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(46,347 posts)
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 04:20 PM Mar 2015

Neo-Confederates put up billboard in Selma...

Bunch of racist pigs.





Pro-KKK Billboard Erected Near Pettus Bridge By Neo-Confederate Group

What's a little billboard between friends, after all? On one side, Selma welcomes the First Family to Selma, paid for by the Selma Post-Herald. The other side commemorates the KKK and Nathan Bedford Forrest with the words "Keep the skeer on them." Be afraid!

Raw Story:

The billboard was erected by the friends of Forrest, Inc., a historical group that says it meant nothing racist by placing the billboard so close to this historic Edmund Pettus Bridge.

Spokeswoman Patricia Goodwin told the News, “That billboard was put there with positive intent to ask people who come to Selma to explore and enjoy our 19th century history. Does it say anything in the Constitution where a certain faction of people cannot be offended? I’m offended by all these people walking around with their pants hanging around their knees.”

She claims that she only chose the location because of its high visibility to visitors.

The Southern Poverty Law Center pointed out that Goodwin is a known neo-Confederate activist who has called the historic 1965 march “the Mother of All Orgies” and has previously fought efforts to commemorate the civil rights marchers who were beaten with bullwhips and police batons on Bloody Sunday.

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/03/pro-kkk-billboard-erected-near-pettus

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Neo-Confederates put up billboard in Selma... (Original Post) Archae Mar 2015 OP
American Taliban TeaParTY NoJusticeNoPeace Mar 2015 #1
What do you expect from fuckwads? leftofcool Mar 2015 #2
Yeah, they're either totally self-deluded, or lying..... AverageJoe90 Mar 2015 #3
What supreme assholes. hifiguy Mar 2015 #4
This cretin used to claim he wasn't a racist when I was growing up. Hoyt Mar 2015 #5
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
5. This cretin used to claim he wasn't a racist when I was growing up.
Sat Mar 7, 2015, 04:47 PM
Mar 2015



Still claimed it as they closed the prison door on him for bombing a church in Birmingham. Of course that sign is racist, they just don't care.
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