Judge rules black church is landlord of KKK store | The Raw Story

Judge rules black church is landlord of KKK store | The Raw Story: A store in South Carolina that sells Ku Klux Klan paraphernalia isn’t backing down after the pastor of an African American church that owns the building promised the business would “come to an end.”

The Associated Press reported Tuesday that a judge found the New Beginnings Baptist Church to be the rightful owner of the Redneck Shop in Laurens.

In 1997, Klan infighting led to the store being sold to New Beginnings, but store proprietor John Howard, a former KKK grand dragon for the Carolinas, allegedly has lifetime rights to operate the business, according to a clause in the deed.