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From BET<\/em> \u2013<\/p>\n

The Black church has taken over the\u00a0KKK, or at least a store selling its memorabilia in South Carolina.<\/p>\n

A circuit court judge recently ruled that New Beginnings Baptist Church is the rightful property owner of the Redneck Shop, which operates as a so-called Klan museum, selling robes and t-shirts with racial slurs.<\/p>\n

According\u00a0to court documents, in 1997, ownership of the Laurens, South Carolina building in which the store exists was transferred to the Rev. David Kennedy and his church, by a Klansman fighting with others within the hate group. A clause in the deed, however, entitled John Howard, a former KKK\u00a0grand dragon\u00a0for the Carolinas, to operate his business in the building until he dies.<\/p>\n

After years of trying to have the property inspected, Howard was sued by Kennedy, New Beginnings and others in 2008 in an effort to void the agreement and, on Dec. 9, 2011, a judge ruled in Kennedy and the church\u2019s favor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been a long time coming,\u201d Kennedy, who learned of the ruling this week,\u00a0told\u00a0the Associated Press. \u201cWe knew we had done everything right. \u2026 The court knows that we have suffered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kennedy claims that because of the store, his congregation\u2019s numbers have decreased as some of its 200 members became fearful of reprisals from Klan members. The congregants also found Nazi and Confederate symbols and dead animals left outside of the mobile home where the church now meets, though it is not known if Klansmen were responsible.<\/p>\n

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