Ku Klux Klan to rally in Memphis in protest at park's name change

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Ku Klux Klan to rally in Memphis in protest at park's name change

Memphis city council voted to re-label park named for Nathan
Bedford Forrest Park, Confederate general and former Klansman

Adam Gabbatt in New York
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 20 March 2013 16.56 GMT

Members of a branch of the Ku Klux Klan planning a protest in Memphis, Tennessee, this month, after the city's council voted to strip the name of a former Klan member from a public park.

The Loyal White Knights of the KKK called for the demonstration after the city council voted to rename the Nathan Bedford Forrest park in Memphis. Forrest was a lieutenant general in the Confederate army and an early KKK member.

At a 1998 rally by Klansmen in Memphis, police fired teargas at angry anti-KKK protesters. But the event on 30 March could yet be thwarted, after the city council voted on Tuesday to ban protesters from wearing masks and costumes during demonstrations.

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[Sheepshank]

1. Y-e-a-h...a KKK rally isn't the same without the masks

How many of them are actually willing to divulge their identity?

[Fawke Em]

2. I live in Tennessee and every time the KKK says they're going

to protest something, they end up facing more counter-protestors than there are of them.

[Hoyt]

3. Poor baby racists.

[bluedigger]

4. Have they been to Memphis lately?

I would advise them against it.

[geek tragedy]

5. Way to prove the point of those seeking the ban, racist knuckleheads.

Having a triple-digit IQ is usually a disqualifier for joining the KKK.