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Calls Grow for Republican Alabama State Representative to Resign After Celebrating the Birthday of KKK Leader
Man, white people aren’t even trying to hide it anymore. Which, I suppose, is a good thing, right? We should want the racists to expose themselves. Still, there’s something surreal seeing white people shamelessly indulging their racist beliefs. Take for instance Alabama state Rep. Will Dismukes (R-Prattville), who posted on Facebook that he had a…
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Virginia Police Launch Investigation Into KKK Flyers Found in Mailboxes Across Multiple Counties
Residents across the state of Virginia found flyers in or around their mailboxes sent by a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. The message on the flyers calls for “100% Americanism” and decries the number of white people who support the Black Lives Matter movement. Now, Virginia police are investigating the matter which stretches across…
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Descendants of Confederate General John B. Gordon Request His Monument Removed From Georgia State Capitol
The fight to remove Confederate monuments has only intensified over the last month of nationwide protests. Now, it’s not only protestors asking for these monuments to be removed but even the relatives of those who had monuments made in their memory. AJC reports that 44 descendants of Confederate Gen. John B. Gordon have sent a…
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A Timeline of Events That Led to the 2020 'Fed Up'-rising
Without the proper context, it is impossible to understand the mushroom cloud of uprisings that are exploding across the country in the wake of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless others. To contextualize the anger, frustration and desperation that forced protesters to recreate the lawlessness and chaos that black people…
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He’s Just a Good Ol’ Boy: Fired Michigan Cop’s Excuse for Having a KKK Application in His Home
If you grew up during the ’80s when The Dukes of Hazzard ruled the TV airwaves, then you’re probably familiar with the opening lines from its Waylon Jennings-penned theme song: “Just’a good ol’ boys, Never meaning no harm …” And that, in a nutshell, is the excuse being offered up by a Michigan cop fired…
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PayPal Suspends KKK Account Amid Criticism for Not Doing It Sooner
Jay-Z’s Roc-A-Fella Records once had a female rapper who released an album titled A.M.I.L. — an acronym for All Money Is Legal. That’s the code of the streets. And apparently the code of the sheets—and perhaps PayPal. If it wasn’t for pesky protestors, it would’ve been business as usual for the cash app giant. The…
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Tennessee Gov. Declares Day Honoring Slave Trader and Early Leader of the KKK
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee tipped his hand, and it’s racist AF. For some reason that only Southern states will understand, Lee signed a proclamation declaring July 13 Nathan Bedford Forrest Day. Who in the fuck was Forrest? Well, just a Confederate general, slave trader and an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan, which might…
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Dayton, Ohio Officials Fear Town Becoming a New Charlottesville Ahead of Rally Saturday by Group Tied to the Ku Klux Klan
An offshoot of the homegrown terror group the Ku Klux Klan is headed to the city of Dayton, Ohio, to rally Saturday, and city officials are urging folks to stay away, concerned they’ll have another Charlottesville on their hands. Charlottesville, Va., was the site of a violent clash two years ago between white supremacists and…
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Chris McNair, Father of 16th Street Church Bombing Victim Denise McNair, Dies at 93
His eldest child, an 11-year-old girl named Denise McNair, was brutally taken from him and their family by a group of homegrown terrorists known as the Ku Klux Klan in the 1963 bombing of Birmingham, Ala.,’s 16th Street Baptist Church. Now, Chris McNair—father, husband and history-making political figure in his own right—has died at his…
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Wife of Ku Klux Klan Leader Admits to Murder of Her Husband, Sentenced to Life in Prison
Malissa Ancona, 46, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in St. Francois County Court in Farmington, Mo., according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She’s charged in connection to the death of her husband, 51-year-old Frank Ancona Jr., imperial wizards of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which boasts dozens of members nationwide. The…