[GCFL-discuss] Burning Houses

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On Mon, 30 May 2005 20:08:54 -0700 gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net writes:
Why did the KKK try to burn his house down?
Jeanene
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 also 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.

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.

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.

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.

Siarlys
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