Irony as South Carolina Rep. Mike Pitt tries to Block Flag removal with a list of Amendments, his own district includes the infamous Redneck Shop/”Klan Museum”

The representative introducing a long list of amendments to block the Confederate flag from coming down represents the very district that introduced to us the Redneck Shop/”Klan Museum” in Laurens County. These are some of his constituents.  South Carolina House Rep. Mike Pitt represents both Greenwood and Laurens Counties.

“The Redneck Shop was a white nationalism and neo-Nazi clothing store in Laurens, South Carolina, which sold T-shirts, bumper stickers, and Ku Klux Klan robes, among other things.  

The building also featured a “Klan Museum” in a back room. It was decorated with posters of President Warren G. Harding, whom some allege was a Klan member, though many historians refute this.[1][2]

Contents
1 Building ownership
2 As a meeting place for white supremacists
3 References
4 External links
Building ownership
The shop was located in a downtown Laurens building that formerly housed the Echo Theater. The building is currently owned by the Rev. David Kennedy, a black civil rights leader and Baptist pastor. The shop has acquired a great deal of publicity due to this unusual arrangement.[3]

The building was formerly owned by Michael Burden, who was himself a Grand Dragon in the Ku Klux Klan. However, Burden found himself impoverished after leaving the KKK. Burden then approached Kennedy and apologized for his racist past, agreeing to sell Kennedy the deed to the Redneck Shop with the provision that Burden would be allowed to run the shop until his death. Kennedy accepted the deal.[4][3]

In 1996, a white man from West Columbia, South Carolina, drove his van into the Redneck Shop as a protest against the store’s racism. Kennedy said that he later told the man that, while he obviously does not agree with Howard’s views, he does not feel that violence is an appropriate response.[4][5]

As a meeting place for white supremacistsIn addition to selling merchandise, the Redneck Shop had also been used as a meeting place for white supremacists; in 2006, it was the headquarters for the Aryan Nations’ World Congress. Also, in 2008, neo-Nazi John Taylor Bowles utilized the building as the headquarters for his 2008 presidential campaign.[4]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Shop