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Must note that #US has never called or asked #Saudi ruling #Klan to end politically motivated executions or help the dictatorship modernize its courts to ensure the minimum standards of legal fairness. US sold #Saudi trillions in arms & help improve its security @jakejsullivan
#US has so far refused to sanction a single #Saudi official involved in human rights crimes such as @pss_en @MhmdAlissa & others. #American policy has been clear & consisting for decades, support the ruling Klan & ignore its crimes. @WHNSC #Ukraine
#UK PM @BorisJohnson will meet mass executioner #MBS next week in spite of this massacre. This is the real #UK policy where #Arab victims of #UK -backed regimes are not seen or considered #bigotry
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By early 1966, the work of Vernon Dahmer was well known in south #Mississippi. A light-skinned Black man, he was a farmer, grocery store owner, and two-time president of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP. He & Medgar Evers founded a youth NAACP chapter in Hattiesburg,
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and for years after Evers’s assassination Dahmer was the chief advocate for voting rights in a county where Black registration was shamelessly suppressed.This put Dahmer in the crosshairs of the White Knights, w headquarters in nearby Laurel. Already known as one of the most 2/
violent sects of the #KKK in the South, the group carried out his murder in a raid that burned down his home & store. A yr. before, #TomLandrum, a young, unassuming member of a family w deep #Mississippi roots,joined the Klan to become an FBI informant. He penetrated the White 3/
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An elderly white Protestant woman from rural northern Indiana described her time in the Ku Klux Klan movement of the 1920s w remarkable nonchalance, as "just a celebration...A way of growing up" WomenOfTheKlan - #Racism & Gender in the 1920s by KathleenMBlee #BlackLivesMatter 1/ Image
The Klan fit easily into her daily life, as it did for many white Protestants in Indiana. At most, it was an exceptional chapter in an otherwise ordinary life. Even in hindsight, (continuing from WomenOfTheKlan - #Racism & Gender InThe 1920s by KathleenMBlee) #BlackLivesMatter 2/ ImageImage
she showed little remorse over the devastation left in the wake of the Klan's crusade against Catholics, Jews, immigrants & blacks (my edit: Black people). What she remembered - with pride, not regret - was the social & cultural life of the Klan; (Continues #WomenOfTheKlan...) 3/ ImageImage
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@slowtotruth Its #1stAmendment right 2wear what they want in #America, b #Ready 4reply2 #Public speech #WildWest #HighNoon style. Guy streaming Is Wrong u can b an #American & wear #Naziflag c During #WW2 #Bund=#Nazi symps ala #Trumps Daddy=#Klan @NYPD & #MAGA Traitors m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…
@slowtotruth @NYPD 2/5 #1stAmendment #PublicSqare Speech #WildWest #HighNoon style. See #Trumps Daddy=#Klan 1000 beatup of 100 mainly irish @NYPD & stopped Catholic AlSmith from being @Potus 1927 .This #NightRiding is why #AntiFa arose c #Receipts c google.com/amp/s/www.wash… & politifact.com/factchecks/201…
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ALERT: Neo-Nazi Organizing “Salute to President Trump” Rally, September 14 in #Dahlonega, #Georgia

Chester Doles, a longtime neo-Nazi & “fourth-generation” Klansman, is organizing rally in downtown Dahlonega, GA 9/14
atlantaantifa.org/2019/08/16/ale…

#LumpkinCounty #racism #noklan #gapol
Despite the #Dahlonega rally being organized by a notorious neo-Nazi with a history of violence, the national director of Bikers for Trump - Dale Herndon - has pledged his support.

#BikersforTrump #NeoNazi #klan #Georgia
Looks like the local #LumpkinCounty #GOP also give a nod and a wink to the Nazi-organized event.

Care to comment @ga9_gop @GaRepublicans?
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