Posted on 08/27/2002 10:16:32 AM PDT by RCW2001
Tuesday, August 27, 2002
©2002 Associated Press
URL: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2002/08/27/national0732EDT0477.DTL
(08-27) 04:32 PDT MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. (AP) --
Shoppers at a Wal-Mart in Alabama found business cards from the Ku Klux Klan inside books at a patriotic display in the store.
"I was so startled I read it three times," said Mary Meherg, who saw the cards while shopping at the Muscle Shoals store on Monday. "I couldn't believe it."
The cards were tucked inside copies of a book written by Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, and red, zip-up book covers sold to benefit a nonprofit foundation named for Todd Beamer, one of the heroes on United Airlines Flight 93 last September.
The KKK cards touted a "message of hope and deliverance to America" and solicited a $3 donation to the group for information on helping white children, "America's new minority." The cards listed an Arkansas post office box and the address for an online Klan store.
Officials at the Muscle Shoals Wal-Mart said they previously have found KKK literature in other goods. As in Monday's case, the literature was removed as soon as it was found, store officials said.
"It's definitely not something we want in our store," company spokeswoman Sharon Weber said. "Now that we've learned about it, we need to get them out."
Rebecca Irwin, marketing director for Gregg Gift Co., which makes the book covers for the Todd M. Beamer Foundation, said the company was "shocked and extremely upset to learn that someone is using our product as a vehicle to promote their hate organization."
©2002 Associated Press
He'd better NOT be calling himself exactly that, or he's gonna find out that this here Universe ain't big enough fer the two of us.
To GSC, it's the young neo-nazis that could be a problem.
But, gotta have SOMEONE to blame for their being at the bottom of the trailer park trash pile with no hope for rising above it. Best it be someone 'not their type.'
That's I 'spose why people join the Klan in the first place. Misery loves company.
To all who are interested, know this: Our motto is "Heritage, not Hate". There are Black men who are elegible to join us. Gentlemen, you are welcome
Many people, including Tom Clancy, have us mixed up with the KKK. Folks, It just isn't so.
Also know this: We are partiotic Americans who believe that the United States of America is the hope of the world.
I love his voice too: WAAKE Ewp WHIITE PAPEL!
I no longer listen to Howard Stern (lowlife Hamptons socialite hypocrite), but will never forget when Carver gave Boys in the Band (a GAY movie and I don't mean the Flinstones sense of the word) THREE BURNING CROSSES!
And you're from ARKANSAS! I bet you and Roger Clinton get together for a pig pickin with some state Troopers and Razorback coeds, singing something by the Outlaws. There, I am done stereotyping.
There was also a rapper a few years back, who called himself Grand Poohbah. He was with a group called Brand Nubian. I don't like most rap, but I must admit they were pretty good.
{chuckle}
In not so nice news, I had a bar buddy who was an avowed white supremacist. We used to tussle verbally but he was always straight forward and honest. Very smart guy, just a little off. I just found out how off a month ago. Apparently he was gay and his skinheads buddies found out and did a tap dance on his head. Sadly ironic.
They were good.
Slow down...
The depiction of the toothless, pot-bellied hater, holding a beer and cussing about "them coloreds" is the modern day equivelant to the fantastical depictions of sea-serpents under the cartographers warning "Here there be dragons".
Certainly, these guys are out there, their beliefs are easy to dismiss and their grooming habits are well, distateful, but they are far from a "normal" representative for entire the anti-PC movement. But the fallacious association represents the biggest gun in the liberals arsenal. I've seen intelligent, well spoken people draw up in fear at the thought of openly expressing non-PC sentiments in large part because they fear being branded with this "toothless wonder" archetype. It's a universal template, one-size fits all and it's quickly applied to anyone who disagrees with the liberal agenda.
That's why I called you on it. It's dead wrong.
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