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UPDATED: Paging Spike Lee! (News from the Dept. of "You Can't Make This Sh*t Up!")

I just couldn't resist bringing this story from Sunday's WaPo to the attention of readers, here at C99P. Essentially, it's a story about how, "One of the largest and oldest neo-Nazi groups in the United States appears to have an unlikely new leader: James Stern, a black activist who has vowed to dismantle it."

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World History this day

1777 -- Captain Cook "discovered" Kiritimati roughly 240 years after Hernando de Grijalva did. It wasn't nuked until the 1950s
1914 -- The "Christmas truce" began
1941 -- Benghazi was conquered by British troops
1943 -- Ike was named Supreme Allied Commander for Normandy
1951 -- Libya became independent

The Day The Klan Messed With The Wrong People

"You saw those cars coming, and you knew who those men were. They wanted you to see them. They wanted you to be afraid of them."
- Lillie McKoy, former mayor of Maxton talking about the KKK

By the mid-1950's the Civil Rights Movement was gaining momentum and the KKK decided they had to fight back. Their campaign of terrorism swept through many of the southern states, but largely fell flat in North Carolina.