Self Admitted Racist and Bigot appointed in S.C.

[RadiDem]

The appointment to the state Board of Education of a high-ranking member of a Confederate heritage group who once sold anti-Semitic books is causing an uproar with civil rights groups and education officials.

Ron Wilson, a former commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, was selected by a 4-3 vote of the Anderson County delegation to the General Assembly.

“This should send chills down the spine of all South Carolinians,” said Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, which tracks racist groups.

Wilson, who ran unsuccessfully for state Senate this year, declined comment when reached at his home in Easley.

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/10336861.htm

SICKENING !

[Ruffhowse]

1. South Carolina is about as red a state as you can get. This is no surprise

[Brundle_Fly]

3. Red State ot not

this is gross, I hope it blows up in their face.

[gottaB]

2. Hijacking Heritage

SPLC on Ron Wilson:

When Ronnie Wilson was elected commander in chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) in August 2002, his politics were largely unknown both inside and outside the 32,000-member heritage group.

Within months, however, it was clear that Wilson was an extremist. Working closely with white supremacist ally (and failed SCV leadership candidate) Kirk Lyons, Wilson has appointed racists and anti-Semites to key posts, purged some 300 SCV members and leaders who opposed racism, and worked to turn the SCV into an actively neo-Confederate organization.

But it turns out there is more to Wilson's history than the last year has revealed. He is the author of five essays about the evils of communism (one praising the legacy of disgraced Sen. Joseph McCarthy) published in the tabloid of the racist Council of Conservative Citizens* (CCC). He spoke at a 1997 CCC meeting that also featured long-time white nationalist Sam Francis (see 'The Stupid Party').

He hosted a late 1990s right-wing talk show, "Hour of Courage," on WWCR, a shortwave station. In the same period, he led the South Carolina Heritage Coalition, a group whose vice chairman was Jerry Creech, state director for the CCC (an outfit that has more recently called blacks "a retrograde species of humanity").

Hijacking Heritage.....

[DemGirl7]

4. It's South Carolinia...

these are the same ignorant people who re-elected a 94 year old racist geezer to the U.S. Senate in 1996... and has produced many other ignorant, racist losers...

[Donald Ian Rankin]

5. Strom Thurmond is one of the things I envy Americans

Britain doesn't have any politicians who have served under - what is it - 19 heads of state? Something ridiculous like that. Sure, he may be an unrepentant segregationist despite having a black illegitimate child whom he kept secret for decades (I am right about that, aren't I?), but that's still an impressive achievement.

I wish we had someone who had been an MP under Lloyd George, and still was, just for the swank value of showing him off to other countries "look, our politicians have lived longer than your politicians' grandfathers".

[Dark]

6. This is why so many look down on the south.

First Evolution, then the ten commandments, now this.