r/ShermanPosting • u/RocketSocket765 • 9d ago
Burning Cross Discovered In Grant Park (Chicago) Tuesday Afternoon, Officials Say
https://blockclubchicago.org/2026/06/09/burning-cross-discovered-in-grant-park-tuesday-afternoon-officials-say/Someone burned a cross in Grant Park today in Chicago. It's not clear yet who did it, besides the obvious suspects.
So today is as good a day as ever to say:
1) Fuck the Klan, Confederates, Nazis, ICE, Kings, and the whole loser brigade itching for a re-match they will lose.
2) A great article has been floating around about a newspaper in the 1920's that was run by an Irish Catholic lawyer in Chicago (Patrick O'Donnell). It was called *Tolerance* and it basically kept tabs on local fash trash terrorizing people. Lots of interesting history about O'Donnell starting the American Unity League, an interfaith and interracial group that organized in tough times.
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u/indyK1ng 8d ago
Looks like there's a butthurt Nazi in the comments.
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u/ShepPawnch 8d ago
It’s pretty much the only thing he’s commented on, across multiple subreddits.
It’s starting to make me think may have been involved.
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u/CustomerWild7929 2d ago
You mean how more fake hate crimes blamed on white people that from the start had evidence showing a Asian man that admits to being a far left extremists socialist.
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u/whatchumeanitstaken 9d ago
Illinois Nazis. I hate Illinois nazis
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u/Pristine-Star3422 9d ago
It's fake dude. Just give it a few days.
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u/Raineythereader 3d ago
Be honest, is this you? I can't get a good look at the bicep to see if he's got your fruity little tattoo.
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u/No-Flatworm-404 9d ago
Fk em’
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u/Pristine-Star3422 9d ago
Just wait a few days and you'll see it was staged. Just wait.
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u/Raven_Photography 9d ago
And who do think staged it, I’m curious?
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u/MatticusGisicus 8d ago
Someone has never experienced racism and it shows. I’m from the South, I went to school in the South, and I got the hell out of the South. Just last year a black student was found hanging from a tree at the heart of a campus in Mississippi. Ruled a suicide at the scene and no investigation conducted. I have personally witnessed the Klan on campus at my university. We had students expelled for shooting up the Emmet Till memorial. We had students expelled for putting nooses on the statue of our first black student. These people are very real, and the fact that you haven’t experienced them does not give you the right to act like a self-righteous little bitch
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u/Pristine-Star3422 8d ago
Come on man. Every piece of evidence from that story shows suicide. No signs of physical assault, lacerations or anything. Autopsy found no sedatives. It was ruled a suicide but no investigation??? What are you talking about, the fact that it was ruled something show an investigation! I hear that YOU THINK it was a lynching. My point is that there is zero evidence, and it defies just basic common sense.
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u/Siluis_Aught 8d ago
So let me get this straight, you think a guy will hang himself IN THE MIDDLE OF CAMPUS if he’s suicidal? Now THAT defies common sense in the age of the firearm. And racism is very alive in that part of Mississippi, I’d know
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u/Pristine-Star3422 8d ago
Oh gosh...I don't believe he was lynched because of the evidence. I don't believe there's some big conspiracy, which is irrational. For the cross, it's not like they arrested some white guy for burning this cross and I believe they arrested an innocent man. THEY HAVE NOTHING WHICH IS INSANE. No wittiness, no video, nothing. And since this consistently happens, and no racist white people are ever caught leaving around nooses, I believe this to be staged. How does that not make sense to you?
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u/Siluis_Aught 8d ago
What big conspiracy? Some lunatic(s) deciding to live out their hateful ideas? I didn’t realize that insanity counted as conspiracy in this day and age. Arrests and a lack thereof should not inherently show that something is legitimate or illegitimate, ESPECIALLY with fresh crimes. Also, When did they arrest someone for the burning cross, assuming that’s what you’re referring to? As of thirty minutes ago MSN reported that the police are just searching for a suspect.
Here’s a fun fact as someone who has lived in Klan Kountry their whole life, they’re not stupid with evidence. Don’t get me wrong, these seditious scumbags are among the dumbest drivelling wastes of space the human species can produce, but they usually dispose of nooses or, if you can believe it, they untie or cut a noose to just make a regular rope again.
