"I don't represent hate", Branson woman apologizes after viral video (she has been fired)

[fleur-de-lisa]

Asha Rangappa @AshaRangappa_

Wow. KKKaren — the woman who was screaming that she was going teach her children to hate black people — now claims she was really chanting Black Lives Matter and that someone handed her a Confederate flag and she took it bc she didn’t know what it was.

Jun 25, 2020

Link to tweet

“I don’t represent hate”, Branson woman apologizes after viral video

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.

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

[Mike 03]

1. Deep down she's a good soul. The camera just

caught her at a bad moment.

[WonderGrunion]

20. I have heard the camera can add 10 pounds of racism

Possibly less in her case.

[Leghorn21]

24. D'OH!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Do stupid things, win stupid prizes.

[FM123]

15. That should be on every trump ad!

[brush]

3. You'd think racists would be aware of the doxxing reach of twitter by now.

But then again, if you're a racist, you're not too smart in the first place and you end up making hard to believe apologies and offering nonsensical reasons for your actions.

[Beakybird]

4. What was her job?

[Maraya1969]

25. I'd like to know too.

[Thunderbeast]

5. Obviously taking a page from her pResident

"Don't believe yer lyin' eyes"

"We are at war with East Asia...We have always been at war with East Asia" (Orwell)

[onecaliberal]

6. That is precisely who they are.

[Wounded Bear]

7. When someone has to tell you "that's not who I am"...

they have probably already demonstrated the opposite.

[Caliman73]

13. They are saying, "Even though I act like that is who I am, That is not how I want you to see me."

I am reminded of a time when my nephew, who was 11 at the time, said, "I'm not racist, but..." My sister (his mom) said, "THEN STOP RIGHT NOW....because the next thing that comes out of your mouth will undoubtedly be racist".

We had a discussion about, "I'm not..., but" statements and race.


The thing is that we are ALL, every single one of us, exposed to racism, bigotry, and hate through explicit or subtle messages in media and culture. We all carry around stereotypes. They help us to simplify the world, but can be toxic. It isn't whether we carry the ideas in our head, because I think that we all do. It is whether we accept the ideas as "true" or "valid" AND especially, if we ACT on them and discriminate and try to hold people down based on those ideas.

This woman clearly knows the language of racism, and she felt comfortable enough to express it knowing that she was being captured on video.

She may feel shame, but I think it it more the shame of being caught than the shame for acting on her internal process. I do hope that this situation will have a lasting effect on her thinking and she learns that allowing racist ideas to influence your thoughts and actions has consequences on everyone.

[Loki Liesmith]

8. Who is this person and why is there a news story about her?

Rando shaming is more about making the shamers feel good about themselves than it is about educating the shame.

[Caliman73]

14. OR... it could start a conversation

For the person who took the video, who was being harassed and verbally assaulted, it is a record. Proof of the attitudes and behaviors. Before the proliferation of video cameras on phones, these regular occurrences could be denied and Black people were told that they were exaggerating or lying.

I agree that for some, the act of shaming brings a pleasure, and that is as far as they take things. For others, it is about confronting the subtle and the naked racism that continues to hurt people.

[Pantagruel]

9. She a nut job

might be psychotic but she appeared to know what she was doing at the time-I watched the video. Then there's this obviously "biased" observation:

"One of the organizers of Branson’s Black Lives Matter protest responded to Kathy’s claims and apology:

“She knew exactly what she was doing. She was there from the start on the counter-protesters’ side shouting obscenities and hateful words at our protesters. I think her claims to not know what the confederate flag is and what it represents are absurd and lies. She proudly shouted “KKK belief” in front of all of us. Her apology does not make sense as she’s trying to state she didn’t realize she was on the opposing side. How do you not realize that if you’re on Dixie Outfitter’s property holding a confederate flag along with the other counter-protesters that are facing us? She never once shouted ‘black lives matter’ along with us. This woman is lying and apologizing because she’s sorry she got caught in her acts of racism.”

[Wawannabe]

10. Oh darn! Caught on camera and knew she was

But now...so,so sorry! Lol!

Scared? Not as much as the people shee claimed to hate and teach her grandkids to hate! Deserves all she is getting and more.

Show the fucking morons over and over but they’ll keep on hating. It’s in their roots and passed on to their grandchildren!

[PA Democrat]

12. Oh my, those devious BLM protesters TRICKED her into screaming racist things

and dancing with a Confederate flag!

And then these idiots are shocked, shocked, I tell you, when they are captured on video and suffer the consequences.

[JHB]

16. Could at least one of these people just say something like...

..."I didn't think that was who I am, but I guess it is or else that I wouldn't have even thought to say that crap. I have stuff to work on there, and I apologize for adding to the great big pile of crap people have to live with."

Racism isn't an on/off switch, lady. You can't just flick it to "off" and think you're done with it.

[BlueIdaho]

17. Hey KKKaren, you can't un-ring a bell.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. What respectable company would hire one who doesn't know Confed battle flag & what it stands for?

Who would want someone so stupid and ignorant?

[JenniferJuniper]

19. Stop being a$$holes, Trumpettes,

There are literally cameras everywhere!

[SWBTATTReg]

21. I hope that she leaves MO. I don't want anything to do w/ her or her likes anywhere in this state.

The state of MO has many many good decent, kind, and warm hearted people, not anything like this POS. She makes me want to puke (by the way, I've lived all over the state, family all over the state, and I've yet to find anything remotely like this POS, thank god).

Figures kind of that she's in Branson, a tourist spot that attracts job seekers from all over. Mo is full of tourist traps (Lake of the Ozarks, Branson, etc., all needing thousands of min. wage workers to run fast food restaurants, shops, etc.).

[Mopar151]

22. If you're a NAZI and you're fired, It's your fault!

If you're a NAZI and you're fired, It's your fault!
You were a racist fuck, now you're just shit out of luck!
If you're a NAZI and you're fired, It's your fault!

[yardwork]

23. Oh FFS. What a coward.

[onetexan]

26. sorry only because she got caught and it's been made public. Plus being fired from her job.

Another case of a severe lack of exposure to diversity and undereducation.