Mississippi considers issuing commemorative KKK license plate

[Puppycow]

Mississippi plan for KKK leader license plate criticized

The Sons of Confederate Veterans proposed that Mississippi issue a specialty plate honoring General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who many historians say was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, the white supremacist group that terrorized blacks in the South after the Civil War.

Mississippi Democratic Rep. Willie Bailey, who handles license plate requests in the state House, said he has no problem with the organization creating any design it wants.

"If they want a tag commemorating veterans of the Confederacy, I don't have a problem with it," said Bailey, who is black. "As long as it's not offensive to anybody, then they have the same rights as anybody else has."

If this thing is allowed, it would be tantamount to an official endorsement of the KKK by the state of Mississippi and its governor, Haley Barbour.

 

[BenBurch]

Hey, then I'll know which cars to bump my shopping cart into. Hard.

 

[Zep]

Given the propensity for demolition of signs by (constitutionally protected) gunfire, they should be big enough to make excellent targets.

 

[CallmePete]

well they can always charge for these new plates online using Paypal

 

[332nd]

Hmmm... Wonder how they'd feel about a Nat Turner plate?

 

[BenBurch]

Hmmm... Wonder how they'd feel about a Nat Turner plate?

Or a William Tecumseh Sherman plate!

 

[Puppycow]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49599.html

Barbour won't condemn it, but he promises that it won't become law.

 

[leftysergeant]

Maybe someone might request an Osama bin Laden plate.

Fair's fair.

 

[Mycroft]

Mississippi plan for KKK leader license plate criticized



If this thing is allowed, it would be tantamount to an official endorsement of the KKK by the state of Mississippi and its governor, Haley Barbour.

Well, as long as there is no downside...

 

[Cleon]

I say, let it pass.

The auto body industry in Mississippi will get a nice boost from all the keyed cars.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I'm surprised the KKK isn't offended by being associated with Mississippi.

 

[dudalb]

And the 150th Anniversary Commerations of the Civil War are off to a great start.......

 

[Rogue1stclass]

I'd be all for this particular tag on one condition: Buy a Nathan Forrest license plate, and the proceeds go towards the United Negro College Fund, because a mind is a terrible thing to waste, and it's too frickin' late for anyone who would want to commemorate the KKK.

 

[dudalb]

You know the guys proposing this are going to fall back on a "We are honoring Forrest as a General, not for his Founding of the KKK".
Ain't gonna wash. You got to take the whole Bedford Forrest package.

 

[Cobalt]

Its not that this isn't an idea, it just isn't a GOOD idea.