They're here.
There's a mess of them picketing Greystone (Channel Six) right now. Saw them on my way home from the farmer's market. It strikes me that exactly the wrong people are down there trying to make a case for the superiority of their particular race. Ugly bunch of mutants, they are.

I know the feeling. It takes me way back to the 1950s.. I went to school with a girl whose fiance was a rabid klan member. They decided to help me get my head on straight and invited me to an open meeting. It was in an upstairs meeting room in the area where Standard Knitting Mills used to be. Older residents will know that wasn't the safest place in town in those days. It was set up so that all the seating was around the edge of the room. They had a pulpit type thing with an American flag. When they started quoting scripture to justify their BS I got up and walked out. We were sitting in the area farthest from the door and I had to go diagonally across the room... I walked right through that mess and sat on the hood of my friend's car till the meeting was over. I still feel the same way!

I second that emotion.

Larry Van Guilder

How many of these white trash mutants actually come from the area? Or are they just rent-a-racists? Not saying there aren't genuine white trash racists in Knoxville but most of these folks are professional losers, and many come from the Midwest. The main moron arrested last month was from the St. Louis area.

It was a flop.

Maybe 60 racists showed up, with about an equal number of counter protesters. the counter-pros came and went, though, and authorities are estimating that their numbers were far higher than that.

They have a nazi presidential candidate. He was described to me as "Porky Pig in a black fedora."

Next time they come, can we have a battle of the bands with all the local high school bands? What better to fight the klan with than a bunch of kids playing music together?

Like human trash polluting our streets, most of them were out-of-towners bussed in or recruited by the guy who has decided to spend his life making sure the poor murdered kids never rest in peace. I had to drive by Greystone on my way home today. I gave them a thumbs down, but traffic was slow and their ugly voices screaming vile hatred really made me almost physically ill. They do have the right to say how they feel, but I don't want them anywhere near me. Hopefully their brand of disgustion is so passe they won't get many recruits.

I spent the morning on the East side interviewing people at a minority health meeting sponsored by a bunch of black men working their butts off to help people. The contrast between the effort these two groups were making today really drove home the difference between the two. The white group was pure evil. The black group was busy trying to help neighbors learn more about minority health issues.

Let's take up a collection and have all the racists dyed purple so we can spot them from a distance. Its a shame people like this are still walking around spewing their hatred. Did I say walking? I meant to say "knuckle dragging!" They say man sprang from the apes...looks like these folks didn't spring quite far enough! Looks like its going to be a long hot summer for Knoxville. The trial doesn't start until fall.

When we spawned Jeffrey Dahlmer, the whote comunity never had to feel shame and guilt because he was white . . .

Yes, but everybody was reminded regularly that he was a member of the gay community.

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I totally forgot to be interested in their whole little protest...well that, and I have a raging sinus infection and am doped to the gills on antihistamines so I can breathe. The Klan is so passe these days, as is their "mess"-age.

Bet you ten bucks if you check the mitochondrial DNA of the average Klansman you would find some VERY interesting family history there.

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"You can't fix stupid..." ~ Ron White"

"I never said I wasn't a brat..." ~ Talidapali

This could be a rumor but it has a few people quite shaken up. I don't know their plan, but I don't think they can just walk in there and start ranting. I can't imagine the city giving them a permit to demonstrate or parade or even gather anywhere near the Kuumba.

but I don't think they can just walk in there and start ranting.

Why not? That sounds pretty much like the idea of "free speech" according to wingnuts and undefinables such as #9.

Doesn't the 1st amendment give the racists a right to picket the Kuumba festival? Restrict that and the war protesters lose their right to picket outside Y-12, n'est ce pas?

Evidently, these freaks don't have mirrors, or acquaintances outside their tiny "movement" who can explain to them the difference between being revolutionaries and just being revolting.

Just for the record, I don't agree with these bigots, but I'm very uncomfortable with the notion that people have to be physically attractive for their voices to be heard.

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I thought you had to have a permit or something? I'm all for rights, even Klan members rights, but to actually get on the grounds, I thought they would need to be part of the festival, to have paid for a table or something. This could be a pretty revolting scene even if they have a legal right to be there. I hope it's just a rumor. So far the only source was an African American woman who writes for some site on the web. I didn't get which one.

Well I don't see them setting up a booth. I imagine they could be restricted to streets outside the fairground.

Thankfully, I haven't had the "honor" of meeting these folks. Perhaps their racism is the result of needing to feel superior to someone somehow. I realize the tats represent an ugliness of spirit as well as body.

But I'm still uncomfortable with the notion of putting someone down because they aren't "beautiful people".

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But I'm still uncomfortable with the notion of putting someone down because they aren't "beautiful people".

Lack of natural beauty is one thing. Severe body mutilation is another. To say nothing about offensive dress. What kind of healthy civilization would do that? In any event, it's not a good "face" to put on a sales pitch to win over hearts and minds. Would you trust people who look like that enough to hire them and have to see them all day long?

You know what the tatoo artist says to the customer who just paid him to be defaced? "Congratulations, now you'll never be hired for more than minimum wage!"

Best name I've heard for a woman's "ass billboard" tatoo: Tramp Stamp.

It was on this day in 1964 that the United States Congress passed the Civil Rights Act after a long battle in the Senate.

From this morning's Writer's Almanac

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When I suggest these people were ugly I wasn't thinking so much about their physical traits as much as their distorted mouths that screamed vile hatred or their eyes that blazed anger or were glazed over by avoidance when they looked at me as I passed.

I have a tattoo because I like tatooes. Not the homemade ones, but the artful ones, even when these cover large parts of the body. I somehow can't wrap my mind around the poking of holes in one's body then clipping metal rings to them, but then it took me decades to even pierce my ears because I considered that mutilation. Body piercing makes me shudder because it represents torture to me and I don't find torture pretty. However I don't mind what other people do in this regard.

As far as things like being clean, fashionable, properly coiffed and cleanly shaved go, these things seem like small things to me. Many scruffy-looking people do not have scruffy minds. The American obession with conformity and ultra-hygenic attitudes toward the body seem quirkly. I've always thought a bit of human smell is a good thing and far preferable to rank perfumes or cherry smelling hairsprays.

The KKK members were ugly to me because of the way their faces and bodies expressed something very ugly inside being manifested.

The KKK members were ugly to me because of the way their faces and bodies expressed something very ugly inside being manifested.

Yes, this I understand.

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