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White Supremacists Distribute Fliers in Michigan

By TChris, Section Civil Liberties
Posted on Sun Apr 10, 2005 at 09:11:02 PM EST
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An auction of Ku Klux Klan memorabilia, scheduled to take place today in Mason, Michigan, was cancelled after white supermacists distributed KKK recruitment fliers throughout the town.

David Feintuck, owner of the Mason center, said he decided to cancel the auction as soon as he became aware of the fliers. "We don't want to be associated with whatever scum comes into the community," Feintuck said. "Auctioning history and condoning present-day Klan activities is not the same thing, and we don't want the auction used for Klan promotion."

Auctioneer Gary Gray, saying he doesn't want to be "a pawn for the Klan," isn't sure what he'll do with the Klan artifacts. Here's an idea: burn them.

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    White Supremacists Distribute Fliers in Michigan | 13 comments (13 topical)
    Re: White Supremacists Distribute Fliers in Michig (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Apr 10, 2005 at 09:53:55 PM EST
    Yeah but that's only effective if you burn them in the front yard of David Duke.

    Re: White Supremacists Distribute Fliers in Michig (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Apr 10, 2005 at 10:07:30 PM EST
    Maybe Senator Byrd should take them.

    Re: White Supremacists Distribute Fliers in Michig (none / 0) (#3)
    by Darryl Pearce on Sun Apr 10, 2005 at 10:15:24 PM EST
    James Robertson doesn't believe anybody can learn anything. Has James Roberston ever learned from a mistake? Anyhoo... better to "donate" said items to a museum so that we never forget, be reminded of our mistakes, and learn never to do such things again.

    Re: White Supremacists Distribute Fliers in Michig (none / 0) (#4)
    by Sailor on Sun Apr 10, 2005 at 10:19:35 PM EST
    Burning them is wrong. We shouldn't deny the future of the evidence of our triumphs or our failures.

    Re: White Supremacists Distribute Fliers in Michig (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Apr 10, 2005 at 10:37:54 PM EST
    Sure I think people can learn from their mistakes. From all the available evidence, there's no sign that Byrd ever has. Or Sharpton either, for that matter

    Re: White Supremacists Distribute Fliers in Michig (none / 0) (#6)
    by roger on Mon Apr 11, 2005 at 07:34:49 AM EST
    These relics should be preserved in a museum. Otherwise, we will end up with the kind of people who argue that the holocaust never happened, but we will have nothing tangible to refute them with.

    Re: White Supremacists Distribute Fliers in Michig (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Apr 11, 2005 at 08:45:31 AM EST
    Theres always legitimate historical and even collector reasons, I think, as perverse as that sounds, for various objects that come from less than decent origins. Destroying them doesn't really do much, I think.

    Re: White Supremacists Distribute Fliers in Michig (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Apr 11, 2005 at 09:17:50 AM EST
    If this group is really concerned about a public auction and these things winding up in the hands of actual white supremacists, then they should do a private auction and limit invitations to certain respected museams. Or else they should donate them, I know we would take them at our historical society here (WI has one of the larges in the country). We have an extensive archive here of writings and records from citizen "activist" groups from the KKK to ACT UP.

    Re: White Supremacists Distribute Fliers in Michig (none / 0) (#9)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Apr 11, 2005 at 09:24:50 AM EST
    they weren't white supremacist, they were members of the local republican party.

    Re: White Supremacists Distribute Fliers in Michig (none / 0) (#10)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Apr 11, 2005 at 10:04:26 AM EST
    Posted by James Robertson at April 10, 2005 11:07 PM Maybe Senator Byrd should take them. He'd probably have to stand in line. Senators Lott, Imhofe, and Coburn, and Hayley Barbour (among thousands of other card-carrying Republic klansmen) would all want higher dibs, and be more entitled to keep symbols of their current prejudice, than someone who has been publicly repudiating his Klan membership for the last fifty years. But you just keep on propagating that Republic faith-based factualizing, Mr. Robertson. It gives the rest of us a good perspective on how far your kind have divorced themselves from reality.

    Re: White Supremacists Distribute Fliers in Michig (none / 0) (#11)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Apr 11, 2005 at 01:41:50 PM EST
    Tom, iirc, none of the people you mentioned were Grand Kleagles (unlike Byrd). Nice try though.

    Re: White Supremacists Distribute Fliers in Michig (none / 0) (#12)
    by Dadler on Mon Apr 11, 2005 at 02:01:02 PM EST
    put them in the american museum of racist history, whenever it opens. put them on display somewhere. brushing them under the rug just gives some nutcase in the future the reason to say something has been "hidden".

    Re: White Supremacists Distribute Fliers in Michig (none / 0) (#13)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Apr 11, 2005 at 04:05:40 PM EST
    al sharpton was in the klan?

    White Supremacists Distribute Fliers in Michigan | 13 comments (13 topical)