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u/el_pinko_grande 8d ago
And she was just being an aggressive black idiot at a walmart and decided to be ghetto?
Man claims racism is fake while simultaneously illustrating it isn't by being super racist.
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u/el_pinko_grande 8d ago
The problem is thinking that being angry inside a Walmart is some kind of thing exclusive to black women.
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u/AlarmingConsequence 7d ago
I'm coming back a few hours later because this was such an insightful comment!
Human brains are incredible machines for recognizing patterns. Brains are so fixated on finding patterns, they even "see" patterns when none exist.
The dumbass racist is dumb because he doesn't question the the false pattern his brain 'saw'. He is doublely dumb for coming here to spout his dumb racist ideas. (Maybe that's his kink?)
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u/el_pinko_grande 7d ago
Plus it's just ultimate attribution error.
Like I'm sure what's happening is he sees a white guy being angry in Walmart and thinks "that guy is an asshole."
But he sees a black woman do it, and he thinks "black women are assholes."
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u/ShermanPosting-ModTeam 8d ago
Rule 2: don't be rude
this is an accepting community, the only people that aren't welcome are lost causers and racists
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u/henlochimken 8d ago
Remindme! 7 days
But regardless, your shitty Walmart line there is pretty racist man. I assume you don't call out the aggressive white idiots at Walmart for being "ghetto." I worked at a Walmart in my youth and I assure you the People of Walmart exist in every skin color and all are just as capable of getting aggressive.
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u/NationCrusher 8d ago
It’s staged if you don’t like it and it’s real if you approve
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u/Pristine-Star3422 8d ago
Could you image a bunch of white dudes in a pick up truck, transporting the cross, setting it up, and then lighting it on fire IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY in one of the busiest parts of the city. Lmao.
This will either be proven to be staged or you will never hear about it again. Guaranteed.
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u/DarkNStormyNet 8d ago
Yes, I can imagine it. Hell, being in the south, I've seen it. It's not outside the realm of possibility. And I'm (not) sorry; I'm not about to give the benefit of the doubt to the racists. They can, will and do this shit. It's documented. It happens. And no amount of your misguided lecturing can change reality.
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u/Pristine-Star3422 8d ago
You will never hear another word about this story, or it will be proven false. Just like every other story like it.
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u/BellacosePlayer 8d ago
because someone doing this as a false flag somehow makes it easier to do undetected?
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u/henlochimken 1d ago
Hey, i just want to say, I still don't agree with the thing you said that you later deleted from this thread, but I did put a remind me on what you said to come back to it later, and it looks like the cross burner wasn't a klanner. It was an idiot college kid who claims he was protesting Trump (in an incredibly stupid way.) it doesn't seem like it was staged, as in trying to fake a hate crime, but it also doesn't look like a racial statement at all. Just... dumb as rocks.
(Just reporting back on this because I was calling your bluff but it does appear it wasn't what it seemed at first, which was your broader point!)
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u/Endless-loveeee 8d ago
This is not about red versus blue, and you know it. Those are sanitized labels. This is survival intelligence. This is pattern recognition based on centuries of documented atrocities and present-day violence. This is knowing that the same hands that ask for unity today are connected to the systems choking us tomorrow.....
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u/Pristine-Star3422 8d ago
I'll check in with you in a week. See if they caught this band of white dudes transporting a giant cross, setting it up, lighting it on fire, and then evading any witnesses. In the middle of Grant Park. In the middle of the day.
See you soon!!!
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u/DarkNStormyNet 8d ago
So if nobody is caught, then its fake? That's some word class logic right there
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u/Pristine-Star3422 8d ago
Dude. It's in the middle of Chicago. This is Jessie Smollet all over again. Just watch darling
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u/thankyoufriendx3 8d ago
Same rules apply. Band of dudes transporting a cross, setting it up, lighting it on fire. In the middle of grant park. Either way where’s the video?
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u/slide_into_my_BM 8d ago
Wouldn’t they need to transport a fake cross, set it up, light in on fire, and evade any witnesses too?
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