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Barbecue eatery owner, segregationist Maurice Bessinger dies at 83
The State ^ | February 24, 2014 | JOHN MONK

Posted on 02/24/2014 7:22:27 AM PST by Gamecock

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To: latina4dubya

Some will disagree, but I’ll go central Texas on you. In the Lockhart Barbecue Belt, barbecue doesn’t have sauce.


21 posted on 02/24/2014 9:55:53 AM PST by Scoutmaster (I'd rather be at Philmont)
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To: latina4dubya

Welcome to N.C. and you’re crazy for not liking our BBQ ;)!


22 posted on 02/24/2014 9:57:10 AM PST by JSDude1 (Defeat Hagan, elect a Constutional Conservative: Dr. Greg Brannon!)
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To: PistolPaknMama; wardaddy

Now, how many times in your life have you read an obituary that did nothing but attack a man not only for his political beliefs, but more importantly his Christian beliefs?

While Maurice Bessinger’s political beliefs may be a bit antiquated after being relegated to a remote outpost of the American political spectrum by secular leftist agitators and their media lapdogs, he had the determination and the right to express his views under the auspices of his private business and the rights guaranteed to him under the Constitution.

The bitter irony would be that in the end, it was those same secular leftists, who in theory championed an end to the Southern institution of segregation that in fact attempted to force Mr. Bessinger and his private business to become an actual victim of their wicked form of social and economic segregation.


23 posted on 02/24/2014 9:58:21 AM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: Gamecock
That is the way God intended BBQ to be made.

God prefers Kansas City barbecue. Everyone knows that.

24 posted on 02/24/2014 10:02:47 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Mustard based. It’s in Leviticus.


25 posted on 02/24/2014 10:07:37 AM PST by Gamecock (Grace is not opposed to human activity. It's opposed to human merit. MSH)
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To: Gamecock
Mustard based. It’s in Leviticus.

Leviticus 11:3 - "Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat. Though verily without mustard sauce which is an abomination to the LORD."

It's there in the Revised New Standard Improved version. Look it up.

26 posted on 02/24/2014 10:20:01 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Bryanw92

Any idea which Spartanburg restaurant Maurice tangled with in 1963 over segregation? I think I could guess correctly but just checking.


27 posted on 02/24/2014 10:53:38 AM PST by bytesmith
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To: DoodleDawg; Gamecock
You have to dig further for clarification.

Deuteronomy 14:8
The pig is also unclean; although it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. You are not to eat their meat or touch their carcasses unless cooked all night over wood coals and slathered in mustard sauce, which the Lord finds pleasing.

28 posted on 02/24/2014 11:12:00 AM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: PistolPaknMama; DoodleDawg

There oyu have it. Mustard brings sanctification.


29 posted on 02/24/2014 12:11:56 PM PST by Gamecock (Grace is not opposed to human activity. It's opposed to human merit. MSH)
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To: Gamecock

Rest in peace.


30 posted on 02/24/2014 1:17:51 PM PST by OldNewYork
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To: Gamecock
That is the way God intended BBQ to be made.

Maybe Allah.

31 posted on 02/24/2014 1:20:04 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: fungoking
Love KC style and Texas, just never got in to mustard, almost as bad as finding cole slaw on your sandwich.

Only way you can eat that vinegar, mustard stuff.

32 posted on 02/24/2014 1:22:18 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: DoodleDawg
God prefers Kansas City barbecue. Everyone knows that.

I think we have disagreed on some other things, but we are joined at the ribs on this.

33 posted on 02/24/2014 1:26:45 PM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Gamecock

Misguided soul. RIP.


34 posted on 02/24/2014 2:22:43 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Great American bump!


35 posted on 02/24/2014 2:24:18 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Gamecock

“”YOU are WHITE because your Ancestors believed in SEGREGATION!” “

Nope. We’re white because people didn’t travel much and had standards. Today, we travel and have few standards.


36 posted on 02/24/2014 2:27:49 PM PST by CodeToad (Keeping whites from talking about blacks is verbal segregation!)
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To: Gamecock

Some damn fine BBQ. Whatever your thoughts about the man himself, he was a character and a huge part of Columbia history. It saddens me to see him raked over the coals in the media, and I say these things as someone who used to work for him & who didn’t much care for him personally. Also, when I worked there in the late 80s, there were blacks working in “the Plant” who’d been there for decades, who ran the place by dint of their seniority. Piggie Park couldn’t’ve gotten along without them.

Have a little respect for the dead and for his family, folks.


37 posted on 02/25/2014 10:28:51 AM PST by Old_And_Grumpy
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To: DoodleDawg

(God prefers Kansas City barbecue. Everyone knows that.)

I live in Wichita now and can’t find good barbecue here


38 posted on 02/25/2014 10:32:31 AM PST by Old_And_Grumpy
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To: Old_And_Grumpy
I live in Wichita now and can’t find good barbecue here

One might say it's because God has forsaken Wichita, but I won't pretend to speak for Him. But some people have it worse. I was in Chicago once and heard a couple of people raving about how the Chili's ribs were the best they had ever had. You just have to feel sorry for people like that.

39 posted on 02/25/2014 10:39:42 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Oliviaforever

You have FReepmail.


40 posted on 02/25/2014 4:39:26 PM PST by VMI70
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