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Colorado cops looking for man who wore KKK hood in market
Colorado cops are searching for a man who wore a Ku Klux Klan hood to go grocery shopping — the second time this month that someone in the US has pulled the hateful stunt.
The man walked into the City Market in Dillon on Thursday and proceeded to shop until he was asked to leave, which he refused to do. An employee at the store then called the cops, the Summit Daily News reports.
The man fled before officers arrived, but cops are working to identify him and his vehicle using surveillance footage, the newspaper reports.
“Right now, they’re trying to identify him, contact him and take it from there,” a spokeswoman for the grocery store told the newspaper. “Obviously, we take this kind of action very seriously.”
Video of the incident obtained by KUSA shows the man apparently chatting it up with other customers while holding a basket and a container of milk. He stands near three other shoppers before one of them apparently said something about his hood, prompting him to shrug his shoulders and walk away.
The man then argued with customers and workers who approached him until he left the store. In a statement to the station, the grocery chain said it values “diversity and inclusion,” as well as respect for every customer.
“We ask our customers to respect these values as well when in our stores,” the statement read. “Our store leaders are empowered to swiftly and respectfully address anyone who disregards these values, which includes blatant symbols of hate and intolerance.”
Another man was spotted wearing a KKK hood while buying groceries earlier this month in Santee, California. He ultimately took off the hood while shopping May 4 at a Von supermarket after being asked several times by clerks and a supervisor.
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Ku Klux Klan killing: Wife admits murder of Missouri leader
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The wife of a Ku Klux Klan leader in the US state of Missouri has admitted shooting him dead two years ago.
Malissa Ancona, 47, was sentenced to life after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and other charges.
She had initially said her son, Paul Jinkerson, carried out the killing but in court on Friday said this was not the case. He still faces trial.
Frank Ancona, a self-styled “imperial wizard”, was shot dead in a bedroom and his body dumped next to a river.
In a deal with prosecutors, Ancona pleaded guilty on Friday at St Francois County Circuit Court to second-degree murder, tampering with evidence and abandonment of a corpse, the St Louis Post-Dispatch reported.
“I fired both shots that killed my husband,” Ancona told Judge Wendy Wexler Horn, the paper reported.
She admitted cleaning the walls of the room in Leadwood, Missouri, and removing bedding before dumping the body in nearby Belgrade in February 2017.
She then reported her husband, 51, missing and appealed for his return on Facebook. He had asked for a divorce, court records said.
She had initially said Mr Jinkerson fired the shots and agreed to testify against him.
Mr Ancona was a member of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (TAKKKK), which describes itself as a “White Patriotic Christian organisation that bases its roots back to the Ku Klux Klan of the early 20th Century”.
Khloe Kardashian Blasted By Black Twitter For Claiming She “Don’t See Color”
Fans and haters alike rallied for the dragging.
The debacle started with a message against those racist remarks.
“I dislike the fact that people are allowed to comment on my daughter’s skin color but as soon as I comment kindly back and praise her for all that she is, the comment gets erased. If you have the courage to post your nasty criticism please allow one to defend or comment back”
She then slipped into dangerous territory when responding to one of her fan’s supportive message. In an attempt to speak of unity, Khloe claimed that her family simply doesn’t see color.
“I try to put myself in their shoes &maybe they were brought up in a different type of household then I was. So instead of shaming I try to educate. In our household we do not see color. We see emotion and action. We see love. We feed off of energy”
In response, people clapped back at the social media star while pointing out that her mindset is dismissive rather than inclusive.
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NRA TV depicts ‘Thomas & Friends’ characters in KKK hoods
Diversity seems to be an ugly word these days. What should be celebratory of different people and their cultures has turned into an ugly word. For example, a National rifle Association online show depicted the characters from hit-childhood show “Thomas & Friends” in white, Ku Klux Klan- style hoods on burning tracks.
Host of NRA TV’s “Relentless,” Dana Loesch went after the classic children’s character Thomas The Tank Engine after its maker, Mattel, joined forces with the United Nations in efforts to increase gender diversity and representation on the program and include new characters from around the globe.
Loesch, a conservative spokeswomen for the gun rights group, specifically called out one new character – Nia, a steam engine from Kenya.
“That’s where it gets really strange to me,” Loesch says on Friday’s episode. “Am I to understand this entire time that Thomas and his trains were white? Because they all have gray faces. How do you bring ethnic diversity? I mean they had to paint what I guess they thought was some sort of African pattern on the side of Nia’s engine.”
The program cut to an image with three trains wearing white hoods and tracks on fire. “Fair, I get it,” Loesch sarcastically says. “Thomas the Tank Engine has been a blight on race relations for far too long. Clearly this is overdue.”
The NRA did not immediately respond to USA TODAY’s request for comment.
Mattel announced Friday that “Thomas & Friends,” a Nick Jr. show, would add characters to its newest season from around the world and partner with the UN to promote its Sustainable Development Goals.
In the new season, Thomas will travel from his fictional home Sodor for the first time in the series to visit China, India and Australia, Mattel said. More female characters will also be represented, the company added.
“This change will deepen the brand’s engagement with girls who represent over 40% of the show’s viewership and provide a strong message of gender equality to the young audience,” Mattel said in a statement.
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‘BlacKkKlansman’ Star Laura Harrier Is Delivering History Lessons With Her Hair
Article via: Rick y Riley, blavity.com ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Star Laura Harrier Is Delivering History Lessons With Her Hair
You’ve seen actress and model Laura Harrier gracing the red carpet promoting the latest Spike Lee film in which she stars, “BlacKkKlansman,” but what you may have missed were her gorgeous hairstyles paying tribute to black women throughout cinema history.
In a recent interview with Refinery 29, celebrity hairstylist Lacy Redwaytold the fashion and women’s lifestyle outlet that Harrier’s hair was an homage to blaxploitation actress Pam Grier, award-winning acting icon Cicely Tyson and music icon Diana Ross.
Harrier plays an activist named Patrice in the latest Spike Lee joint, which is about a black officer infiltrating his local Ku Klux Klan chapter.
“I knew the movie was taking place in the 1970s, and Laura plays an activist. That is where my initial inspiration started,” Redway said. “I wanted to use this moment as a teachable one and celebrate both the strong women of that time and strong women in general.”
The proof is in the pudding. If you scrolled through Redway’s Instagram feed, you could get a glimpse of some the looks Harrier channeled. On the first red carpet appearance, Redway styled Harrier after Grier’s kickass character Foxy Brown.
Redway styled Harrier’s hair into cornrows as a way to show her commitment to the natural hair movement.
“More often than not, young people aren’t aware of where things originated from and how important some things are as far as preserving history within a community,” she said. “With social media and lack of education, you can easily have braided hairstyles — identity symbols for tribes in Africa — be dwindled down.”
Not all of the hairstyles came from the 1970s. Some were inspired by the Himba woman in northern Namibia, Janet Jackson in Poetic Justiceand Brandy from her time playing the title character on the TV show Moesha.
See Harrier in the Spike Lee-directed film, BlacKkKlansman, currently in theaters.