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<DIV>On Mon, 30 May 2005 20:08:54 -0700 <A
href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</A> writes:</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000080 face="Comic Sans MS" size=2>Why did the KKK try to
burn his house down?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000080 face="Comic Sans MS"
size=2>Jeanene</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>The KKK hated many different demographic groups. There were really three
different incarnations of the KKK also. The earliest, 1866-1877, not only wanted
to terrorize newly freed slaves and anybody with dark complexion -- no matter
how long they had been free or how well educated or skilled they were -- the KKK
<EM>also </EM>terrorized anybody in the southern states who had Republican
sympathies, and anyone who fought in the Union army. My mother's family was
Republican all the way back then, and my great-great-grandfather was a Union
army veteran. Hundreds of thousands of southern men fought for the Union, just
as hundreds of thousands of northern men agitated for the Confederacy.</DIV>
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<DIV>The second KKK, started in 1915, despised black people, Mexicans, eastern
Europeans, recent immigrants in general, Catholics and Jews. It was much more
open, controlled the state government of such well known southern states as
Indiana, included many ministers and politicians and doctors. Back in Tennessee,
my grandmother, before she married, worked as a receptionist for a lawyer who
received a visit from a local KKK rep. The purpose was to inform the lawyer, as
a local business man, what his annual assessment to support the Klan would be.
He came around the desk in his second floor downtown office, picked the man up,
and threw him down the stairs.</DIV>
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<DIV>The third KKK emerged in the 1950s as a response to civil rights. It was
more violent, less well organized, and adopted the Confederate battle flag as
its symbol. (The 1920s KKK carried the American flag in its parades). Kind of
unfortunate, because before the 1950s, nobody really took offense at the
confederate flag the way they do now. So says a friend of mine who was among the
first eight students sent to a junior high school in South Carolina that had
previously been reserved for children with a congenital melanin deficiency. On
the other hand, before the 1950s, no state had the confederate battle flag on
its state flag -- putting it there WAS a defiant response to civil rights. So
around and around we go.</DIV>
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<DIV>There isn't much left of the KKK now. I think they picket tanning salons as
a threat to the purity of the white race or something. They still haven't read
II Kings 5:27.</DIV>
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<DIV>Siarlys</DIV></BODY></HTML>