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Sherri 04-05-2008 08:36 PM
KKK in Selmer, TN
 
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Well, folks, this is 2008 and the KKK is alive and well in this part of the country. I just received these pics today from Selmer, TN, which is about 35 minutes from here. It is only about 13 miles from where Tamor lives. Feel free to make these pictures larger; I still haven't figured that part out.

Praxeas 04-05-2008 08:42 PM
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just hold your mouse on an image

pelathais 04-05-2008 08:48 PM
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"Alive" maybe, but "well" is open for debate. I guess some guys just need to have a reason to wear a dress to a parade.

seguidordejesus 04-05-2008 08:49 PM
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How nice.

Sister Alvear 04-05-2008 08:51 PM
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better keep Michael away!

tamor 04-05-2008 08:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Sherri (Post 434028)
Well, folks, this is 2008 and the KKK is alive and well in this part of the country. I just received these pics today from Selmer, TN, which is about 35 minutes from here. It is only about 13 miles from where Tamor lives. Feel free to make these pictures larger; I still haven't figured that part out.
Sherri,
I really don't think it is, and I really hope it is NOT--but take a good look at big guy just to the right of the stand in the third picture. He looks like someone we know very well.....

Hoovie 04-05-2008 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by tamor (Post 434054)
Sherri,
I really don't think it is, and I really hope it is NOT--but take a good look at big guy just to the right of the stand in the third picture. He looks like someone we know very well.....
YEP! IT's HIM!!! Brother Donnie!!!:reaction

tamor 04-05-2008 09:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover (Post 434056)
YEP! IT's HIM!!! Brother Donnie!!!:reaction
That's not quite who I had in mind. But I would rather it be Brother Donnie than who it looks like to me....:runhills

Elizabeth 04-05-2008 09:00 PM
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We had a man visit AFF that used to be an imperial wizard of the KKK-Joe Bednarsky

He now denounces their practices and has given his life to God but I think they still make threats against him.

He has a saying "Where there is grace there is no race-"

I know it seems hard to believe in this modern day that there would those that hold such archaic close minded beliefs.

tamor 04-05-2008 09:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Jeanie (Post 434058)
We had a man visit AFF that used to be an imperial wizard of the KKK-Joe Bednarsky

He now denounces their practices and has given his life to God but I think they still make threats against him.

He has a saying "Where there is grace there is no race-"

I know it seems hard to believe in this modern day that there would those that hold such archaic close minded beliefs.
I remember when he posted here...

Sam 04-05-2008 09:04 PM
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Doesn't the KKK have as much right to organize and assemble as other groups like the NAACP etc? Does anybody know if the KKK has tax exempt status?

In the nearby city of Cincinnati, in the downtown area there is a place called Fountain Square. By permission of City Council, different groups have received permission at different times to display a Menora or Manger Scene on the Square for a designated period of time. The KKK received permission to display a cross there one year (maybe 2 years) for Christmas and "racists" objected to its being there and knocked it down a couple of times.

FRINGE_NUTTER 04-05-2008 09:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Sherri (Post 434028)
Well, folks, this is 2008 and the KKK is alive and well in this part of the country. I just received these pics today from Selmer, TN, which is about 35 minutes from here. It is only about 13 miles from where Tamor lives. Feel free to make these pictures larger; I still haven't figured that part out.
Sherri, do you think these are local yokels or out-of-towners?

tamor 04-05-2008 09:16 PM
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Originally Posted by FRINGE_NUTTER (Post 434065)
Sherri, do you think these are local yokels or out-of-towners?
Probably some of both.

FRINGE_NUTTER 04-05-2008 09:17 PM
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Originally Posted by tamor (Post 434067)
Probably some of both.
Sad to see this happening in 2008.

Hoovie 04-05-2008 09:22 PM
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Sam makes a good point. The NAACP routinely has racist verbage spewing from their podiums.

