Racists Wear the Darnedest Tees

A Friend of Unfair Park sends us this link to an Associated Press video concerning a dispute over a KKK supply store in Laurens, South Carolina, where you can load up on swastika stickers (swastickers?), Confederate-flag patches and other racist doodads. The reason our Friends shot us the link? The...

By Robert Wilonsky

March 11, 2008

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A Friend of Unfair Park sends us this link to an Associated Press video concerning a dispute over a KKK supply store in Laurens, South Carolina, where you can load up on swastika stickers (swastickers?), Confederate-flag patches and other racist doodads. The reason our Friends shot us the link? The screengrab at right, of course, which features store manager Nicholas Chappell wearing that Big D-shirt. Says our Friend: "Please tell me he just got that on a vacation to Six Flags…" --Robert Wilonsky

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