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struggle4progress

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Sat Nov 7, 2015, 11:41 PM Nov 2015

Focus on KKK ignores more powerful hate groups

Many other white supremacist groups in the US are more prominent and potent the the KKK, experts say
November 6, 2015 12:00PM ET
by Renee Lewis

... “Today the Klan members are almost universally rural, working-class or below. They tend to be very uneducated, and often the groups are made up of a man, his family, and his neighbors" ... Based on a racist interpretation of the Bible, Christian Identity has about 50,000 members. It views non-whites as having no souls and Jews as descendants of Satan ... The Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC) group evolved out of an older group called the White Citizens Council, which fought desegregation in the 1950s and 1960s ...

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/6/focus-on-kkk-ignores-otherl-white-hate-groups.html


Short summary of several groups based on info from SPLC

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Focus on KKK ignores more powerful hate groups (Original Post) struggle4progress Nov 2015 OP
Link to Southern Poverty Law Center's section on hate groups: Bluenorthwest Nov 2015 #1
Thanks for posting...appreciate this post...k and r..nt Stuart G Nov 2015 #2
That anon stunt ended up being about nothing... Blue_Tires Nov 2015 #3
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