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The kkk is fucking retarded.


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Correction in terms

 

Armenhammer---The Klan doesn't "burn" crosses, they "light" crosses. The method they use (wrapping a wooden cross in kereosene-soaked burlap) is traditional and dates from the period after the War Between the States.

There have been three versions of the Klan. The original KKK was only active a few years after the war, and died out as Reconstruction ended and the DEMOCRATIC PARTY (yes, the very same Democratic Party) returned to power in state after state in the Old South and reversed the gains made by freed blacks during Reconstruction. Many of the so-called "Jim Crow" laws were passed by state legislatures under the DEMOCRATIC PARTY during this period.

 

Here in Texas the Republicans and the Radical Republicans (both strong ABOLITIONIST parties) tried to hang onto power in Austin (the state capital) after they were defeated by a resurgent Democratic Party. At the time Reconstruction ended in Texas (1876), Texas had been under martial law (no civil liberties for anyone who fought for the Confederacy) for almost ten years. When Reconstruction ended (by order of the U.S. Congress) hundreds of thousands of "disenfranchised" voters (read "former Confederates") surged to the polls and swept all Republicans from office. There was not another Republican governor of Texas for more than 100 years. The state constitution was re-written, and among other things, the open wearing of sidearms was banned in Texas for the very first time, along with the prohibition on carrying of Bowie knives, dirks, stillettoes, poiniards, tomahawks, blackjacks, pipe clubs and some other weapons. Rifles and shotguns were not prohibited (only handguns) and are not prohibited even today. You can carry a rifle or shotgun right down Main Street, completely legally.

 

The second phase of the Klan was in the post-WWI period. The Klan grew stronger and stronger until 1924, when there was a nation-wide scandal about embezzled funds and a sex scandal involving Klan leaders and under-aged prostitutes. In Indiana, the Klan elected an open member to be Governor. After the scandal, they just about disappeared.

 

The most recent period dates from the late '40s, early '50s, with the period of greatest growth and violence in the 1960's. Today, they are perhaps one-quarter the size they were in 1966.

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