Posted on 09/26/2008 2:47:44 PM PDT by cdchik123
When the University of Mississippi hosts the first presidential debate tonight, the two sides of its troubled racial history could converge.
The Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan plan to be on campus for the face-off between Republican nominee John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, the first African-American nominee of a major party, according to a Friday report in the university’s student newspaper.
University officials haven’t commented. But, since winning the bid as host a year ago, they have used the attention to promote the university’s efforts toward racial reconciliation.
The university newspaper, the Daily Mississippian, first reported earlier this month that the white supremacist group planned to appear among the throngs expected on the Oxford, Miss., campus. The emperor of the White Knights group, whose identity was withheld as a condition of the interview, said his members would be “invisible … Our people won’t be in regalia or demonstrating. So, I guess you’ll just have to guess which of the people present are Klansmen.”
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If they do appear in protest it will not help John McCain. McCain should verbally disassociate himself from them.
Probably a trojan horse sent out by the Obama campaign to make Republicans look bad — like those nooses in workplaces that were hung up by African-Americans.
This is a bunch of bull. There hasn’t been a clan operation in the south in years. Maybe a few wannabes but nobody has actually worn the garb. The ones who do threaten to march always come from up north from some big city. I wouldn’t doubt that this is a leftwing group trying to drum up support for Odumbo.
Hey maybe they are there to support Biden who boast about how his state was a slave state, and is annoyed about Indians running 7/11’s.
Is that Eaker and Humblegunner ?
Ok, I may not like Obama as a candidate and I would definatley not hang out with him.....but the KKK
they are not welcomed!!!!
Sounds kindy fishy but not improbable. I didn’t think the KKK was even organized enough to pull a protest anymore. The MSM will eat this up to show Amerikkka how evil it is, and how we still need “change” and if Obama loses, it shows Amerikkka as racist.
Will they have signs that read “Obama, iron my sheet”?
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