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Historic NY

(37,449 posts)
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 09:34 PM Jul 2015

The Confederate flag KKK love fest went terribly wrong....

The Ku Klux Klan held a rally at the Statehouse Grounds in South Carolina in defense of the Confederate flag and it went terribly wrong for the white supremacist group. Things got so bad that the Klan had to leave with one Klansman whispering to another, “We’ve got problems.” We wonder what gave it away.............


http://freakoutnation.com/2015/07/kkk-confederate-flag-defenders-chased-off-find-safety-in-a-garage-before-cops-escort-them-out/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=P2Blogs

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The Confederate flag KKK love fest went terribly wrong.... (Original Post) Historic NY Jul 2015 OP
Black Officer Helps KKK Member Suffering from Heat Exhaustion: Fred Sanders Jul 2015 #1
If a black cop can help this latter day racist gratuitous Jul 2015 #6
People are getting really fed up with these jerks. n/t RKP5637 Jul 2015 #2
I loved the burning of the racist flag artislife Jul 2015 #3
A lot of heritage going on there packman Jul 2015 #4
Yup. Lots of pride, lots of heritage. Igel Jul 2015 #5
Was the NBP at this event? bluedigger Jul 2015 #9
I hope that if they are not shamed out of their hatred they are shamed back into their basements. cui bono Jul 2015 #7
Am I the only person Jamaal510 Jul 2015 #8

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
1. Black Officer Helps KKK Member Suffering from Heat Exhaustion:
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 09:56 PM
Jul 2015


-note Nazi insignia on KKK guy's shirt, because the Dixie Swastika is all about benign "southern heritage".

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
6. If a black cop can help this latter day racist
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 10:54 PM
Jul 2015

Then bakeries and florists can bloody well provide services to a same sex marriage.

 

artislife

(9,497 posts)
3. I loved the burning of the racist flag
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 10:14 PM
Jul 2015

I loved that they were chased away until they were cowering in a gargage, protected by an equally mixed police force as the crowd outside.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
4. A lot of heritage going on there
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 10:24 PM
Jul 2015

Faux Nazis, racism, ignorance. Personally, I hope they have a few more rallies like that, it paints quite a picture of who those confederate flag lovers really are.

Igel

(35,309 posts)
5. Yup. Lots of pride, lots of heritage.
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 10:53 PM
Jul 2015
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/new-black-panther-party

We like to quote the SPLC as an authority on hate groups.

New Black Panthers:

The NBPP is notable for its anti-white and anti-Semitic hatred. Its leaders have blamed Jews for the 9/11 terrorist attacks and for the slave trade. The late former party chairman Khalid Abdul Muhammad has said, "There are no good crackers, and if you find one, kill him before he changes." A document on the NBPP website entitled "The Nationalist Manifesto" claims that white men have a secret plan to commit genocide against the non-white races. It also refers to black people who condone mixed-race relationships as the "modern day Custodians [sic] of Uncle Tom's Cabin."

I hate white people. All of them. Every last iota of a cracker, I hate it. We didn't come out here to play today. There's too much serious business going on in the black community to be out here sliding through South Street with white, dirty, cracker whore bitches on our arms, and we call ourselves black men. … What the hell is wrong with you black man? You at a doomsday with a white girl on your damn arm. We keep begging white people for freedom! No wonder we not free! Your enemy cannot make you free, fool! You want freedom? You going to have to kill some crackers! You going to have to kill some of their babies!"
— King Samir Shabazz, head of the party's Philadelphia chapter, in a National Geographic documentary, January 2009


Yup. Lots of pride there. And heritage. Nobody seems to mind since, well.... The hate's pure, vitriolic, and ultimately reduces those who revel in such things to just about the same level as the KKK.

Shabazz is not a free fool, sadly, either. But his shackles he donned himself and wears, thinking they do him honor. Idjit.

bluedigger

(17,086 posts)
9. Was the NBP at this event?
Sun Jul 19, 2015, 01:30 AM
Jul 2015

Any particular reason you chose to bring them into the discussion? There are a bunch of groups listed here: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups and the great majority appear to be white identity groups, but I'm glad you were able to show us that the hate is really more evenly distributed.

cui bono

(19,926 posts)
7. I hope that if they are not shamed out of their hatred they are shamed back into their basements.
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 11:00 PM
Jul 2015

Of course they have to be able to drive all the way home first... doh.

Also watching the livestream and tweeting the event was FON’s own @ComgenKDT:

@Anomaly100 KKK can’t even drive vehicle one block away from rally without hitting a tree LOL
— Cyborg Gens v23? (@comgenKDT) July 18, 2015


After finally being escorted out of the garage, a dumbass Klansman wrecked his car about a block away.

Comgen did not make that up.

A white supremacist’s car just crashed into a pole on the corner of Senate and Lincoln. #ColumbiaSC http://t.co/14XwLyzCAX
— pentagonista (@pentagonista) July 18, 2015

Jamaal510

(10,893 posts)
8. Am I the only person
Sat Jul 18, 2015, 11:18 PM
Jul 2015

who finds it ironic that the KKK celebrates White pride/heritage/whatever they call it, yet some of them wore black in that 2 minute clip?

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