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Re: New to South, L.A.'s Ms. Bernstein says vendor has 'no right' to sell pro-white civil rights T-shirts

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From: tedorn44
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 12:01
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George Washington Admirer wrote:
> Absolutely fascinating: A Los Angeles Jewess moves to North Carolina
> and within weeks is demanding that the locals don't have a right to
> sell or wear a T-shirt addorned with the VERY innocuous phrase
> "Confederately Correct - Civil Rights for Southern Whites."
>
>   As a white American of European heritage from a working-class New
> York City background who's been discriminated against due to his race
> *since* *childhood*, I nevertheless have never tried to deny the right
> of free speech to those I've seen (on many hundreds of occasions,
> moreover) wearing T-shirts blaring *truly* racist (anti-white)
> sentiments.
>
>   In Los Angeles, the city from which Ms. Bernstein -- the shrill,
> "politically correct" recent transplant to North Carolina profiled
> below -- hails I've seen scores and scores of T-shirts adorned with
> statements such as "La Raza"; "Mexican Power"; "Por La Raza todo, por
> ellos fuera de La Raza nada" ("For The Race everything, for those
> outside The Race nothing"); "It's a Black Thang" etc. etc. Were I to
> ever publically and ostentatiously object to anyone wearing/selling
> such tee shirts I would have to consider the possibility of being
> prosecuted for having committed a "hate crime" or perpetrated a
> "bias-motivated incident."
>
>   Funny, but I don't recall ever having read of Ms. Bernstein, when she
> was still living in her native L.A., raising hell about any of the
> types of T-shirts described above as she did in her new home after
> seeing the comparatively innocent statement "Civil Rights for Southern
> Whites" on a tee shirt.
>
>   It seems it's just fine in post-America America for white Americans
> to be serially discriminated against on account of race in employment,
> education, government and private loans and just about every other
> important area of life . . . but God forbid one of those *being*
> *discriminated* *against* merely offers for sale a T-shirt expressing a
> relatively innocuous desire NOT to be granted special race-based
> preferences but merely that their own Constitutionally-guaranteed civil
> rights be recognized and respected: in that case, expect people such as
> the "political correctness" nazi Ms. Bernstein to call you a "hater"
> and to dispute your right to express your desire for justice.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Woman jailed in battle to have slogan T-shirt removed from fair
>
> She viewed design as promoting racism
>
> BY YVONNE M. WENGER
> The Post and Courier
>
> Deanna Bernstein of Summerville wanted to spend a night at the Coastal
> Carolina Fair eating the food and enjoying the rides and playing the
> games. Instead, she ended up in jail.
>
> When Bernstein passed a vendor selling a T-shirt Wednesday with
> Confederate flags and the words "Confederately Correct Civil Rights for
> Southern Whites," her stomach turned.
>
> Bernstein said the T-shirt promotes racism. In fighting to have it
> removed, she was charged with trespassing.
>
> "If people don't like it, then complain, use your voice," said
> Bernstein, 38, a California native who is white.
>
> She asked the vendor to remove the shirt and complained to fair
> management. When the T-shirt wasn't put away, a friend bought one for
> Bernstein and she stood outside the fair gates with the T-shirt in hand
> to ask people coming in what they thought about it.
>
> In the 10 minutes Bernstein said she stood there, she said most people
> were complacent about it but some who passed her said they liked the
> shirt.
>
> "What I see is the adults are perpetuating all of this," Bernstein
> said. "These children are going by and they see the T-shirt and they
> think hatred is OK. How could anything change?"
>
> Charleston County sheriff's deputies asked Bernstein to leave. When she
> didn't, she was arrested on a trespassing charge and fined $440, and
> she said she spent about eight hours in the county detention center.
>
> Bernstein said she was confused by the arrest because she had paid
> admission and was not disruptive.
>
> Chip Boling, president of the Coastal Carolina Fair, said Bernstein was
> well-mannered, but he said she was asked six times to leave for
> violating the fair's policy against expressing political views on the
> private property.
>
> "The reason she was arrested was because she refused to leave the
> grounds," Boling said. "She was advised she was trespassing. It was an
> unfortunate thing, but it was her choice."
>
> Likewise, Boling said fair security asked people distributing campaign
> literature to leave the grounds throughout the 10-day fair that ended
> Saturday. He said in his 20 years with the fair, he knows of no other
> similar arrests. Boling said the fair respects individuals' rights to
> personal beliefs and would not take a position on the T-shirt.
>
> The Charleston County Sheriff's Office could not provide a copy of the
> arrest report. A spokesman declined to comment until a report was
> available for him to review.
>
> The American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina supports the free
> speech rights of Bernstein and the vendor, spokeswoman Barbara Joslin
> said. But private property owners have a right to decide exactly what
> takes place on their land, she said.
>
> Dot Scott, president of the Charleston branch of the National
> Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said she would not
> take a position on whether the T-shirt was in good taste. However,
> Scott said if she had seen the T-shirt she probably would not have
> objected in the same way. "I probably have thick skin, because I am so
> used to seeing it," she said.
>
> Scott said her concern is that the fair's policy is written and equally
> applied to all attendees and whether a written policy addresses what
> merchandise is prohibited.
>
> Boling said the policy against political expression is not written but
> is a long-standing practice that is equally applied. In regard to what
> vendors can sell, Boling said the fair's unwritten practice is to
> prohibit merchandise with profanity or pornography. "Obviously, we may
> be looking at it further to see if it is something we need to do,"
> Boling said of any potential vendor limitations.
>
> Bernstein said she did not believe the vendor had the right to sell the
> shirts, because she said it was offensive and inappropriate for
> children to see. "The more people generalize, the more people hate, the
> more divided the cultures are going to be," said Bernstein, who moved
> from Los Angeles nine weeks ago. "It is so ugly here in the South."
>
> Bernstein said she does not have a record of protesting but felt it was
> her duty to speak up about the T-shirt for her 15-month-old son. "I am
> raising a child and what kind of mother would I be if I didn't fight to
> change something as gross as this?" Bernstein said.
>
> After seeing what she perceives as racism in the area, Bernstein said
> she plans to move as soon as she can afford it. She wants the fair's
> management to apologize and drop the charge. She also wants the
> managers to provide fair staff with diversity training and have a booth
> at next year's fair that promotes multiculturalism. She said she
> contacted all the fair's sponsors to ask them to consider the situation
> when giving future support.
>
> Boling said he does not know why the fair should apologize. "We tried
> not to send her to jail," he said.
>
> The fair's objective is to retain a family-friendly atmosphere that
> improves the community by providing donations to organizations
> throughout the Lowcountry for program costs, Boling said.
>
> Photo of Ms. Bernstein accompanies article at website:
> http://www.charleston.net/assets/webPages/departmental/news/Stories.aspx
> ?section=localnews&tableId=117415&pubDate=11/7/2006
>
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Incident occured in South Carolina. Same Jewess.

ted
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