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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan<snip>
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), or just "the Klan", is the name of three distinct movements in the United States. The first began violence against African Americans in the South during the Reconstruction Era of the 1860s, and was disbanded by 1869.[5] The second was a very large, controversial, nationwide organization in the 1920s. The current manifestation consists of numerous small unconnected groups that use the KKK name. They have all emphasized secrecy and distinctive costumes. All have called for purification of American society, and all are considered right-wing.[6][7]
The current manifestation is classified as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center.[8] It is estimated to have between 5,000 and 8,000 members as of 2012.[4]
The first Ku Klux Klan flourished in the Southern United States in the late 1860s, then died out by the early 1870s. Members made their own, often colorful, costumes: robes, masks, and conical hats, designed to be outlandish and terrifying, and to hide their identities.[9][10] The second KKK flourished nationwide in the early and mid-1920s, and adopted a standard white costume (sales of which together with initiation fees financed the movement) and code words as the first Klan, while adding cross burnings and mass parades.[11] The third KKK emerged after 1950 and was associated with opposing the Civil Rights Movement and progress among minorities. The second and third incarnations of the Ku Klux Klan made frequent reference to the America's "Anglo-Saxon" blood, harking back to 19th-century nativism.[12] Though most members of the KKK saw themselves as holding to American values and Christian morality, virtually every Christian denomination officially denounced the Ku Klux Klan.[13]
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KKK and Christianity (Original Post)
kentuck
Feb 2015
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According to Teabaggers, the KKK is left-wing. That's what they tell me on other boards
BlueCaliDem
Feb 2015
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BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)1. According to Teabaggers, the KKK is left-wing. That's what they tell me on other boards
each and every time. Uh-huh. That's why KKK members vote Republican.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)2. The pretend that the past is the present
i.e. in the time of the heyday of the Klan - it was a democratic organization (in the sense that many or most of its members were democrats) - a conservative democratic organization. But of course once Johnson and Kennedy worked so hard for civil rights the members of that group went to the conservative Republican party.
Bryant
kentuck
(111,239 posts)3. But they were always Bible-based...
They called themselves "Christians", regardless of Party affiliation.
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)4. Yes - that's true. All Christians everywhere should be ashamed. nt
kentuck
(111,239 posts)5. No, they shouldn't be hypocrites...
By acting as if they have never resorted to violence under the guise of religion.