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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump to Accept GOP Nomination on 'Ax Handle Saturday'
President Trump will accept the Republican presidential nomination on August 27 in Jacksonville, Florida, the 60th anniversary of Ax Handle Saturday, the Washington Post reports.
Thats when a mob of 200 white people in the city organized by the Ku Klux Klan and joined by some of the citys police officers chased and beat peaceful civil rights protesters (with ax handles and baseball bats) who were trying to integrate downtown lunch counters.
A permit had already been approved for civil rights activists for the 60th anniversary commemoration of those events.
https://politicalwire.com/2020/06/11/trump-to-accept-gop-nomination-on-ax-handle-saturday/
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)It's difficult to find a day that is not associated with some racist atrocity.
Trump's really working to bulls-eye the racist echoes, of course.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)where Emmett Till whistled at a white woman?
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)The very day!
kentuck
(111,103 posts)He had a shop there in the 1970's.
bullwinkle428
(20,629 posts)Another fascist wet dream.