The Context of White Supremacy hosts the 7th installment on Stephen Kantrowitz's, Ben Tillman & The Reconstruction of White Supremacy. Benjamin "Pitchfork" Tillman is one of South Carolina's most notorious and worshipped sons. He's a former governor, US senator, co-founder of Clemson University and Winthrop University, and an unambiguous antiblack terrorist. He reminisced about his participation in the murder and torture of black citizens and inspired White Supremacist legal codes across the country. The June 17th Terrorist assault on Mother Emanuel A.M.E. trained intense attention on South Carolina Racism. Mr. Kantrowitz is aware that we're investigating his biography and emailed Gus his most recent report on Mr. Tillman. His assessment of Tillman's legacy as a South Carolina lawmaker is that, "Tillman bent over backwards to make sure his policies benefited as few African Americans as possible." This goes along way to explain why a few Confederate flags may be gone, but Tillman memorials still litter South Carolina. Last week's reading detailed the hypocrisy of Gov. Tillman, who forged his career as a catalyst for terrorist violence against black citizens, but gave speeches rebuking mobocracy and White lynching patrols. The book also details that Whites were shrewd enough to grasp that too much violence might encourage the state's black laborers to flee. This is the South Carolina heritage that gave birth to Dylann Roof. INVEST in The COWS - http://tiny.cc/ledjb CALL IN NUMBER: 760.569.7676 CODE 564943# SKYPE: FREECONFERENCECALLHD.7676 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. archives: http://tiny.cc/76f6p