Sunday's protest was organized by Bridge the Gap NWA and also promoted by Ozarks Hate Watch.... Once in Zinc, the group posted pictures of armed men - some in military-style fatigues - standing in front of cars blocking a dirt road to Robb's compound....So did they "bridge the gap"? Are they declaring victory because they were not "run out of town 'with their tails tucked between their legs'"? Isn't that a victory for the locals, who neither hid from the outsiders who marched into their town nor resorted to anything like violence or hostility? But the protesters are boasting about their 2 months of planning and their "tactical advantage" after walking into a town where nothing happened.
There were no reports of any violence during the protest.... On Sunday night, after the protesters left Zinc 'All safe and secure,' Ozark Hate Watch member said that the protest had taken two months to plan amongst different activist groups.
They said that despite claims, 'our plan did not involve setting one foot on Lead Hill Road or making advances toward Tom Robb's property. We kept it close to the chest to give ourselves a tactical advantage for sake of security.'
'What happened in zinc today was history,' Aaron Clarke said in a Facebook Live video. He added that the group was not run out of town 'with their tails tucked between their legs. We went down there and nobody's been down there, nobody's ever protested in that community. ... We literally went and threw a barbecue in the KKK's backyard. We came down there to bridge the gap...what we did was we went into the community that has basically operated by the Ku Klux Klan and we extended our hand. We came down there with food for anybody who wanted food, they were able to get food,' Clarke said.
Is Zinc, Arkansas "the KKK's backyard"? I don't know, but I wanted to get a Google maps "street view" of the place, and it was not available. I could see that the place is very small. Here's the Wikipedia article for the town. Population 103. 37 households. Median household income: $20,036.
The last store closed in Zinc in the late 1960s and the post office closed in 1975. Zinc, in the 21st century, became the headquarters of a chapter of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).... The "Christian Revival Center" near Zinc belongs to a preacher who is also the leader of the Knights of the KKK. The center hosts events connected with the KKK, including in 2013 a "Klan Kamp" called the "Soldiers of the Cross Training Institute" to instill "the tools to become actively involved" in the "struggle for our racial redemption."There are 2 National Historic sites in Zinc: the Zinc Swinging Bridge and the Elliott and Anna Barham House:
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So the rich and privileged came to harass the poor in their hometown, and then virtue-signaled about it. Great.
Imagine the courage it takes for black people to march in Arkansas in 2020!
What does the word "protest" mean in this context? It's really a statement about power, not courage. The protesters aren't afraid of the klan, they are expressing their hatred of the klan through an exercise of power.
Anyway, the goals of #BLM and the KKK aren't that far apart. Both want segregated societies with the government doling out civil rights based on race.
We came
We Saw
We didn't run away
With our tails
Betwixt our legs
Inspirational
If all the non-FBI KKK members in the US went to Zinc, it would increase the population by about 25%.
WFCs? Seriously.
What are there 10 members of the KKK in a PoDunk town in Nowhere, Arkansas ?
Great protest dude!
Is this the 2020 version of counting coup?
I get that having people sit with guns and watch you walk through isn't the most welcoming behavior, but I wonder if the people from Zinc went to the cities that the protesters come form and just walked through, would they be able to do so unmolested?
I find it hard to believe that Zinc is more racist than Milwaukee. I'm told all the time that Milwaukee is racist racist racist.
So BLM (the current military wing of the Democratics) marched into a town allegedly controlled by the KKK (the former military wing of the Democratics) and nothing much happened?
Cool, I guess.
"BLM finds field scarecrow; beats & removes stuffed straw; declares victory"
I'm pretty sure those evil white hicks are growing opioid plants.
It’s amazing how the Democrats are able to keep the KKK, a bogeyman of the past that they created, alive today. BLM is now tilting at windmills like Don Quixote.
But the uniforms are getting better. More militant. The photos out of London this weekend are scary. All decked out in black uniforms, a violation of the The Public Order Act 1936, which prohibits by law paramilitary and political uniforms.
Population 103. 37 households.
That's probably the actual number of actual racist white supremos in the USA. a very small number.
I hope the left stomp them out with their loving Orwellian "hate watch" - cuz I can't sleep at night with all them racists crowding our nation.
We need a pack of toddler leftists to ruin Portland's municipal courthouse and the MSM to cover it up. because there might be some real KKK'ers in a small town in AK.
Why would they go to Zinc when the KKK is in every town and village in the country. Granted it was a brave move to go to Zinc and the weeks and weeks of planning paid off in tasty BBQ and platters of smugness.
Zinc as a town sounds like the perfect metaphor for the KKK in general.
A literal metaphor.
