Trump to Accept GOP Nomination on 'Ax Handle Saturday'

[RandySF]

President Trump will accept the Republican presidential nomination on August 27 in Jacksonville, Florida, the 60th anniversary of “Ax Handle Saturday,” the Washington Post reports.

That’s when a mob of 200 white people in the city — organized by the Ku Klux Klan and joined by some of the city’s police officers — chased and beat peaceful civil rights protesters (with ax handles and baseball bats) who were trying to integrate downtown lunch counters.

A permit had already been approved for civil rights activists for the 60th anniversary commemoration of those events.


https://politicalwire.com/2020/06/11/trump-to-accept-gop-nomination-on-ax-handle-saturday/

[katmondoo]

1. My God!! how low can this horrible creature go?

[CrispyQ]

3. There is no bottom. -nt

[dawg day]

2. The problem is-- in the south--

It's difficult to find a day that is not associated with some racist atrocity.

Trump's really working to bulls-eye the racist echoes, of course.

[Mike 03]

4. When is he going to hold an event in Mississippi at the boarded-up store

where Emmett Till whistled at a white woman?

[soothsayer]

5. Convention ends on aug 27

The very day!

[kentuck]

6. Lester Maddux, the old racist, used to sell axe handles in Underground Atlanta.

He had a shop there in the 1970's.

[bullwinkle428]

7. Morning kick, after hearing about this just a little bit ago.

Another fascist wet dream.