A woman has issued an apology after ‘racist’ comments she made during a Black Lives Matter protest in Branson.
Kathy Jenkins, a woman who has gained some online notoriety after video of her spread shouting “KKK Belief” to a crowd off-camera, has made a public apology saying that she should not have said “ugly” things, but that she was also misrepresented.
“I don’t represent hate” Jenkins told KOLR10. She said she was chanting “Black Lives Matter” and that didn’t get on the video.
Jenkins says she has been locked out of Facebook and fired from her job, which she says she deserved.
In the video that reached the public’s eye on Monday, Jenkins holds a confederate flag in the back of a truck with another man.
Jenkins says, however, that she did not know who the owner of the truck was and was given the Confederate flag by someone else, which she assumed stood for unity.
“I hadn’t said anything until they came into my face… it’s like I blacked out. I don’t even remember saying half the stuff I said,” Jenkins told KOLR10, “I am so so sorry, if it would help if I could stand with Black Lives Matter I totally would.
Bransons’ Black Lives Matter protest organizers responded to Jenkins apology, saying her claim not to know she was on the opposing side was “absurd” and that she never said ‘black lives matter.’
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