An old scourge violently reappears: Klan still lurks in shadows, residents say (Times-Picayune)

[struggle4progress]

Sunday, November 16, 2008
By Benjamin Alexander-Bloch

... The crime shed a harsh light on the shadowy activities of the Bogalusa-based Klan group known as the Sons of Dixie Knights of the Ku Klux Klan -- and with it, the realization that, like the campsite set up for its initiation ritual last week, the Klan still hides in plain sight in and around Washington Parish ...

Lance Hill, a Tulane University law professor who has written extensively on Klan activity, said that 1960s Bogalusa was "Klan Capital, USA" ...

A former Klan member from Amite told <Samuel Hyde, director of the Southeastern Louisiana University's Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies> a few years ago that the secret they were party to "included the notion that they were the descendants of Confederate soldiers protecting the South and the peculiar Southern way of life" ...

"We must talk to kids before they get to the point of doing unacceptable things," said <Matthew Tate, a Washington Parish School Board member>, who had a cross burned on his lawn in 1986, when he ran for and won a spot as the parish's first African-American police juror ...

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[Seldona]

1. K&R

Old guys with monkey dolls at McCain rallies and the vitrol screamed out loud are prime examples of just how alive racism is. The Secret Service has investigated more death threats than any other being made against President Elect Obama, and we have 2 months to go!

[Drum]

2. That's where haters always have and always will lurk...

Because they know it's wrong. Because they are ashamed of the weakness that makes them unthinking mobs.

Kick...for sunlight, the best disinfectant.