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Eugene

(62,014 posts) Wed Mar 20, 2013, 01:12 PM Mar 2013

Ku Klux Klan to rally in Memphis in protest at park's name change

Source: The Guardian

Ku Klux Klan to rally in Memphis in protest at park's name change

Memphis city council voted to re-label park named for Nathan
Bedford Forrest Park, Confederate general and former Klansman

Adam Gabbatt in New York
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 20 March 2013 16.56 GMT

Members of a branch of the Ku Klux Klan planning a protest in Memphis, Tennessee, this month, after the city's council voted to strip the name of a former Klan member from a public park.

The Loyal White Knights of the KKK called for the demonstration after the city council voted to rename the Nathan Bedford Forrest park in Memphis. Forrest was a lieutenant general in the Confederate army and an early KKK member.

At a 1998 rally by Klansmen in Memphis, police fired teargas at angry anti-KKK protesters. But the event on 30 March could yet be thwarted, after the city council voted on Tuesday to ban protesters from wearing masks and costumes during demonstrations.

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Ku Klux Klan to rally in Memphis in protest at park's name change (Original Post) Eugene Mar 2013 OP

Y-e-a-h...a KKK rally isn't the same without the masks Sheepshank Mar 2013 #1

I live in Tennessee and every time the KKK says they're going Fawke Em Mar 2013 #2

Poor baby racists. Hoyt Mar 2013 #3

Have they been to Memphis lately? bluedigger Mar 2013 #4

Way to prove the point of those seeking the ban, racist knuckleheads. geek tragedy Mar 2013 #5

Sheepshank

(12,504 posts)

1. Y-e-a-h...a KKK rally isn't the same without the masks

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Mar 20, 2013, 01:15 PM

Mar 2013

How many of them are actually willing to divulge their identity?

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)

2. I live in Tennessee and every time the KKK says they're going

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Mar 20, 2013, 01:18 PM

Mar 2013

to protest something, they end up facing more counter-protestors than there are of them.

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

3. Poor baby racists.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Mar 20, 2013, 01:26 PM

Mar 2013

bluedigger

(17,091 posts)

4. Have they been to Memphis lately?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Mar 20, 2013, 01:29 PM

Mar 2013

I would advise them against it.

geek tragedy

(68,868 posts)

5. Way to prove the point of those seeking the ban, racist knuckleheads.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Wed Mar 20, 2013, 01:31 PM

Mar 2013

Having a triple-digit IQ is usually a disqualifier for joining the KKK.

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