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Haley Barbour Backtracks: The Citizens Council, Revisited
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsIs that your final answer? Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour released a statement today clarifying recent remarks made in an interview with The Weekly Standard that many perceived as downplaying the hardships blacks experienced during the civil rights era. Here is Barbour's statement. When asked why my hometown in Mississippi did not suffer the same racial violence when I was a young man that accompanied other towns' integration efforts, I accurately said the community leadership wouldn't tolerate it and helped prevent violence there. My point was my town rejected the Ku Klux Klan, but nobody ...
Idaho White Supremacist Builds KKK Snowman
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Dec. 3) -- A self-described white supremacist built a 10-foot snowman in the front yard of his Hayden, Idaho, home. Then he gave it a peaked hood, big black eyes and a stick for arm, with a noose dangling from its bony appendage. Then the cops came. Mark Eliseuson said he saw nothing wrong with his creation. But his neighbors saw an appalling, racist Ku Klux Klansman and called authorities. Amber Caldwell, AP Kootenai County, Idaho, sheriff's deputies told Mark Eliseuson on Wednesday that he could be charged with a crime because the 10-foot-tall snowman in his front yard was holding what ...
Canadian Legion Apologizes for Halloween KKK Costume
By Deborah Hastings - AOL News
(Nov. 4) -- The national president of the Royal Canadian Legion has apologized for racist costumes sported at a weekend Halloween contest in an Ontario hall, which has been closed pending an investigation. Partygoers said they were outraged by two men -- one dressed as a white-robed Ku Klux Klan member, the other wearing blackface and being led around by a noose. Nonetheless, the pair won first prize in the party's costume competition. "I sincerely regret the incident,'' legion President Patricia Varga said Wednesday, the Montreal Gazette reported. "I also want the citizens of Canada and ...
Iranian President Ahmadinejad: Homophobe, Anti-Semite, 9/11 Truther
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 23) -- Taking on one of his favorite world stages today, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continued his tradition of serving up incendiary rhetoric while addressing world leaders at the United Nations. As one has come to expect from the Iranian leader, Ahmadinejad used the occasion to challenge conventional wisdom and upset foreign dignitaries to the point that many of them stood up during his speech and walked out of the chamber. 9/11 Conspiracy This year's fireworks occurred over Ahmadinejad's contention that most people in the world believed "that some segments within the ...
University of Texas Board Rechristens Dorm Named After Klan Organizer
By Linda Jones - AOL NewsAUSTIN, Texas (July 15) -- A University of Texas residence hall named after a Ku Klux Klan organizer is getting a new identity. This undated photo shows William Stewart Simkins as a cadet at The Citadel. The school's Board of Regents unanimously decided today that Simkins Residence Hall -- named for William Stewart Simkins, who taught at the School of Law for 30 years -- will instead be called Creekside Residence Hall. "The history behind the name is not in line with today's University of Texas and its core values," said Board of Regents member Printice Gary, who made the motion to ...
Opinion: Byrd Evolved, Unlike Many of His Critics
By Alan Colmes - AOL News(June 28) -- West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd wasn't even gone yet when posters on right-wing websites were dancing on his grave. At Andrew Breitbart's site, the nastiness was sickening. Among them (reprinted verbatim): Hasta la vista KKK Birdman. Funny how old D-rats are falling like flies this year. (Yes that WAS an insensitive statement. Deal with it!) oh ya let me say something *nice* about the Kleagle: . ooops - "Grand Kleagel" sorry will the kkk march in his funeral procession? and will they be before or after the naacp representatives? and will his headstone monument be smaller, ...
Robert Byrd: Rising Up Out of a Racist Past
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyLike another long-serving senator, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, West Virginia's Robert Byrd was once an unrepentant racist. He was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and, as senator, filibustered the Civil Rights Act for 14 hours and then voted against it. In a 1945 letter, Byrd wrote of his fears that he might "see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels." In 2001, in a nationally televised interview, he used the phrase "white [n-word]." But Byrd worked hard to distance himself from his racist past, and did so (unlike Thurmond, who bolted to the GOP) within the Democrat ...
University of Texas Learns It Named Dorm for Klan Leader
By Linda Jones - AOL NewsAUSTIN, Texas (June 1) -- In 1954, the University of Texas named a dorm after William Stewart Simkins, who taught law there for three decades. Simkins has been dead for more than 80 years but now his past -- as a leader of the Ku Klux Klan -- has come back to haunt the school. The disclosure of Simkins' past in a recently published article has the UT administration considering whether to remove his name from the dorm -- Simkins Residence Hall. William Stewart Simkins fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War and taught law at the University of Texas. "Simkins was a mask-wearing coward, a ...
Students' KKK Robes Stun Georgia High School
By Mara Gay - AOL News(May 25) -- Catherine Ariemma wanted to teach her students a lesson about racism in U.S. history, but she got a little more than she bargained for. The Georgia high school teacher unwittingly created an uproar when she let her students walk through the school last week wearing white Ku Klux Klan robes as part of a class assignment. Without warning, students at Lumpkin County High School watched in shock as four students entered the high school cafeteria dressed hood-to-toe in what is perhaps the most potent and frightening symbol of hate in American history. It turned out that Ariemma's ...
Racists React to Obama Victory
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIt should come as absolutely no surprise that, despite the historic election of the first African American president of the United States, the scourge of racism has not been magically wiped away from every nook and cranny of the country. Just dip your toes into the comment section of this, or any other blog that deals with politics and you'll encounter plenty of it. Despite that regrettable fact, for those who lived through or have studied the milestones marking the advancement of blacks throughout our nation's history, the seeming lack of racially-motivated clashes has been a noteworthy ...
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