Franklin renounced racism in prison
I am happy to hear he changed his mind.
When it comes to ending racism, incarcerated males are often at the tip of the spear.
Posted on 11/20/2022 11:21:10 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 2013, hoping “for people to think of me as a person who is filled with a lot of love for people, not filled with hate for people,” Joseph Paul Franklin was executed by lethal injection in Missouri for a three-year racist killing spree.
Born James Clayton Vaughn, Jr., before he renamed himself into a portmanteau of Paul Joseph Goebbels and Benjamin Franklin, our killer suffered by his own account a childhood warped by the disinterest of his mother and the physical violence of a usually-absentee father. He took up an interest in evangelical Christianity and white nationalism, and in 1977 began crisscrossing the country committing racially motivated attacks against Jews and African Americans.
He would later say that his intent was to trigger a race war. (Franklin renounced racism in prison.)...
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