ManOfWord 04-05-2008 09:27 PM
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This is sadly what humanity looks like without Jesus Christ! That "void" sucks up all kinds of poison and evil deeds. This is humanity hating humanity. How sad.

tamor 04-05-2008 09:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Sam (Post 434060)
Doesn't the KKK have as much right to organize and assemble as other groups like the NAACP etc? Does anybody know if the KKK has tax exempt status?

In the nearby city of Cincinnati, in the downtown area there is a place called Fountain Square. By permission of City Council, different groups have received permission at different times to display a Menora or Manger Scene on the Square for a designated period of time. The KKK received permission to display a cross there one year (maybe 2 years) for Christmas and "racists" objected to its being there and knocked it down a couple of times.
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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover (Post 434070)
Sam makes a good point. The NAACP routinely has racist verbage spewing from their podiums.

Exactly.

Hoovie 04-05-2008 09:29 PM
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Originally Posted by ManOfWord (Post 434075)
This is sadly what humanity looks like without Jesus Christ! That "void" sucks up all kinds of poison and evil deeds. This is humanity hating humanity. How sad.
True indeed.

Bro-Larry 04-05-2008 09:34 PM
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Well, sweet potatoe pie and shut my mouth!!! We're much too sophisticated for that over here in TEXAS.

jaxfam6 04-05-2008 10:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Bro-Larry (Post 434083)
Well, sweet potatoe pie and shut my mouth!!! We're much too sophisticated for that over here in TEXAS.
No, you all just have JEFF's and his LDS movement.

Barb 04-06-2008 04:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover (Post 434070)
Sam makes a good point. The NAACP routinely has racist verbage spewing from their podiums.
While two wrongs do not make a right, the KKK has a LONG and sad history of crime against humanity.

I certainly would not lump that crowd with any other group...

Barb 04-06-2008 04:55 AM
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Originally Posted by ManOfWord (Post 434075)
This is sadly what humanity looks like without Jesus Christ! That "void" sucks up all kinds of poison and evil deeds. This is humanity hating humanity. How sad.
Yes sir...

Sherri 04-06-2008 05:46 AM
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Originally Posted by tamor (Post 434054)
Sherri,
I really don't think it is, and I really hope it is NOT--but take a good look at big guy just to the right of the stand in the third picture. He looks like someone we know very well.....
Please tell me.............NOOOOOOOOO!:tantrum:tantrum:tantrum :tantrum:tantrum

LadyChocolate 04-06-2008 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by Barb (Post 434267)
While two wrongs do not make a right, the KKK has a LONG and sad history of crime against humanity.

I certainly would not lump that crowd with any other group...
Right! I have heard of the KKK all my life and I have only heard nothing but hate come from that group.... How can people get together and form a group based solely on hate for someone of a different color....

I may not agree with everything the NAACP does, at least they were trying to make a change for the betterment of colored people... and yes they have their racial issues....BUT the kkk is just flat out hatred toward those of a different color... They began shortly after the civil war and it was all about white supremecy....and they "solved" their hate issues with violence.... Racism of any kind makes me sick.....I don't care what color you are...

Barb 04-06-2008 06:25 AM
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Originally Posted by LadyChocolate (Post 434272)
Right! I have heard of the KKK all my life and I have only heard nothing but hate come from that group.... How can people get together and form a group based solely on hate for someone of a different color....

I may not agree with everything the NAACP does, at least they were trying to make a change for the betterment of colored people... and yes they have their racial issues....BUT the kkk is just flat out hatred toward those of a different color... They began shortly after the civil war and it was all about white supremecy....and they "solved" their hate issues with violence.... Racism of any kind makes me sick.....I don't care what color you are...
You are correct with how it began, but it wasn't solely about racisim in the beginning...

My paternal grandfather was a street running heathen who ran around on my grandmother in front of both she and her children...he just flat out believed he was above the rules of decency.

Well, one day back in the 30s, the KKK went to my grandma's home and questioned her about where he was. They had heard that he had left his wife and two babies for another woman, and they were going to tar and feather him.

