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Wal-Mart shoppers find Klan cards hidden among books in patriotic display
Associated Press / SFGate

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  


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To: dead
Howard Stern often has Daniel Carver on his show. The guy is something like "The Grand Poohbah" of the KKK.

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.

21 posted on 08/27/2002 10:39:27 AM PDT by Poohbah
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To: RCW2001
But sales remain brisk for their pre-labor day 1/2 off white linen special.
22 posted on 08/27/2002 10:39:39 AM PDT by DancesWithTrout
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To: Arkinsaw; gundog; dead; GraniteStateConservative
To the first three of you, yes, they can be "unwittingly" funny.

To GSC, it's the young neo-nazis that could be a problem.

23 posted on 08/27/2002 10:42:21 AM PDT by xJones
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To: IsItTimeYet
Or, more in keeping with the media's practice, they probably shelved the interview until they could corner some illiterate, hairy shouldered mumbler and pay him to spit a few words into the microphone. They know that it never hurts to perpetuate a stereo-type, especially not when there are still people out there who fall for it (ahem)

Ah, I have fallen for a bad stereotype of white supremacists. I just don't know no better I guess.
24 posted on 08/27/2002 10:46:01 AM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: Poohbah
...hopefully we can put all the Idaho/Alabama skin-heads and nazis and Aryan Nations' volk into one big pit in the ground, along with the Trotskyites, the Socialist Vanguards and the PETA-ites, and have them get into one massive pummeling fest until none of their respective species are left standing on this good, green earth......
25 posted on 08/27/2002 10:56:08 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: AmericanInTokyo
And broadcast it on pay-per-view, and make lots of money!
26 posted on 08/27/2002 10:57:23 AM PDT by Poohbah
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To: Arkinsaw
Losers. They've checked out on life because of their own self-generated/self-perpetuated backwoods stupidity.

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.

27 posted on 08/27/2002 10:59:52 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: RCW2001
I'm a proud member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

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.

28 posted on 08/27/2002 11:00:31 AM PDT by BLASTER 14
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To: RCW2001
yikes. They get free advertising on WalMart grounds. Wal Mart has signs posted for "no soliciting," even.
29 posted on 08/27/2002 11:02:04 AM PDT by Terriergal
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To: gundog
A lovely turn of phrase, that.

Oh thats nothing, I know folks who say:

I went down on up air(there) to the store.

Oddly enough, this seems only to be used in the past tense. You wouldn't normally say "I AM going down up there to the store"
30 posted on 08/27/2002 11:03:05 AM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: RCW2001

Why do I smell a KKK demonRAT??


31 posted on 08/27/2002 11:04:01 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: dead
Howard Stern often has Daniel Carver on his show. The guy is something like "The Grand Poohbah" of the KKK.

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!

32 posted on 08/27/2002 11:04:13 AM PDT by Clemenza
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To: Terriergal
Does this mean that we might see Wal Mart senior citizen 'greeters' in white bedsheets in the not-too-distant future?
33 posted on 08/27/2002 11:05:15 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
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To: Arkinsaw
Ah, I have fallen for a bad stereotype of white supremacists. I just don't know no better I guess.

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.

34 posted on 08/27/2002 11:06:40 AM PDT by Clemenza
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To: Poohbah
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.

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.

35 posted on 08/27/2002 11:08:55 AM PDT by Clemenza
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To: Clemenza
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.

Yeah, them white supremacists need to be defended cause they have all the ugly stereotypes about them being.....well....white supremacists.
36 posted on 08/27/2002 11:13:53 AM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: BLASTER 14
I'm a proud member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

Ditto.
37 posted on 08/27/2002 11:14:59 AM PDT by Arkinsaw
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To: Arkinsaw
Yeah, them white supremacists need to be defended cause they have all the ugly stereotypes about them being.....well....white supremacists.

{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.

38 posted on 08/27/2002 11:25:00 AM PDT by amused
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To: Clemenza
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.

They were good.

Slow down...

39 posted on 08/27/2002 11:32:37 AM PDT by rdb3
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To: Arkinsaw
Ah, I have fallen for a bad stereotype of white supremacists. I just don't know no better I guess.

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.

40 posted on 08/27/2002 11:42:03 AM PDT by IsItTimeYet
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