{"id":36,"date":"2010-12-22T15:32:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T19:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=36"},"modified":"2011-06-28T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T19:33:10","slug":"rewriting-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bmbs.org\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Rewriting history"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because the business community wouldn\u2019t stand for [racial violence]. \u2026 You heard of the Citizens Councils? Up north they think it was like the KKK. Where I come from it was an organization of town leaders. In Yazoo City they passed a resolution that said anybody who started a chapter of the Klan would get their ass run out of town. If you had a job, you\u2019d lose it. If you had a store, they\u2019d see nobody shopped there. We didn\u2019t have a problem with the Klan in Yazoo City. \u2026 I just don\u2019t remember it as being that bad.<\/p>\n

\n

– Haley Barbour,
\nGOP leader, arguing difference between
\nwhite supremacist Councils and KKK, which
\nwas also in Yazoo City<\/p>\n

Wasn\u2019t a problem for him.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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