Zinc, Arkansas: Hotbed

[k.d.]

BLACK LIVES MATTER MARCHES TOWARD KKK LEADER’S ARKANSAS COMPOUND
When was the last time you saw the KKK harass anyone?
Better yet, if we’re not talking about TV movies and History Channel documentaries, when was the last time you saw the KKK?
As everyone with two white brain cells to rub together already knows, a group known as Black Lives Matter has disrupted life as we know it in this country for more than two months based on the fraudulent notion that the biggest threat to black lives is anything other than black people.
A recent viral video showed BLM protesters shouting at residents of Harrison, Arkansas, which was subsequently dubbed “America’s Most Racist Town,” a formerly coveted title that very few American towns even seem interested in competing for these days. Harrison is said to be the KKK’s national headquarters. KKK leader Tom Robb allegedly has three PO boxes in Harrison and lives 15 miles away in poor-as-dirt Zinc, Arkansas.
Some agitant with too much time on his/her/zer hands thought it’d be a bold statement to march their black and fat-white-ponytailed asses into Zinc as a show of political force and possibly intimidation.
You know—like the KKK used to do.
A black man wearing an AC/DC baseball cap and Iron Maiden T-shirt along with BLM COVID-19 mask who said his name is “Sonny Cropper” declared to a local TV reporter that he will not tolerate the intolerant:

You’re out here in your little neck of the woods where you think you don’t have to see the people that you hate. We know that hatred is here and we still don’t tolerate it.

Although there was no violence—well, someone shoved a reporter, but reporters don’t count—citizens of Zinc sat on their porches with guns, stood in the streets with guns, and blocked the road to Tom Robb’s compound with cars and guns.
Every visible local white person bore the ravages of a lifetime of dispossession and malnutrition on their faces, yet they were subjected to the scolding lectures of relatively affluent blacks and whites about how they have to stop oppressing people.
“When was the last time you saw the KKK harass anyone?”
Zinc resident (Zincer? Zincite? Zinconian?) Kenny Devore shrugged and wondered what all the hullabaloo was about:

I think if they want to start trouble they should do it in their own town. We didn’t ask for ’em, we ain’t never done nothing to them. And I don’t really see what the reason is for them being here….[We] want them to get done and go away.

But they’re not going to go away. They’ve promised to keep coming back—in larger numbers. It’s almost like they’re forcing it so that someone will finally snap and attempt to chase them away, at which point the feds will swoop in and arrest all the racists. *Goad*

[j.p.]

The KKK is mostly just a concept nowadays. It is something the real bigots can condemn, to convince themselves and others that they themselves are not really bigots.

[k.d.]

It is something the real bigots can condemn, to convince themselves and others that they themselves are not really bigots.

Like BLM.

[j.p.]

I think BLM has moved past this KKK thing and on to mainstream America.

[k.d.]

Could be, but that doesn't change the fact that you described them perfectly with your statement:

It is something the real bigots can condemn, to convince themselves and others that they themselves are not really bigots.