Stephenville is close to Dallas and I hate Dallas. My how far we haven't come. Enjoy, Nate, enjoy Diz, these are your people.

STEPHENVILLE, Texas (AP) - Two dozen Ku Klux Klan members held a downtown rally Saturday in this usually quiet dairy community to show support for college students who threw a party that was criticized for being racist.


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News Video Three people were arrested after a scuffle broke out with counter-protesters near the end of the 90-minute rally, but no other violence was reported. The event drew about 500 bystanders who booed and held anti-hate signs.


The group chose the small town for the rally in response to a controversy two months ago at a local college. Tarleton State students held an off-campus party on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and ate fried chicken, drank malt liquor from bottles wrapped in brown paper bags and dressed as Aunt Jemima and other black stereotypes.


The school later chastised them and held a student forum to discuss race relations and a unity rally. At least one student shown in party photos posted on the Internet later apologized.


Last month, the San Angelo area-based Klan members distributed literature around town. During the rally, one Klan member said Tarleton State was a good school but had a "spineless administration" for how it handled that situation.


"We felt like those kids were railroaded ... and we felt like that was handled totally wrong by the college and by the people of Stephenville also," Roger Davidson, the Klan's grand dragon of Texas, said after the rally. "We stand behind anybody's freedom of speech."

Please don't (spitty)


The Traditional Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, who wore black T-shirts or suits and not the white robes and hoods traditionally associated with the group, were separated from onlookers by two fences and dozens of law enforcement officers. Klan members also voiced opposition to illegal immigration during the rally.


Faye Landham of Arlington said she was appalled when she heard the Klan still existed, much less was holding a rally. She said she went to downtown Stephenville, about 100 miles southwest of Dallas, to counter some of the Klan's messages.


"I think they're evil people," said Landham. "They go around saying they're Christians and flying the Christian flag. I certainly don't think Jesus would approve."


After about two dozen people attended a peace rally at a city park Saturday, many of them went downtown to counter the Klan's rally.


"When I found out about the Klan event, I thought, `Are we in the right century?' Everyone has freedom of speech, but Stephenville has been portrayed in a pretty negative light, and I wanted to take a stand to say that's not who we are," said peace rally co-organizer Jennifer Gelski.


It was third such rally in the state by a Klan group in less than a year.


In June, about 25 members of the Empire Knights of Texas rallied in Midland to protest illegal immigration, drawing a crowd of onlookers and counter-protesters of about 500. In August, about 20 Empire Knights members marched in Amarillo, also protesting illegal immigration, while some 600 to 800 bystanders and counter-protesters gathered nearby.
(Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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Damm, if they don't sound like the ACLU, defending peoples freedom of expression.

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Spitty
I find your post offensive. I have never supported the klan and have repeatedly stated in this forum that I sincerely believe that the Klan should be shut down. I have run into a few Klansmen in my life and have found all of them to be scared little people unworthy of even acknowledging their existance.

Please stop trying to link me with the Klan, you have no reason or right to do so

Ok, you said please.

reason= your name, nathan. It is kind of inflammatory.

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That is only because you have wasted your time and not actually researched the man as I have. I will not defend my name, if you are too ignorant to do the research there is nothing I can do. Live and revel in your ignorance.

Yes, I agree.
The big problem is that the Klan will grow larger soon because nothing is being done about immigration and the more people get fed up with the lack of goverment, and the more the Klan makes sense, the more people will support them. ( even if not in public)

Why can't those students have a party like that ? How many white kids do we see with pants hanging off their ass, shoes with no shoelaces and lots of gold ? If we are to control white kids acting like blacks ( wether in jest or being serious) then should it not be across the board ?

I just don't like the double standard.

Shhhh ! Don't tell anybody but I had fried chicken last night . None of that white bread KFC col Sanders crap either , pan fried baby !

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Actually "Ethnic themed parties" are common on college campuses, yes even in liberal Austin, TX. I recall attending a "Playaz Ball" broke out the fly-guy gear, you couldn't get in unless you had two dates. Let me say that it was a multi-racial party, all had fun. I took a Korean doll and a Columbian chica. (I gotta soft spot for Asian women).

Ok, sounds good.
On the other hand... aren't you defending your name by responding so angrily to my post? If you truly didn't care what others thought you would have ignored me.

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Should they whisper false of you,
Never trouble to deny;
Should the words they say be true,
Weep and storm and swear they lie.
-Dorothy Parker

The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.
-Patton