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there was a time when the KKK was a proper political movement. Not the rump - and it isn't even a rump, really - that it has been for the past many decades.

 

it was much more powerful than like the Tea Party in contemporary times.

 

people today, because that is what they have seen on television and at the movies, associate it with maniacal southern people that wear white hoods, and burn crosses but at its peak it wasn't like that at at all. The big state it controlled at its peak, Indiana, isn't even southern.

 

KKK people today aren't much different to the kind of clowns that re-enact civil war battles except they are even less historically accurate than they are.

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there was a time when the KKK was a proper political movement. Not the rump - and it isn't even a rump, really - that it has been for the past many decades.

 

it was much more powerful than like the Tea Party in contemporary times.

 

people today, because that is what they have seen on television and at the movies, associate it with maniacal southern people that wear white hoods, and burn crosses but at its peak it wasn't like that at at all. The big state it controlled at its peak, Indiana, isn't even southern.

 

KKK people today aren't much different to the kind of clowns that re-enact civil war battles except they are even less historically accurate than they are.

 

I watched a programme on bbc1 about the KKK. They are as thick as ****, not particularly well organised but armed to the teeth and very much in existence.

 

Find it on iPlayer.

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I watched a programme on bbc1 about the KKK. They are as thick as ****, not particularly well organised but armed to the teeth and very much in existence.

 

Find it on iPlayer.

 

Not sure if it's this one from three years ago.

 

KKK: The Fight for White Supremacy:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06fq188 via @bbciplayer

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at one time in the 1920s they looked like they might be a quite formidable movement. Mostly in the midwest and not the south. Urban and not rural. They were these lower middle class white protestants who thought they were decent hard working people. They were religous, teetotal, and semi-respectable. The big enemy was Catholics, not blacks.

 

that lot are like a minor league motorbike weekend club playing to the cameras. No comparison.

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They were these lower middle class white protestants who thought they were decent hard working people. They were religous, teetotal, and semi-respectable. The big enemy was Catholics, not blacks.

 

 

For a moment there, I thought that you were talking about Ulster Loyalists! :o

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what are the BBC even doing sending out a camera to talk to a rabble like that. I stopped bothering to watch it after about 20 minutes. It deserves about 10-15 minutes on the radio at most.

 

Hilary's 'deplorables' are a bit like the Klan of old. Not very educated but they felt they were more decent than they are given credit for by the establishment like the politicians, educators, and the mainstream church who were all part of this Jewish/Papist conspiracy to keep them down.

 

blacks they didn't care about all that much. Back then blacks weren't a threat at all to the midwest Klan. There was no question of their white children actually sitting in a classroom with one. Only a very few of the good blacks, worked in the same factory they might work in and there was so few of them it didn't matter. The rest of the blacks they never saw and they didn't appear to have jobs at all but that did not concern the Klan. The Papist Polacks and Eyties in the factory and in town, were much more of a threat than the blacks were.

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Not sure if it's this one from three years ago.

 

KKK: The Fight for White Supremacy:

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06fq188 via @bbciplayer

 

Watched that last night . Now, im not taking sides because the KKK are vile and ill educated BUT no one talks about " the angry black woman " who stopped a woman from the black lives matter march because she was white but her child was "mixed race" and wanted to march on the BLM parade . It goes both ways . ALL lives matter

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BUT no one talks about " the angry black woman " who stopped a woman from the black lives matter march because she was white but her child was "mixed race" and wanted to march on the BLM parade . It goes both ways . ALL lives matter

 

How can you possibly compare an organised and potentially dangerous group with one single individual idiot?

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How can you possibly compare an organised and potentially dangerous group with one single individual idiot?

 

How does one single individual idiot prevent any one marching in solidarity with their cause ?

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How does one single individual idiot prevent any one marching in solidarity with their cause ?

 

They can't.

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