Kennesaw councilman attends last meeting after resigning over Civil War shop

wahhhhhhhhhh, fat tard white councilman gets a case of the hurt feels.


Kennesaw councilman James “Doc” Eaton attended his last meeting Monday, resigning after the city renewed the business permit for the controversial Wildman’s Civil War Surplus — a store known for selling racist novelties on Main Street in the heart of downtown.

The store reopened last week under the new permit, prompting Eaton to announce his resignation effective June 21 and his daughter to announce that she would sell a building across the street from Wildman’s in protest of the reopening.

“The city issued the new business license, so now the new owner can perpetuate this blight and bigotry on Main Street,” Eaton said at the meeting. “Silence on issues that matter is agreement. It is not the sign of true leadership.”


Wildman’s Civil War Surplus has been a point of controversy in Kennesaw for years, with some saying the store promotes white supremacy and others saying it preserves history. Several items in the shop are labeled with racial slurs. A Ku Klux Klan mask sits on display near Jim Crow-era dolls and statues portraying Black people in a derogatory manner.
Dent “Wildman” Myers first opened the shop in 1971. When he died in January, some thought his business would close for good.

But the license was renewed by Marjorie Lyon, a longtime friend and employee of Myers and the trustee of the Dennis Alvah Myers Revocable Living Trust, which owns the corporation and the store.


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