She knew where he was, but lied to spare his life (she wasn't saved then).

True enough he was low down and all of his born days treated his family poorly, but who were they to extend the punishment?!

Anyway, I just have a REAL problem with the KKK...

Barb 04-06-2008 06:26 AM
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Originally Posted by LadyChocolate (Post 434272)
Right! I have heard of the KKK all my life and I have only heard nothing but hate come from that group.... How can people get together and form a group based solely on hate for someone of a different color....

I may not agree with everything the NAACP does, at least they were trying to make a change for the betterment of colored people... and yes they have their racial issues....BUT the kkk is just flat out hatred toward those of a different color... They began shortly after the civil war and it was all about white supremecy....and they "solved" their hate issues with violence.... Racism of any kind makes me sick.....I don't care what color you are...
Amen!!

LadyChocolate 04-06-2008 06:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Barb (Post 434274)
You are correct with how it began, but it wasn't solely about racisim in the beginning...

My paternal grandfather was a street running heathen who ran around on my grandmother in front of both she and her children...he just flat out believed he was above the rules of decency.

Well, one day back in the 30s, the KKK went to my grandma's home and questioned her about where he was. They had heard that he had left his wife and two babies for another woman, and they were going to tar and feather him.
She knew where he was, but lied to spare his life (she wasn't saved then).

True enough he was low down and all of his born days treated his family poorly, but who were they to extend the punishment?!

Anyway, I just have a REAL problem with the KKK...
Yes, me too!

Even with that attitude, they make me sick.... I can't stand it when others think they have a right to take the law into their own hands....and as terrible as it was to leave a wife and babies, it wasn't their place to take care of him.. So they were started to "take care of" all those who didn't live up to their expectations? Ugh!

Barb 04-06-2008 06:49 AM
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Originally Posted by LadyChocolate (Post 434277)
Yes, me too!

Even with that attitude, they make me sick.... I can't stand it when others think they have a right to take the law into their own hands....and as terrible as it was to leave a wife and babies, it wasn't their place to take care of him.. So they were started to "take care of" all those who didn't live up to their standards? Ugh!
Oh buddy...

LadyChocolate 04-06-2008 06:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Barb (Post 434286)
Oh buddy...
what? did I say something wrong? should I use another word besides standards? lol

Barb 04-06-2008 12:09 PM
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Originally Posted by LadyChocolate (Post 434288)
what? did I say something wrong? should I use another word besides standards? lol
LOL!! No, it just struck me funny for some reason...

steve p 04-06-2008 12:26 PM
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It's really sad that the KKK preaches that what they believe is biblical.......

OneAccord 04-06-2008 12:44 PM
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0859144.html

The First Ku Klux Klan
The original Ku Klux Klan was organized by ex-Confederate elements to oppose the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain “white supremacy.” After the Civil War, when local government in the South was weak or nonexistent and there were fears of black outrages and even of an insurrection, informal vigilante organizations or armed patrols were formed in almost all communities. These were linked together in societies, such as the Men of Justice, the Pale Faces, the Constitutional Union Guards, the White Brotherhood, and the Order of the White Rose. The Ku Klux Klan was the best known of these, and in time it absorbed many of the smaller organizations.

It was organized at Pulaski, Tenn., in May, 1866. A general organization of the local Klans was effected in Apr., 1867, at Nashville, Tenn. Gen. N. B. Forrest, the famous Confederate cavalry leader, was made Grand Wizard of the Empire

