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- THE WEEK, Page 17SOCIETYKross Out!
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- How the Klan stole Christmas in Ohio -- and what Ohioans did
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- Just as Cincinatti thought it might live down the
- embarrassing Marge Schott affair came yet another specter of
- bigotry: taking advantage of a federal court decision that forced
- the city to permit a huge Hanukkah menorah in a public square,
- the Ku Klux Klan erected a tit-for-tat wooden cross nearby.
- Though this particular cross was not afire, its sponsorship by
- the hate group inflamed local opinion. A day before its erection,
- hundreds gathered in a candlelit protest. Hours after the
- appearance of the Klan krucifix, a pair of demonstrators toppled
- and trampled on it -- but the Klan had a new cross up within
- days. Meanwhile, the two vandals were arrested under the very
- democratic principles that a century of Klansmen have never
- understood.
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