'What happened in zinc today was history,'
Much like the Chinese Cultural Revolution's shameless abuse of citizens' rights was history. It's easy to see that the media view these locals as knuckle-draggers with no right to live, much less to be left alone. This cannot end well.
Parts of Arkansas are very nice. Hell, I'd live there if I had to.
So in America's most racist town, the demonstrators showed up with this attitude:
"You're out here in your little neck of the woods where you think you don't have to see the people that you hate."
And no one assaulted them? No one hurled racist abuse at them? Surely the article didn't leave that out. It's good to know that's how tolerant America's most racist town is. And this, roughly, is the clash of worldviews involved:
"We ain't never done nothing to them."
"We know that hatred is here and we still don't tolerate it."
There are a lot of assholes in the world. I'm for leaving them alone unless and until they make it impossible to leave them alone any longer. But the left's opponents do so by existing.
Population 103. 37 households. Median household income: $20,036.
If this is truly the epicenter of all white supremicism in the United States it hardly seems much to worry about. As has been said over and over again around here and elsewhere, the population of true old school white racists is this country is fairly negligible. If you were to take all the white supremicists (excluding undercover FBI agents of course) in the United States and put them in one place I doubt they'd even fill up an indoor sports arena.
If Kamala Harris becomes Vice President, then she will get the KKK out of the Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
I wonder how often, if ever, journalists quote blacks who speak in ebonics in the manner they quoted this man with his ain't, 'ems, and double negative.
Modern humor: Minneapolis Police Tell Citizens It's Now Somalia & Prepare To Get Killed
Big Lefty news. Oh yeah! Attack white suprecism at its source, a poverty stricken town of 103 residents. Oh those lefties and their mediaswine, blind to irony among so many other things.
Bunker Biden should hold his next rally here. These people have it too good!
" "BLM protesters troop through 'America's most racist town':"
A few days ago "America's most racist town" was Harrison, Ark., according to googling that phrase. A white guy went there and held a "black lives matter" sign and nothing happened to him.
"Most looked like they were on their way to or from shopping, driving typical trucks, SUVs and compact cars, launching salvos of venom."
His video is funny. Note how the weather changes, IOW, it took a while.
Examples of salvos of venom from the video:
"All lives matter you racist motherfucker!" I agree, so I guess I'm a racist KKK hick.
"Are you a Marxist?" Good question.
Far too little was written about what specific barbeque was provided.
If it was ribs I can easily imagine all joining together to share and debate the best dry rubs.
The MSM's anti-white racist propaganda was getting old a long time ago, and it makes me wonder what would happen if one or more "white ppl" went to some BLACK neighborhoods in Detroit or Chicago, etc and marched down the street holding up "White [or All] Lives Matter" signs. I guess we'll never know, for some mysterious reason.
In case anyone is wondering, here are pictures of the Zinc Swinging Bridge. No, Big Mike would not care to walk on it. Least of all since bridgehunter.com lists its current status as "collapsed."
If you want to see racial supremacy, it is much easy to watch Byeonce's "Black is King on Disney+ than travel all the way to Zinc, Arkansas.
If any honkie really wants to see racism in action try exiting the Dan Ryan due to a traffic jam and taking Halsted Street through South Chicago.
Maybe next year they can ring his doorbell and run away.
"Xenophobes" in action:
"They continue to bring in these foreign outsiders without any regards on how it would impact the lives of the communities.
These foreigners are preying[sic] on local community members to lease their farms, homes, travel trailers, and churches to them for shelter."
Kenny Devore sums it up best.
Brought to mind this famous quote:
“I Think That This Situation Absolutely Requires A Really Futile And Stupid Gesture Be Done On Somebody’s Part.”
If one actually follows Althouse's link to the Daily Mail article, pictures #1 and #18 clearly show that one of the armed locals blocking the road to Thomas Robb's house is black. Very black.
Based on past experience and on reading about left-wing protestors, I will assume that the BLM people did not clean up after their barbeque.
Minneapolis Police Tell Citizens It's Now Somalia & Prepare To Get Killed
The Minneapolis police actually did say to obey the criminals:
"MPD has issued a series of tips for residents to limit their risk of robbery:
...
Do not argue or fight with the criminal Do as they say."
(I think they meant to say "alleged criminal"...)
First Zinc. Next Cadmium and Mercury. However, I think Copernicium may be a bridge too far.
If they really wanted to protest against racism, pick any country that's not the U.S.
Between affirmative action, set-asides, test-taking preferences, and the MSM pounding the message of 'white folks are evil' 24/7, this is the least racist country on the planet.
These folks need to get out more...
