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‘Why Do You Think Your Treatment of African Americans Is Justified?’ SC Elementary Teacher Poses Question to Students From KKK Perspective
What are the requirements for being a teacher looking like nowadays? Asking a question for a friend, because sometimes it looks as if some of these teachers really have no form of diversity training or even common sense. Our latest cringe-inducing, jaw-dropping example comes out of South Carolina, where a teacher at Oak Pointe Elementary…
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Photo of 5 High School Students Burning a Cross, Wearing KKK Hoods Shocks Iowa Town … but Not Really
I was born and raised in a small town, so I know how they work. Everyone in small towns emulates the style, fashion and trends they see on TV and social media. Right now, there is a girl named Martha in a little hamlet in North Carolina who told her friends to start calling her…
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Backlash Over Owner’s Donation to Ex-KKK Leader Forces Minneapolis Bar to Close
After finding out a Minneapolis club owner donated $500 to the 2016 Senate campaign of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, performers’ cancellations and customers’ boycotting forced the club to close last week. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that former employees of Club Jäger confirmed Friday that the club was closed, leaving 17 employees…
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KKK Leader Called Univision Reporter the N-Word, Threatened to ‘Burn’ Her as She Conducted Interview
A Univision news anchor, who has the patience of a saint and a will of steel, somehow managed to get through an interview with the leader of a Ku Klux Klan chapter who called her a nigger and threatened to burn her, all while she was doing her job. The incident started when Christian Barker,…
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Va. Catholic Priest Temporarily Steps Down After Revealing That He Was Once a Member of the KKK
An Arlington, Va., Catholic priest has decided to temporarily step down after revealing that before becoming a member of the clergy, he used to burn crosses as a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The Rev. William Aitcheson revealed his dark past in an editorial published Monday in the Arlington Catholic Herald, speaking candidly about…
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Did a Crowd of Counterprotesters in Durham, NC, Scare Off the KKK?
As rumors circulated Friday morning that the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists planned to rally in downtown Durham, N.C., in response to the toppling of a Confederate statue on Monday by racial-justice advocates, counterprotesters showed up, crowding the streets and forcing local and government businesses and buildings to shut down for the day.…
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2 KKK Members Who Were Correctional Officers in Fla. Convicted in Plot to Kill Black Inmate
Two Ku Klux Klan members who also somehow managed to serve as correctional officers for the Florida Department of Corrections were both convicted in a plot to kill a black inmate upon the man’s release, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Tuesday. As News4Jax reports, David Elliot Moran, 49, and Charles Thomas Newcomb, 45, were each…
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#NoConfederate: Charlottesville Proves That Confederate Is Already Real, so HBO, Are You Still Fucking Serious With This?
For those of you just tuning in, what was supposed to be a protest against the removal of Confederate monuments in the city of Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday turned into a full-blown Ku Klux Klan, “alt-right,” neo-Nazi revival meeting complete with burning torches, black people being attacked and beaten by racist whites, and an innocent…
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KKK’s Pathetic March in Charlottesville, Va., Met With Throngs of Protesters
Scores of protesters shouted down homegrown terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan as the reviled racists marched in Charlottesville, Va., to protest the removal of Confederate statues from the city. USA Today reports that more than 1,000 multiracial demonstrators flooded this city’s downtown area Saturday to shout down about 50 Klan members, some of whom…
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The Ku Klux Klan’s Big Recruiting Weekend
As neo-Nazis, Confederate leagues, “alt-right” fight clubs and emo, lone-wolf white boys compete in the crowded arena for the white supremacist world championship, everyone seems to have forgotten about the old-school, perennial powerhouse that has reigned supreme since the Civil War. The Ku Klux Klan are the New York Yankees of white supremacy; the Alabama…