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Photo of Black Cop Helping Man With Racist T-Shirt at KKK Rally Goes Viral
Toronto Star ^ | Tue Jul 21 2015 | Seanna Adcox

Posted on 07/21/2015 4:50:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The South Carolina public safety official says he hopes “this photo will be a catalyst for people to work to overcome some of the hatred and violence we have seen in our country in recent weeks.”

The black director of South Carolina’s public safety agency said Monday he was surprised a photo showing him helping a white man wearing a racist T-shirt went viral. But now that it has, he is hoping it will be a catalyst for people to work toward overcoming hatred and violence.

Leroy Smith said in a statement that the photo, taken at a Ku Klux Klan rally, captured “who we are in South Carolina” and represents what law enforcement is all about: helping people “regardless of the person’s skin colour, nationality or beliefs.”

“I consider myself like every other officer who was out there braving the heat on Saturday to preserve and protect,” he said..

(Excerpt) Read more at thestar.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: kkk; police; southcarolina
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

That is the most depressing photo I’ve seen in a long time.


41 posted on 07/21/2015 6:25:02 PM PDT by NRx (An unrepentant champion of the old order and determined foe of damnable Whiggery in all its forms.)
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To: tophat9000

FRiend I’d frame that post if I could.


42 posted on 07/21/2015 6:26:33 PM PDT by NRx (An unrepentant champion of the old order and determined foe of damnable Whiggery in all its forms.)
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To: nickcarraway; LucyT
No mention in the headline about the New Black Panthers holding a rally at the same location.

New Black Panther Party foments hatred of whites, Jews, America

Obama marched with New Black Panthers


43 posted on 07/21/2015 6:39:42 PM PDT by Brown Deer (Pray for 0bama. Psalm 109:8)
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To: tophat9000

I agree with your golden rule tests.

I agree with your KKK and NAACP comments.

I know what you mean about average guy, but the average guy in some groups is not an average guy. Too many born out of wedlock and taught to blame all their failures on others, may leave their average guy far below average overall.

We can address the causes of this, and realize some races have been ravaged by people who meant well (or not).

It’s an interesting topic.


44 posted on 07/21/2015 6:49:18 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

Thanks for sharing this photo. It has a haunting quality about it.


45 posted on 07/21/2015 7:07:40 PM PDT by FR_addict (Boehner needs to go!)
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To: DoughtyOne
Too many born out of wedlock and taught to blame all their failures on others, may leave their average guy far below average overall.

But that the point... once you buy it to it and reaction either way you just validate the crap

Golden rule.... if you had someone telling you crap..then someone else just playing it straight with you is what you need

look I lost and arm at 14 to cancer and in a single mother family..we we were not rich....and I had people wanting me to be mad at the world...it will eat you up.

you need to have people that do not kiss your ass for no reason or kick your ass for no reason...but people that call you.when your head up you ass even with a reason

just play it straight....its the other guy problem if they cant accept that your indifferent to the race either way..

46 posted on 07/21/2015 7:46:15 PM PDT by tophat9000 (SCOTUS=Newspeak)
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To: nickcarraway; 2A Patriot; 2nd amendment mama; 4everontheRight; 77Jimmy; A Strict Constructionist; ..
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47 posted on 07/21/2015 7:46:49 PM PDT by upchuck (There is no coexisting with those who want to destroy us from within.)
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To: bramps

don’t have much time to search for interesting stories on the Internet.

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Here’s a good source:

http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html


48 posted on 07/21/2015 7:56:59 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

There is NO greater crime on earth than taking a wonderful,perfect little child and polluting his or her mind with hatred.
All that he or she might have been, they have already been robbed of.
“and Jesus wept” comes to mind.


49 posted on 07/21/2015 7:58:20 PM PDT by MS.BEHAVIN (Women who behave rarely make history)
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To: nickcarraway

Best “stop and think” post in months.

Thanks.


