I wish I'd seen this earlier. I did a college paper on hate groups, including the Klan.

Basically, there is no one single Klan, and there hasn't been one since around the 1940's. The original Klan was established as an anti-reconstruction group after the civil war by Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, although he tried to disband it after it went terrorist. It began as a fraternal organization but quickly became violent. The original Klan was crushed during the reconstruction period. It was resurrected around the time of World War One. They had a lot of influence with the southern Democratic party for a long time. During the early 20th century many public officials were members including police officers, state legislators and even governors. It started fading in the 30's and dissolved in the 40's. Today there are a number of small Klans. Some are pretty antagonistic towards one another.

The name Ku Klux Klan itself comes from the Greek word for circle, kyklos. The people who founded it were all college educated and knew Greek, and they liked the alliteration. They chose bizarre names like "Grand Dragon" to make the organization inscrutable to outsiders.

They are a deeply christian group(although most other christians would argue they aren't.) You can't separate Christianity from their ideology. That's not a knock against the Christian religion or anything, that's just the way it is.

a perfect example of how educated/smart does not equal intelligent.

very wel said

yeh. im just typing up a paper now. but id be damned if i was gonna try and sum it up so well

anyway, a ot of the K type words = kyclops and all that shit, i read that a lot of it was more of a joke. some of the organizations would use those names and people wouldnt take em so seriously

as far as the KKK, there are different organizations. The fact that they own the name 'www.kkk.com' is irrelevant. it was just a matter of who bought it first. The one that i posted earlier, wit the rainbow, preaches something a TAD bit more different.. then say another. as in, there are others that wont even throw around this 'preserve the cultures' BS and just stirahgt up say 'yo. we rock. everyone else = suxx0rs'

just to clear up...

my paper was specifically on Viola Liuzzo and the march on montgomery. this paper is only 4-5 pages long and it was a hell of a time figuring out which way i wanted to go. it sucked, cuz everypoint i put, i had 50 more points i wantd to bring up. LOL

i shoulda taken the honors version of the class, the paper wouldve had to be about 20 pages. i woulda fuckin love that. ah well...

christians (as a whole) haven't exactly been known as being the most tolerant group either.

'we love you if you believe what we believe'

i understand fully that not every christian is like this .. but there is a bloody path through history made by the ones that were.

Hate to say the old sayings, but "why stoop to their level"?

Just because they're a hateful group based on the destruction and riddance of other races doesn't mean we need to do the same to them.

Do what I do... laugh out loud when you see a KKK parade marching down the street and there's literally only 13 or 14 people in it.

I dont care, i'll hump a white girl, asian, black, russian, puerto rican, spanish, canadian, latino...as long as its a chick.

"Nobody calls the 911 hotline calm. Because think about it, that shit would sound ridiculous....

HI. How are you? Yes theres a group of hooded white men in my yard, and it looks like they mean business. *get out here nigger!* I gotta go..."

-Dave Chappelle

white girl, canadian ...


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Well i had to add in Canadian, so Murderdoll would know she was welcome too :D

Shit only when im walking by women :p