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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKu Klux Klan to protest removal of Confederate flag July 18 at South Carolina Statehouse
The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan applied for the permit last week to hold a rally for 100 to 200 people on July 18 on the north side of the Statehouse.
The move was not endorsed by Gov. Nikki Haley. This is our state, and they are not welcome, she said in a statement issued by her press office.
Yeah....THAT'll help the image of the flag.
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)madinmaryland
(64,934 posts)confederate flag.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,631 posts)that say "heritage not hate" along with the flags they intend to fly!
Uncle Joe
(58,562 posts)specifically.
Their best move if they actually gave a rat's ass would be to disband, they're neither wanted or needed.
Thanks for the thread, dixiegrrrrl.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)uponit7771
(90,371 posts)The KKK is a federally designated terrorist organization, they shouldn't be allowed to do shit!!!!
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)participate in a counter protest but I'm not sure at this point if I could remain civilized.
I'm really fuckin tired of this shit.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)AMERICAN EXPERIENCE asked sociologist and Ku Klux Klan scholar David Cunningham to provide responses to the five questions he is most frequently asked about the Klan. The author of Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era KKK (Oxford University Press, 2013), Cunningham is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Brandeis University.
1. How big a threat is the KKK in the U.S. today?
In an important sense, this may be the key question about the KKK and whether we should still worry, or care, about the Klan today. Likely for that reason, literally every discussion I've had about the Klan -- whether in classrooms, community events, radio interviews, or cocktail parties -- comes around to some version of this concern. I typically respond, in short, that a greater number of KKK organizations exist today than at any other point in the group's long history, but that nearly all of these groups are small, marginal, and lacking in meaningful political or social influence.
I might add two caveats to that reassuring portrait, however. The first is that marginal, isolated extremist cells themselves can become breeding grounds for unpredictable violence. At the peak of his 1960s influence, Bob Jones would often tell reporters that, if they were truly concerned about violence perpetrated by Klan members, their greatest fear should be that he would disband the KKK, leaving individual members to commit mayhem free from the structure imposed by the group. As Jones' followers committed hundreds of terrorist acts authorized by KKK leadership, his claim was of course disingenuous, but it also contained a grain of truth: Jones and his fellow leaders did dissuade members -- many of whom combined rabid racism with unstable aggression -- from engaging in violence not approved by the KKK hierarchy. In the absence of a broader organization with much to lose from a crack-down by authorities, racist violence can be much more difficult to prevent or police.
The second caveat stems from KKK's history of emerging and receding in pronounced "waves." Between the group's periods of peak influence -- say, during the 1880s, or in the 1940s, or the 1980s -- the Klan's fortunes have always appeared moribund. But in each case, some "reborn" version of the KKK has managed to rebound and survive. So, while today the KKK appears an anachronism and, perhaps, less of a threat than other brands of racist hate, we still should vigilantly oppose racist entrepreneurs who seek to exploit the historical cachet of the KKK to organize new campaigns advancing white supremacist ends. To me, this is one primary lesson from the KKK's past, and a compelling reason not to forget or dismiss the enduring relevance of that history.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/klansville-faq/
virtualobserver
(8,760 posts)putting their racist stamp of approval on the flag
as if it wasn't clear enough
hatrack
(59,606 posts)Fuck these guys.
I mean, fuck them sideways with a prybar dipped in Ghost Pepper sauce.
Initech
(100,149 posts)spanone
(135,950 posts)fucking racist fucks.
Iggo
(47,597 posts)Fucking morons.
Shoulders of Giants
(370 posts)Actually, they've been welcome for over a century. That's the problem.
Nye Bevan
(25,406 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,872 posts)Everyone knew this was gonna happen!
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Just makes that display a little more radioactive, a little harder for the center-right conservatives to defend.
Excellent.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,427 posts)There have to be KKK supporters that live within easy driving distance of Charleston, and with the hoods, they don't have to worry about outing themselves.
I'll go with the over, by an comfortable margin.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)this will be "interesting".......
geardaddy
(24,933 posts)You SINNERS hate the kkk...wonder why? I guess you prefer blacks in hoodies...robbing,stealing,burning,vandalizing,looting and cop killers as to a peacefull demonstration. That little WHITE BOY deserves the same respect as the black thugs get...he needs a couple of spiritual leaders to come forth and defend him
bravenak
(34,648 posts)He called the KKK spiritual leaders. I can't even anymore. I'm done.
Takket
(21,715 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)If white terrorists get to have a parade then I guess we'll have an Isis parade too; floats, games, Boko Haram slaves in cages. This shit is crazy. A terrorist parade.