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Defending My Heritage: The Maurice Bessinger Story [Hardcover]

Maurice Bessinger (Author)
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July 1, 2001
Those who honor and defend symbols of Southern heritage have found themselves under well-organized (and financed) attack. In summer of 2000 following the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House Dome, restaurant entrepreneur Maurice Bessinger raised it and the South Carolina flag over each of his restaurants in the Columbia, South Carolina, area. He issued a press release calling for a public discussion of state sovereignty. Not only did this discussion never take place, but because of a single tract on display tables in his restaurants he found himself denounced by the liberal media as pro-slavery and a racist. His award-winning products were boycotted by Wal-Mart and several grocery store chains, eventually costing him 98 percent of his wholesale business.

In *Defending My Heritage* Maurice Bessinger tells his story for the first time, from his childhood and upbringing in extremely poor, Depression-era Orangeburg Co., S.C., to his rise in the world of Southern barbecue. His golden colored barbecue sauce became Columbia's claim to fame. He also tells the story of how he became involved in politics.

Mr. Bessinger argues that "on his property a man is king." This gives him the right to serve his customers to the best of his ability without interference from the federal government. He also shows, in plain and simple language using several cases from his own life experience, how dangerously far this country has strayed from its Constitutional foundations.

Mr. Bessinger tells why the fight to preserve Southern heritage and symbols and its symbols is so vital today. The Old South and its values of independence, local control over both government and business, and Christianity, are the last bastions of opposition to a rising tide of globalism. This movement seeks to bring all the nations and peoples of the world under a single umbrella of control by an extremely wealthy and powerful elite trying to build a world government--sometimes called the New World Order. Mr. Bessinger has concluded after years of study, prayer and reflection that this New World Order is nothing less than the forerunner of the Antichrist, whose rise to power in the end times is foretold in both the Old and New Testaments.

In this book, Mr. Bessinger reveals the true meaning of the X-cross symbol on the Confederate flag along with its 4,000-year-old history, and the real reasons why this flag is under sustained assault today by the forces of political correctness. He challenges us all to (1) begin bringing our country back to the Constitution and our people back to God; (2) restore a Constitutionally correct relation between the states and the federal government, based on the Ninth and Tenth Amendments which provide the Constitutional basis for state sovereignty; (3) observe state sovereignty by flying state flags over state capitols in all 50 states; (4) return the Confederate flag to its rightful place beneath the South Carolina flag to honor the Southern heritage of independence, state sovereignty and opposition to the concentration of power in the federal government.

While noting that we may have a rough ride ahead if we oppose the forces of globalism openly, Mr. Bessinger's message is one of hope--by placing our trust in God, not in government or politics or political parties.


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"*Defending My Heritage* should be a must-read in every school for every student throughout all the United States." -- Ezola Foster, 2000 VP Candidate and author of *What's Right for all Americans*.

"A must-read for every Southerner, born of wisdom gleaned from experience to the rapidly approaching and encroaching dilemmas." -- Carolyn Saunders, Member / Director, the Confederate Society of America

"This excellent book allows Maurice Bessinger to tell you who he is, where he came from and what he believes." -- Virgil Huston, Editor, Edgefield Journal

About the Author

Maurice Bessinger (1930 - ) is the founder and CEO of Piggie Park Enterprises, an award-winning chain of barbecue restaurants based in West Columbia, South Carolina, and also. He has long been at the forefront of the struggle to preserve Southern heritage and Southern symbols, and also directs his own nondenominational ministry, the Lighthouse Mission.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 221 pages
  • Publisher: Lmbone-Lehone Publishing Company (July 1, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0971336903
  • ISBN-13: 978-0971336902
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,063,333 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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27 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Please Do Not Support Racism by Buying this Book, June 28, 2007
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JLP "jlp" (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
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What Bessinger is really "defending," amidst the self flattering memories that he chooses to share, is what he considers his right to operate and profit from a racist chain of businesses, as a "king in his own kingdom" <sic>. For those who wrote about the persecution of Bessinger by "politically correct liberals" and made claims that he was wrongly painted with a racist brush, when he, in fact "does not dislike black people," I would ask why, then all of his barbeque restaurants refuse to wait on African Americans who unknowingly go there?
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10 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Apologetics from a bigot, June 9, 2010
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datac "datac" (Pacific Northwest) - See all my reviews
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How dare the liberal media insinuate that Maurice is a racist? Of course he doesn't have anything against black people. That's why the US Supreme Court had to step in back in 1976 and force him to serve blacks in his restaurants.

Preserving heritage? Give me a freakin' break. The guy's not misunderstood, just a bigot seeking cover, nothing more.
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4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars YOU MUST GET THIS BOOK IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON IN AMERICA TODAY!, August 20, 2010
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I found this book by accident, while looking for books on civil war history. I bought it on a whim because the title sounded interesting. WOW! Its 10 years old and although the focus of the book is defending Southern heritage, there is SO MUCH in here that applies today in 2010. I think he even predicted the rise of Obama!

The info on the brainwashing in our colleges and schools re: Progressive Education/John Dewey alone is worth the price of the book! IF YOU HAVE BEEN BAFFLED FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS AS TO WHY THIS COUNTRY HAS HEADED THE WAY IT HAS, THIS BOOK WILL EXPLAIN IT ALL FOR YOU, SIMPLY AND SUCCINCTLY.

I went to his website and decided to buy some of his BBQ sauce too, to support him, because I am so grateful for the info he provided me in his book. (The sauce is pretty good, I found out!)
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