Sankofa Alwayz
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I real live forgot New Hampshire even exists
Which is why I was like “wtf is a New Hampshire 
?” at first lmao
Anybody here ever live near or in a confirmed Klan Town?
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I real live forgot New Hampshire even exists
Which is why I was like “wtf is a New Hampshire ?” at first lmao
Sankofa Alwayz
#FBADOS #B1 #D(M)V #KnowThyself #WaveGod
Sankofa Alwayz
#FBADOS #B1 #D(M)V #KnowThyself #WaveGod
Nowhere near my part of the state but Rising Sun, MD 
Yeah, on Long Island. I grew up a few blocks away from a Klan meeting house. They had several huge marches in the town, back in the 1920’s.
In the local firehouse there were trophies and plaques, presented by the Klan. I think they were removed within the last several years.
In the local firehouse there were trophies and plaques, presented by the Klan. I think they were removed within the last several years.
Those are in PA too. When I was a teenager we were taking our last family vacation with all of us together. I was a senior and the oldest. We were driving to Orlando from Pittsburgh. We were taking my moms whip. At the time she had a bright blue Caddy Deville. When I was driving it earlier in the week I noticed the Tranny light kept blinking. I told my dad and he took it to the Caddy dealership. Told them we were getting ready to take a long road trip. Asked them to check out everything including the transmission.
They told him no worries. Caddy is running great. It was just a problem with that bulb and we changed it.So we hit the road. My dad always likes driving at night. We are outside of Pittsburgh and in the country right before you hit West Virginia. My dad was like damn somebodys car is smoking out here. My moms was
OTIS ITS US! PULL OVER!
We pull over and smoke is everywhere.Dad popped the hood and all you heard was WHOOMPF as something caught fire cause he just added extra oxygen to it.
Moms gets us to the side of the road in the grass. Meanwhile my dad is in the car on the bag phone calling roadside assistance
My moms was screaming at him cause you could see the flames but he had to get that call out cause we were in the middle of no where on the side of the road at night in the country. He gets through and gives them the mile marker we were at. Then we just watch my moms whip burn down to the ground
Good thing is AAA pulls up fairly quick. Gets us to a rental car place. We get a minivan. We are in the small ass town called Waynesburg Pa. We get a hotel for the night and me and my dad go to try and find us something to eat. We walk in this restaurant and as soon as we walk in the door the whole place gets quiet. The music stops. Everyone is just looking at us.Me being young I was just
Meanwhile my dad had grabbed my elbow and pulled me back out the door. As he was doing this I saw a few burly cacs in the back getting up from their table and coming our way. We get back in the minivan and pull up to the hotel. Dad tells mom we are leaving. My sis is complaining but moms understood. Packed up our shyt fast as fukk and as we are leaving we see two cars following us. Then a third joined in. A cop car. They just paced us until we left the town limits.
this is why they had this back in the day
https://www.history.com/news/the-green-book-the-black-travelers-guide-to-jim-crow-america
Counter Racist Male
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I used to work out here making deliveries. No wonder I didn't see many black people
Police ties to Ku Klux Klan shock Florida town of Fruitland Park
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• Report links two city officers with secret hate society
• Deputy chief resigns but denies KKK membership
Associated Press in Fruitland Park, Florida
Mon 21 Jul 2014 08.20 EDTLast modified on Wed 20 Sep 2017 12.20 EDT
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Two police officers are no longer with the Fruitland Park department after a report tied them to the Ku Klux Klan. Photograph: John Raoux/AP
Ann Hunnewell and her central Florida police officer husband knelt in the living room of a fellow officer's home, with pillow cases as makeshift hoods over their heads. A few words were spoken and they, along with a half-dozen others, were initiated into the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, she says.
Last week, that initiation ceremony, which took place five years ago, stunned residents of the small town of Fruitland Park, who found out an investigative report linked two city officers with the secret hate society that once was violently active in the area. Ann Hunnewell's ex-husband, George Hunnewell, was fired, and deputy chief David Borst resigned from the 13-member Fruitland Park Police Department. Borst has denied being a member.
James Elkins, a third officer who Ann Hunnewell says recruited her and her husband, resigned in 2010 after his Klan ties became public.
