE because your Ancestors believed in SEGREGATION!" reads an old tract that promoted a group Bessinger once was president of: the National Association for the Preservation of White People.In the 1960s, Bessinger tried to prevent blind black singer Stevie Wonder from singing at the University of South Carolina. "You may not agree with my feelings that jungle music is for jungle people, but the hatred and upheavals caused by recent forced race-mixing must concern us both," Bessinger wrote the then-USC president.

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He was a real beaut wasn't he?

[indepat]

6. Few seem more deserving of just desserts

[AverageJoe90]

2. Good riddance to this racist fool. He won't be missed. nt

[ForgoTheConsequence]

3. He still has a lot of supporters.

http://www.wistv.com/story/24804313/maurice-bessinger-dies-at-83


Read the comments. Puke.

[Cofitachequi]

4. Comments.

ye gads.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Just one question--

When & where's the party?

[LeftishBrit]

7. I'd like to think his views had died with him...

but I fear there's still more where that came from.