KKK Planning Largest Rally Ever in Memphis

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Salty Cacs LOL :heh: The majority Black city council is erasing these Cacs Confederate history.

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Keith Thomson: KKK Planning Largest Rally Ever in Memphis

KKK Planning Largest Rally Ever in Memphis

On Tuesday the Memphis City Council passed a resolution to rename three Confederate-themed public parks in Memphis, including one named after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Confederate Park is now known as Memphis Park, Jefferson Davis Park is henceforth Mississippi River Park and Nathan Bedford Forrest Park -- named after the Confederate Army lieutenant general and KKK leader -- is now Health Sciences Park.

The City Council measure was a preemptive action against what Councilman Shea Flinn called, "the ironic war of aggression from our northern neighbor in Nashville." The day before, the state legislature introduced the "Tennessee Heritage Protection Act of 2013," which, if approved, will prevent renaming and alteration of Tennessee statues, monuments, or memorials erected in honor of the Civil War (or, in the bill's language, "the War Between the States").

"These three parks have a racial history that should be erased," Memphis civil rights activist Kennith Van Buren told the Associated Press. "The parks are an embarrassment to our city."

Not everyone is embarrassed, however. The name changes have drawn criticism from citizens in favor of commemorating the Confederate States of America. "We should cherish the history that we have, we shouldn't cover it up and try to bury it or hide it," Memphian Becky Muska said at Tuesday's council meeting.

The sentiment is hardly unique to Tennessee. Currently there are twenty-five major monuments to Davis alone in the United States, and the Confederate leader's birthday, June 3, remains a holiday in Florida -- public offices, schools and many businesses are closed -- and is officially celebrated in Kentucky and Louisiana, as well as Tennessee.

Enter the Ku Klux Klan, founded by Civil War veterans in 1865. According to its website, the organization's current mission is to "stop White genocide."

A KKK Exalted Cyclops promised a massive protest rally over the Memphis City Council decision. (The Exalted Cyclops reports to a Grand Giant, or provincial leader. Next in the chain of command is Grand Dragon, a director on the state level. The Grand Wizard runs the national organization).

Going by "Edward" -- anonymity is typical of the Klan -- the Exalted Cyclops told Memhis' WMC-TV, "Y'all are going to see the largest rally Memphis, Tennessee, has ever seen. It's not going to be twenty or thirty -- it's going to be thousands of Klansmen from the whole United States."

There are over 100 Klan chapters in the United States, with an estimated membership of 5,000. Should they gather lawfully, the city of Memphis will take no action, per the First Amendment.

Anti-Klan protesters are another story. In 1998, when fifty Klansmen assembled to protest the celebration of Martin Luther King Day, police had to fire tear gas to keep the crowd of 200-300 protestors of the protestors at bay.
 

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NASHVILLE — The state legislator sponsoring the bill that would ban renaming of historical parks and monuments across Tennessee said Thursday that he's disappointed that the Memphis City Council hurriedly renamed three Confederate-themed parks, but he won't try to force a reversal.

But another lawmaker said word of the council's action in heading off McDaniel's bill spread rapidly through the state legislature and could help the Shelby County suburbs' efforts to establish their own school systems.

Rep. Steve McDaniel, R-Parkers Crossroads, said his bill isn't aimed specifically at Memphis' off-and-on disputes over Forrest Park and its statue of Confederate war hero Nathan Bedford Forrest, but was something he's been thinking about for several years without pursuing. And because the City Council has already re-named the parks, he said he won't try to make the state bill — which he said will probably take five to six weeks to pass — apply retroactively.

"I'm absolutely disappointed (in the council's action). I don't think that just because you disagree or don't approve of the historical past that we should be changing the names of these parks or think about removing monuments. We've got monuments on the Capitol grounds that I wouldn't have approved of putting there, but they are there and they are part of our history. Changing names or removing monuments could have the appearance of trying to rewrite history," McDaniel told The Commercial Appeal.

McDaniel, 61, a state representative since 1988, is a Henderson County businessman with a long interest in history, particularly the Civil War. He performs as a Confederate soldier at Civil War re-enactments and serves on the Tennessee Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission, the Civil War Trust, the Tennessee Civil War Preservation Association, and other commissions. He is a 1973 graduate of the University of Memphis.

His "Tennessee Heritage Preservation Act" (House Bill 553) provides in part that "No statue, monument, memorial, nameplate, plaque, historic flag display, school, street, bridge, building, park, preserve, or reserve which has been erected for ... any historical military figure, historical military event, military organization, or military unit, and is located on public property, may be renamed or rededicated."