About 30 years ago, the KKK head in California lived in Oceanside and was named Tom Metzger. He was a Democrat candidate for Congress about then. Didn't win.
Here he is.
By 1968 Metzger had moved to Fallbrook, California, and he supported Democrat-turned-independent George C. Wallace for President.[5] Metzger stopped paying taxes in the 1970s, and by 1972 his tax protest over the Vietnam War had destroyed his thriving television business but introduced him to other tax protesters who, he said, were "atheist racists, Christian Identity racists, Nazis, all kinds of people."[5]
Ku Klux Klan
During the 1970s, Metzger joined the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which was led by David Duke, and eventually became the Grand Dragon for the State of California.[6] In the summer of 1979, he organized a patrol, the Klan Border Watch,[7] to capture illegal Mexican immigrants south of Fallbrook, California.[7] Metzger's Klan organization also had a security force which was involved in confrontations with Communists and anti-Klan protesters.[8][9]
Metzger's branch of the Klan split with Duke's organization in 1980 to form the California Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.[10] Also in 1979, he took Greg Withrow of the White Student Union "under his wing", which later became the Aryan Youth Movement (AYM), for youth associated with White Aryan Resistance.[11]
In 1985, Metzger attended a Nation of Islam rally in San Diego, led by Louis Farrakhan.[12] During the rally, he compared America to a "rotting carcass" and praised Farrakhan for "understanding" that Jews are "living off the carcass" and called them "parasites."[13]
Kind of an equal opportunity bigot.
A swinging bridge in KKK land just has a bad connotation.
Google Earth shows maybe 30-40 buildings in the Greater Zinc Metropolitan Area, perhaps more than half being sheds or barns. Street view doesnt even come close to Zinc, the nearest view over 5 miles away.
I'm wondering how many of the residents are first cousins.
Those delegates from the Biden campaign were sizing up Mrs. Robb for the VP nomination. Their success bodes well for her.
Well are we not brave.....?
The spokespeople sound pretty defensive. Whatever they had in mind, it was a failure that they they are trying to spin as a victory. You're probably closer to the truth--they showed up, they walked around, they left. Tourists, basically.
Native Arkansan here. Zinc is a dead town, essentially, and has been for a while. But the rural Ozarks between Fayetteville and Harrison have long been a stronghold for white-supremacist types. (not my stomping ground though... I grew up in the delta close to Memphis.)
I'm surprised that the reporter didn't engage in some snarky comment about the number of teeth possessed by the 103 residents of Zinc. But hey if it takes several months of planning to "invade" a dying town of 103 people, then these spirited warriors for social justice may be able to defeat racism by say the year 2737.
More racist than Boston? Ha.
More racist than every upper-middle-class suburb where homeowners fight tooth and nail to keep out affordable housing that might "bring more kids (i.e., poor ones who are Black or brown) into the schools"?
Which is the biggest barrier to cause of social justice today? An Arkansas hamlet that time forgot or thousands of communities and millions of righteous, self-styled elites who want to pull up the ladder to prevent lower class families from trying to improve their children's lives?
Racism is over now. Yay! Now MSNBC can go away.
For these, people, not getting their asses kicked is a win.
My favorite picture in the article is the thick legged person with a cervix marching while armed. Her weapon is dangling aimlessly while she marches and checks her phone. The locals look like they are ready to shoot, the person with a cervix looks like she (not to assume anything) is ready to get shot.
If Black lives matter, shouldn't BLM go where they are actually dying. In 2020 so far, Chicago has had twice as many shootings as L.A. and New York combined - overwhelming Black folks. Maybe they should plan a visit. Instead they go where no Blacks are dying and maybe none even live. You might get the idea that black lives don't matter much at all to them.
Most racist on a per capita basis, not in absolute terms. It is a town of 101 people.
It would be great if we could manage to ostracize and contain all racists as well as we have with white supremacist. That would be real progress, and give us peace. Somebody doesn't want that, and they really really don't want it.
What would happen if every white supremacist in America suddenly disappeared tomorrow?
A: Nothing.
Based on the photos, black and browns are under represented in the BLM protest group.Looks like white leftists have once again pushed blacks and browns out of their own space.Maybe these the racist Portland Moms? Sure looks like them.The need to cancel themselves for being overly white - thus clearly racist.
Female British pub owner during WWII: "I don't have ANY problems with the Americans coming in here. They buy a drink quick, good with the girls."
Announcer: ""You don't have ANY problems?"
Female British pub owner: "Well, they could've brought nicer white ones with them."
Amazing how well-behaved the antifa scum were in Zinc. It probably had nothing at all to do with the fact that the locals were armed and not about to put up with the sort of shit these assholes get up to in places like Portland.
