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The Ku Klux Klan; Your Thoughts
Topic Started: May 15 2008, 02:18 PM (254 Views)
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Recently in history class, we watched a television special on the Ku Klux Klan, and white supremacy in the 50s and 60s (all the way up to present times).

The Klan's views -

They believe that they are doing what their "Lord and Saviour" would have done - spread white supremacy, because they believe that the white/Protestant race should become the all powerful.

They use terror, hatred, and death to spread their message to the world. They have unspeakable hatred for blacks, Jews, and everybody who isn't exactly as they envisioned - Much like Hitler, and the Aryan race.

I despite every thing that the Klan has ever stood for - violence and hatred. What are your thoughts on the Klu Klu Klan, and their political views?


Discuss

*Quoted from Wikipedia*

And for those who are a bit unsure of their thoughts, more information can be found here -

Wikipedia
 
Ku Klux Klan is the name of several past and present secret organizations in the United States, mostly in the South, that are best known for advocating white supremacy and acting as vigilantes while hidden behind conic masks and white robes. The first KKK arose in the turmoil after the Civil War. It used terrorism, violence, and lynching to intimidate and oppress African Americans.

The first Klan was founded in 1866 by veterans of the Confederate Army. Its purpose was to restore white supremacy in the aftermath of the American Civil War. The Klan resisted Reconstruction by intimidating "carpetbaggers", "scalawags" and freedmen. The KKK quickly adopted violent methods. The increase in murders finally resulted in a backlash among Southern elites who viewed the Klan's excesses as an excuse for federal troops to continue occupation. The organization declined from 1868 to 1870 and was destroyed by President Ulysses S. Grant's prosecution and enforcement under the Civil Rights Act of 1871.

In 1915, the second Klan was founded. It grew rapidly in another period of postwar social tensions. After WWI, many Americans coped with booming growth rates in major cities, where numerous waves of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and the Great Migration of Southern blacks and whites were being absorbed. After WWI, labor tensions rose as veterans tried to reenter the work force. In reaction to these new groups of immigrants and migrants, the second KKK preached racism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Communism, nativism, and anti-Semitism. Some local groups took part in lynchings, attacks on private houses and public property, and other violent activities. Members used ceremonial cross burning to intimidate victims and demonstrate its power. Murders and violence by the Klan were most numerous in the South, which had a tradition of lawlessness.


- as well as many other sources.

Wikipedia however, always has a possibility of being a biased website, as it is written by those who submit articles (your everyday viewers of the internet).

For more information, searching about the Klan is a good idea, however much of what you will find is Pro Klan.
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Edited by Sonic Flash, Nov 26 2008, 08:44 AM.
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Really? I always thought they were awesome because I was lied to.
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I will never forgive them for what they did. They're just a bunch of hateful bastards. That's what they are.
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they are very bad people - terrorizing my own birth place.
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They think they all gangsta like me,huh?
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As I said in my previous post, I will NEVER forgive them for the sins they have committed. They are nothing compared to Cruickshank.
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