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- <text id=93TT2581>
- <title>
- Jan. 04, 1993: Kross Out!
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Jan. 04, 1993 Man of the Year:Bill Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- SOCIETY
- Kross Out!
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>How the Klan stole Christmas in Ohio--and what Ohioans did
- about it
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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