Didn't the KKK used to lynch people they didn't like, even though they were murders too?

Answer 1

Doesn't this resonate....? America I can now conclude is a hypocritical and shameless nation of which the decent people within it must despair. You have to remember it is only 40 years ago that people like me were being lynched in the world's greatest democracy. Shame on America.

Answer 2

The Ku Klux Klan was a terrorist organization founded by a group of former Confederate Army cavalry officers in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866.

They were upset that Black people had been emancipated from slavery and set about waging a terrorist war agiainst Blacks who tried to exercize their civil rights.

The KKK launched "night rights" - attacks on Black individuals and communities at night. They would drag out Black people from their homes - men women and kids alike, and whip them (just like the masters used to do during slavery).

They would also rape Black women, castrate Black men, steal money and property and burn houses, but their most famous technique was to drag out Black people (usually but not always men) and ritually murder them.

This is what is known as "lynching".

Usually, the Black man would be whipped and beaten, then castrated with a knife (the severed penis would often be shown to the crowd - usually they'd let other White people know in advance about a planned lynching) and then the Black man would be burned alive.

Often severed body parts would be sold off to the crowd - with penises and testicles especially prised souviniers.

In one of the cases where a Black woman was lynched, she happened to be pregnant at the time. She was disemboweled by the klansmen, and her unborn child was shown to the bloodthirsty White crowd.

The Klansmen were the world's first terrorists.

The KKK still exists to this very day, but they are no longer able to carry out that level of terrorism (although they would if they could)

Answer 3

By KKK I hope you are refering to the infamous Ku Klux Klan. Sure, the lynched hundreds of people and still do on occasion. They almost always target blacks (usually innocent blacks who simply were in the wrong place at the wrong time) to avenge for some often imagined insult of slight. In a few cases they have lynched gays and in other cases the have lynched whites for supporting black or gay causes. They have also been known to firebomb churches and schools.

For the most part the KKK doesn't see their action as murder but rather as vigilanty justice

Answer 4

If you took all the KKK lynchings for the entire history of that group, you would find more whites lynched than blacks. Also, the total number of lynched people does not equal 6 months of black on white murders in one year these days.

Answer 5

Yes. The KKK did. Just like Bush Administration

Answer 6

They would lynch anyone who they didn't like or who they felt rocked the establishment of being white. The KKK were hypoKKKrites.

Answer 7

When the KKK first started, it was all about mixed race relationships, women who wouldn't take care of their kids, men who wouldn't support their families, and women who whored all over town. You got a warning first (usually a cross burning in your yard), with a certain time limit to straighten up your act. After that, you got the living **** beat out of you. If that didn't help you straighten up, you were hanged. I'm from Alabama, and we used to have Klan marches every Saturday, and a rally in the court house parking lot after the march. I grew up around it. If the Klan was what it used to be in the sixties and seventies, there would be a lot less of this kind of **** going on today.

Now, the "Klan" sits around, drinking bad whiskey, talking about what their grandfathers used to do. It's ridiculous.

Answer 8

Sure.The KKK was similar to Jihad Whackos.....Rationalized it as a good thing. They were nothing but cowardly terrorists. Like the Terrorist of today, they hid under a mask....sneaked in and ran away.
Then go into town and talk about the poor black man that got hung...by accident

Answer 9

Keep in mind that after Johnson signed the Civil Rights act, the dixiecrat KKK racist sociopaths migrated to the GOP and are still there today. Although, sociopath and GOP is an oxymoron

Answer 10

I'm ashamed to say this, but one of my many times great-grandfathers was also a grand master of the KKK. When he died, his wife led the entire family to the back of the church. She was ashamed of him and did not believe in what he was doing. But in those days, wives simply didn't leave their husbands. I give her credit for doing what she did that day.

To answer your question, yes on both counts.