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By The Associated Press

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Published: Mon, March 10, 2008 - 12:01 pm
Last Updated: Mon, March 10, 2008 - 12:12 pm

LAURENS, S.C. (AP) - A black civil rights activist is still
fighting to close a South Carolina store that sells KKK robes and
racist T-shirts in a building that he says he owns.
The store, called the Redneck Shop, operates in a building in
Laurens, South Carolina. Court records show it was transferred in
1997 to David Kennedy and the Baptist church he leads.
However, the legal documents also indicate that the man who runs
the store has the right to operate it out of the building until he
dies.
Kennedy has led protests outside the store since it opened in
1996 but he says the agreement has prevented him from closing it.
Store owner John Howard says he's not selling anything illegal
and people "shouldn't come in" if they're turned off by the
store.
The dispute may now head to court.

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Donate the building to a charity. Easy come...easy go.

No more worries, problem solved. That is probably why the church ended up with the building to begin with. Someone’s tax write off.

Lesson learned. You just dont get something for nothing these days.

Posted by working4u on 04/07/08 - 3:24 pm • Report Abuse .

rmsmeek1234—I know more racist blacks than I know racist whites...and that’s just my personal experience, so what you are saying, I think, is right on target.

Posted by dlrow on 04/07/08 - 2:03 pm • Report Abuse .

rg stair

Posted by rosepetal on 04/07/08 - 1:38 pm • Report Abuse .

So it’s OK to sell Black Panther shirts and hats, inflammatory, hate filled racist messages preached from the pulpit, but not this stuff? I would never buy any of it, but I don’t agree with a double standard. And I don’t agree with racism, but it bothers me to see one group calling another racist, when perhaps they are guilty of the same.

Posted by rmseek1234 on 04/07/08 - 1:37 pm • Report Abuse .

what kinda cult?

Posted by atbman on 04/07/08 - 1:04 pm • Report Abuse .

south carolina has more problems than a store selling kkk material they have a cult like the one in texas the cult is represented by a civil rights attorney seems like they have a double standard they remind me of the children of the corn

Posted by rosepetal on 04/07/08 - 1:00 pm • Report Abuse .

I am sure there are ways to make it difficult for anyone to use the store. If he has no customers, he can’t stay open can he? Heck, pray for the man, that always gets results!

Posted by southfan1981 on 04/07/08 - 10:55 am • Report Abuse .

The store has a right to be there. Whether we agree w/ what they are selling or not. If this store is closed, then what of all the ‘Adult’ stores? The ‘Smoke’ shops? The “Gentleman’s” clubs? We may not like what they are selling, but we can’t allow the civil rights leaders to decide for us.
I don’t like the KKK never did, never will. But even those sorry sobs have the right to run a business. Take this as a history lesson, and open an anti KKK store across the way....open a chapel…

Posted by Tira on 04/07/08 - 9:59 am • Report Abuse .

If the man wants to sell it, so be it. Now the civil rights leaders want to tell people what they can sell?

Posted by Lindie on 03/10/08 - 12:32 pm • Report Abuse .