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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKu 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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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
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Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)1. Y-e-a-h...a KKK rally isn't the same without the masks
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
to protest something, they end up facing more counter-protestors than there are of them.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)3. Poor baby racists.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)4. Have they been to Memphis lately?
I would advise them against it.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)5. Way to prove the point of those seeking the ban, racist knuckleheads.
Having a triple-digit IQ is usually a disqualifier for joining the KKK.