(07-19-2019, 03:37 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(07-19-2019, 03:33 PM)TrivialPursuit Wrote: 6 of my ancestors fought for the confederacy.

So?

The KKK was originally founded to protect whites from carpet baggers and angry northern soldiers. Yep, that's right. To protect southern whites from northern whites. Weird right?

Then they, too, betrayed this country and fought to oppress blacks.  They too were on the wrong side of history.

They too should rot if they were not repentant and caused a comparable level of harm.

As for the KKK...if their beef was with "carpetbaggers and angry northern soldiers," where did the whole terrorizing of blacks come in?

Historically the first Klan was a vigilante group who threatened and killed blacks and white Republicans for political purposes. They mostly failed and were put down by the Feds in the early 1870s having lasted only about 3 years. The second Klan came about in 1915 and is the one we are more familiar with, because the white robes, pointy hoods, burning crosses, street parades and such were tactics they took from A Birth of a Nation. The first Klan was very disorganized and though they wore masks, they didn't do daylight theatrics. The second Klan were intentionally white Protestant, opposing Jews, Catholics, and European immigrants as well as Blacks, and they were also hard core morality police violently enforcing Prohibition and laws against Vice. They faded out in the early 40s. Today's Klan is the remnant of the Civil Rights Era Klan, but what's left of it is maybe 8 to 10 thousand morons spread coast to coast.

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