Christian Klan member indicted for murder
In a signed letter using racial epithets, he railed against the recently enacted Civil Rights Act and exhorted fellow white Mississippians to wage a holy war against integration.
“The time has come,” Seale’s letter said, “for the Christian people of this nation to stand up and fight for what is right in the eyes of God and man and not what a few men in congress or the senate decided on under pressure from the n------ and communists.”
The letter, which ran on the back page of the Advocate, includes several passages from the Bible that Seale interprets to mean Christians should fight, to the death if necessary, to stop the mixing of races. It was a common theme for members of the Ku Klux Klan as the civil rights movement made Mississippi its primary target.
“The so called Civil Rights Bill is nothing less than a giant step to communist dictatorship of America,” he wrote.
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2007-03-25 06:14:38 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
One Klan poster cited in Marsh’s book declared: “Members are Christians who are anxious to preserve not only their souls for all Eternity, but who are MILITANTLY DETERMINED, God willing, to save their lives, and the Life of this Nation, in order that their descendants shall enjoy the same, full, God-given blessings of True Liberty that we have been permitted to enjoy up to now.”
Seale, too, cast anti-integration as a moral cause in his 1964 letter: “The time is here and passing fast for the people of this great nation to fight and die for what is right. If you choose to live and die under communism dictatorship, may God have mercy on your souls.”
2007-03-25 06:15:48 · update #1
I bet Sen Byrd's remarks are in there somewhere and Al Gore's father.
2007-03-25 06:18:50 · answer #1 · answered by Tin Foil Fez 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My main concern in the 60's was whether or not I was going to be a starter on the little league team. How can you blame people today for something you "believe" happened in the 60's. That's as Idiotic as the people who believe that whites today are still responsible for slavery. You need to focus on what YOU can do to make things better now and stop worrying about what you THINK others did in the past.
2007-03-25 06:22:32 · answer #2 · answered by jim h 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the 60's most members of the KKK were Democrats it was a different party then just like the Republican party is a different party today.
2007-03-25 08:49:24 · answer #3 · answered by dakota29575 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
individually, Fundamentalist dont comprehend airborne dirt and dirt approximately Catholicism. they only communicate approximately what they comprehend, and locate a thank you to curve Catholicism as being some evil faith. Dont examine any anti-catholic internet site, they are going to easily bash catholics. certainly, fundamentalist ***** with regard to the Mainline church homes and the orthodox church homes claiming to comprehend plenty approximately them. instead, they dont comprehend something approximately different branches of Christianity.
2016-10-20 10:22:46 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You bring up a very small percentage of people who call themselves Christian forty years ago.
What about your prejudice against Christians today!
2007-03-25 06:34:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Those conservatives like to erase that from their minds. They opposed MLK and many civil rights leaders because they saw them as communists who would challenge democracy. How quickly they forget. Many Reverends supported MLK but they're were liberal not conservative.
2007-03-25 06:27:29 · answer #6 · answered by cynical 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I wasn't alive in the 60s...idiot
2007-03-25 06:17:21 · answer #7 · answered by Hahaha! 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What ya ganna do
2007-03-25 06:19:22 · answer #8 · answered by Kevinrodney D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes...and they still do.
2007-03-25 06:18:39 · answer #9 · answered by uab_skinhead 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