So, sure, they didn't flee "with their tails between their legs" if that's how they want to see it. They also didn't cause any trouble under the watchful eyes of the armed residents.
There's a lesson here for those willing to learn it.
Two months to organize that event.
How long would it take them to organize a two-car funeral?
Morons. But I console myself with the thought that they are parodies of themselves.
Female British pub owner: "Well, they could've brought nicer white ones with them."
I doubt it.
No results found for "Well, they could've brought nicer white ones with them".
We literally went and threw a barbecue in the KKK's backyard.
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em!
'our plan did not involve setting one foot on Lead Hill Road or making advances toward Tom Robb's property.
As that would likely have been fatal.
I lived in Slidell, Louisiana for 10 happy years. Slidell is about as far South as you can get without a set of flippers and a snorkel. I never saw any evidence of the Ku Klux Klan. On the contrary, people got along with each other just fine. My kids had black friends who often stayed at our house. They often stayed at their friends houses. People going about their business exchanged all the courtesies of everyday life - opening doors waving each other ahead in traffic, saying Merry Christmas. You know, like neighbors.
As Glenn Reynolds likes to say, the demand for racism far exceeds the supply. That's why you have to go all the way to Zinc, Arkansas to pretend to find it.
"A few days ago "America's most racist town" was Harrison, Ark., according to googling that phrase."
The linked article mentions that right at the beginning: "The protest comes just four days after a viral video labeled nearby Harrison, Arkansas, as being 'America's Most Racist Town' and the 'Ku Klux Klan's headquarters.'"
It's 15 miles away.... but you can picture the road lined with crowds ugly racist guys with guns.
I'm sure Zinc AR is pretty isolated. It will be interesting to see if the town starts getting COVID19 in a week. Perhaps this was a biological attack on the KKK homeland.
"It's 15 miles away.... but you can picture the road lined with crowds ugly racist guys with guns."
Can the cute racist guys line the road? or do they get left out?
Some, Select Black Lives Matter, Democrats' KKK Posterity, a Pro-Choice sect of the Progressive Church, a corporate member of the diversity racket, spreads social (viral) contagion, while beating strawclowns to intimidate, suppress, and establish their credentials. This is reminiscent of the trans/homos, following normalization of political congruence ("="), coming to SLC in order to decry the votes of Black, Hispanic, and Catholic Democrats in California. #BabyLivesMatter
Fernandinande said...
Female British pub owner: "Well, they could've brought nicer white ones with them."
I doubt it.
No results found for "Well, they could've brought nicer white ones with them".
It's amazing how often it happens: I can be here for over a decade, but - whenever a racist finds it convenient - my reputation for integrity will be tossed aside, and I accused of lying, because some idiot asshole either A) can't do a competent Google search, or B) is too stupid to just ask where-the-fuck I got it from.
Bill R said...
"As Glenn Reynolds likes to say,..."
Glenn Reynolds says a lot of things you guys don't think too hard about, like “'BELIEVE IN SCIENCE' EXCEPT WHEN IT CONTRADICTS THE NARRATIVE" as he pushes quackery out the door.
I knew it would come back to bite him - and tried to warn him - but, being another asshole with a chip on his shoulder, he can't be corrected by the likes of me.
BTW - I DID make a song for you yokels to enjoy under the GARAGE playlist, and still expect some love, whether you're a bunch of racists or not.
WASH MY FEET.
Some locals proudly posted about this. It seems they drove out to some racist guy's house in the middle of nowhere to protest his racism. Okay.
Maybe the Tea Partiers can find some Marxist out in the country to picket. Bold!
Northern Arkansas is the destination of choice for the few who find that Mississippi is trending too liberal for their tastes.
I have friends in Mountain Home.
It looks like the nearest city is Branson, MO. What is the point of going out to this remote exile? The protesters are from the area where I live, two hours away.
Our barbeque is good. If the KKK people didn't eat it, they missed out. Then again, it would have been in somebody's car for two hours getting out there, so there would have to be a lot of trust about food handling.
The Crack Emcee said:
Female British pub owner during WWII: "I don't have ANY problems with the Americans coming in here. They buy a drink quick, good with the girls."
Announcer: ""You don't have ANY problems?"
Female British pub owner: "Well, they could've brought nicer white ones with them."
You’re wrong. According to the link you posted a bit later, Hitchens quotes the pub owner saying:
“Well, I’m not sure I care for some of the White ones they brought over with them.”
Apologies forthcoming?
"Female British pub owner: "Well, they could've brought nicer white ones with them."
