Community | October 22, 2010 | 13 comments

Racially-Driven Halloween Display Removed at Sheriff's Request

source: http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=13358148

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NEAR SIKESTON, MO (KFVS) - At the request of sheriff Rick Walter, Scott County homeowner Rick Hoskins removed a Halloween display in front of his home Wednesday that's the subject of much controversy in the Sikeston area.

The display, which featured a Ku Klux Klan figure alongside an effigy of a black man hanging from a noose, could be seen by drivers on Interstate 55.

Walter said his office had received several complaints about the display, so he contacted the office of prosecuting attorney Paul Boyd to see if it was within the sheriff's department's rights to remove it due to the problems it could cause.

Boyd encouraged Walter to discuss the matter with Hoskins and to ask Hoskins to take it down. Hoskins complied, but indicated he would contact his attorney with the intent of putting the decorations back up.

"There's been a bunch of people that's stopped by since I put them up," said Hoskins. "Said they want to shake my hand. They said they're glad to see a little white pride is still left in this country."

Hoskins also flies a Confederate flag in his front yard, and says he has for years.

"They're my Halloween decorations," Hoskins said. "I think they speak for themselves."

As for neighbors and others in the county, most found the decorations offensive and inappropriate.

"I thought we were passed that," said a woman from Sikeston. "I thought we were all friends here."

"I understand it's freedom of speech," said another woman. "But he needs to get over it."

Watch video of him admitting to his racially-motivated Halloween display of - http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/10/21/dnt.racist.halloween.display.kfvs (copy the entire link)
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13 comments // Racially-Driven Halloween Display Removed at Sheriff's Request

  • GISchmo
    • +1
      GISchmo  

    • Every year some bigot puts up some horribly racist display...and every year the media has to shove these images in my face.
      X(

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
    • +1
      freecrack  

    • but its not about racism, its southern pride.
      i mean no its not racist cuz its the tea party, no free speech
      eh fuck it, just admit your racist people.

    • 1 year ago
  • AnantaEphemera
  • freecrack
    • 0
      freecrack  
    • AnantaEphemera:

      or at the very least, conservatives need to clean up thier own yard.much in the same way they are mad at islam for not stepping up and keeping thier house in order allowing thier crazies demonstrative capabilities.at least if they did it, then they could expect it of others.sad sacks they are.
      stop your confederate flag waving,klan loving,lynching prone morons before worrying about the other guys equivilent.if you allow yours to thrive, why would it not have an equal and opposite reaction.but hey, who needs reason when filled with passion.

    • 1 year ago
  • ayipis
  • Saladin
  • remanns
  • Sheeva
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      Sheeva  

    • I would rather he be true to us up front than smile in my face and stab me in the back. I don't agree with him but I do have to agree with his right to be a racist pig with little imagination. And for those who have stopped to shake his hand... we are in our final days, let the tea party and repubs tell it, so I can see how some might want to shake the hand of the devil.

    • 1 year ago
  • good_stuff
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      good_stuff  

    • If he would have said - "Halloween is supposed to be about something scarey, and what is scarier than blatent racism", I would have had respect for him.

    • 1 year ago
  • postlapsaria
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      postlapsaria  

    • I don't understand the decoration. His "white power" line, and the confederate flag show that he's a racist... but why hang a KKK member? That's weird, how is hanging a white man in effigy considered white power?

      this man is an idiot, and he's an embarrasment

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
  • trut
  • dryeraser
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