Southeast politics and the KKK
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- September
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Two Southeast Town Board candidates were angered by allegations that their party line was likened to the Ku Klux Klan and called for the removal of a recently-appointed Architectural Review Board member.
Matthew Neuringer and Joseph DePaola said they were deeply offended by Lynne Eckardt’s comments concerning their Save our Southeast party line. Last month, Eckardt posted online her thoughts concerning a contractor law the Town Board is reviewing that would crack down on illegal hiring in the town. Her statement: “Why else do you suppose the SOS logo is still the symbol of choice? Probably because KKK was already taken.”
Neuringer and DePaola said the comments insulted them and their families and are asking the Town Board to consider removing her from the ARB. Neuringer said he is of Jewish and Puerto Rican descent and DePaola said he is a practicing Roman Catholic with Italian roots.
To read more about the story, check it out here.
Interestingly, one commentator on the story noted that the “KKK has been dead for years,” which piqued my curiosity.
A little historical research on the group shows that they formed in Tennessee in 1865 following the Civil War. Presently, the KKK is not one organization but includes several small chapters throughout the country. There are an estimated 5,000 members spread across more than 100 chapters, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
The League says issues involving gay marriage and immigration have recently fueled KKK activity.
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Ms. Eckhardt’s comparison of the SOS to the KKK is, and was, in effect a charge of racism. This charge, as I’ve all too often seen employed by open boarders advocates, is, upon closer inspection, the only card that many in the open borders group have and they use it often and shamelessly. Now, I don’t believe that Ms. Eckhardt is an open borders zealot; I am however concerned that she would use the full force of a KKK comparison to someone who has advocated for the rule of law. In addition, what Marcela has not reported is that Ms. Eckhardt’s title to her posting was “Seig Heil, Baby’! So, for good measure, Lynne throws in the NAZI comparison as well.
Remember, her posting was in response to a proposed contractor’s law, that would restrict the hiring of illegal alien’s by these employers -hiring illegal aliens is illegal, right?
Let’s also remember that illegal aliens are exploited by these contractor’s that claim that they are only hiring them because they are doing the work that Americans won’t do. When was the last time that Ms. Eckhardt protested the outrageous treatment of illegal aliens at the hands of these unscrupulous employers?
Ed Kowalski
9/11 Families For A Secure America
The klan is dead Marcela. no one has heard from them in years. There are plenty of other hate groups though alive
from all nationalities. The most powerful today is the
hispanic hate group “La Raza”. these people are so hateful
that they make the KKK look like the Cub Scouts.