`Redneck Shop' creates dispute in S.C.

Cybergal · Mar 10, 2008

`Redneck Shop' creates dispute in S.C.
3/10/08

LAURENS, S.C. - A black civil rights activist is fighting to close a store that sells KKK robes and T-shirts emblazoned with racial slurs. David Kennedy is confident he can make it happen. After all, he says he owns the building.

Since 1996, the Redneck Shop has operated in an old movie theater that, according to court records, was transferred in 1997 to Kennedy and the Baptist church he leads.
"Our ownership puts an end to that history as far as violence and hatred, racism being practiced in that place and also the recruiting of the Klan," Kennedy said. "This is the same place that we had to go up into the balcony to go to the movies before the Klan took it. So there's a lot of history there."

But legal documents also indicate that the man who runs the store, 62-year-old John Howard, is entitled to operate his business in the building until he dies. Now the dispute may go to court.

Kennedy, 54, has led protests outside the store since it opened but said he's never been able to close it because of the agreement that Howard can run the shop for life.
The reverend envisions the building as a potential future home for his New Beginnings Missionary Baptist Church, which now meets in a double-wide trailer.

Kennedy claims he can't even visit his own property because Howard won't let him in when he appears in the door. But that didn't happen during a recent visit with an Associated Press reporter and photographer.
more here................ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080310/ap_on_re_us/kkk_store;_ylt=AkWYNDONWwzZ6tkOmo.c3Bys0NUE
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Jarlaxle · Mar 15, 2008

Does laughing at this make me a bad person?

OK, I'm a bad person.

raindancer · Mar 16, 2008

Next he'll be comming to my house telling me I have to take down my flag. Rebel Yell!!!!!!!

LuckyLady7 · Mar 16, 2008

raindancer said: ↑

Next he'll be comming to my house telling me I have to take down my flag. Rebel Yell!!!!!!!
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I HAVE BEEN IN THIS SHOP AND THE OWNER IS A NICE MAN....I AM FROM SC AND I AM A TRUE SOUTHERN WOMAN....

Hilltop · Mar 16, 2008

Ticks me off that people heve to get in other peoples business..And try and take away there rights..

LuckyLady7 · Mar 16, 2008

me Too....i Am A Southerner All The Way.....no One Can Stop That.....

Baack · Mar 16, 2008

I can see why they would not be happy about a clan run store selling KKK stuff!

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