From the GTFO files: "I don't represent hate", Branson woman apologizes after viral video

[demmiblue]

SPRINGFIELD, Mo.– From an undisclosed location, Kathy Jenkins called the KOLR10 newsroom. Her mission: To make a public apology for the “ugly” things she said in a now-viral video.

The video, which surfaced on Monday, isn’t long. It only runs about 35 seconds. In it, Jenkins sits and later stands on the bed of a pickup truck while holding and dancing with a Confederate flag.

“I will teach my grandkids to hate you all,” she says to someone off camera. She later raises her fist and declares “KKK belief.”

Since the video surfaced, Kathy says she’s been locked out of Facebook and fired from her job (a punishment she says she deserved). She says she’s been the target of a few threats and she says even her friends are being threatened.

When she called KOLR10 and Ozarks First, she wouldn’t even say where she was calling from; only specifying that she has left Branson, her home of six years.

All of this, a response to what she describes as a misunderstood portion of her day caught on video.

“I was chanting Black Lives Matter… and that’s not even on video,” she told KOLR10 reporter David Chasanov on Wednesday. “It’s like I blacked out. I don’t even remember

Jenkins says she was in the area as a spectator. She adds she was only there in the parking lot of Dixie Outfitters to observe the nearby Black Lives Matter protest.

“I’ve never been to one,” she told Chasanov. “I just wanted to see what the rally was all about.”

She says she watched from the other side of the street and was later handed a Confederate flag. She told KOLR10 she assumed it was a symbol of unity. She says she then sat in the bed of a truck belonging to someone she didn’t know.

https://www.ozarksfirst.com/local-news/i-dont-represent-hate-branson-woman-apologizes-after-viral-video/

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[dawg day]

1. Well, if she wants to say that this was a psychotic break, okay

These people do seem profoundly unhinged from sanity, maybe only periodically, which to me indicates "nasty meanness" rather than "mental illness."

It's like Mel Gibson claiming the one time he gets arrested saying anti-semitic things..."I don't know what came over me! I'm not anti-semitic! It was because I was drunk...."

And Winona Ryder comes out and says that Gibson said filthy anti-semitic things to her while perfectly sober.

They want us to think the hater in them is not really part of them.

[Caliman73]

24. It can be both.

Interestingly enough, I have a relative diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. When asymptomatic (most of the time now), the nicest person in the world, just a great person.

We began to be able to predict an episode based on how they would joke, then things would turn to some of the most paranoid, racist language you can imagine.

Similar to alcohol, I think that the psychotic process dis-inhibits a person and interferes with the social moderation functions in the pre-frontal cortex. The thing that keeps us from uttering "that woman is FAT" like we may have as a child. We all walk around with stereotypes and racist ideas that are all around us.

If it is in you and comes out when you are drunk, then it is in you when you are sober. You just happen to be able to keep from saying it out loud in moments where you will be observed.

[dawg day]

28. dementia also seems to break down those inhibitions--

Both my uncles, in the early part of their dementia, started making racist comments, which they'd never done before. It was especially excruciating because most caretakers in our are are African-American. The patience they showed... truly inspirational. One said she knew that as people get older, the bad lessons they learned in childhood reappear... "But not the good lessons!"

And of course, Fox News exacerbates the "permission" to be racist again. I cannot imagine how the workers there take any pride in their apparent corporate mission, "We take senile people and make them hate until the end of their lives, at which point they will be lonely and unloved and helped only by people who have to ignore their hatefulness."

[Caliman73]

33. True.

Depending on where the damage is. Anything in the prefrontal cortex is going to disinhibt, and create changes in decision-making ability and social monitoring.

What we tell people who are caring for elders going through Alzheimers is that the deterioration goes backwards. Since the pre-frontal cortex develops last, it seems to deteriorate first, then the cortex, the midbrain, and so forth.

Right wing media is horrible. Either the staff at Fox are true believers, or they are so interested in money, that they don't mind selling off their integrity.

[Fullduplexxx]

2. Im sorry sooooo sorry ...... that i got exposed

[TristanIsolde]

3. Those are the most unbelievable excuses I have ever seen in print

[Nevilledog]

20. That didn't originate from the White House.

[yardwork]

25. Thread win.

[Happy Hoosier]

4. She learned her lying skills from Trump.

GTFO with that weak sauce bullshit.

[gratuitous]

5. You showed us who you are

We're not going to listen to what you tell us.

[Cracklin Charlie]

6. Girl, please.

That is the most ridiculous “apology” I’ve ever seen. That video is shameful.

I hope you took your racist ass out of my state. But, you probably didn’t. Good riddance!

[Jamastiene]

7. Hate was several degrees ago.

She represents something so spiteful that hate is not a strong enough word for it.

[MontanaMama]

8. Liar McLiarson.

Ridiculous.

[Johnny2X2X]

9. She's lying

There's no way she didn't know the truck owner and there's no way she thinks the Confederate flag is a symbol of unity.

She was laughing and smirking at the outrageous things she was saying, she deserves all of this.

Now I try to look for a way to give people the benefit of the doubt, there is no room for that here. I have seen some of these videos where people are heated and someone says something they don't necessarily believe just to try to be hurtful to the other party, that's bad enough, but this wasn't that, this woman got caught claiming she teaches hate and supports the KKK, I believe that to be the case.

