{"id":10954,"date":"2014-11-03T14:26:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T19:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=10954"},"modified":"2014-11-03T14:26:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T19:26:32","slug":"avon-keen-is-full-of-horsecrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/03\/avon-keen-is-full-of-horsecrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Avon Keen Is Full Of Horsecrap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah. I said it.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Avon Keen, Danville&#8217;s Favorite Race Pimp and president of the local chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, held a press conference outside of the Danville Museum today. I didn&#8217;t know a damned thing about it because you can probably guess that SouthsideCentral isn&#8217;t on their mailing list.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the Register &amp; Bee was invited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godanriver.com\/news\/danville\/confederate-flag-could-be-subject-to-hate-crimes-laws\/article_54beed7c-637f-11e4-b497-001a4bcf6878.html\" target=\"_blank\">Somebody showed up and wrote this article about it<\/a>. (Register &amp; Bee article, paywall may apply unless your break through it). Sadly, I&#8217;m getting used to &#8220;<span class=\"author vcard\"><span class=\"fn\">GoDanRiver Staff<\/span><\/span>&#8221; not asking questions or challenging statements made by people (Not you, John Crane). I&#8217;ll repeat my headline now for you to make my point.<\/p>\n<h3>Avon Keen Is Full Of Horsecrap.<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>The citizens of Danville may have a legal claim under the First Amendment and hate statutes that \u201ccould cost taxpaying people a large sum of money,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I &#8220;may have&#8221; the winning Powerball tickets for the next 10 consecutive drawings. I &#8220;may have&#8221; monkeys flying out of my butt. I&#8217;ll repeat that headline again for you.<\/p>\n<h3>Avon Keen Is Full Of Horsecrap.<\/h3>\n<p>The citizens of Danville do not have a legal claim under the First Amendment nor under any hate statutes for anything that is Confederate flag related. Some person Full Of Horsecrap could try to file an action, but they would be laughed out of court rather quickly and deservedly.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the real story is, folks. Danville&#8217;s Confederate Flag issue was quickly resolved before the Race Pimps could even get started with an attempt to inject their racial divisiveness into the issue. That&#8217;s not acceptable to Avon Keen and his fellow Race Pimps. If Keen doesn&#8217;t inject himself into an issue that has racial controversy, people may start to forget that he even exists. Remember, Avon Keen and his fellow Race Pimps have absolutely no desire for racial harmony. If Danville becomes truly United (see what I did there, Danville United?), Avon Keen and his fellow Race Pimps have lost their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>The general public has a short attention span and don&#8217;t remember all of these racial &#8220;controversies&#8221; that Avon Keen has thrown himself into. Not me, baby! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/14\/yet-another-martinsville-taser-meeting-set-for-tuesday\/\" target=\"_blank\">I remember his efforts in that case in Martinsville when a drunk teenager got tased by a police officer and died<\/a>. Of course, the police officer was ruled justified because the teenager was attacking him. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/03\/time-machine-race-pimpin-aint-easy\/\" target=\"_blank\">I also remember when Avon Keen held a press conference about &#8220;racial tensions&#8221; at the Hughes Center<\/a>. Guess what? Absolutely nothing ever came out of that. Did you think that Avon Keen would hold another press conference saying that? HA! Not a chance. He just moves on to the next Racial Tension episode and blusters away.<\/p>\n<p>Avon Keen is smart. He knows there are a few &#8220;DON&#8217;T TAKE MAH FLAG CAUSE THE WAR AIN&#8217;T OVER&#8221; people out there who will embarrass themselves and make his cause look decent by default. He&#8217;ll probably get a few of those reactions now.I hope that doesn&#8217;t happen, but I&#8217;m betting that it will.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for all of the people of the Southside region to come together and denounce Avon Keen and his racially divisive stunts like this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/K2APyA1.jpg?resize=400%2C643\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"643\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah. 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