Category: Wilson, Race
WHAT ARE THE ODDS?
NYT today-
Using a proprietary search tool, The New York Times identified more than 5,300 files containing more than 38,000 references to Mr. Trump, his wife, his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, and other related words and phrases in the latest batch of emails, government files, videos and other records released by the Justice Department. Previous installments of the Epstein files, which the department released late last year, included another 130 files with Trump-related references.
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What are the odds?
Wonder what % of all these files and references and emails and government files and videos and records have “redactions”?
Do references to sexually transmitted disease from “Russian girls”
hint at blackmail possibilities ?
“He wouldn’t do that ! “ (Really? It would be the first evil thing he wouldn’t do.)
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WILSON, NC-65 YEARS AGO.
Karl Fleming -SON OF THE ROUGH SOUTH
Wilson, NC–1960’s Chapter
From Booklist
Fleming will forever be remembered as the Newsweek reporter who was photographed after being severely beaten in the Watts riots of 1966. In this memoir, he recounts the long road that led to his reporting on race relations and the incendiary social issues that exploded that day. He was born in 1927 in a poor, bleak North Carolina community and raised in an orphanage when his mother could no longer afford to take care of him. Fleming left college early to begin life as a reporter with a small-town ( WILSON, NC ) newspaper, covering the police beat with a cynical police chief who mistreated blacks. It was Fleming’s first hint that, having grown up in an orphanage, his sympathies were with the underdog. He went on to cover the turbulent racial changes in the South, including James Meredith’s enrollment at the University of Mississippi and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr and Medgar Evers. In this stunning memoir, Fleming offers the perspective of a poor white boy witnessing the racial turbulence that changed the U.S. Vanessa Bush
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Review “A harrowing and brutally honest account of Fleming’s experiences on all sides of the civil rights battle.” — Publishers Weekly, April 25, 2005
“A rich and absorbing book, a window into a time and place that defined America.” — Washington Post Book World, June 12, 2005
“Incredibly rich in history, in bravery and brutality, Karl Fleming’s Son of the Rough South is so beautifully written.” — Anne Lamott, author of Traveling Mercies
“It makes for a tense, harrowing, utterly gripping journey.” — Newsweek, May 23, 2005
“Karl Fleming knows how to tell a story.” — Frank McCourt, author of Angela’s Ashes and ‘Tis
“Their story will take the reader on a trip not soon forgotten of spirits unwilling to be broken.” — San Antonio Express-News, June 19, 2005.
“a vivid, often painful memoir…” — David Halberstam
“offers vibrant portraits of the most harrowing incidents of [the civil rights]…” — Kirkus Reviews, March 15, 2005
…recovers for us a brace period of our recent history, and delivers it with all the sharp…edges perfectly intact. — Barton Chronicle, October 2005
FFFlemingsssssssss craft soars to a level of artful elegance with blunt, unsentimental language full of casual grace notes — The Nation, August 15 and 22, 2005.
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” RED AND YELLOW, BLACK AND WHITE…”
1945
“Jesus loves the little children,
All the children of the world.
Red and Yellow, Black and White,
they are precious in his sight.
Jesus loves the children of the world.”
2025
Jesus loves most of our children.
Almost all of them are white.
Wetbacks, commies, jews and queer,
we gonna make em disappear.
Jesus love only those who white ?
US OPEN TENNIS RESERVES QUALIFYING SLOTS FOR AMERICANS
PROGRESS FOR AMERICAN COLLEGE TENNIS PLAYERS
Short version
In its inaugural year, the four-team doubles and four-player singles playoff was created to increase the number of American collegiate tennis players who earn wild cards into the U.S. Open. Previously, only the NCAA singles and doubles champions received a main draw wild card, while the other NCAA singles finalist received a qualifying wild card. This season, six wild card entries were up for grabs.
Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/sports/college/acc/unc/article309005475.html#storylink=cpy.
While I support more scholarship money for American tennis families and players, this move is indeed encouraging.
My guess is the USTA IS WELL HEELED TO THE POINT THEY DON’T FEAR A LAWSUIT. This eliminates the long held fear of a discrimination suit.
Too, the timing of relaxed amateur restrictions will make college tennis more attractive as a significantly better route to professional possibilities. College tennis will gallop toward the hands down “Minor leagues of tennis.”
