samuel lee jones

posts/2023-08-27-posts.md

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-The echos of this history seem to be particularly in my nearby proximity... minus the obvious political party flop largely driven by Strom Thurmond, whom my better half worked for in the Senate. I have a photo of me as an infant standing next to the large statue of Wade Hampton on the South Carolina statehouse grounds while there is scant recognition for Chamberlain. I used to live a couple of doors down from Wade Hampton's birthplace which is still standing and South Carolina didn't have another Republican governor until a hundred years later. The current South Carolina Senator from Edgefield is the majority leader and our congressional district is represented by a fellow over in Laurens County. There have only been several presidents to lose the popular vote and this vocal minority seem pretty bent of repeating history. It was duly noted in my reading that the same folks behind the Hamburg massacre of 1876 also used the word 'values' to describe their goals.
+The echos of this history seem to be particularly strong in my nearby proximity... minus the obvious political party flop largely driven by Strom Thurmond, whom my better half worked for in the Senate. I have a photo of me as an infant standing next to the large statue of Wade Hampton on the South Carolina statehouse grounds while there is scant recognition for Chamberlain. I used to live a couple of doors down from Wade Hampton's birthplace which is still standing and South Carolina didn't have another Republican governor until a hundred years later. The current South Carolina Senator from Edgefield is the majority leader and our congressional district is represented by a fellow over in Laurens County. There have only been several presidents to lose the popular vote and this vocal minority seem pretty bent of repeating history. It was duly noted in my reading that the same folks behind the Hamburg massacre of 1876 also used the word 'values' to describe their goals.
 
 I discovered all of this while researching James Brown for another essay when it overtook my attention. I never knew of Hamburg, South Carolina even though I driven through it numerous times. I was researching James Brown's showmanship and his history of working at his Aunt's brothel in the segregated south right across the river from Hamburg, South Carolina when I discovered that Samuel Lee Jones lived there. It's a pretty stunning piece of trivia I'm sure to be using... The first African-American speaker of the South Carolina House happened during our most divisive history over a 100 years before the Civil Rights Act.