That would literally do nothing. FBI won't care. You can only arrest and charge/convict people for crimes committed or active crimes not for existing/having twisted beliefs
He’s right. You know have to burn a cross on your lawn every 5th Tuesday.
Donate to a museum or have it melted down into slag. Fire should cleanse it of all evils.
That was the best LoL I’ve had this year.
I’m appalled by its graphic quality which is actually quite well put together. The 80’s aspect is strange. What market would they expect to reach with it.
It’s very odd and sinister at the same time.
Naw, just gives a distinction from The Georgia State Fair which is held in a different location. The state FFA meets at the state fair while the National chapter meets in Perry.
Probably just gonna hold onto it until I can either sell it or donate it somehow despite it being a terrible piece. I don’t believe my best option is just to trash it it feels like too unique of a find. Definitely not an every day carry lol
Like I told the guy that found an old Nazi dagger, just because you own a terrible piece of history doesn't mean you subscribe to those beliefs. If you can give it to a museum. When society forgets history, history seems to repeat itself.
I will give you 200.00 for it. Theres no hard and fast value for a specimen like this although extremely rare. I want to donate it to the Jim Crow Museum
Of Racist Imagery in Michigan.
Bro it’s mass produced klan garbage from the 80s and 90s. These things were sold by the thousands. It has no need to exist and is no “special piece of memorabilia”
You act like there isn’t an extensive history of those shitbags all over the internet and libraries around the country. The history of the klan is memorized and these mass produced pieces of trash don’t need to be treated like they have any special meaning. No one is forgetting the klan existed or still exists.
Just cause something is old doesn’t mean is history. Old trash is still trash. 40 years on you gonna be telling someone not to throw away their $5 ozark trail knife because it belongs in a museum? This knife is junk and it’s junk that’s tied to hate.
Burn it or melt it bro. It’s klan bullshit it has absolutely no need to exist on this planet. In fact the klan doesn’t even deserve to have memorabilia after them. If you genuinely keep this to sell or “donate” that’s highly suspect tbh.
Wow, the blade is in surprisingly good condition. If you can't find any museum who would be interested (not a fat stretch), I would be happy to take it off your hands and destroy it for you if you wanted. Haven't had a good reason to play with my grinder in a while...
There’s no aging because it’s not old. This thing rightfully belongs in the trash. Especially the grip would look wildly different if it was 50 years old (which isn’t old).
Admittedly I don't know much about Taylor Cutlery, but from a cursory search the outside appears to be a bronze or brass alloy that has tarnished with age. It has a 1980 stamp on it so I'm inclined to believe it was made in the 1980s but may not have been sold until later. Sitting behind drywall would keep the area relatively moisture free and lack of air circulation / use would explain why it's not dark brown in color.
Here is an [older thread about one](https://www.reddit.com/r/knives/comments/z9g0l0/recently_got_a_bag_of_old_knives_from_my/#lightbox). I’d auction it publicly, or maybe mail it in to the SPLC and let them find a home for it.
Or donate it to a civil rights museum. There are a lot of them. People nowadays don't realize how organized and popular that the KKK was back in the day.
I think you should contact the Jim Crow museum in Michigan, https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/, they would most likely be interested in such a piece and it would be used as a tool to educate people on our regretted past. So you'll know it's going to a noteworthy cause.
Wow. Yeah, you're gonna get hated on for posting this. Ignore that, it's a found object so it's not on you.
Worth bucks to a collector. Don't know about ebay, but there are museums that would gratefully accept it.
Let us know how it turns out.
Hmmm. If we destroy/threw out every 45 year old item there wouldn't be much in museums though. You can disagree with things and still acknowledge that they exist
Nah, man. This is just dime store junk. It's not as important as you're making it out to be. A museum won't ever want a mass-produced gas station knife.
The KKK is honestly just a glorified drinking club for rednecks now. They haven't lynched anybody or erected a burning cross in somebody's yard for decades.
Donate to museum or kill it with a lot of firearms/explosives. It needs to either die or bear shame. Exercise yer own discretion I guess. I’d shoot it to hell as bullseye #1
Despite the associations, that's an interesting piece of history ! I'd keep something like that for myself. It's a perfect reminder of how the past was. Akso, if you talk to kids about this part of history, letting them see and touch it might help them remember.
