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In reply to the discussion: Tenn. official ‘threatened’ blacks with skin ‘trophy’ he saved from 1896 lynching [View all]exboyfil
(18,359 posts)11. I lived in in Cookevile in this county for five years.
Nice town but you did not have to drive too far to get into this attitude (even in town "Godly" Christian men joking about running down blacks for points - I will never forget it). Friends who had a mixed race child moved to Monterey and had issues. An African American mother and her young daughter (friends of ours - her husband is a doctor) were harassed in a small town near Cookeville and warned away from a Klan meeting that was going on at the time.
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Tenn. official ‘threatened’ blacks with skin ‘trophy’ he saved from 1896 lynching [View all]
Judi Lynn
Feb 2014
OP
It's like someone turned over a rock.......and some really creepy, slimy things crawled out!!!!!
LongTomH
Feb 2014
#5
If the medical reports state CPR was done, fire that deputy fire chief & any other personal involved
Sunlei
Feb 2014
#14
part of the problem is when Dems are in power, they ignore the real sins of the right
yurbud
Feb 2014
#41
It was NOT a mistake. And his crime is being 'whitewashed' in the truest sense of the word. n/t
freshwest
Mar 2014
#48
I agree!! This is of the most disgusting stories I have read on DU in a while.
Behind the Aegis
Mar 2014
#49