9 KKK members show up for a rally and 600 protestors show up to greet them!

[MLAA]

Love it!


http://time.com/5596103/kkk-rally-dayton-ohio/

[Maeve]

1. Which shows you just how brave those little sheets are

Talk loud on-line, but not show their faces IRL

[MLAA]

3. Little Sheets! Good name!

[Blue_true]

28. The most dangerous ones will never show up to rallies like yesterday.

They live and hate in silence and when they strike, people die.

The loudmouths are easier to deal with because they can be monitored.

[FM123]

2. Math! Gotta love it....

[lunasun]

4. Hate speech always costs taxpayers $$$,$$$ remember that

Dayton City Manager Shelley Dickstein told the Dayton Daily News that the KKK rally cost the city about $650,000 in personnel and materials

[Boomerproud]

6. God knows Dayton can't afford that kind of $$$.

Why are municipalities protecting these creeps under the guise of keeping order?

[Historic NY]

12. Maybe they should start billing them if their protest is less than ten people....

at about 65000 a person.

[Hoyt]

5. Tens of million racists sat home watching FOX and applauding the Racist-in-Chief's tweets.

[gratuitous]

7. "Keep your hatin' out of Dayton"

So much creativity spent on opposing these knuckleheads. Well, klansmen, if you really want to start a race war be sure you know what the ratio is going to be.

[MLAA]

10. Higher math (like higher level thinking skills) seems to elude them.

[Volaris]

8. Yes just LOOK at how 'victimized' they all are...

How awful that those damned libruls took away their free speech rights heh, ohhh the repression...

Lol what dopes. Wtf did they expect?

[MLAA]

9. Yeah those poor little white snowflake sheets!

[MagickMuffin]

11. So . . . . No photographers with zoom lenses to shoot KKK members???

I mean come on, where are the pics of the kkk members.I'm sure the robes and hood were pressed for the occasion.

[lunatica]

13. Well so much for Trumps scary army of supporters!

This is exactly what I thought.

[leftyladyfrommo]

14. I read that it cost the city $650,000. nt

[True Blue American]

15. Only one

Had their face exposed. The rest wore masks.

The Church of God from little old Greenville showed up to sing Amazing Grace. They should have played this.

[MLAA]

17. I loved President Obama even before I found out we were cousins

We share the same 12th or 13th great grandfather both on our Mothers’ side who was a British sea captain who came to Massachusetts in the 1700s (if I remember correctly from my research).

So glad you posted this clip. The authenticity, the compassion, the decency, the humility....what a wonderful human.

[True Blue American]

20. You can be proud

Of that cousin and his whole family.

I think, at times we did not appreciate him as much as we should have, after Bush but did not really understand how low we could sink.

Next step, Supreme Court for your cousin, maybe, even his wife.

[MLAA]

21. OMG I hadn't thought of SCOTUS! That would be amazing!

[True Blue American]

22. I heard someone

Mention it and thought what a great choice that would be!

Biden could nominate him.

[MLAA]

23. Works for me!

[Blue_true]

30. Hate to ruin your day.

But you may be cousins with Dick "Doctor death" Cheney and Sarah Palin. Both of them are Obama cousins from his Mom's side.

You are free to sprint to the toilet to throw up.

[MLAA]

31. OMG NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Blue_true]

33. Yep. But look at the bright side. At least President Obama is a cousin,

and if you dig deep enough, you May have a King in your ancestry line.

[IcyPeas]

16. 9 showed up, but many are in agreement

that's just my assumption.

Some of them don't want to be public about it.

[ProudLib72]

18. At what point does a city say "No, we won't pay to protect your hate speech?"

Serious question. $650K so that nine idiots could have their intolerance protected. It seems to me that the dumbasses should have to pony up the funds. If they can only scrounge $10K, so be it. They get one mounted police officer for protection.

[lunasun]

19. Let the 9 stand on a corner with a megaphone and protect their own asses

Why not oh yeah they need protection because they are broadcasting hate

I like your idea of contracting police protection at a cost but not sure if it is legal for police or a city to do that everywhere

[Mopar151]

27. Vt Gov. Tom Salmon did it to the Klan, in the early '70s

A bunch from Ct, had taken to lighting crosses in a rented field in Western VT. After the 2nd one needed the State Police, the Gov. issued a short statement: We are a small state, with very limited resources. We can no longer take our police away from protecting Vermonters. (IIRC, by )

By turns a fierce lawyer, dissolute womanizer, beloved local figure, and the Gov. Vt, needed then! Plus a nice encore as UVM Interim Pres., after the dismissal of an ineffectual one. Asked what his plans were, "I ain't climbin no f'n ladders!" Seems the ex-Pres, climbing a ladder to shoo students out of his office, set a poor tone. "Uncle Tom" solved stuff like that in 15 min. and who's going for beer?

[Hortensis]

24. Frequently happens, also avoiding completely.

A KKK nest had been holding an annual parade in our deep south Georgia town for a while when we first moved here. A local in a club I'd just joined, who hadn't said anything but hi to me yet, went out of her way to let me know that people would be avoiding downtown the next morning because of the parade. Within another couple of years the KKKers gave up and left to join a group in a neighboring county, where they also all apparently did poorly. Don't know what happened to them.

Hate groups are around, of course, but even these days acting is is fairly rare. They're not welcome.

[MarvinGardens]

26. The racists chickened out in Stone Mountain, and the counterprotesters showed up in force anyway.

This is from February:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rightwing-rally-fizzles-in-georgia-kkk-burned-in-effigy_n_5c5678c7e4b09293b204c473

[Initech]

25. There are dozens of us! Dozens!!!

[MLAA]

29. There are several of us, I tell you, several!😬

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

32. Great