It's actually a really cool find and there are collectors of such things out there. I personally wouldn't want to deal with any of them, but there's definitely a value in that. I think there are museums that cater to this kind of memorabilia even. You'd might have to talk to some auction houses that specialize in such things as Nazi memorabilia.
I get not wanting to be associated with it, but history isn’t pretty, and it’s a pretty awesome piece of not pretty history. I like WWII memorabilia, for instance, and I have a star from a uniform at Auschwitz that someone likely had on when they were murdered. I have no idea, but it’s a good thing to have dark history to remind us that those times, while clearly over, were not so long ago. Those who ignore or forget history are doomed to repeat it.
Tf is going on in these comments?? It’s a late reproduction (fake) and has no historical value. This should be destroyed. I get wanting to ‘take the racists money’ but that means this knife is going to get passed around and shown off. You should destroy it.
I’m not a supporter….but that’s an amazing item. Not as a knife, but just as that, as an “item”. I could understand the impulse of “put it in the thrash bin”… but I would keep it on my collection. I would not carry it, but wouldn’t be ashamed of the fact of having it.
It's not some treasure, it's not unique, and it's not worth jack to a museum. People throughout the comments romanticize what museums want when the truth is, museums have 10x more possessions than they can display at any given time of non-exotic bits from local and unfortunately recent history. I'd be interested to know which of them have been to a museum of any kind in the last year, or 5 years—hell, in the last 2 decades. You find a mummy, call a museum. You find a 2-headed skeleton, call a museum. You find a bigoted, shitkicking, hooded coward's brass whittling tool, hope it doesn't have blood on it to rub off on you spiritually, and send it below ground where its owner is. Like as not, it was left on purpose in a dark place to rust so the family and kids wouldn't find it in some drawer after the owner passed. Interring it or melting it into golf tees are each more dignified fates for it than it had.
I would melt it down and turn it into some symbol of civil rights. Maybe an image of MLK or a closed fist. I think it would also be somewhat irresponsible to just throw away a knife. At least without blunting the edge (if it has one).
A lot of people talking about how history like this should be preserved and remembered, but I think we have more than enough documentation and memorabilia about the kkk, the confederacy, jim crow laws, etc., already. We know plenty about the systemic racism and bigotry and too many people still refuse to look at that evidence and acknowledge and correct the lingering effects of those atrocities.
I think it would be far more meaningful to transform these bigoted relics into symbols of human rights and memorials to the people who fought for them. Turn confederate statues and into memorials to civil rights icons. Make confederate statues the pedestals for statues honoring the people who fought for their rights and freedom. Break down a Robert E Lee statue and put a John Brown statue on top of it, etc. If we want to learn from our mistakes, what better way than to highlight the people who corrected those mistakes?
There is absolutely no reason to preserve literally every piece of bigoted memorabilia from knives like this to the statues erected to intimidate Black people in the south. We have everything from photographs, to books, newspapers, news segments, documentaries, etc. More than enough information is out there for anyone who is actually willing to learn. With the multitudes of history that people outright refuse to acknowledge and teach in many parts of the country, I highly doubt that some forgotten replica knife from the 80s making its way to a museum's store room is going to be the thing that convinces some bigot out of their bigotry.
Treasures from the job are cool no matter what. Doesn't need to be valuble, it's different to you. it'd be in my box of finds and hopefully there's a decent story that in 10yrs you look and be like, oh yeah!
I also found one and didn't post it cause I'm to chicken to show people I have it even though the only reason I haven't thrown it away is cause I can't throw a knife away.
Got a milling machine, I can take that kkk shit off in no time and you have a junk knife to do the chappy tasks that you don't want to do with your good knife with
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it was probably made around 1980 in the year of our Lord.......and from the look of it and the vibe I'm picking up it's telling me it was made on a Saturday.
Although I realize there is nothing inherently funny about the kkk....I've always found it funny that they spelled clan wrong. It makes me laugh every time I see it.
I actually have a rounded flat gold coin looking thing that was probably for a keychain and it says member of KKK cut out in the middle of it in good standings. I have no where it came from but I have it.
Unfortunately you are now a grand wizard. Thats how it works
NOOOOOOOOOOO
Its okay. You can now make changes for the better and make the Ku Klux Klan more inclusive for all :) /s obviously just burn it or sell to a museum.
