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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Black groups back KKK's white pride rally | World news | The Guardian
Friday October 22 1999
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The Rev Al Sharpton's National Action Network and African-American newspaper Amsterdam News filed papers backing the white supremacists in their bid to overturn a ban on the march imposed by the New York city police department. Two judges were due to hear the appeal in a Manhattan courtroom yesterday.
Elinor Tatum for Amsterdam News said yesterday that the group was backing the klan's right to march rather than the organisation itself. "Amsterdam News loathes and despises everything that the Klan stands for," she said. "But we believe we have to stand up for their constitutional right to march in New York City."
The court battle pitches the klan against Mayor Rudi Giuliani, who has tried to stop several controversial marches in New York in recent months and has publicly endorsed the action against the klan. In refusing the klan permission to stage the group's first organised rally in Manhattan tomorrow, the city cited a little-known law which bans the use of hoods and masks in public demonstrations.
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