I was talking to my longtime friend and colleague Warren Bolton today, and learned that he has started a blog himself since he left The State.
He started it right after the Emanuel AME massacre and during the debate on the flag, which makes sense. Like me, Warren wrote a good bit about the flag during our time together at the paper, and I wouldn’t expect him to be able to be silent on this sudden, dramatic turnaround any more than I could.
But he’s written about a number of other things as well, including some thing I wish I’d gotten around to myself. For instance, while I’ve read about developments on the coming race to replace Joel Lourie in the S.C. Senate, I haven’t found time to write about what Joel has meant to South Carolina. Well, Warren did.
Anyway, I wish Warren well in his new enterprise, especially as it does not conflict with my own. So far. Seriously, I’ll be following his new venture with interest.
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How you and Warren got away with such bigoted columns,explains The State’s demise.
You might want to point out some of those “bigoted columns” of mine, so I can follow you.
But even if we’d come out for reinstituting slavery, communism or sex with farm animals, we were powerless to have any effect on the course of the newspaper business. If you know anything about the forces acting on the industry, you know that…
Brad bigoted? Really?
Had a nice breakfast with Warren this morning. He had asked for advice on blogging, and I offered some from my 10 years of doing it.
But I learned a couple of things from him, too. There’s always more to learn…
, “In no way would I suggest we embrace or approve of the gay or bisexual lifestyle. I believe both are abominations in the sight of God.”
Warren Bolton
Of course,Warren’s sins are more egregious than yours,but you were the one telling people to vote against gay marriage,in 1996? You also wrote an extremely racist op/ed about hurricane Katrina.
It was “extremely racist”? Not just regular ol’ racist? Like, he super-sized the racism?
Got a link? I’d be interested to read what you think is “extremely” racist.
Yeah, I’d like to see that one myself. Sounds like one for the record books.
Maybe he was talking about this column. Or maybe this one. Or this one. Or this one. Those are the only Katrina ones I find.
The only one I can imagine him misinterpreting that way is the first one, in which I frankly wrote of my guilt at my ignoble wish to move on from the topic…
Which of course, if you’re reading it carefully, was a device for examining a widespread political phenomenon by personalizing it, confessing to being a part of it…
You encouraged people to vote against gay marriage in SC.No point in mentioning Bolton.You made news in Free Times with your columns.