If the BBC is anything to go by you're probably correct. All of the current British shows that take place in the '40s and '50s are filled with interracial couples. That and gay people. They must have been so much woker then...
John Oliver teaches white Americans their own history.
because some idiot asshole either A) can't do a competent Google search
You posted a fake quote and got caught lying.
B) is too stupid to just ask where-the-fuck I got it from.
Why should I ask you? Your feeble attempt at a link wasn't to a "female British pub owner" saying anything, it's to Hitchens saying something else (@Laurel), and I'm certainly not going to listen to 23 minutes of "whatever" just to verify that you're lying.
So the most racists towns in America don't get any Blacks killed, but the Democrat ones do by the thousands. It sound like Democrats are more of a problem in Black America than racism, or white racists who might be one of the least likely causes of death for a Black person in America. Just facts and logic that everyone can ignore so they can pose as concerned and helping. You are faking it, people.
"Don't stop for strangers who are trying to approach you or stop your car"
There you have itL The Minneapolis City Council says "run over any protesters who try to stop you."
Last night, after three months of planning,I paraded back and forth behind my privacy fence. Today I declare victory having ended racism for all time.
"I can be here for over a decade, but - whenever a racist finds it convenient - my reputation for integrity will be tossed aside, and I accused of lying, because some idiot asshole either A) can't do a competent Google search, or B) is too stupid to just ask where-the-fuck I got it from.can't be corrected by the likes of me.
BTW - I DID make a song for you yokels to enjoy under the GARAGE playlist, and still expect some love, whether you're a bunch of racists or not." [Crackemcee]
I don't know about your integrity; I think it's your charm.
So, let's see if I have this right :
"Black Lives Matters" protesters visit majority black neighborhoods, , and loot, burn, destroy, and kill people.
"Black Lives Matters" protesters visit"home of the KK", and are polite, peaceful, and non-destructive
I take it from this that "Black Lives Matters" protesters hate actual "black", I mean "Black" people
The Crack Emcee said...
Bill R said...
"As Glenn Reynolds likes to say,..."
Glenn Reynolds says a lot of things you guys don't think too hard about, like “'BELIEVE IN SCIENCE' EXCEPT WHEN IT CONTRADICTS THE NARRATIVE" as he pushes quackery out the door.
1: Only a moron says "believe in science" non-ironically
I believe in the scientific method as the best way to answer a large number of questions. Anything other than that is just being a religious fruitcake
2: Multiple actually scientific studies have shown that HCG + Zinc significantly helps WuhanFlu patients given it early in the treatment cycle. But some "scientists" believe that "orange man must be bad" trumps actual science
Which is sad, but not unexpected
THE TWO HAVE SWITCHED PLACES
WHEN DO THEY MARCH ON ROBERT BYRDS HOME STATE?
Fernandinande said...
"You posted a fake quote and got caught lying."
Hey, Dipshit, I'm the one who pointed you to it - I quoted from memory and any fool can see that, the difference being practically meaningless.
You guys are assholes.
Not only are you assholes but, as John Oliver pointed out, I think it's permanent.
Just down the road a piece from Coon Hollow.
I could live like a king in retirement there.
The Crack Emcee said...
my reputation for integrity
You misspelled racism.
I love how people use these WORDS that are meaningless. For example the Ozarks are a STRONGHOLD of the KKK and white nationalists. What's a STRONGHOLD? 40 people and a some pickups?
Look, when you have to go to an obscure 100 person town in Arkansas to find "the seat of the KKK" that just means THERE IS NO KKK. But people desperately WANT to believe there are Frat Boys in Hawaiian Shirts & sunglasses setting fire to 16 y/o girls, or the KKK is a POWERFUL FORCE, or people are hanging nooses in NASCAR garages. And at the same time, the DO NOT want to believe Antifa is violent or injuring people in Portland or that the Communist Party is alive and well, and hating America. Nope, don't want to hear that. Instead, its fairly tales about Neo-nazis and Boogaloo racists.
Liberals believe in Science.
Conservatives understand Science.
That's the difference.
I see some posts by Crack. Has he called someone a racist yet?
"Female British pub owner: "Well, they could've brought nicer white ones with them."
Yes, black Americans were able to behave themselves back when the KKK had power, except for a few, such as Louis Till. Now that the KKK is broken, what keeps blacks from committing rampant criminal violence, in Britain, America, or anywhere? As far as I can tell, nothing.
"Gregory and Rachel Howell were caught on camera yelling “white lives matter” and giving a Nazi salute in Torrance, California, last month."
I used to buy Conan The Barbarian comic books in Torrence as a kid. I can see that traveling there is still like entering another world.
A world where "white lives" are naturally associated with Naziism in their own heads.
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