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Courtesy Heather Davini Boucher

The KKK rally on Saturday in Anaheim’s Pearson Park was small, consisting of six Klan members in black
shirts in a black SUV. About 100 protesters of multiple ethnic backgrounds greeted the Klansmen upon their
arrival at Pearson Park, which was no doubt chosen as the rally site because it hosted a Klan event in 1924 that MORE EDITOR'S PICKS
drew 20,000 people.
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On Sunday, Trump, in an interview with
CNN anchor Jake Tapper, refused to disavow support from Duke, claiming he didn’t
know who Duke was. Trump said a “bad earpiece” made it difficult to hear the
questions, according to CNN on Monday, while drawing attention to comments
made to similar questions about Duke at a press conference on Friday – “David Duke
endorsed me? OK, all right. I disavow, OK?”

This came the day after KKK members and counter-protesters clashed just two miles
from Disneyland, and three anti-Klan people were stabbed.
Duke had shared messages of support for Trump in Facebook posts and on the radio,
where he told listeners that a vote against the former reality TV star would be
"treason to your heritage."

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Six KKK members arrive (Courtesy Heather Davini Boucher)

In Anaheim, the KKK rally on Saturday in Anaheim’s Pearson Park was small,
consisting of six Klan members in black shirts in a black SUV. About 100 protesters
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of multiple ethnic backgrounds greeted the Klansmen upon their arrival at Pearson
Park, which was no doubt chosen as the rally site because it hosted a Klan event in
1924 that drew 20,000 people. The attendance this time was much, much smaller, The Power of
but the standoff quickly led to bloodshed as three protesters ended up wounded, one Cherokee Women
stabbed by a knife and one possibly stabbed by the end of a flag being swung around
and another with an unidentified weapon, according to the Los Angeles Times.
American Indian
“It’s a horrible thing when people are lying on the sidewalk bleeding,” says Jim La Poet John Trudell
Pointe, Sicangu Lakota and leader of a Native American rights group based in Walks On
Orange County called Blue Day Society.

His group was asked to do security for the protest of the KKK rally, but left when it Why Don’t You
People Just Get
appeared the KKK were not going to show. His people drove to attend an anti-police Over It? Here’s Why
brutality protest in nearby Santa Ana. They had drove only a few blocks when they
heard the police sirens and returned to the KKK protest.
Natives and the
Photos of the melee taken by Heather Davini Boucher, a photographer of Samoan American Holocaust
ancestry who grew up in Anaheim, soon went viral on Facebook. Boucher noted to
ICTMN that Anaheim is pretty diverse and white people are a minority in the
community. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city is 52 percent Latino and 28 The Wampanoag
percent White. La Pointe estimates there are between 3,000-5,000 Native Side of the First
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Americans in Orange County.
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Protesters greeted the Klansmen on arrival during a very tense situation. (Courtesy Heather Davini Boucher)

Orange County even had an AIM chapter that organized the resistance at Ward
Valley in 1998.

The Klansmen brought signs that read, “White Lives Matter, 100% American,” as
well as Confederate and U.S. flags. One Klansmen can be seen in a video wildly
swinging a large flagpole with a U.S. flag and attempting to stab protesters with it.

La Pointe says the strong reaction against the Klan has a lot to do with racial
tensions in Anaheim, and points out that the Anaheim city council recently voted
down a measure to protect people of color against police brutality in Orange County.
The nearby city of Santa Ana is under police gang injunctions that the community
finds repressive and racist.

He told ICTMN, “With the reactive climate and young people who have been killed
and actually murdered by police—it’s not a good time for the KKK to parade around.”

“I understand the frustration is heavy,” La Pointe continued, “I think what [young

people] see is that peaceful measures are not working, civil disobedience is not
working and when the KKK came to town they say this is something they could do
about it.”
 A Klansman holding a knife, which could be the weapon used in the stabbing of one of the p

A Klansman holding a knife, which could be the weapon used in the stabbing of one of the protesters.
(Protesters greeted the Klansmen on arrival during a very tense situation. (Courtesy Heather Davini
Boucher)

Boucher says the police arrested the protesters first and talked to the KKK members
for 45 minutes before cuffing them. According to the Los Angeles Times, Klansmen
were “once the dominant political force in Anaheim, owning four of five City Council
seats before a recall effort led to their ouster in 1924. At the height of its power in
Orange County, nearly 300 Klansmen lived in Anaheim, patrolling city streets in
robes and masks.

According to the Orange County Tribune “An auditorium, a school, a park and a
mortuary still existing today” bear the names of civic leaders who were Klansmen.

Coincidentally, 1924 was also a presidential election year and the Klan was planning
to run a slate of candidates. However, the size of the rally shocked more moderate
white citizens and galvanized them to remove KKK members from positions of
power in the city.

Boucher says, “I doubt [the KKK] will be in Anaheim and the Orange County area
again anytime soon.”
 Some protesters showed their distaste through non-violent methods (A Klansman holding a knife, which could be the weapon

Some protesters showed their distaste through non-violent methods (A Klansman holding a knife, which
could be the weapon used in the stabbing of one of the protesters. (Protesters greeted the Klansmen on arrival
during a very tense situation. (Courtesy Heather Davini Boucher)

Jacqueline Keeler is a Navajo/Yankton Dakota Sioux writer living in Portland,

Oregon and co-founder of Eradicating Offensive Native Mascotry, creators of Not
Your Mascot. She has been published in Telesur, Earth Island Journal and the
Nation and interviewed on MSNBC and DemocracyNow and Native American
Calling. She has a forthcoming book called “Not Your Disappearing Indian” and
podcast. On twitter: @jfkeeler

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Francisco Ferna...
White supremacists and closeted racists(GOP) had overwhelming
sway over Native Americans and other people of color! Those days are
gone! America is made for all Americans not just white!!
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Tue, 03/01/2016 - 14:17

Michael Madrid
There is no mistaking the fact that many racist Whites are acting out of
fear and dismay that they are rapidly becoming a minority in this
country. I believe that this is the very reason Trump is doing so well
among White voters. He's promising to oust all illegal immigrants
(clearly a euphemism for "Mexicans" as he's not suggesting building a
wall on the Canadian border), he's promising to ban all Muslims from
entering the country and enjoys ejecting BLACK LIVES MATTER
protestors from his rallies. It's clear to most minorities that this
promises to get much worse before it gets any better for anyone.
___________________________________________________________
Conservatives are such a joke in this country. For eight years I've been
listening to Repuglicans (a handy combination of Republicans and
Repugnant) bitch about how Obama doesn't care for the Constitution,
yet they support an obviously racist candidate making outrageous,
unConstitutional promises. I think it's been pretty clear to all
American minorities that, "We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal," REALLY MEANS, "We hold these
truth to be self-evident, that ALL WHITE MEN are created equal!"
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Wed, 03/02/2016 - 15:41

Pedro Guanikeyu...
Interesting article as to this crazy racist man named "Donald The
Duck" AKA "TrumpO The Clown" and his way of attempts in denying
the truth and trying to publicly hide his political affiliation with the
Davie Duke and the KKK.
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Sat, 03/05/2016 - 13:39

mem
The labeling of Mexicans as "Latino" or "Hispanic" is insulting and
erroneous! Mexicans are ancient to this continent and were part of the
population of Indian Tribes long before any European, Spaniard,
French, English, Irish, Scottish, etc. This is the White man's label to
disconnect Mexicans from being American and seen as foreign in the
eyes of the world. Please stop accepting everything you're taught by
White men. They are deceitful and cunning and know full well what
they are doing to manipulate all natives of the Americas.
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