“WHAT A KKK RALLY LOOKS LIKE IN 2015” …. In South Carolina!!
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Several dozen people affiliated with the Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a North Carolina-based chapter of the larger national KKK, rallied outside the South Carolina state capitol in Columbia on Saturday in protest of the state government’s decision to take down the Confederate battle flag, which had flown outside the location since the 1960s.
Chapter Great Titan James Spears told Politico that the KKK was rallying against “the Confederate flag being took down for all the wrong reasons” and to defend “white culture.” But to others present, it seemed like the point of the rally was to goad and antagonize the state just weeks after white supremacist gunman Dylann Storm Roof massacred nine African-American members of Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17.
Here are some shots from the day’s ugly events, which appeared to try the limits of many…
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