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The Redneck Shop was a white nationalism and neo-Nazi clothing store in Laurens, South Carolina, which sold T-shirts, bumper stickers, and Ku Klux Klan robes, among other things. The building also featured a "Klan Museum" in a back room. It was decorated with posters of President Warren G. Harding, whom some allege was a Klan member, though many historians refute this.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Visit to South Carolina's Redneck Shop and Ku Klux Klan Museum )〕 ==Building ownership== The shop was located in a downtown Laurens building that formerly housed the Echo Theater. The building is currently owned by the Rev. David Kennedy, a black civil rights leader and Baptist pastor. The shop has acquired a great deal of publicity due to this unusual arrangement.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Shop of Horrors )〕 The building was formerly owned by Michael Burden, who was himself a Grand Dragon in the Ku Klux Klan. However, Burden found himself impoverished after leaving the KKK. Burden then approached Kennedy and apologized for his racist past, agreeing to sell Kennedy the deed to the Redneck Shop with the provision that store owner, John Howard, would be allowed to run the shop until his death. Kennedy accepted the deal, although Howard tried to sell the building in 2006 without Kennedy's permission and eventually led to a lawsuit that Howard lost.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=REALITY OF RACE: ‘Redneck Shop’ a Hotbed of Hate )〕〔 In 1996, a white man from West Columbia, South Carolina, drove his van into the Redneck Shop as a protest against the store's racism. Kennedy said that he later told the man that, while he obviously does not agree with Howard's views, he does not feel that violence is an appropriate response.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Redneck Shop」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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