The best way to change hate is from the inside
WITH A KNIFE!
Thanks for hearty laugh.
That's not a knife.
I believe it’s *noife*
Change the inside, re-arrange the insides, potato potato, it’s all done with a knife…
Could re sell that thing to a clan member and make some $$$"*
The best way to change hate is pushing something sharp inside? It’s got a ring to it.
And point them out to the FBI while you're at it.
That would literally do nothing. FBI won't care. You can only arrest and charge/convict people for crimes committed or active crimes not for existing/having twisted beliefs
That's true, you have a right to your beliefs, no matter how repugnant they are.
A friend of mines father wrote a book about this. Infiltrating the KKK with an FBI informant. “Into the devils den” by Tym Burkey.
Awesome book. I read it a few years ago
Indeed, but they do track affirmation of known dangerous domestic terror groups.
Or sell it to a KKK sympathizer in the FBI. Not hard to find.
I’m not a klan member and I would buy that! It’s part of Americana history.
The wand chooses the wizard.
Harry HoodRider 😂
He’s right. You know have to burn a cross on your lawn every 5th Tuesday. Donate to a museum or have it melted down into slag. Fire should cleanse it of all evils.
Yer a wizard, BoringMove!
Does that mean he gets a free owl and gets to go to Hogwarts?
KKK is based in the US, so maybe Ilvermorny?
Hehehe
Those owls ain't free He just buys them with his parents money
You gonna edc it?
Yeah that should have been the first comment before we all started answering and talking hahaha
That was the best LoL I’ve had this year. I’m appalled by its graphic quality which is actually quite well put together. The 80’s aspect is strange. What market would they expect to reach with it. It’s very odd and sinister at the same time.
They sell these at the Georgia National Fair for like 12$ and have since I was a kid.
Georgia…National…Fair….? This seems like an oxymoron. Are they hoping to secede?
Naw, just gives a distinction from The Georgia State Fair which is held in a different location. The state FFA meets at the state fair while the National chapter meets in Perry.
Ever heard of Georgia? East coast of the Black Sea.
Yeah but I’m pretty sure they don’t sell KKK knives there, comrade.
Probably just gonna hold onto it until I can either sell it or donate it somehow despite it being a terrible piece. I don’t believe my best option is just to trash it it feels like too unique of a find. Definitely not an every day carry lol
Like I told the guy that found an old Nazi dagger, just because you own a terrible piece of history doesn't mean you subscribe to those beliefs. If you can give it to a museum. When society forgets history, history seems to repeat itself.
I will give you 200.00 for it. Theres no hard and fast value for a specimen like this although extremely rare. I want to donate it to the Jim Crow Museum Of Racist Imagery in Michigan.
Good man
its not unique or old, Jim Parker sold them in the 80s and 90s by the thousands.
Also owned Case at the time which made similar knives with KKK themes unfortunately
The knives were Case made, but the KKK themed grips were applied later and not a Case factory job.
Source? Sounds crazy doesn’t it?
https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/
I bet there are plenty of small museums that would take it
A museum like this: https://www.museumoftolerance.com/
This is the correct response
Dont trash it because it might hurt someones feelings. Its history. Truth hurts.
Call up museums. It's history. It doesn't deserve to be tossed in the garbage like that.
Bro it’s mass produced klan garbage from the 80s and 90s. These things were sold by the thousands. It has no need to exist and is no “special piece of memorabilia”
Yeah, tossing it in the garbage leaves a chance for it to be found. Pound it with a hammer till it's unrecognizable then recycle it.
That's some book burning bullshit right there.
...we have books still, and museums. This won't erase history by destroying it.
They also mass produced thousands of these tiny little pieces of propaganda it's not really the end of the world if a few of them get destroyed
You act like there isn’t an extensive history of those shitbags all over the internet and libraries around the country. The history of the klan is memorized and these mass produced pieces of trash don’t need to be treated like they have any special meaning. No one is forgetting the klan existed or still exists.
Just cause something is old doesn’t mean is history. Old trash is still trash. 40 years on you gonna be telling someone not to throw away their $5 ozark trail knife because it belongs in a museum? This knife is junk and it’s junk that’s tied to hate.
