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Grex > Agora46 > #150: How dare the NAACP tell me who I can or cannot endorse | |
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gull
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response 50 of 57:
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Aug 21 13:28 UTC 2003 |
I found that hilarious when I was out there. My friend, who has lived
in the area all his life, had never seen the humor until then.
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mcnally
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response 51 of 57:
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Aug 23 07:08 UTC 2003 |
Hmmm.. I decided, while driving across the country this year, that the
prize in the hotly-contested convenience-store division of this year's
"What the hell were they thinking when they named that?" contest should
go to South Dakota's "Kum-and-Go" stores, edging out last year's winner,
Minnesota's "Pump-n-Munch" chain..
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tod
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response 52 of 57:
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Aug 23 13:16 UTC 2003 |
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gull
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response 53 of 57:
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Aug 24 02:33 UTC 2003 |
Re #51: I found that pretty funny, too. They're in Iowa as well.
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flem
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response 54 of 57:
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Aug 26 18:42 UTC 2003 |
Haha. I want to own a Pump-n-Munch someday. I'd put it right next to Jody
Moroni's Sausage Kingdom. :)
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polygon
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response 55 of 57:
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Sep 10 16:51 UTC 2003 |
Re 41 and others about the KKK: The name Ku Klux Klan has been used in
three separate waves, with no organizational continuity.
The original post-Civil-War KKK started as a social organization of
ex-Confederate soldiers, evolved into a para-military one, and was crushed
by federal troops.
In 1915, the movie "Birth of a Nation" romanticized the original KKK and
tremendously exaggerated its role in ending Reconstruction. As a direct
result of the movie, a "new" KKK was organized, and it had millions of
members all over the country, not just in the South, reaching a kind of
peak in 1924. The sculptor of Mount Rushmore was a member. Though
certainly racist, it was much less violent than the earlier and later
incarnations. The founders swindled the membership out of reportedly
millions of dollars. It died out by the 1930s.
In the 1950s and 1960s, another new, secretive, and violent KKK was
established, in response to the civil rights movement. However, there
were and are numerous schisms and competing organizations each of which
claim to be the "real" KKK.
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remmers
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response 56 of 57:
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Sep 10 20:03 UTC 2003 |
According to my father, who lived and worked in Indiana during the
1920s, the second KKK incarnation controlled Indiana politics for
a number of years.
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gull
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response 57 of 57:
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Sep 11 02:45 UTC 2003 |
The book _Them: Adventures With Extremists_ talks a bit about the current
political disagreements between different KKK groups.
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