[brooklynite]

10. Never understood why people feel the need to rant publicly...

I think long and hard about anything I post to social media.

[Laelth]

11. Yeah, right. I'm not buying what she's selling. n/t

-Laelth

[Arkansas Granny]

12. "It's like I blacked out. I don't even remember" Oh puh-leeze.

I saw lots of coverage of BLM protests, but I don't think I saw a single protester or supporter waving a Confederate flag.

[forgotmylogin]

13. More like she "whited-out" honestly.

“When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”

― Maya Angelou

[haele]

14. Bless her heart, poor baby.

"It was like I blacked out..."
Someone slip a roofie in your Bud Lite and make you say all those nasty things? Or maybe you gust got carried away being with all those "very fine people" across the road from the Black Lives Matter protesters that you just got all turned around and got recorded saying things you didn't really mean just because all those people next to you were also saying them? Ooohhh, you has a sad because you got caught up in the mob moment?

My momma always said, "If you said it without thinking, it was what you were thinking.". So sorry, but sometimes it's not just easier to apologise after you do whatever the hell felt good at the moment.
Dumass.

Haele

[Tipperary]

15. She looks drunk, but I have no doubt that is exactly who she is.

An ugly soul. What bothered me the most was seeing the kids in the background with confederate flags around them. I know people here think this assholery will die out with “old white men,” but I am not optimistic about that, sadly.

[demmiblue]

16. Yeah, she does seem under the influence...

which often brings out one's true nature.

I also felt heavy-hearted seeing those children.

[Celerity]

17. they are itching for a shooting war nt

[wcmagumba]

18. That town and area is a hotbed of racism and ignorance...

This woman absolutely had to know what she was saying and deserves all the backlash she gets...

I lived there (unfortunately) for several years (due to family commitments) and have seen it all. In spite of having numerous minority and lgbtq residents (many work in the entertainment businesses) the place was a start for the original "tea party" and anti-choice activists. They would hold good sized rallies in local parking lots and all along the main street. The "Dixie Outfitters" store (next door to a survivalist/prepper/gun store) has a duplicate General Lee car which they proudly drove around town for years.

The local College of the Ozarks is a super right wing 4 year "college" that has hosted right wing pols (Sarah Sanders is the latest) for years and spouted all of the nonsense they love (probably more right wing than Liberty U, if possible). Scumbag con man Jim Baker has his end times den (still hawking condos and cabins for your end times needs) and tv broadcasting station in nearby Blue Eye, MO. Harrison, AR, about thirty miles away has been a regional/district headquarters for the KKK with an office in town square, run by a local lawyer's family (this may be closed now but was there for years). Sooo glad I no longer live there...

By the way, Branson itself has had numerous (barely reported) murders, rapes and robberies in hotels and even in some of the shopping areas. Large supply of meth comes through the area,the nearby national forests are great for "pop up" manufacturers and dealers. Tons of homeless people live in and around Branson hoping to take advantage of the tourists who naively still believe this is a "family friendly" area. These were my views from actually being in that area.


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[demmiblue]

19. Whoa, it is draining to even read about that area...

much less imagine what it would be like to live there!

Thanks for your personal account, wcmagumba. I am glad you were able to move on to greener pastures!

[Nevilledog]

21. If it's not her nature, she was supporting BLM, and doesn't know what a confederate flag is.....

why did she "deserve" to be fired?


I'm tired of stupid people.

[mercuryblues]

22. Sure lady

You are surrounded by at least 5 people with the traitor flag, plus 2 on the truck. Your hat says MAGA. the guy that you claim you don't know is wearing an obnoxious t-shirt. You were also quite comfortable sitting, then dancing, cigarettes and lighter to your left on the bed of the truck.

[maxrandb]

23. Why is that police officer standing the wrong way?

Oh wait... nevermind.

[VOX]

26. Pretty sure the Road to Damascus doesn't run through Branson.

This woman hasn’t been through some kind of conversion; she’s doing a CYA fandango. As usual, objective reality plays no part in her “explanation.” The video is utterly damning.

Bet losing FB privileges hurt the worst.

[LuckyCharms]

27. WOW! DOES ANYONE KNOW IF SHE'S SINGLE?

[demigoddess]

29. yeah, right. If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you.

[Solly Mack]

30. I was sleep walking after being abducted by aliens.

That's when Colonel Confederate swooped in and wrapped me in a confederate flag.

I was programmed by the aliens to say those things.

It's a deep space conspiracy by little green men to make people like me look bad.

Later, Colonel Confederate took me home and we held a purely religious cross burning to ward off little green men. Then we waved a confederate flag, drank some beer, and howled at the moon.

Colonel Confederate said aliens are the cause of all our problems. Don't you just love Colonel Confederate's corn silk hair?


There, fixed her story. Now it sounds more plausible.

[Codeine]

31. Wow. She is literally the worst liar ever.

At least make it sound believable, lady. God damn.

[jcgoldie]

32. Hmmm so lets establish this chain of events...

1.) Attend protest and chant "Black Lives Matter"
2.) Mysteriously "like black out".
3.) Don confederate flag like a cape (which you think is a symbol of unity) and yell "KKK Belief" and "I will teach my grandkids to hate you."

Uhmm... seems legit!