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Offline Machiavelli

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'White History Month' sign stirs up Flemington (New Jersey)
« on: March 05, 2015, 01:36:19 am »
Rick Epstein
Hunterdon County Democrat
March 4, 2015

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The sign in the deli window says, "CELEBRATE YOUR WHITE HERITAGE IN MARCH, WHITE HISTORY MONTH."

Jim Boggess, proprietor of Jimbo's Deli on Main at 22 Main St., says, "No matter what you are -- Muslim, Jewish, black, white, gay, straight -- you should be proud of what you are. I shouldn't have to feel bad about being white."

But a neighbor and former customer, Bhakti Curtis, who is bi-racial, doesn't accept that. He said the sign, is "mocking Black History Month," especially the way the T was crossed in "WHITE." The cross piece was not right at the top, it was lower down, in a style used by the Ku Klux Klan and other white-power groups, Curtis said. That cross piece of the T has since been broadened to make it a more traditional, if top-heavy, capital T.
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Jim Boggess, you're a jerk.

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Re: 'White History Month' sign stirs up Flemington (New Jersey)
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2015, 05:30:58 am »
I like it.
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Re: 'White History Month' sign stirs up Flemington (New Jersey)
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2015, 02:25:58 pm »
My friend, a resident of a nearby town, reminded me that's near the place where the guy named his kids after Hitler, Goebbels and Eva Braun.  Stay classy, NJ!

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