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...taught that the reason we seceded from the North was to maintain that system," Weary says. He says that through his friendship with Paris, he has understood the history-and-heritage argument for the first time. Paris says although he will always love that flag, the Ku Klux Klan stole it from him and made it a symbol of hate. Because of his friendship with Weary and other African Americans, and because "as a Christian man I cannot do that which harms my brother," he voted last week to bring the flag down...
...Confederate Veterans condemned him for "honoring people who...murdered, raped and pillaged." In Selma, Ala., a battleground in the 1960s civil rights movement, whites are militant in defense of a new statue of Confederate hero Nathan Bedford Forrest, even though he was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan...
...associated. Stores cannot place signs that say “Jews not allowed” in their windows, even if those signs are only meant to express the idea that Jews should not be allowed. But again, beyond legality, we do not find it acceptable for the Ku Klux Klan to march in Skokie, Ill., because it has the highest concentration of Holocaust survivors in the country. We don’t make it illegal, but we protest, chastise and exert social pressure to make clear that behavior of that sort is unacceptable...
...federal courts agree with me. Although the government monitors membership in organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and subscription to magazines like Southern Partisan because of the clear connection between hate speech and hate crime, the courts do not extend such regulation to pornography subscribers. They have not held that there is a connection between the “art” in works such as “Chester the Molester” and harmful action. The judiciary’s position hasn’t changed even after it turned out that the cartoonist who created...
...particularly clean stretch of highway this spring and wonder who to thank, it may be that they're in for a bit of a shock. In among the familiar signs proclaiming the good works of Kiwanis and Rotarians, they could well see one thanking the local chapter of... the Ku Klux Klan...