COLUMBIA, South Carolina -- Nobody had to tell Dr. Horace Goggins – a legendary civil rights figure and the first black candidate for the Rock Hill school board – that a white politician in South Carolina said something stupid about black people. Again.
This time it was Richard Eckstrom, the state’s comptroller general. Apparently because he is so busy counting money, he has missed decades of achievement by black people.
Eckstrom said this week that students go to S.C. State University in Orangeburg because they can’t get in anywhere else.
That means the predominantly white schools. The schools that, until 50 years ago, by law and custom did not allow blacks.
“South Carolina State was all we had,” said Goggins, who graduated from there in 1950. “We had students as smart then – and now – as any white student. But the whites didn’t want us at their schools.”
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