Grayson Should Not Apologize. The Real Truth Is Worst Than He Told.

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41. Snips from the KKK wiki page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan

The First Klan
*The first Klan was founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six veterans of the Confederate Army.
*In 1874 and later, however, newly organized and openly active paramilitary organizations, such as the White League and the Red Shirts, started a fresh round of violence aimed at suppressing blacks' voting and running Republicans out of office. These contributed to segregationist white Democrats regaining political power in all the Southern states by 1877.


Today: Same as it ever was.

Second KKK
In 1915, the second Klan was founded in Atlanta, Georgia. Starting in 1921, it adopted a modern business system of recruiting (which paid most of the initiation fee and costume charges as commissions to the organizers) and grew rapidly nationwide at a time of prosperity. Reflecting the social tensions of urban industrialization and vastly increased immigration, its membership grew most rapidly in cities, and spread out of the South to the Midwest and West. The second KKK preached "One Hundred Percent Americanism" and demanded the purification of politics, calling for strict morality and better enforcement of prohibition. Its official rhetoric focused on the threat of the Catholic Church, using anti-Catholicism and nativism.[4] Its appeal was directed exclusively at white Protestants.[20] Some local groups took part in attacks on private houses and carried out other violent activities. The violent episodes were generally in the South.[21]


Today: Same as it ever was. Replace Catholic with Muslim. It's appeal is with White Protestants. Anti Immigration. Look at the Midwest and West note - same as it ever was.


Third KKK
*The "Ku Klux Klan" name was used by a numerous independent local groups opposing the Civil Rights Movement and desegregation, especially in the 1950s and 1960s.
*During this period, they often forged alliances with Southern police departments, as in Birmingham, Alabama; or with governor's offices, as with George Wallace of Alabama


Today: Scott Walker and Rick Perry play right to these fears. Voting rights, women's rights etc etc - these are things the Republican party hates. And it's not the leadership it's the idiots that vote for them and egg them on.