America unmasked: The images that reveal the Ku Klux Klan is alive and kicking in 2009

[babsbunny]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/america-unmasked-the-images-that-reveal-the-ku-klux-klan-is-alive-and-kicking-in-2009-1625732.html

The USA has a new president but an old problem - and nothing typifies it like today’s Ku Klux Klan. The photographer Anthony Karen gained unprecedented access to the ‘Invisible Empire’

Words by Leonard Doyle


These images show members of the Ku Klux Klan as they want to be seen, scary and secretive and waiting in the wings for Barack and his colour-blind vision for America to fail. Anthony Karen, a former Marine and self-taught photojournalist was granted access to the innermost sanctum of the Klan. He doesn’t tell us how he did it but he was considered trustworthy enough to be invited into their homes and allowed to photograph their most secretive ceremonies, such as the infamous cross burnings.

[Kutjara]

1. Ooh, they do love their scary names and "badass" symbology, don't they?

No wonder they wear hoods all the time. One look at their bare faces tells the full story of inbreeding and ignorance.

[hfojvt]

2. England prevails!

Nice of British 'journalism' to run an America-bashing headline. "Look" they say "there's a small group of extremists in America, look at how bad that country is"

yet the article ends

"Today the Klan is a mere shadow of what it used to be and there are at least 34 differently named Klan groups. “They are a fairly low-rent bunch of people, many of whom use their local organisations as a way of raising money for themselves,” says Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama."

"America unmasked: the KKK is alive and kicking!! (film at 11) (a mere shadow of what it used to be, but it's still hugh!!!1!!)

[Kutjara]

5. Newspapers exist to sell newspapers. That's the same in every country.

Stories that scaremonger while reinforcing national or ethnic stereotypes do particularly well. Unpalatable or contradictory facts can be hidden away near the bottom, in the certainty that nobody will ever read that far.

[Solly Mack]

3. Lovely

Damn

[Bucky]

4. How sweet, the bride wore white. And *was* white to boot.

By the way, I just showed an episode of Peter Jennings's "The Century" to my class today. It was about the 1920s and actually showed footage of Bob Jones defending the Klan. I real eye opener.

I'm predicting this now: after one term of Obama, with the wingnuts stirring up racial shit over a black president, the klan will be bigger in Jan '13 than it was in Jan '08. But four years after that, once Obama finishes his second term, Jan '17, they'll be smaller than they are now. That kind of hatred has really already started to burn itself out.

[AspenRose]

6. Where can you get those episodes?

Can you download them?

[Bucky]

10. I think you gotta buy them from the History Channel. Or maybe eBay.

I just check them out from the library for my class.

[Kutjara]

8. A non-traditional wedding, I see.

It's more typical for the bride to have the black eye than the groom.

[Number23]

7. This article is mad old, but it's still got some useful info

"At its peak the KKK boasted four million members and controlled the governor’s mansions and legislatures of several states. Since the 1930s the KKK has been in a state of disorganisation and today it probably has 6,000 members. But the economic crisis is swelling their ranks and already, a month after the inauguration of the first black president, the tidal wave of interracial harmony that greeted Obama’s election is starting to recede."

lol They think it took a MONTH for that to happen?? Please! There was teeth gnashing before the man ever stepped foot in the Oval Office.

Kick and rec anyway because I have no doubt this will sink like a stone.

[Feron]

9. More pictures:

http://www.anthonykaren.com/KKK.html