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Examples
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Is there any audio or videotape of a KKK cross-burning rally?
Think Progress » KKK has ‘reversed declining membership’ in recent years. 2010
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From cross-burning to pseudo-scientific racism: to journey so far but stay so close to home.
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Hardly the white robe-wearing, cross-burning stuff that the organization should be challenging.
Josh Ruebner: The Organization That Cries Wolf Josh Ruebner 2010
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Get him to SC to pick up his sheet, hood, and cross-burning kit and instructios!
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Get him to SC to pick up his sheet, hood, and cross-burning kit and instructios!
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The story in The Georgetown Heckler describes the official campus paper, The Hoya, holding a fictional cross-burning on campus and refers to "dark, human-shaped pinatas."
Campus Life 2010
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Hardly the white robe-wearing, cross-burning stuff that the organization should be challenging.
Josh Ruebner: The Organization That Cries Wolf Josh Ruebner 2010
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Federal authorities are stepping up enforcement against hate crimes, filing charges in a racially motivated cross-burning and announcing the sentencing this week of a Massachusetts man for burning a predominantly African American church the morning after President Obama's election.
Hate-crimes enforcement on rise, reflecting administration priorities Jerry Markon 2010
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The story in The Georgetown Heckler describes the official campus paper, The Hoya, holding a fictional cross-burning on campus and refers to "dark, human-shaped pinatas."
Diversity 2009
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If only we could restore cross-burning to what it meant before the KKK was founded .....
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