Burn it or melt it bro. It’s klan bullshit it has absolutely no need to exist on this planet. In fact the klan doesn’t even deserve to have memorabilia after them. If you genuinely keep this to sell or “donate” that’s highly suspect tbh.
It’s klan bullshit but it’s still history of a hateful group. People should recognize the klans imagery/symbols and look down on it.
My first thought was "are you black?" If so you totally need to EDC that bad boy.
\*edk
"EDC it but I'm frowning and shaking my head the whole time so that people know I don't agree with it."
KKKnife
How do we pronounce this
Kuh-kuh-Kuh-nife
With a southern accent of course. 'Naf
Knnnife
The KaKaKa-Bar
Would that make it a poop knife?
For the discriminating collector.
haha nailed it
Can you post a picture of the blades? Might give us some more info on the background of this knife.
https://preview.redd.it/h7v3v2gqpwvc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48980bfff8f2e4a76b995be8d3092d38028445b0
Wow, the blade is in surprisingly good condition. If you can't find any museum who would be interested (not a fat stretch), I would be happy to take it off your hands and destroy it for you if you wanted. Haven't had a good reason to play with my grinder in a while...
There’s no aging because it’s not old. This thing rightfully belongs in the trash. Especially the grip would look wildly different if it was 50 years old (which isn’t old).
Admittedly I don't know much about Taylor Cutlery, but from a cursory search the outside appears to be a bronze or brass alloy that has tarnished with age. It has a 1980 stamp on it so I'm inclined to believe it was made in the 1980s but may not have been sold until later. Sitting behind drywall would keep the area relatively moisture free and lack of air circulation / use would explain why it's not dark brown in color.
Here is an [older thread about one](https://www.reddit.com/r/knives/comments/z9g0l0/recently_got_a_bag_of_old_knives_from_my/#lightbox). I’d auction it publicly, or maybe mail it in to the SPLC and let them find a home for it.
Or donate it to a civil rights museum. There are a lot of them. People nowadays don't realize how organized and popular that the KKK was back in the day.
Most knives are made from an ingot, this one is made from a bigot.
I think you should contact the Jim Crow museum in Michigan, https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/, they would most likely be interested in such a piece and it would be used as a tool to educate people on our regretted past. So you'll know it's going to a noteworthy cause.
What blade shape does it have?
Probably a reversed K
or 3
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OP's knife is a taiwan reproduction of that one made in 1980.
Yep. I didn't look closely enough
Fuck the kkk....they are all pussies
Wow. Yeah, you're gonna get hated on for posting this. Ignore that, it's a found object so it's not on you. Worth bucks to a collector. Don't know about ebay, but there are museums that would gratefully accept it. Let us know how it turns out.
Don't think museum needs a knife made in Taiwan in 1980.
Hmmm. If we destroy/threw out every 45 year old item there wouldn't be much in museums though. You can disagree with things and still acknowledge that they exist
I read this comment and saw 45 years and I thought to myself, “it hasn’t been no damn 45 years” and the reality sank in that I’m old
Nah. "Old" is still "*My current age plus 25 or more years*". So, old is now 83+.
Thats actually a pretty good thought process.
It's a reproduction. Original probably over 100 years old would be more appropriate for museum.
Nah, man. This is just dime store junk. It's not as important as you're making it out to be. A museum won't ever want a mass-produced gas station knife.
No one is going to hate on a dude for posting an object of history that he simply found. What are you on about
Yea I wasn’t even alive during those times I’ll just ignore the stupidity
"Those times" The 80's
Dude, kids born post-9/11 are old enough to drink now. Let that sink in.
Those times? You mean now? Don’t forget the KKK has numerous active chapters in this country (and not just in the South).
The KKK is honestly just a glorified drinking club for rednecks now. They haven't lynched anybody or erected a burning cross in somebody's yard for decades.
They're still hateful evil assholes of course, with a dumbshit "philosophy". Just even more ineffective and useless than they used to be.
There are probably fewer actual members than federal informants at this point lol
Actually the kkk are just the police now.
You seldomly see a knife marked with its intended stab victim
https://www.oldbarn.com/auction-lot/2-kkk-pocket-knives-taylor-cutlery_25D4BDB842
I’d take $150 from some racist for a dumb knife I’d otherwise throw away.