If the bill were already law, it would have blocked the City Council's action Tuesday renaming Forrest Park as Health Sciences Park, Confederate Park as Memphis Park and Jefferson Davis Park as Mississippi River Park. Council members cited the pending state bill as their reason for moving swiftly to change the parks' names.

McDaniel said that although the "Memphis situation cropped up" just before he filed the bill last week, he's been "working and looking at" filing a preservation bill for years. "I feel strongly that there's a need to ensure that these historic places of our state's past remain intact for this generation and for our grandchildren and their children. There are probably more counties in the state that have these monuments from the War between the States than any single monument to any period in Tennessee's history, and I just want to be sure that future generations have the benefit of their history."

But McDaniel said he's watched the occasional flare-ups in Memphis over Forrest Park and other Civil War icons. "I've seen what's going on there and I've seen in the past the highly contentious atmosphere that's in Memphis, unfortunately. I don't want this legislation to become wrapped up in all of that," he said.

One suburban Shelby County state representative, who would not speak about the subject on the record, said the Council's move may have unintended consequences, including helping suburban lawmakers win approval of another bill now in the works to allow new municipal school districts.

Suburban leaders have decided that court-ordered negotiations over new school systems in Shelby County have all but ground to a halt, and their best bet is state legislation that lifts a 15-year-old ban on new municipal school districts statewide. Such a bill is likely to have better chances of passing now than in the last two years, when legislators from elsewhere wanted to limit new districts to Shelby County — which a federal judge ruled is unconstitutional.

The Senate co-sponsor of the parks bill is Sen. Bill Ketron, a Republican from Murfreesboro, site of another major Civil War battlefield.

"Once the bill passes, it will apply statewide. Memphis, that's their business down there — although those parks down there are like national history. It's not like it's just Memphis history. That's the reason you're going to see so much interest, I think, outside the city of Memphis," McDaniel said.

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On the day of the rally, if any of your coworkers/classmates call in sick, you know where they are. :mjpls:
 

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if :obama: dont send in the Navy Seals to kill these terrorists Im done with son

did you read the article?
Anti-Klan protesters are another story. In 1998, when fifty Klansmen assembled to protest the celebration of Martin Luther King Day, police had to fire tear gas to keep the crowd of 200-300 protestors of the protestors at bay.

if anything they gonna be protecting the KKK members :ld:
 

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did you read the article?


if anything they gonna be protecting the KKK members :ld:

I know. But I'm talking military action. :obama: can order that, he doesnt have control over the police. Perhaps drone strikes. These terrorists need to be dealt with quickly and decisively to show other terrorists that we dont play when it comes to terror, we are America damnit!

If not, then this nicca Barry is just a kuhn.
 

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I know. But I'm talking military action. :obama: can order that, he doesnt have control over the police. Perhaps drone strikes. These terrorists need to be dealt with quickly and decisively to show other terrorists that we dont play when it comes to terror, we are America damnit!

If not, then this nicca Barry is just a kuhn.
valid point....but....prepare to be disappointed
 

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valid point....but....prepare to be disappointed

yep the klux aint near as active as they were back in the day...

they gone show up n have a pep rally for their confederate hero's n go back bout their business..

them nikkas aint even thinkin bout no drama...nowadays they go get permits n let the city know what they finna do ..jus to make sure they got a good number of policemen...black white mexican asians..etc...

have they lil 30-45min pep rally n gone home

nikkas that aint got shyt else to do...find out go out there..n try n act a fool...dont do shyt...

klux is jus like the new age panthers..they dont do shyt unless its benefitin them for 5mins...then nobody is thinkin bout em...

then u will trip out...when u goto walmart...klux n the panther helpin each other stock shelvess
 

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yep the klux aint near as active as they were back in the day...

they gone show up n have a pep rally for their confederate hero's n go back bout their business..

them nikkas aint even thinkin bout no drama...nowadays they go get permits n let the city know what they finna do ..jus to make sure they got a good number of policemen...black white mexican asians..etc...

have they lil 30-45min pep rally n gone home

nikkas that aint got shyt else to do...find out go out there..n try n act a fool...dont do shyt...

klux is jus like the new age panthers..they dont do shyt unless its benefitin them for 5mins...then nobody is thinkin bout em...

then u will trip out...when u goto walmart...klux n the panther helpin each other stock shelvess

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