Violence against blacks permeated the area more than 60 years ago, when the place was more rural and the main industry was citrus. These days, the community of less than 5,000 residents about 50 miles northwest of Orlando has been infused by the thousands of wealthier, more cosmopolitan retirees in the area. Those who live in the bedroom community, which is less than 10% black, have reacted not only with shock, but disgust that officers could be involved with the Klan, the mayor said.
"Maybe I'm ignorant, but I didn't realise that they still met and organised and did that kind of thing," said Michele Lange, a church volunteer.
Mayor Chris Bell says he heard stories about a Klan rally that took place two years before he arrived, in the 1970s, but he has never seen anything firsthand. As recently as the 1960s, many in law enforcement in the South were members but "it's exceedingly unusual these days to find a police officer who is secretly a Klansman," said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups.
While the Klan used to be politically powerful in the 1920s, when governors and US senators were among its 4 million members, nowadays it is much less active than other sectors of the radical right and has less than 5,000 members nationwide, Potok said.
"The radical right is quite large and vigorous. The Klan is very small," he said. "The radical right looks down on the Klan."
Fruitland Park, though, has been dealing with alleged KKK ties and other problems in the police ranks since 2010, when Elkins resigned after his estranged wife made his membership public.
Last week, residents were told Borst and the Hunnewells had been members of the United Northern and Southern Knights Chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, though its presence in their town wasn't noticeable. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement sent the police chief a report linking the officers to the Klan based on information from the FBI. Both men didn't return repeated phone messages to their homes, but Borst told the Orlando Sentinel he has never been a Klan member.
Ann Hunnewell – who was a police department secretary until 2010 – told Florida investigators that former police chief JM Isom asked her and her ex-husband to join the KKK in 2008, trying to learn if Elkins was a member. Isom, though, shortly after Elkins resigned, also quit after he was accused of getting incentive pay for earning bogus university degrees.
Current Police Chief Terry Isaacs said he took a sworn oath from Isom, who called Ann Hunnewell's account a lie, and that there was no record of such an undercover investigation.
The disclosure of the officers' Klan ties harkened back to the 1940s and 1950s when hate crimes against blacks were common. That era was chronicled in the 2012 book Devil in the Grove. Then-Lake County sheriff Willis McCall shot two of four black men, dubbed the "Groveland Four", who were dubiously charged with raping a white woman.
“Things have improved, of course," said Sannye Jones, a local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People official who moved to Lake County in the 1960s. "But racism still exists, just not in the same way. People are not as open and not as blatant."
Isaacs said three years ago, he inherited a police department of 13 full-time officers and five part-time officers – none of them black – that had a "lackadaisical culture”.
"I've taken great steps to overcome that. I've brought in diversity training for the officers and laid down orders that will get you fired," Isaacs said.
Hunnewell previously had been suspended for misconduct for the way he handled a case. Last year, he received five "letters of counseling" from supervisors for showing up late and writing reports incorrectly. He was promoted to corporal in 2012 but then demoted the next year for allowing personal problems to affect his job, Isaacs said.
"I felt he was beyond the point of being saved at this point," the chief said of Hunnewell's firing.
Cases the officers worked on also are under scrutiny. On Friday, prosecutors dismissed three cases — two traffic offenses and a misdemeanor battery.
The news about sworn police officers perhaps being part of the Klan doesn't sit well with many in Fruitland Park, which calls itself the "Friendly City," the mayor said. Adding to the influx of retirees, The Villages has plans to build housing for 4,000 residents, which would almost double the city's population.
"I'm shocked, very shocked," said Chery Mion, who lives in The Villages but works in a Fruitland Park gift shop next door to the mayor's office. "I didn't think that organization was still around. Yes, in the 1950s. But this 2014, and it's rather disconcerting to know."
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DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
Racism in different accents.
IAMDetroit
"Yall Nig*as"
Yeslike 1.5 miles away.
Tiffrock
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Well anyone in ATL is close to Stone Mountain GA
How the Birthplace of the Modern Ku Klux Klan Became the Site of America's Largest Confederate Monument | KQED
How the Birthplace of the Modern Ku Klux Klan Became the Site of America's Largest Confederate Monument | KQED
Counter Racist Male
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Yeah but Stone Mountain is mostly black these days.
Tiffrock
All Star
Yeah but it was a confirmed Klan city. I'm not talking about the current demographics, just answering the post.
Counter Racist Male
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Yeah I know. My paternal lived there before she passed away.