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Ben Tillman was my Great-Grandfather, and I know for a FACT
Jul 13, 2012, 12:23 PM
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that I say untrue statements.
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My mind has just been blown***
Jul 13, 2012, 12:24 PM
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I dont know whether to believe you or not***
Jul 13, 2012, 12:49 PM
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Re: Ben Tillman was my Great-Grandfather, and I know for a FACT
Jul 13, 2012, 1:33 PM
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Old Ben was an embarrassment to the state, so you must be related.
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Re: A lot of people in this state are related to Ben Tillman
Jul 13, 2012, 3:29 PM
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I would be careful with comments.
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COHAZE and others want to
Jul 14, 2012, 12:02 AM
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judge from the luxury of 120 years into the future. 120 years from now, he and the rest of the poultry won't look so good either---although self-righteousness pretty much transcends the ages
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How could that be? He never had children***
Jul 13, 2012, 4:35 PM
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Re: How could that be? He never had children***
Jul 13, 2012, 8:04 PM
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I bet he had kids, but they were probably like Old Strom's secret daughter.
>Re: How could that be? He never had children***
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Tillman's bloodlines are secret, like in The Davinci Code...
Jul 13, 2012, 10:19 PM
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..and the book called "Holy Blood, Holy Grail"...only a very select few know who they really are via secret handshakes and all that, but I'm sure some are here on TNET, "monitoring" the situation.....
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My dad, Clemson class of 1950, told a story about Strom....
Jul 13, 2012, 10:39 PM
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...dad, like a lot of Clemson grads in the Hampton, Jasper and Allendale area, often hitched rides, or car pooled, to get back and forth to Clemson. In my Dad's 1950 Clemson Yearbook, he wrote a note by a fellow named McMillan, and it said "the only ride to Clemson". My dad had to come home on the weekends to work the farm and then head back to Clemson on Sunday nights, one of which included a 200 mile ride with a friend on a motorcycle. Anyway, one of those journeys also was via train, and on the train, the Clemson guys had a poker game going and the beer was there also. Dad looked up and Strom Thurmond was making his way through the car. He was offered a place at the table and even a free drink but refused both, but in very nice manner. I guess that kind of squares with what I've heard in other places, that Strom was a teetotaller (sp).
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Re: How could that be? He never had children***
Jul 13, 2012, 5:03 PM
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There was a reason.
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Re: How exactly was he an embarrassment?
Jul 14, 2012, 12:03 AM
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Lets see he was a raciest and he was involved with a mob that killed several african americans.
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what is a "raciest"?***
Jul 14, 2012, 12:05 AM
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well, lets see.........
Jul 14, 2012, 12:10 AM
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south carolina college was FOUNDED by slave holders and built by slaves....there were slave quarters on campus that can still be located.
I even read somewhere long ago that one of Ivy League schools (Yale, maybe, but don't remember specifically) was founded by slaveholders.
Slavery and oppression of blacks is an unpleasant truth of America.....Thomas Jefferson, George Washington....I could go on and on, but you chickentrolls need not show up thinking usuck was exempt---it was not.
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Another sad aspect of this is that some of those who point..
Jul 14, 2012, 12:16 AM
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...out the flaws of Tillman don't get a hoot in hell about slavery or African-Americans at all, rather it's just another convenient way of hating Clemson. How sad.
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Thomas G. Clemson I think also put in some time....
Jul 14, 2012, 12:13 AM
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..in the Confederate Army, isn't that correct? So, according to some we might even have to change the name of Clemson University itself, especially since most of those who "go after" Tillman will more than likely go after anyone who had anything to do with the Confederate States of America.
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