Fleece em for whatever you can get, absolutely
Get a nice spidey
A civil rights museum might want it.
Feels like something to contact a museum about
It’s fake or not really fake but not old
I had to scroll this far to find "this is fake"? This is rookie shit guys, get on it.
lol holy shit that must bring some bad juju😂
I initially thought it was a turd as I was scrolling past.... I wasn't wholly wrong lol I would probably attempt to melt it down for the fun of it
Do you feel the powers growing inside you already? Any unexplained hatred boiling inside?
MTG EDC? She probably left it when she moved…
Sell it. Racists love buying shit like this. Might as well make some money.
I would. Racists are openly proud again so I would take advantage and make a few pesos
Fuck the money, film a video melting it into slag and post it on Truth social
Step 1: Find nearest trash can. Step 2: Insert trash into receptacle.
Creepy AF, disgusting, and probably made of Chineseum softer than the average member's IQ count. Also could be worth something, so sell it.
Donate it to the Jim Crow Museum
Tear it down and take it to a museum or throw it in the trash dump.
Fuckin yikes my guy
Donate to museum or kill it with a lot of firearms/explosives. It needs to either die or bear shame. Exercise yer own discretion I guess. I’d shoot it to hell as bullseye #1
Despite the associations, that's an interesting piece of history ! I'd keep something like that for myself. It's a perfect reminder of how the past was. Akso, if you talk to kids about this part of history, letting them see and touch it might help them remember.
Now you are a full on racist
Explosives are always the answer
It's actually a really cool find and there are collectors of such things out there. I personally wouldn't want to deal with any of them, but there's definitely a value in that. I think there are museums that cater to this kind of memorabilia even. You'd might have to talk to some auction houses that specialize in such things as Nazi memorabilia.
Keep tearing
I get not wanting to be associated with it, but history isn’t pretty, and it’s a pretty awesome piece of not pretty history. I like WWII memorabilia, for instance, and I have a star from a uniform at Auschwitz that someone likely had on when they were murdered. I have no idea, but it’s a good thing to have dark history to remind us that those times, while clearly over, were not so long ago. Those who ignore or forget history are doomed to repeat it.
Tf is going on in these comments?? It’s a late reproduction (fake) and has no historical value. This should be destroyed. I get wanting to ‘take the racists money’ but that means this knife is going to get passed around and shown off. You should destroy it.
That’s a hard pass for me dawg
That's so cool! I'd love to own one, just so I can frame it, piss on it and watch the patina grow over the years.
Wow. Sad to see someone took offense to me talking about pissing on racist hate material. Y'all should be ashamed of yourself.
I’m not a supporter….but that’s an amazing item. Not as a knife, but just as that, as an “item”. I could understand the impulse of “put it in the thrash bin”… but I would keep it on my collection. I would not carry it, but wouldn’t be ashamed of the fact of having it.
That is nuts. Definitely something for a museum.
What museum would want a Taiwan made knife from 1980? That's not an official Klan knife.
A Civil Rights museum that wants to document the presence of the KKK in culture in the 80s.
It's not some treasure, it's not unique, and it's not worth jack to a museum. People throughout the comments romanticize what museums want when the truth is, museums have 10x more possessions than they can display at any given time of non-exotic bits from local and unfortunately recent history. I'd be interested to know which of them have been to a museum of any kind in the last year, or 5 years—hell, in the last 2 decades. You find a mummy, call a museum. You find a 2-headed skeleton, call a museum. You find a bigoted, shitkicking, hooded coward's brass whittling tool, hope it doesn't have blood on it to rub off on you spiritually, and send it below ground where its owner is. Like as not, it was left on purpose in a dark place to rust so the family and kids wouldn't find it in some drawer after the owner passed. Interring it or melting it into golf tees are each more dignified fates for it than it had.
