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At a May 6 barbecue, organizers served up a T-bone steak, baked potato and all the fixings for just $10. Overhead flapped a Confederate flag that bore white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan markings.
A Klan banner smack in the middle of a northern Michigan, small-town cookout sponsored by the Rapid City Businessmen's Association caused a stir among some who attended. The flag also focused unwanted attention on this spot-on-the-map about 20 miles northeast of Traverse City.
"When we drove into the parking lot and got out of the car, I was shocked and disgusted and wanted to get back in the car," said Dick Ault, of Alden, who said he stayed because a group of friends had gathered there. "Some thought it was a Confederate flag, which was bad enough, but then we saw it was a KKK flag."
The flag included a cross inside a circle, accompanied by the phrases "white power" and "Ku Klux Klan," but its message didn't bother everyone who attended.
"I didn't care one way or another about the flag being up. It's not a big deal," said Tom Tucker, of Rapid City, a cookout volunteer. "Should it have been up? No. I stood the pole up myself. Whoever put the flag up, I don't know, but I put the pole up. If anybody is going to holler at anyone, it should be me."
A tattered American flag arrived with the pole and they couldn't fly that, Tucker said, so someone retrieved another flag to run up the line.
Someone just happened to have a KKK flag in their car and they happened to fly it and no one else happened to say, "Hey that's a KKK flag! We shouldn't be flying that! WTF?!" I love the complete disinterest everyone seems to have in it, no biggie, whatcha gettin' all worked up about? Christ on a fucking cross, what is wrong with these people?
At a May 6 barbecue, organizers served up a T-bone steak, baked potato and all the fixings for just $10. Overhead flapped a Confederate flag that bore white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan markings.
A Klan banner smack in the middle of a northern Michigan, small-town cookout sponsored by the Rapid City Businessmen's Association caused a stir among some who attended. The flag also focused unwanted attention on this spot-on-the-map about 20 miles northeast of Traverse City.
"When we drove into the parking lot and got out of the car, I was shocked and disgusted and wanted to get back in the car," said Dick Ault, of Alden, who said he stayed because a group of friends had gathered there. "Some thought it was a Confederate flag, which was bad enough, but then we saw it was a KKK flag."
The flag included a cross inside a circle, accompanied by the phrases "white power" and "Ku Klux Klan," but its message didn't bother everyone who attended.
"I didn't care one way or another about the flag being up. It's not a big deal," said Tom Tucker, of Rapid City, a cookout volunteer. "Should it have been up? No. I stood the pole up myself. Whoever put the flag up, I don't know, but I put the pole up. If anybody is going to holler at anyone, it should be me."
A tattered American flag arrived with the pole and they couldn't fly that, Tucker said, so someone retrieved another flag to run up the line.
Someone just happened to have a KKK flag in their car and they happened to fly it and no one else happened to say, "Hey that's a KKK flag! We shouldn't be flying that! WTF?!" I love the complete disinterest everyone seems to have in it, no biggie, whatcha gettin' all worked up about? Christ on a fucking cross, what is wrong with these people?
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Date: 2007-05-15 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-05-15 12:29 pm (UTC)Seeing as it happened up here in my neck of the woods? And with the SPEED that the story was driven under the radar? I can safely say you hit the nail on the head.
" The event was neither a Klan rally, nor a recruiting effort and nobody there belongs to the KKK, they said. "
Then why the fuck did they have a KKK flag in their car?