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laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 10:41 PM Aug 2017

Interviewed a KKK leader. He called her a n----- and threatened to burn her

Source: Charlotte Observer

An Afro-Latina journalist’s interview with the leader of a KKK group that marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend devolved into racial epithets and violent threats.

The journalist said the conversation left her fearing for her safety.

“To me you are a n-----. That’s it,” said Barker, a grand wizard of the Loyal White Knights, a KKK chapter in Yanceyville, North Carolina.

“We killed six million Jews the last time,” he answered. “Eleven million is nothing.”



Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article167939222.html





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Interviewed a KKK leader. He called her a n----- and threatened to burn her (Original Post) laserhaas Aug 2017 OP
Ah, the voice of today's GOP. sandensea Aug 2017 #1
Trump's people, ladies and gentlemen Blue Owl Aug 2017 #2
Cant find an embeddable video link laserhaas Aug 2017 #3
Vanilla Isis Grassy Knoll Aug 2017 #4
Ah yes, The International Mathematical Modeling Challenge (IMMC) Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2017 #5
Lol!!!!.. Grassy Knoll Aug 2017 #8
Vanilla Isis!!! As Trump at al!!! Great one! JoeOtterbein Aug 2017 #12
Y'all Qaeda IronLionZion Aug 2017 #31
Brilliant! Egnever Aug 2017 #40
This message was self-deleted by its author dalton99a Aug 2017 #6
Pigpen bannon's replacement? BHDem53 Aug 2017 #7
I thought New Chair of GOP Minority Outreach. nft. TheOther95Percent Aug 2017 #9
You guys, if we could just find the right message about jobs, he'd stop talking like that! WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #10
Ah...ha ha...ha laserhaas Aug 2017 #11
the way they act online to radicalize members of our society. Who funds the kkk & pays this man? Sunlei Aug 2017 #13
One has to wonder laserhaas Aug 2017 #15
Russia. meadowlander Aug 2017 #34
probably why much of europe bans these groups, removed propaganda news & criminalizes hate displays. Sunlei Aug 2017 #36
Is he one of Trump's "fine people?" kimmylavin Aug 2017 #14
Just two words for this man. PatrickforO Aug 2017 #16
With that threat sakabatou Aug 2017 #17
Should be (terroristic threatening) laserhaas Aug 2017 #20
Makes me want to throw up relayerbob Aug 2017 #18
One thing... CakeGrrl Aug 2017 #19
the brutish & feeble-minded always claim superiority by association with the successful beachjustice Aug 2017 #21
I can't help but think of Alex Haley murielm99 Aug 2017 #22
I put it in post #28. Also the first thing that came to my mind before seeing your post!! BumRushDaShow Aug 2017 #29
Sorry, my defense of free speech doesn't quite go that far. NBachers Aug 2017 #23
Most ppl juxtapose the right to free speech as guarantee laserhaas Aug 2017 #24
Along those lines, what this putz said, and threatened laserhaas Aug 2017 #25
Drumpf Fuhrer's base. Dark n Stormy Knight Aug 2017 #26
He actually said "*we* killed six million Jews". muriel_volestrangler Aug 2017 #27
I noticed that. Horrific that anyone can say that with pride! Dark n Stormy Knight Aug 2017 #37
Like this depiction almost 40 years ago BumRushDaShow Aug 2017 #28
Illa Calderon is very brave, I wouldn't want to do that IronLionZion Aug 2017 #30
"Trump "emboldened" the Nazis keithbvadu2 Aug 2017 #32
Give hate an inch, and they'll laserhaas Aug 2017 #35
drumpf must be so proud. lark Aug 2017 #33
But don't worry. He's not the problem. Limbaugh says so. Kablooie Aug 2017 #38
Heh heh...LameBlah strikesagain laserhaas Aug 2017 #39
Dunno why but some people just seem to have trouble making friends struggle4progress Aug 2017 #41
I'm sure that someone around here is ready to protect his free speech MrScorpio Aug 2017 #42
Ones right to free speech is always protected laserhaas Aug 2017 #43

