An Alabama newspaper— Democrat
Reporter— has published an editorial under this title. (https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2019/02/18/alabama-newspaper-ku-klux-klan-to-night-ride-again-linden-democrat-reporter-goodloe-sutton/2910436002/).
Perhaps this is a ploy to sell more
papers. Regardless, many voices should speak out. I offer a brief excerpt from
by research article, “Targeting White Supreme in Workplace.”
The main sponsor of the 1871 Ku Klux Klan
Act was a Vermont Republican, Luke Poland.
In a lengthy floor speech advocating
passage of the Ku Klux Klan Act, Rep. Poland expressed his concern that the
Klan had reimposed a new type of slavery:
“Laws were passed in many
if not all the late rebel States whereby the negroes were hampered and shackled
in every possible way. In the ownership of land, in the making of contracts,
and a thousand ways, they were forbidden the free exercise of all rights which
are supposed to belong to all free men in all free Governments.”
Rep. Poland went further, however, in
explaining why the free labor of blacks was a threat to a large segment of poor
whites in the South:
“A large number of men had
lived in idleness, and the fruits of idleness had ripened. The country was full
of dissipated horse-racing, cock-fighting, roystering fellows, many of whom by
the war had become desperate and dangerous men. The liberation of the slaves
had deprived them of their means of living, and they were reduced to the
desperate and disagreeable duty of *141 earning it for themselves. That this
class, under the circumstances, could tolerate equal rights, civil and
political, in a negro could hardly be expected.”
Connecting this wave of white
terrorism to a broad effort to re-impose some semblance of a master-slave
relationship, Rep. Poland also explained that a previous civil rights law was “utterly insufficient against their more intelligent and
powerful oppressors, and the colored people were likely to continue as ‘hewers
of wood and drawers of water’ to their old owners and taskmasters.”
…
For perspective, here is a current excerpt
from the White Camelia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (photo on top appears on their website). Their website says (http://www.wckkkk.org/who.html):
WHO- The White Camelia Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan is a group of men and women (families) that share a common belief
in religion and race. We are not the Knights of the White Kamellia, Ku Klux
Klan. Neither do we have any affiliation to this organization.
WHAT- An organization of White
Christians dedicated to the truth and education in a world of lies and
ignorance.
WHERE- The White Camelia Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan is based in Texas, but with membership spread throughout many
other states.
WHEN- The original White Camelia was
organized in 1867, two years after the original Ku Klux Klan was formed in
Puluski, Tennessee. It has been reported that the White Camelia became larger
than the original Ku Klux Klan in membership and power.
WHY- The White Camelia Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan believes that White Christian ideals are under attack by
anti-white and anti-Christ forces. We believe our race, country and our
Christian way of life is being systematically destroyed.
HOW TO JOIN- Requirements for
membership are simple. You must be 100% White, have an open mind to learn
Christian Identity and be willing to follow Klan rules and regulations.
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