For two days, the couple and the nearly dozen others waved the flags while aboard pickup trucks and targeted their slurs and threats at black families in counties outside Atlanta.
In Douglasville, the couple, among others, reportedly yelled racial slurs at the birthday party’s attendees as they drove by. Torres also threatened to kill the people at the party with a shotgun Norton had loaded and retrieved from his truck, the district attorney’s office said in a statement on Facebook.
Grandpa told them stories about lynching the uppity ones. This garbage is passed down in the family.
I grew up in rural PA. I left because (among other similar issues) the community was A-ok with a small engine repair shop having the proprietor’s full name on the big sign out front. His name was Kermit K. Kistler. His parents named him that, and he was proud enough to display it for all to see.
the proprietor’s full name on the big sign out front. His name was Kermit K. Kistler.
That’s a very intentional choice. Most small businesses in small towns get named “[lastname]'s [type of business]” and I can’t think of any small businesses around me the specify the first name of who it is, even when its a family with lots of entrepreneurs and you see that family name on like 4 different businesses in town. Like your family name is a source of reputation in these small towns so when you’re starting out it’s better to use just the family name because everyone knows a [lastname] and sure the business is actually owned by their cousin but at least you know someone related to it so you know they’ll do good work
Its a dogwhistle. That’s what racists do is they’ll have some dogwhistle to signal to other racists that they’re also in the in group. In this case it’s intentionally listing out the owners full name so they can see his name initializes to K.K.K. (which i pointed out in another comment that most businesses in small towns don’t specify a first name, it’s just “lastname’s type of business” so in this case “Kistlers Engine Repair” since you don’t know if it’ll be Kermit or Emmit or Kermit’s grandson John Kistler serving you but you at least know it’ll be a Kistler running the place)
I think it’s more like, if you knew your initials were a dog-whistle, you would probably keep that on the d/l or change your name. Instead, putting it on display is like saying that fact is not a deal-breaker for you or your business.
Video of the flag convoy https://youtu.be/lu1GjHAiHZg
From https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/georgia-couple-gets-prison-time-racist-threats-childs-birthday-party
This happened 10 years ago, and they were sentenced 8 years ago.
I really dislike how twitter screenshots never have date stamps in them. Makes things look recent when posted.
Shits wild tho. Fuck those people.
Same, and we only know because someone kindly posted a source. Lots don’t even have that.
For fucks sake
WTF is wrong with these racist assholes?!
Grandpa told them stories about lynching the uppity ones. This garbage is passed down in the family.
I grew up in rural PA. I left because (among other similar issues) the community was A-ok with a small engine repair shop having the proprietor’s full name on the big sign out front. His name was Kermit K. Kistler. His parents named him that, and he was proud enough to display it for all to see.
That’s a very intentional choice. Most small businesses in small towns get named “[lastname]'s [type of business]” and I can’t think of any small businesses around me the specify the first name of who it is, even when its a family with lots of entrepreneurs and you see that family name on like 4 different businesses in town. Like your family name is a source of reputation in these small towns so when you’re starting out it’s better to use just the family name because everyone knows a [lastname] and sure the business is actually owned by their cousin but at least you know someone related to it so you know they’ll do good work
I mean, I get that the initials are KKK, and maybe even the parents did it intentionally… But should he not be allowed to have his name on his shop?
Its a dogwhistle. That’s what racists do is they’ll have some dogwhistle to signal to other racists that they’re also in the in group. In this case it’s intentionally listing out the owners full name so they can see his name initializes to K.K.K. (which i pointed out in another comment that most businesses in small towns don’t specify a first name, it’s just “lastname’s type of business” so in this case “Kistlers Engine Repair” since you don’t know if it’ll be Kermit or Emmit or Kermit’s grandson John Kistler serving you but you at least know it’ll be a Kistler running the place)
I think it’s more like, if you knew your initials were a dog-whistle, you would probably keep that on the d/l or change your name. Instead, putting it on display is like saying that fact is not a deal-breaker for you or your business.