Bill Quick, my brother in law, is at it again.
Bill responded, on FACEBOOK, to a post I made here on THE Ave about a bridge in Charleston South Carolina. The bridge is named after a flagrant racist, Arthur Ravenel, Jr.
I asked how a Black citizen must feel driving over this bridge.
Bill’ Quick’s FACEBOOK page features the Ravenel bridge. Here is his post: “Stephen Schwartz claims his version of “the facts are true” but they are not. For example, the chimney is finally gone — seehttp://www.postandcourier.com/…/last-remnant-of-west… Also, the title of his screed, “Chareleston’s Atlanta Bridge” is simply bizarre – what does Atlanta have to do with the Ravenel Bridge? Is he misremembering the Selma bridge march http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/al4.htm ? This toad should crawl back into his swamp and stop annoying the world with his misinformation and bigotry. ” NOTE: There is a bug in the way FB posts links from WordPress. Typos ..;ike the Atlanta insertion .. can not be corrected on FB.
The bridge had come to my attention because Bill had posted a photo showing it as an object of beauty. I guess it is so beautiful to Bill that he even uses it as the header on his FACEBOOK page.
Curious, I looked up the name of the bridge and was distressed to realize that it is named for a racist politician … not even for some distant Confederate hero but for a guy who referred to the NAACP as the “National Association for Retarded People”.
I assume Bill, who as far as I know is not a racist, did not realize this bridge was a racist symbol. That is sad but the lack of respect for African Americans in South Carolina is one reason I write so much about that damned state.
Because Bill is married to my sister, my original post also asked about how Jews in the city feel about his state’s racism. He has never answered. I also asked how he feels about the preservation of a monument to Nazi prisoners held in a POW camp in the city. Citizens of Charleston objected to the owners of the lot with the relic tearing the damned thing down. Bill did correct me … the City Council voted 8-3 against granting the Nazi memorial the privilege of being a historic landmark.
So, Charleston’s memorial to the Nazis was finally torn down, sadly not by the citizens of Charleston but by the Jewish family that owns the lot. Mary Ann Pearlstine Aberman, a co-owner of the property, told The New York Times last year that she wanted it gone, partly because she did not want it to become “a shrine to Nazis.” Every time I see the structure, it makes me think about the ovens,” she said.
More reasons I am very glad I do not live in Charleston.
Bill Quick This is the sort of crap I have to put up with from my brother-in-law Stephen Schwartz, who has (believe it or not) sued his siblings over some inconsequential photos that he claims are priceless but that the US Holocaust Museum doesn’t want, and who has in his possession some others of the photo collection that he refuses to return, and family photos he promised to digitalize for his sibs then reneged. He’s a toad fer sure (“a contemptible or detestable person”).
Well, if Bill is SO convinced that my Dad’s WWII heritage has no value, perhaps he could convince my brother to stop his threats to destroy them? Oh, and if they are priceless, how come my brother is spending thousands of dollars of estate funds on expensive lawyers to prevent my simply having them preserved and made available to the public?
For the record, the USHMM did ask to take certain parts of the collection into their collection my brother and Stephanie, my sister and Bill’s wife, refused this offer.
They also refused to donate the materials to Brandeis, after my brother and sister chose that school because it is Hugh’s alma matter. They refused because Brandeis informed them that under normal academic standards of open access I would have access so I could public these materials.
Oh, and also for the record, Hugh has threatened to destroy the materials.