Response to laserhaas (Original post)

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
13. the way they act online to radicalize members of our society. Who funds the kkk & pays this man?
Fri Aug 18, 2017, 11:36 PM
Aug 2017

they're (Republican party?) funding a Domestic TERRORIST group.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
36. probably why much of europe bans these groups, removed propaganda news & criminalizes hate displays.
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 12:21 PM
Aug 2017

hard to get them out of a country once they're elected, have power & big money backers.

beachjustice

(45 posts)
21. the brutish & feeble-minded always claim superiority by association with the successful
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 01:05 AM
Aug 2017

Seems a little disingenuous to be upset about her living in a country that has been mixed race since before its founding. If he wants a homeland for his ethnicity, I understand. He should go do that where his ancestry is native to. I'm sure it's still habitable.

We have nothing here in America; ya’ll keep flooding it

He has nothing because of other people? What happened to all that stuff about pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps?

murielm99

(30,765 posts)
22. I can't help but think of Alex Haley
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 01:15 AM
Aug 2017

interviewing George Lincoln Rockwell. View it if you can. It is chilling.

Our country come to have a leader who is more hateful than this openly avowed racist.

BumRushDaShow

(129,543 posts)
29. I put it in post #28. Also the first thing that came to my mind before seeing your post!!
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 07:31 AM
Aug 2017


That was Marlon Brando's only appearance in a television production and it garnered him an Emmy award for his performance.
 

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
24. Most ppl juxtapose the right to free speech as guarantee
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 02:30 AM
Aug 2017

of right to say anything without consequence.

You can't bark out "fire" or "bomb" in a movie theatre.

Nor can you make a "bomb" threat without suffering consequence.

You can't threaten FBI Agents (even though the illegally threatened me thrice).

Government cant silence you; but they can punish you, for any abuse of the free speech principle.

 

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
25. Along those lines, what this putz said, and threatened
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 02:31 AM
Aug 2017

is a hate crime/ terroristic threatening.

He should be held accountable.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,368 posts)
27. He actually said "*we* killed six million Jews".
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 03:54 AM
Aug 2017

Clearly, the "Loyal White Knights" are loyal to Nazi Germany and Adolf Hitler.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,771 posts)
37. I noticed that. Horrific that anyone can say that with pride!
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 01:49 PM
Aug 2017

But, of course, when the President of the United States endorses you...

BumRushDaShow

(129,543 posts)
28. Like this depiction almost 40 years ago
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 07:29 AM
Aug 2017

of Alex Haley's (James Earl Jones) Playboy interview of George Lincoln Rockwell (Marlon Brando) in "Roots: The Next Generations" (1979), not much has changed -

IronLionZion

(45,540 posts)
30. Illa Calderon is very brave, I wouldn't want to do that
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 09:03 AM
Aug 2017

going into the belly of the beast like that is very dangerous.

keithbvadu2

(36,933 posts)
32. "Trump "emboldened" the Nazis
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 09:53 AM
Aug 2017

"Trump "emboldened" the Nazis

America fought a war against the Nazis and supposedly won.

Yet here they are marching to "take back America".

" Michael Von Kotch, a Pennsylvania resident who called himself a Nazi, said the rally made him "proud to be white."

He said that he's long held white supremacist views and that Trump's election has "emboldened" him and the members of his own Nazi group. "

http://www.richmond.com/washingtonpost/uncategorized/alleged-driver-of-car-that-plowed-into-charlottesville-crowd-was/article_28385c62-9984-5c56-861c-1fe15eef8470.html

lark

(23,158 posts)
33. drumpf must be so proud.
Sat Aug 19, 2017, 10:26 AM
Aug 2017

This is his kind of person, wonder if he will be retweeting this KKK goon?

 

laserhaas

(7,805 posts)
43. Ones right to free speech is always protected
Sun Aug 20, 2017, 11:48 AM
Aug 2017

You can say what you wish

But you own what you say!

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