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KKK leader threatens to 'burn' black Latina journalist and calls her a 'n*****'

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fluffydelusions

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An Afro-Latina journalist conducting an interview with a member of the Ku Klux Klan has said he threatened her so violently that she was concerned for her safety.

Ilia Calderón, a Univision journalist with both African and Colombian heritage, agreed to visit KKK leader Chris Barker on his wooded North Carolina property. She watched Mr Barker lead a KKK meeting – in which participants dressed up in hooded robes and danced around with torches – and then sat down for an interview.

Almost immediately, Mr Barker asked her why she didn't ”go back" to her country of origin. (Ms Calderón is an immigrant.)

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”We have nothing here in America; ya'll keep flooding it," he said. ”But like God says – like Yahweh himself says – we will chase you out of here."

Later, Mr Barker stopped to correct himself, telling Ms Calderón: ”No, we're going to burn you out."

When the journalist asked him how he planned to ”burn out" 11 million immigrants, he responded: ”We killed 6 million Jews the last time. Eleven million is nothing."

Mr Barker is the grand wizard of the Loyal White Knights faction of the KKK, which participated in the ”Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend.

One person at the rally died, and dozens were injured, when a man allegedly mowed down a group of counter-protesters with his car. The Loyal White Knights proceeded to praise the driver for ”running over nine communist anti-fascists".

”When a couple of them die, it doesn't bother us," Mr Barker told WBTV. ”They're always attacking and messing with our rallies."

In his interview with Ms Calderón, Mr Barker referred to her as a "n*****" and a "mongrel". He also claimed that his organisation was a Christian group, not a hate group, and that he did not consider himself a racist.

Ms Calderón said she had not expected the level of vitriol she encountered.

”My team told me that I would be insulted, and I knew, but I never imagined the level," she told Univision. ”...At that time I was really felt very afraid for my safety and the safety of my team."

The interview was conducted in July, before the Charlottesville rally and before President Donald Trump attributed the casualties to ”hatred and violence on both sides". But in an interview with Radio Blu, Ms Calderón said Mr Trump helped inspire the interview.

"As part of the editorial meetings we were discussing the incidents of hate that had been presented, and how, from 2016 to here, these people and these groups feel entitled to raise its highest voice – perhaps backed by a President who speaks very weakly about it," she said.
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Ilia Calderón, a Univision journalist with both African and Colombian heritage, agreed to visit KKK leader Chris Barker on his wooded North Carolina property. She watched Mr Barker lead a KKK meeting – in which participants dressed up in hooded robes and danced around with torches – and then sat down for an interview.
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Wow.
 
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OriginofHysteria

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In his interview with Ms Calderón, Mr Barker referred to her as a "n*****" and a "mongrel". He also claimed that his organisation was a Christian group, not a hate group, and that he did not consider himself a racist.
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See he's not racist, he just has a bit of economic anxiety
 
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JimJamJones

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Piece of garbage is a piece of garbage?

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rjc571

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It's a good thing he doesn't get arrested for threatening to violently murder 11 million people, that could lead to a slippery slope where somebody gets arrested for saying something that is not a violent illegal threat.
 
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hydrophilic attack said:
”We killed 6 million Jews the last time. Eleven million is nothing."

Surely, making such a statement can't be protected by the first amendment?
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Hopefully people will also realize that when we call these fucking bottom feeding subhumans Nazis, they realize that they actually are Nazis

in the other thread about Trump and the pigs blood on bullets, there were way too many people saying "don't call them nazis"

these people are literally fucking Nazis
 
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Oh yeah, she's from my country. Unfortunately it seems that no one cares about this kind of thing so it was a simply a footnote in the news cycle over here, apparently at least.

But I'm proud of her, it takes real courage to go to that kind of place to do her job, and stand that kind of discrimination, knowing well beforehand that could happen to her.
 
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Somnid

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I really wish the news would not talk to them. Just because they are allowed to speak doesn't mean they need to be repeated, validated or reported on as important or interesting.
 
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Spoiled Milk

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In his interview with Ms Calderón, Mr Barker referred to her as a "n*****” and a "mongrel". He also claimed that his organisation was a Christian group, not a hate group, and that he did not consider himself a racist.
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WHAT DOES RACIST MEAN
 
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Toxi

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Somnid said:
I really wish the news would not talk to them. Just because they are allowed to speak doesn't mean they need to be repeated, validated or reported on as important or interesting.
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Yeah, ignoring them before worked wonders.
 
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n00bsauce87

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Somnid said:
I really wish the news would not talk to them. Just because they are allowed to speak doesn't mean they need to be repeated, validated or reported on as important or interesting.
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When you have media outlets who are white nationalist sympathizers, this is just rather impossible to do. There's too many outlets for them.
 
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MIMIC

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When the journalist asked him how he planned to “burn out” 11 million immigrants, he responded: “We killed 6 million Jews the last time. Eleven million is nothing.”
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Well then.

In his interview with Ms Calderón, Mr Barker referred to her as a "n*****” and a "mongrel". He also claimed that his organisation was a Christian group, not a hate group, and that he did not consider himself a racist.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he's a racist.
 
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Air

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Saw this making the rounds on Facebook. I'm about as taken back by his words and boldness as the reporter
 
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MagnaderAlpha

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These fucks need to be rounded up. It SHOULD be ILLEGAL to be a White Supremacist, be it Alt-Right, Nazi, choose your poison. They should be labeled a "terrorist organization" and taken out the same way they hunt groups like ISIS.
 
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Slayven

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He isn't saying what hasn't been saidd a million times before

Same shit that was said Saturday

And the same shit the president cosigns
 
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Hieberrr

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How can someone be such an idiot in this day and age? I refuse to believe there are people like this in this world.
 
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