FBI and Local Police Investigate Cross Burning in Clarksville, Tennessee

[doxydad]

A public rally will be held Thursday evening at a Clarksville, Tenn., church, northwest of Nashville, where a cross burning last week is now being investigated as a hate crime.

The FBI has joined local police in the investigation of the cross burning reported July 22 at the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church, which has a predominately black congregation. No arrests have been made.

“We are calling on the community to rally around this church,” State Rep. Joe Pitts, D-Nashville, who is organizing the 7 p.m. event, told Clarksville Online “Let us stand up as a community and say we will not tolerate this kind of hate,” said Pitts, himself a native of Clarksville.

A church member spotted the burned cross, propped against closed gates at the church, around 6 a.m. Pastor Vernon Hooks drove to the scene.

http://splcenter.org/blog/2014/07/28/fbi-and-local-police-investigate-cross-burning-in-clarksville-tennessee/

[Warpy]

1. Let me offer my congratulations to the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church

Like my paternal grandparents, they knew exactly who to piss off.

Yes, my paternal grandparents had a cross burned in their front yard.

[get the red out]

2. Awful

And I am leaving for TN Thursday afternoon with a big, anti- Fox News bumper sticker on my car. Sigh.

Why do Churches hate so much?

Edit to say, I have been telling a lady I train in dog agility with how much fun the agility trials are in TN, this worries me, now I hope she ignores my advice, she is African American.

[MissNostalgia]

3. Hate to recall my time in Clarksville

I lived in Clarksville, TN from 2006 to 2009, and Im not going to go in depth on why this cross burning isn't a surprise to me. Yet I will speak on a few different incidences, of many, that I experienced there;

2008- Swatikas spray painted on road signs,within and out of my neighborhood consistently, even a large commercial realtor sign near the local Walmart had one

2007- Next door neighbor had a large confederate rag hung on his porch the day after his wife introduced herself to my family and others on our street. I guess he felt surrounded and threatened or something, even though we were nice to her, I guess we werent white enough. Kids in the neighborhood took his sign of hate shortly after, and of course he makes a stop at our house first to see if we knew anything. Having his beloved flag stolen must have pushed him over the deep end because on 2 different occasions he would yell the n-word when ever I or other members of my family left our home, the coward never left his home though to be so brazen, he just shouted through the his front window (it was mostly funny). Not sure of what happened to our confederate flag waving neighbor a year later, he and his wife moved quick and in a hurry in 2008, I guess Obama was after him lol.

There were other crap moments in Clarksville I experienced but I really hate recalling this time in my life.

[Scuba]

4. It must be a hoax, 'cause the Supreme Court said racism is a thing of the past.

[MineralMan]

5. Best Advice: Take the Last Train FROM Clarksville