Probably some will resist change. Internationals hopefully will recognize that
Americans are footing their bill for a much better developmental choice, particularly the financial positives.
The ultra elite American juniors will now command significant college deals.
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“Your perseverance is paying off.” ( James Haslam )
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| Robert Bayliss | Sun, Jun 22, 10:05 PM (5 days ago) |  | |
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Tom,
Great observations. In today’s world of college athletics, any good news is welcome. The folks running college sports for the last 10-15 years should all be brought together and turned over to Islamic terrorists for punishment. I don’t think anyone knows how things will settle, but I certainly am glad that I didn’t have to deal with the likes of NIL, the transfer portal, and everything else that has been filtered into college tennis.
I played at Richmond, graduating in 1966. In my 4 years of college tennis ( actually 3, as freshmen were ineligible then), I strung every one of my own rackets. I got to use gut my junior year and thought that was a big deal. My sophomore year I rode in the back of Coach’s station wagon with the gear and spare tire, as the other players rode 3 in the front seat and 3 in the back. Complain…. heck no; I was a varsity athlete! We had no strength coach, academic advisor, dietitian, or any of the amenities available to today’s players. I am not jealous and don’t regret a thing. In fact, I believe that I got much more out of my experience than today’s athletes because I had to do it all myself. I was much more prepared for the real world.
Sorry for climbing on my soapbox to force my opinion on you, but I imagine it found a receptive audience. Stay well, my friend. We can keep trying to confuse our detractors with logic!
Best regards,
Bobby
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SUGAR TO SHINOLA
Didn’t take much time or ink for world opinion to go from ” God Bless America” to ” God Bless, America ?”
FRIENDSHIP IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA
In 2015 I put together a script/photo booklet, NEARLY FIFTY, described below “
HISTORY
(From Play is where Life is by Tom Parham)
Wilsonians provided me with a lot of laughs. I guess it’s just out there, but Wilson I think is special in the humor world. No one was better than Stephen Earl “Country” Boykin.
Our best joint venture was the “River Trip”. It began with a new event in 1967: The Super Bowl. We hosted clients of Earl’s Sportsville Sporting Goods Store at Happy Valley Golf course. We held the beer blast in the “Sugar Shack”in the middle of the course. Mostly coaches from Wilson, only one got arrested. He drove his Pontiac up the downtown Courthouse steps.
In 1968 Earl bought a “camp”to duck hunt. It was located on Back Creek, near rural Bath, NC.
We held the “River Trip” there for about a dozen years. Then we moved to my beach house at Emerald Isle, NC. We have run over one duck, as far as duck huntng goes. The appendix-Summarizes some highlights. We don’t want you to know everything but this s”chronology” will give you the “gist”.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q60VoF0_lvL51ZP_aIbgPf2QJfzFdC3X/view
Most of us were from Wilson, NC , home of Atlantic Christian College, now Barton College. And from eastern NC. Barton recently posted THE BARTON PROJECT which similarly recalls the “neighborhood” from 1960 until 2024.
“The Barton Project” is available through Hackney Library’s Special Collections. For access or more information, visit https://barton.libguides.com/special_collections/home or reach out to technology and grants librarian Naija Speight at nispeight@barton.edu.
Phillips Seafoood ( Swansboro, NC ) has a sign in the front window: “Local As It Gets”!
BALLOTS PLEASE
The alarm expressed in my last article (FEAR AND LOATHING – https://littlegreenbookoftennis.com/2025/03/17/fear-and-loathing/ has forced educators to choose sides. Congressional Republican genuflectors have bowed to fear. Will federal threats to withhold funding accomplish the same with American education?
Nathan Hale said Liberty or death! Thoreau refused to pay taxes. Anyone? ….Bueller?
Join the parade? –if we throw away the first amendment can we throw away the 2nd?
Will Universities indeed go bankrupt for actually endorsing “Academic Freedom?”
How about a DEI University?
Am I mistaken? Aren’t there alot of people who believe what we were taught?
Got a dictionary?– See egregious. See exigency. Endowment reserves? This is war time: Colleges and Universities, Administrations, Trustees, faculties, students, parents, donors, public educators and public patriots. Vote for education. Your silence is a vote for Fear.
Don’t bow down.
“There must be some way outta here, said the Joker to the Thief….”
UNCLE BUNKY
“There must be some way out of here”
said the Joker to the Thief.
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