Biden tells white supremacist groups to 'cease and desist' after Trump's debate 'embarrassment' – live
Re: Trump designates KKK as terrorist organization
Originally posted by BrolyBlack
And is giving Black Americans a $500b stimulus plan.
🤣🤣 Four years too late for THAT....
Five former Mississippi high school students are speaking out about a Republican candidate for state Senate in Arkansas this year. They say they were terrorized by him as a school mate when he wore Ku Klux Klan regalia on Halloween in 2000.
He is Charles Beckham III of McNeil, 37, who moved to Arkansas a few years ago and got in the propane business.
Despite multiple phone calls and e-mails to Republican Party Chair Doyle Webb who has been supporting Beckham, and a political consultant who communicates with Beckham, neither were willing to comment about the allegations.
Four women who were juniors in the school when Beckham—whom they knew as Bubba—was a senior, as well as a male student who was a member of Beckham's class of 2001, all witnessed the event, and all gave similar accounts.
The residential school on the campus of Mississippi University for Women had two dorms: one for men and one for women. Generally, students of the opposite gender were not allowed beyond the lobby of the dorms. But a Halloween tradition was to open the dorms for trick-or-treating.
That night in 2000, all five said Beckham strode into the women's dorm with two friends in what the other students described as full Klan regalia, not just costumes improvised from bedsheets. The robe bore a circular insignia, one student recalled, and their outfits included a pointed hat with a mask.
The three in Klan robes were ordered out of the dorm by a dorm supervisor.
After initially denying the allegations, calling them "baseless," "false," and "disgusting," Beckham later admitted they were true, after the Arkansas Gazette obtained a copy of a 2001 lawsuit filed by his parents against the school for expelling him for the incident.
Documents from the case corroborate everything his former classmates have said.
The suit was eventually dismissed.
After being exposed for being a racist, and then for lying about being a racist, Beckham issued a statement of apology.
"I do sincerely apologize for any angst or grievances that I have caused anyone as a minor, as that is not the man that I am today," he said.
"I am a Christian, a husband to my loving wife of 8 years, as well as a father of two, and am proud of the life that we have built in McNeil, Arkansas."