The Second Ku Klux Klan
The second Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1915 by William J. Simmons, an ex-minister and promoter of fraternal orders; its first meeting was held on Stone Mt., Ga. The new Klan had a wider program than its forerunner, for it added to “white supremacy” an intense nativism and anti-Catholicism (it was also anti-Semitic) closely related to that of the Know-Nothing movement of the middle 19th cent. Consequently its appeal was not sectional, and, aided after 1920 by the activities of professional promoters Elizabeth Tyler and Edward Y. Clarke, it spread rapidly throughout the North as well as the South. It furnished an outlet for the militant patriotism aroused by World War I, and it stressed fundamentalism in religion.
The KKK is a hate group. Pure and simple. I read somewhere that the KKK was first formed to begin the "Civil War" again. Under General Forrest, they planned to initiate "gorilla warfare" against the Union government. But, because of the intense hatred of "freed blacks", they mainly targeted former slaves, especially those who voted or otherwise attempted to take their rightful place in society.. Law was virtually non-existent in the South in those days and the KKK did "enforce" law to an extent. They were known to whip and beat men who deserted their families and targeted the scalawags and carpetbaggers that plied on the southerners. But, there was, and is, nothing noble about any group that is spurred by hatred and bigotry.

Rico 04-06-2008 12:51 PM
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The KKK. There's a group of misfits.

Sam 04-06-2008 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by LadyChocolate (Post 434272)
Right! I have heard of the KKK all my life and I have only heard nothing but hate come from that group.... How can people get together and form a group based solely on hate for someone of a different color....

I may not agree with everything the NAACP does, at least they were trying to make a change for the betterment of colored people... and yes they have their racial issues....BUT the kkk is just flat out hatred toward those of a different color... They began shortly after the civil war and it was all about white supremecy....and they "solved" their hate issues with violence.... Racism of any kind makes me sick.....I don't care what color you are...
You've never heard of benevolence from KKK folks?
KKK folks helping people during times of difficulty?

SavedLou 04-06-2008 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Sam (Post 434355)
You've never heard of benevolence from KKK folks?
KKK folks helping people during times of difficulty?
Sure...white people. What about all the Jews, blacks, Asians, Mexicans, etc, etc? According to the Klan, they are less than human. Seriously, how can they call themselves God believing people? Sure they have "rights" due to the 1st amendment but that doesn't make me wanna defend them. :2cents

Barb 04-06-2008 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Sam (Post 434355)
You've never heard of benevolence from KKK folks?
KKK folks helping people during times of difficulty?
Yes, Sam...like they were looking out for my grandmother, right, when they wanted to kill the man who left her?! Even in her pain over what he had done, and continued to do for many years to come, she would not help them do him in.

I respect you, but strongly disagree with you on this. Regardless of what so-called good they may appear to do at times of diffuiculty, they hate for no other reason than they feel they can.

I see absolutely no good in what they may do, regardless of how it is dressed...

LadyChocolate 04-06-2008 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Sam (Post 434355)
You've never heard of benevolence from KKK folks?
KKK folks helping people during times of difficulty?
Honestly, if some of those men really wanted to help others, they wouldn't do it under the kkk because it's reputation preceeds them. They are known for hate and discrimination....You cannot convince me that they are good....nor are they even christian.....they are evil!

Arphaxad 04-06-2008 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by jaxfam6 (Post 434215)
No, you all just have JEFF's and his LDS movement.
That's FLDS, they broke away from the LDS.

ARPH :doggyrun

Praxeas 04-06-2008 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by jaxfam6 (Post 434215)
No, you all just have JEFF's and his LDS movement.
Let's not forget Waco either

pob406 04-06-2008 06:41 PM
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I've never heard of the benevolence of the KKK. I do remember my grandfather telling me about his experience with the KKK. He was an Apostolic deacon and very well liked in the community by people of all races. He was also a very successful carpenter. He built restaurants, homes, business buildings. You name it. Physically he was tall and broad. Apparently he made a better living than many of the members of the KKK. I guess they had a problem with that. So a group of them came to confront this one man. That is usually how the KKK operates. An entire group of people against one person. That speaks volumes about the character of the people involved in this group. They came to his home and threatened to burn a cross in his front yard. When he offered to light the match they decided to leave.

Over the years how many people has the KKK castrated, hung and burned on a tree? Is that the benevolence you are referring to?






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Originally Posted by Sam (Post 434355)
You've never heard of benevolence from KKK folks?
KKK folks helping people during times of difficulty?


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