The “New South”
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tgirsch
This is just lovely:
Inside the store, hooded Klan robes hang on the same rack as the racist T-shirts. Pictures of men, women and children in Klan clothing and pamphlets tell a partial history of the organization.
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“If anything turns people off, they shouldn’t come in here. It’s not a thing in here that’s against the law,” Howard said, adding that he was once the KKK’s grand dragon for South Carolina and North Carolina.
That a store like that can make enough money to stay in business belies the whole “post-racism society” crap. The market, apparently, likes racism, at least in that part of the country. Makes you proud to be an American, doesn’t it?
