Collinsville Alabama soccer team is in state finals one through 3a starting Thursday. Our all Hispanic team won the state championship in 2013.
Last Thursday in Collinsville our boys defeated Whitesburg academy, sponsored by mega church of the same name 7-0. A week earlier in Huntsville we beat them there. According to several folks the players and their homers in the stands said things like I'm surprised Trump lets you stay here; and Why don't you go back where you came from.
The player who made reference to Trump later apologized according to one player, and I haven't hear of similar comments when they came to Collinsville.
Still this fundamentalist mega church which often hosts the State Baptists Convention has some explaining to do.
It is not surprising given the role of Eagle Forum's Eunie Smith in the state who introduced Kris Kobach to Scott Beason. Beason the influential politician in SBC President Steve Gaines church FBC Gardendale before Gaines followed Adrian Rogers at Bellevue.
Some may want to dismiss this as incidental but look at what Marty Cohen says about similar mindset of Christian nationalism in his new book that focuses on Upstate SC and Baptists there, super Trumpers.
I think these incidents have legs for SBC convocation in Birmingham in June.
Rick Lance, Rick Burgess, the staff of FBC Gardendale and Whitesburg should answer some questions.
Here is more context for these so called Christian academies as gestation places for Trumpism
https://rewire.news/article/2019/01/25/ ... us-people/