melthebell   862 #1 Posted August 29, 2018 New interesting doc on the "rise" of the KKK Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
blake   10 #2 Posted August 29, 2018 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
tinfoilhat   11 #3 Posted August 29, 2018 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Top Cats Hat   10 #4 Posted August 29, 2018 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
blake   10 #5 Posted August 29, 2018 (edited) 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. Edited August 29, 2018 by blake Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Top Cats Hat   10 #6 Posted August 29, 2018 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! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
blake   10 #7 Posted August 29, 2018 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. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hackey lad   3,819 #8 Posted August 29, 2018 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 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Top Cats Hat   10 #9 Posted August 29, 2018 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? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hackey lad   3,819 #10 Posted August 29, 2018 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 ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Top Cats Hat   10 #11 Posted August 29, 2018 How does one single individual idiot prevent any one marching in solidarity with their cause ?  They can't. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
hackey lad   3,819 #12 Posted August 29, 2018 They can't.  They did ..... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...