Of the people who committed that tragic last lynching (and excuse me, isn't Pickens a county in the state of SC??) most were probably gamecock fans....the next time Auburn plays in Cola, perhaps you can take their fans on a gamecock tour of quarters where the slaves who built the original usuck campus lived...and then trudge on over to the taxpayer funded library to pull up from antiquity the comments of the usuck B0T and the good people of Columbia during the time of desegregation......all carefully recorded by The State and the old RecordI didn't have a dog in this fight, but ...
'preciate you mentioning me 'free' ... 'cause me loves to remember 'history'! clemson, 1947 ... legendary coach Frank Howard is in charge. '46 had been a BAD year in Pickens County; the tigers went 4-5 and got the ca ca kicked out of 'em that season by the GAMECOCKS!!! - SO, lots of 'bad moods' were brewing ... but 1947 promised to be better!!!
It wasn't.
Most teams look forward to 'signing day' in February each year but at clemson they have a 'different tradition' ... they celebrate the lynching of Willie Earle!!! No, it wasn't the 1800's ... Frank Howard was clemson's coach in 1947 when Willie Earle was snatched from the Pickens County jail by a mob of 31 men AND women who then beat him, kicked him, cut him with knives and shot him four times in the head with a shotgun before hanging his mutilated body from a tree. 26 'confessions' of joining the mob, NINE written 'confessions' naming the man who 'pulled the trigger' and spread Willie Earle's brains across the bushes. The 'last' lynching is South Carolina history.
ALL 'defendants' were quickly found NOT GUILTY.
THAT was (and IS) "Pickens County's finest" at work!!!
The rest of 1947 was no better. clemson again had a record of 4-5 and LOST to the SC GAMECOCKS.
And NOW, "you know the rest of the story." Oh, clemson did beat a 2-7 Auburn team that year, plus Duquesne, Furman and PRESBYTERIAN!!!
The 'blue hose' win was SIGNIFICANT, insofar as THAT WAS THE YEAR Presbyterian's 'coach' took to calling clemson 'Death Valley" after losing to that sorry-aze clemson team 42-0.
IF ONLY WILLIE EARLE could talk ... he could certainly "second" the motion that Pickens County is indeed, 'death valley', albeit not for Georgia, South Carolina, NC State, Wake Forest or Boston College ... all of whom beat clemson's brains out in 1947.
It's clemson's fans that are 'delusional' ... they LOVE to 'recreate history'. Well, Willie Earle IS the 'sorry history' of Pickens County ... remember THAT whenever you hear the term 'death valley' and that romanticized 'version' of how clemson's stadium 'got its name' from the Presbyterian coach ... as well as their romanticized 'version' of that bigot, Frank Howard's 'rock'. The 'legendary' clemson coach who SWORE a #$%%#$ would NEVER play for clemson.
Good luck, Auburn.
The state of SC has a ways to go in the area of civil rights and has some ugly scars in its past, but the vast majority of those warped political idealogues were graduated from the only law school in the state at the time, and I doubt we need to list the address of said institution. The lowcountry and midlands money ran the state for centuries.....if Manafool wants to start throwing darts, he doesn't need to venture far from the Russell House
Everyone who grew up in the South should take umbrage at your lame efforts at one-upmanship. Its a saga all races should know from history and be trying to move beyond (& many are) what separated us and focus on the iconic Southern things that transcend skin color. That he loves to post such racist drivel just shows how desperate and insecure that bunch of losers in Columbia really are.