The KKK

[Otis McNutt 395]

This is gonna start some discussions.

A big problem in the world today is race relations. it's the 21st century and we still have hatred towards people just because they have more melanin in they're skin. One of the most egregious perpetrators of this atrocities id the KKK, but what is it exactly?

Ku Klux Klan (KKK) 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 masks and 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.

The film The Birth of a Nation and the sensationalized newspaper coverage of the trial, conviction and lynching of Leo Frank of Georgia sparked the Klan's revival. The second Klan was a formal fraternal organization, with a national and state structure. At its peak in the mid-1920s, the organization included about 15% of the nation's eligible population, approximately 4

[Joshawott 7]

The irony of the KKK's Christian extremist ideals: they're anti-semitic, yet Jesus himself was a Jew.

[Odin 0]

The KKK? They be stupid.

[Otis McNutt 395]

The irony of the KKK's Christian extremist ideals: they're anti-semitic, yet Jesus himself was a Jew.

Don't tell them that, they'd probably lynch you.

[Young Link Addict 67]

I just learned about the KKK today, that's ironic, and I really hate those racist bas*****. They should just give up the Civil War ended 200 years ago. They should just GIVE UP.

[Joshawott 7]

Don't tell them that, they'd probably lynch you.

Lynchings turn me on.

-watches the Saddam Hussein video on YouTube-

[ZuZu 10]

I do not support the views of the KKK at all, but if people have an interest in the topic of Racism, you do some research and you will see that there are a lot of misconceptions about the KKK. for example, there was a surprisingly large amount of black klansmen and The KKK hate a lot of white people too.

[eyeoftruth 2]

Good ol Ku Klux Klan. Never can get quite enough of them can we?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e77hse-M_VM...feature=related

[Goron Merchant 1]

Racism is obviously bad.

There's not much to discuss. . .

[Max 10]

let's not forget about sexism, though. Women where givin the right to vote way after blacks.

Cool little fact-

Nothing in the constitution ever stated that blacks or women couldn't vote. It did, however say that voting would abide the laws of the state itself; but all the states said that black people and women couldn't vote in their state.

[IAmVaati 0]

Ah, yes, the KKK... those @#( &^%&(#* (#^***#^ !%@*#(^ $* %^^&$% #(?! **&^... I'd like to turn them all to stone... and then pour hydrochloric acid all over them. Which reminds me of some guy who just hacked into zeldauniverse.net and put the freaking N word (yes, that word), and said that they were owned... they even spelled out the word. It's horrible. One of the mods now knows, but by Din, they'd better clean up fast. These racist m*&^() f&*()^ing sons of b%^&*es were like the KKK... on the Internet. It's horrifying....

[Time of the essence 0]

those @$$holes my friend is catholic

[Gannon's Biohazard 0]

the kkk is ran by hip hop harry... if you notice all the followers are getting smaller and smaller... he is using his show as a subliminal medium to control kids to hate.... be cautious you have been warned!