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TexasTowelie

(112,128 posts)
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 03:34 AM Nov 2018

White northeast Kansas official mentions 'master race' as black city planner speaks


View Klemp’s comments at the 1:35:00 mark of the meeting.


LEAVENWORTH — A white county commissioner in northeast Kansas said he belongs to “the master race” as he critiqued a land-use proposal by a black city planner at a board meeting.

Leavenworth County Commissioner Louis Klemp cited the Nazi ideology of Aryan supremacy Tuesday in response to the presentation by Triveece Penelton on road development options in Tonganoxie, just west of Kansas City.

“I don’t want you to think I’m picking on you, because, we’re part of the master race,” Klemp told Penelton, as he brought his fingers to his own teeth. “You know you got a gap in your teeth, you’re the masters, don’t ever forget that.”

Klemp told KSHB-TV off camera that his comment was a joke.

Commissioner Robert Holland said he was shocked by the comments and that he wants Klemp to resign before his term ends Jan. 15.

Read more: https://www.cjonline.com/news/20181115/white-northeast-kansas-official-mentions-master-race-as-black-city-planner-speaks

And surprise, he is a Republican!


Leavenworth County Commissioner Louis Klemp (pictured) told black city planner Triveece Penelton: "We are part of the master race, don't you forget that." [Leavenworth Times]
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White northeast Kansas official mentions 'master race' as black city planner speaks (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2018 OP
Leavenworth has had a KKK underbelly for decades Thunderbeast Nov 2018 #1
no joking with american nazis....he should be hounded out of the job beachbum bob Nov 2018 #2
Working on it... Maxheader Nov 2018 #3

Thunderbeast

(3,406 posts)
1. Leavenworth has had a KKK underbelly for decades
Fri Nov 16, 2018, 04:55 AM
Nov 2018

My uncle's brother used to be a county commissioner in Leavenworth. He also used to wear sheets and burn crosses on weekends. Yeah, it was in the 1930s, but this is really a non-evolved part of the country.

Maxheader

(4,372 posts)
3. Working on it...
Sun Nov 18, 2018, 05:24 PM
Nov 2018


Gov. Jeff Colyer recommended Saturday that the Republican chairman of the Leavenworth County Commission resign for using racially insensitive language while addressing a black woman during a public meeting.
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