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South Carolina Governor And President Trump Ally Refuses To Give Up Racist Membership

The Forest Lake Club is an all-white members club only.

Wade Chapman
Jan 23, 2017
Birmingham, Alabama
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South Carolina Governor And President Trump Ally Refuses To Give Up Racist Membership
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South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Henry McMaster's membership into the Forest Lake Club. That does not seem bad at all, right? Well, the Forest Lake Club is an all-white members club only.

According to a spokesman for Mr. McMaster, he has no plans whatsoever to relinquish his membership card.

This was also an issue in the 2014 Lt. Gov. race. McMaster also declined to stop his membership and ended up topping his Democratic opponent Bakari Sellers by 19 points. "Henry McMaster is a good ol’ boy who is emblematic of where we’ve come from in South Carolina,” Sellers told TheState.com. “For the next two years in South Carolina, maybe six, we will be stuck in the status quo.”

South Carolina state lawmakers have defended McMaster's membership. Republican state Senator John Courson is also a member of the country club and he told TheState.com that he sees no problem with it at all. "I just don’t perceive it to be an issue,” said Courson. “It has not been perceived to be an issue in any of my nine Senate campaigns.”

It is simply amazing that we are in the year 2017, and we have a governor that is unwilling to resign from a racist country club.


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