There are, and have been, far too many “accidents”.
A guy in line at a convenience store tries to chat with a cop about how to join the department. The cop beats his ass and tries to arrest him.
Allegedly, I should say. There is video, but it has not been made public.
This sounds like another roided up douchebag with s badge and a gun. Why have your belt on while wearing t-shirt and shorts.
So a black guy wanted to buy a Michigan cop’s house…until he found out said cop belonged to the KKK.
Sweep it under the rug, and in time, just act like it never happened. Yup.
Nitpick: There’s no evidence that the cop belongs to the KKK. What the man found in the house was a framed KKK application form from the 1920s.
I stand corrected.
Wait, what? Texas? Texas?
Is a 1920s style KKK application the sort of artifact that should be saved? I honestly don’t know.
While it might belong in a museum, it is not the sort of thing most people would display in their home.
I have a bunch of medical memorabilia; old pharmacy advertisements for cocaine, scripts for cannabis containing nostrums, prohibition alcohol prescriptions, old condoms, etc. They are interesting collectibles.
Then there are people who collect KKK krap, old time advertisements featuring grinning black kids, etc. Those collectibles are owned by people with an agenda.
If that’s all they collect, then yeah, probably. I don’t personally have any Klan stuff, but that’s only because I haven’t run across any. I do have some Nazi relics, though. They sit near my clown college memorabilia and my one Cabbage Patch Kid.
I like to hold the Nazi button in my hand and imagine the guy who first received it. Imagine the world he lived in. It’s like having a looking glass into an alien civilization.
I’d do the same with a KKK piece. I can’t conceive of that mindset, even though I’ve known people much like them.
It’s not so much the collecting but the displaying.
As a historian, I believe that stuff like this needs to be preserved, not just for academic purposes, but as a tangible reminder of how things used to be, and of how things have changed. The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia is a good example of how to display and contextualize a collection like of this sort of stuff.
But there’s a difference between collecting stuff like this and putting it in a frame in your bedroom. That smacks of a particular set of priorities, to me anyway.
Cops in Royal Oak Michigan stop and question a black man for looking at a white woman.
Last night a guard at an ICE prison in Rhode Island drove his truck into a group of protesters. Fortunately no one was seriously injured.
^ Unfortunately the jerk wasn’t arrested. Nor were his pepper-spraying friends. I wonder why?
That’s the kind of shit that needs a Louis Armstrong “What A Wonderful World” soundtrack.
Here is the full video of the Bailey shooting:
