Posted on 10/23/2020 7:57:04 PM PDT by 11th_VA
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. (AP) — A Republican candidate running for Arkansas State Senate said he made “mistakes" as a teenager after repeatedly denying his dismissal from a Mississippi high school for wearing a racist Ku Klux Klan costume for Halloween.
Charles Edward Beckham III initially denied reports from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Arkansas Times that he was suspended and dismissed from Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science for wearing a racist Ku Klux Klan costume at a school-sponsored Halloween event. The Arkansas Times first reported Beckham's dismissal on Tuesday.
Beckham also told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a email Tuesday that people fabricated the allegations and blamed it on a ploy by the Democrats.
“First of all, I unequivocally denounce the KKK and any like minded hate group,” Beckham said in the email. “It is sad that the Democrats will do anything and say anything to try to win. The accusations that have been made about me are not only baseless and false, but disgusting.”
But the Democrat-Gazette obtained court records from a lawsuit Beckham's family filed in Hinds County Circuit Court in Jackson, Mississippi, that challenged his dismissal ...
In October 2000, Beckham and two other classmates wore KKK outfits and were caught by school staff members and immediately given three days of in-school suspension, according to the court records. Later, the school’s director dismissed Beckham during his senior year, a decision upheld by the Mississippi Board of Education.
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C’mon man! He was just going as a democrat.
Next step: Force Trump to denounce the candidate. You know it’s coming.
He is acceptable so this guy is as well.
Or are there two standards at work here?
Hahahaha “I was dressed as Robert Byrd ...”
Private life. Worked for *Clintoon.
Exactly!
So what? Go back to teen years is ridiculous. There was no PC in much of our background. I wouldn’t do it, but a teen, especially back then, barely knew history.
We were allowed to make jokes and have senses of humor, even they were in bad taste.
You first Northam. Dems do not back down, neither should he.
The operative phrase here is: “As a teen” As if those aghast at it never did anything they wish they hadn’t
I am really thankful that social media and things like snap-chat didn’t exist when I was younger as stupider.
If He had not lied about it, and admitted it, and said Life happens .The Lie is the bad part.
This is hugh.
He did this as a teenager. C’mon man.
Did he happen to like beer too, and use the word “boof” to describe farting?
Who to vote for?.....Who to vote for?.......
🤔
Well, he might be an autotheist. But I suppose that is semantics.
Well, the Democrat/Left/Communist Party’s hero Senator Robert Byrd wore one not too many years before he died in 2010 ... except it wasn’t a costume; it was his uniform.
Wait...you can’t dress as KKK OR any black people? Geesh what’s the fun in that?
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