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 schools director dismissed Beckham during his senior year, a decision upheld by the Mississippi Board of Education.
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Back then..KKK was the bomb!
Way back in 2000?
PC has been huge since the term emerged c 1990 (I know, I first read about it in the college paper around then).
“Conservative” Rat incumbent. No Republican ran for the seat in 2012 or 2016 but Trump and Romney carried every country in the district. This rat was previously in the state house and has never had an opponent.
Governor of Virginia donned the KKK outfit and that was just fine REMEMBER!!
The Dem incumbent, Bruce Maloch, got a 68% Conservative rating from the ACU for 2019. It’s baffling why he doesn’t just switch parties. Certainly little reason staying a Dem in the AR legislature anymore. The GOP will be the majority party for the foreseeable future.
Even in 2000 it was not like now. You are correct, though, who does racial stuff anyway?
He either hates freedom or is living in the past or both.
If we’re going back to high school nobody is safe from scandal.
And slo joe and Hillary eulogized and heaped mentor praise on the real guy when senator KKK Byrd kicked
One way to fix this would be to require an ink print of each thumb on the mail-in ballot.
So what?
I once dressed as a skeleton. That doesn’t mean I am dead.
“One way to fix this would be to require an ink print of each thumb on the mail-in ballot.”
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I agree with the purple thumb concept
we saw in Afghanistan or Iraq or
where ever it was..
as long as it can’t wash off.
But the dems would just smudge the fingerprint.
Dems always find a way.
We must have vote in person
on 1 day only.
Only absentee for people overseas and
people with a Doctors note.
“for wearing a racist Ku Klux Klan costume at a school-sponsored Halloween event”
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I don’t get this.
Halloween is about being scary.
Dressing as KKK is scary.
It should be acceptable as scary.
Same as wearing a Nazi costume.
Nazis are scary people.
Prince Harry is an idiot but
he should not have been criticized for
wearing a scary Nazi costume way back when.
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