Reply #11: How many whites did the Black Panthers hang?

[Old and In the Way]

The Panthers, while very radically chic in their black berets, could never be compared to the KKK. The Panthers had, what, a few hundred members at their recruiting height? Compare that with the KKK's membership that was broad and deep and lasted for decades.

BTW, the town I live in, in central Maine, had a very substantially KKK following in the 1920s. A Maine Governor, from my town, was a sympathizer. At its height, there were 150,000 members in Maine. Of course, our local version was focused on hating Freanco-Catholics, not blacks.

Sounds to me that your friend is an apologist for the KKK and using straw men to rehabilitate their justifiably wretched place in our history.