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Racist Man GOES DOWN For Outrageous Neighborhood Cross Burning - The Damage Report (Original Post) ItsjustMe Jan 2023 OP
My grandparents had a cross burned in their yard in the 1920s Warpy Jan 2023 #1

Warpy

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1. My grandparents had a cross burned in their yard in the 1920s
Mon Jan 2, 2023, 01:38 PM
Jan 2023

during a Klanner resurgence. Whatever it was supposed to do, it didn't work, it just pissed everybody off since if messed up an immaculate small lawn and flower bed.

The town they lived in wan't a Klan hotbed, so it most likely wasn't local. Nope, there wasn't much of a push to catch whoever did it.. However, a couple of years later the Klanners fell on hard times when their Grand Poobah was indicted for fraud and embezzlement.

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