Posted on 03/17/2016 4:50:34 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
In a Tuesday night special about Republican Donald Trump invigorating first-time voters, PBS NewsHour profiled a woman volunteering for the campaign who had prominently visible tattoos of widely recognized white power symbols.
In the segment, which was first flagged by Gawker, PBS profiles Grace Tilly, who is shown making calls at a Trump campaign phone bank in North Carolina.
This is my first time voting, Tilly tells the camera. Being 33, thats kind of crazy, but it says a lot.
While Tilly makes a call, her tattoo of a symbol that Gawker identified as a Celtic Cross is easily visible on her right hand.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the Celtic Cross is used by neo-Nazis, members of the Ku Klux Klan, and virtually every other type of white supremacist. The symbol is also used in the logo for Stormfront, an online hub for white supremacists.
Gawker also identified the tattoo on Tillys other hand as the number 88 which, according to the ADL, is white supremacist shorthand for Heil Hitler.
PBS made no mention of the symbols in the story, Gawker said.
A TPM request for comment from PBS NewsHour was not immediately returned Wednesday afternoon.
You can watch a clip of the segment over at Gawker.
Celtic Cross? I’ve seen that in the background of Celtic Women performances. On PBS.
Celtic Cross? I’ve seen that in the background of Celtic Women performances. On PBS.
I guess the ADL and PBS would conclude that the soldiers who fought and died opposing slavery under the brigade's colors were white supremacists of the worst order...
Never thought about it, but there probably is a connection with the Chinese meaning, which would be true throughout Asia.
I am not a member of any “white supremacist group”,
I’m just your average
half-breed Injun voting for a
true American, and not for
either Communist nor for the
has-been from Ohio, nor a
fresh-off-the-boat immigrant’s
son.
Thank you FRiend. Erin go Bragh
88 is Dale Jr’s number. ...sigh.....maybe a nascar fan?
I believe it is also used by the masons
All white people suck and need to die. Anything a white person does is racist. If a white person breaths, it’s racist.
Communist America.
And that has always been the message
The Celtic Cross is just an historic cross designed by Celts. The number 88 stands for love and kisses in ham radio and good fortune in Chinese.
Just “happened” to be a white supremacist.
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