50 posted on 07/21/2015 8:51:37 PM PDT by Crystal Palace East ("We Must All Hang Together, or Assuredly We Will All Hang Separately" B. Franklin)
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To: tophat9000

When I talk about this, I’m trying to address the problem of advancement. So while I recognize the problem for what it is, I’m not against giving people chances on an individual basis. I’ve got nothing against Blacks. Come to me with a good attitude, and qualifications, and I’m willing to give it a go.

No, blaming life or others just doesn’t cut it. Generally speaking, no matter how bad we have it, there are people out there that could make us ashamed of ourselves, with their relative loses compared to our own.

I’m sure you learned that along the way. Good for you.

This many years later it’s probably unnecessary for me to say, but I’m sorry for your loss. I can only imagine how tough that must have been on you at that stage in your life.

You overcame. What an achievement.


51 posted on 07/21/2015 9:11:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Conservatism: Now home to liars too. And we'll support them. Yea... GOPe)
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To: Osage Orange

They aren’t ignorant—they’re stupid.

Almost all who join divisive groups are stupid. KKK members to NAACP and Black Panther members.

There is nothing but divisiveness and divided people that can come from any of those groups.

That poor child in the photo doesn’t know hate, he walked up to the officer dressed whilst dressed in that clown costume because of stupid parents, he’s innocent and ignorant. The same evil is dished out and spoon-fed to the black children about white people.

Until we come together as a country and tell all the group makers and dividers to pee up a rope— we’re doomed. Having illegals pour in and not require they assimilate and declare loyalty is further splitting us up and dividing us.

This culture bunk needs to stop. We’re Americans, brothers and sisters and these political hacks and race hustlers of every stripe need to be run out on a rail. They will be our undoing and our masters if we don’t stop them.


52 posted on 07/21/2015 9:21:05 PM PDT by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: FewsOrange; nickcarraway; bramps; NRx
Probably not, racists are fairly set in their ways.

I didn't know my father had racist feelings until years after he had passed away. Although Dad was born in the rural community of Green Station, Alabama in 1923, he had never used the “N” word nor any harsh or disparaging language at any time that I was aware of. My sister told me at least 20 years later that he had drawn the line with her when she wanted to attend a popular classmate's party on “the other side of town.”

One day in 1969, Dad started feeling bad and the plant doctor told him his symptoms indicated he was having a heart attack. The doctor sent him to the hospital. When he actually went into fibrillation, the head cardiac nurse, Mrs. Perry, was on duty. She happened to be very refined Black lady from a prominent family in the area that included the local police captain and an educator that a new school was later was named after. She immediately used the paddles to defibrillate him. The next day Mrs. Perry apologized for burning him with the paddles. My Dad was truly humbled and marveled about the fact that this woman could save his life, yet could apologize for doing something so trivial in comparison. My dad was always a Godly and reverent believer but I know that his weak heart was opened up a little more by Mrs. Perry that day. People can be changed by one simple act.

53 posted on 07/21/2015 9:25:10 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: Graybeard58

thanks


54 posted on 07/21/2015 10:23:15 PM PDT by bramps (Wake me up when we find a candidate to take on the scourge that is Islam.)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

That tears my heart — what happened to that little kid, I wonder


55 posted on 07/22/2015 12:56:52 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: higgmeister
My sister told me at least 20 years later that he had drawn the line with her when she wanted to attend a popular classmate's party on “the other side of town.”

Consider the possibility that it wasn't racism, but legitimate fatherly concern that (even then) “the other side of town” was not a safe place for a naive teenage girl.

I once looked up an old FBI Uniform Crime Report from the 1950's. The black homicide rate back then was many times the white rate. It's not a new phenomenon.

56 posted on 07/22/2015 3:35:02 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625
I attempted not to say it here, but his words to her made it clear that it wasn't just fear of crime.

In spite of that, I am so proud that Dad didn't ever teach me racial hatred.

57 posted on 07/22/2015 12:43:35 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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