[Vision2020] White Supremacists Stage Rally in Coeur d'Alene

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of today's (January 14, 2012) Spokesman-Review.

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White supremacists stage rally in CdA

A dozen white supremacists demonstrated on Northwest Boulevard in Coeur d’Alene on Friday, waving Ku Klux Klan flags and signs supporting segregation.

Among the demonstrators was Shaun Winkler, who calls himself the Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the KKK. Winkler said his group plans another demonstration Monday – Martin Luther King Jr. Day – outside the human relations task force’s annual gala.

About 1,300 students from the Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls school districts who attended a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration Friday at North Idaho College saw the demonstration as their buses passed it en route back to school.

To Tony Stewart, co-founder of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, it was a teachable moment.

The students had just been learning about King and the civil rights movement in the 1960s, Stewart said.

“What the young minds saw,” he said, “is that we’re still not free from bigotry and prejudice in this country or any other country. … They didn’t leave thinking that there are no problems.”

The gala is the organization’s annual fundraiser, Stewart said. It raises money for programs such as the students’ MLK celebration, which has been held the last 27 years.

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Tony Stewart at the Northwest Committee on Human Relation's "Finding the Center" conference on November 5, 2011.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrI-eg6pPis

Seeya later, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Spokane, Washington

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown
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