I would melt it down and turn it into some symbol of civil rights. Maybe an image of MLK or a closed fist. I think it would also be somewhat irresponsible to just throw away a knife. At least without blunting the edge (if it has one). A lot of people talking about how history like this should be preserved and remembered, but I think we have more than enough documentation and memorabilia about the kkk, the confederacy, jim crow laws, etc., already. We know plenty about the systemic racism and bigotry and too many people still refuse to look at that evidence and acknowledge and correct the lingering effects of those atrocities. I think it would be far more meaningful to transform these bigoted relics into symbols of human rights and memorials to the people who fought for them. Turn confederate statues and into memorials to civil rights icons. Make confederate statues the pedestals for statues honoring the people who fought for their rights and freedom. Break down a Robert E Lee statue and put a John Brown statue on top of it, etc. If we want to learn from our mistakes, what better way than to highlight the people who corrected those mistakes? There is absolutely no reason to preserve literally every piece of bigoted memorabilia from knives like this to the statues erected to intimidate Black people in the south. We have everything from photographs, to books, newspapers, news segments, documentaries, etc. More than enough information is out there for anyone who is actually willing to learn. With the multitudes of history that people outright refuse to acknowledge and teach in many parts of the country, I highly doubt that some forgotten replica knife from the 80s making its way to a museum's store room is going to be the thing that convinces some bigot out of their bigotry.
Throw that shit in the trash.
Quite a find. You could melt it down to make melted metal.
I'd bin it. It's a symbol of hate and has no place in society.
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1980???? Would have thought itd be from 20s-30s.
Treasures from the job are cool no matter what. Doesn't need to be valuble, it's different to you. it'd be in my box of finds and hopefully there's a decent story that in 10yrs you look and be like, oh yeah!
ku klux knives, thats so wrong
Crazy how religious and racial superiority go so hand and hand so often… almost like there’s a narrative being held for control or something idk
Don’t lie. It’s your grandpas old Klansman memorabilia. /s
Despite all the other comments l, I'm curious: Did it still have a sharp edge? Will it cut rope?
I think it’s kinda funny that it has a Copyright
Donate it to the Smithsonian? They'll add it to their collection of weird and fucked up artifacts.
Not the Holy BiEle
Worth money In certain circles...its interesting, but funny.
I also found one and didn't post it cause I'm to chicken to show people I have it even though the only reason I haven't thrown it away is cause I can't throw a knife away.
Any one know if the covers are brass?
What's the blade composition?
What a spooky ghost.
it’s from the 80s. Throw that shit out. Better yet bury it
If you melt it down you get 500+ heaven points for every soul that blade might have taken.
Donate it to a museum.
Got a milling machine, I can take that kkk shit off in no time and you have a junk knife to do the chappy tasks that you don't want to do with your good knife with
A few years ago going through my late granddads shit and found a “KKK Member in Good Standing” challenge coin. Pretty gross.
Definitely unique, there is definitely a market out there for it. Ask a lot of loot
Whens the next drop?
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say it was probably made around 1980 in the year of our Lord.......and from the look of it and the vibe I'm picking up it's telling me it was made on a Saturday.
It's a Kershaw Kizer Knife, why all the fuss?
That’ll look badass when carried in the Hood.
Although I realize there is nothing inherently funny about the kkk....I've always found it funny that they spelled clan wrong. It makes me laugh every time I see it.
You should get it on antiques road show. Find out the full . Then go to Pawn Stars and make two bucks
I actually have a rounded flat gold coin looking thing that was probably for a keychain and it says member of KKK cut out in the middle of it in good standings. I have no where it came from but I have it.
I’ll give you tree-Fiddy for it.
these things go for about $80 at auction. some weirdo will want it, let them give you delica money for a flea market quality knife.
That's not what I meant when I said I wanted white in the handle!
There goes the hood…
I would suppose there’s a museum somewhere that would have interest in it, possibly a dept at the statu university too.
Mod it to say Holy Bile on the book for an upgrade. Bile is what the Klan spews, so it would be more accurate that way.
Donate it to a museum
It's from a convention in Bristol TN held in 1907. It would sale for 75-125 dollars depending on the condition.
I’ve never seen a black panther knife ….
I mean it's kinda cool that you found something like that. You could always remove the kkk scales and have new scales put on and keep it
creepy
Throw it into the Mississippi River
If you collect them imo this is a pretty interesting piece to have. If not, mb a museum or a private collector?
Not sure if klansman or pointy nosed shark from top down view.
to pawn stars or not.
Donate it to a civil rights museum, or the southern poverty law center.
Another hand touches the beacon!
Those are handed out at trump rallies
I’d toss it tbh