How can the Ku Kux Klan rehabilitate it's negative image?

Question

Is America a forgiving nation? Aren't we a People who believe in Redemption?

Despite the awful legacy of racism associated with the Klan, can it somehow rehabilitate it's negative image and become a force for good in the world?

By renouncing its hateful and violent past and taking positive steps towards respecting other races and cultures...can the Klan move past its mistakes and help build a better, more inclusive and diverse future?

Answer 1

It is purely amazing to me that not one of the answerers is keen enough to catch the joke.

Dripped in sarcasm, this question made me laugh a bit, but not as much as the answers.

Are people that dense? If this is any indication of society at large, I'm starting to wonder if freedoms and liberties should be revoked. Hell, with geniuses like this, who needs terrorists?

To answer your question, yes, the KKK can surely clean up it's image. Here's my 5 step plan:

1. Lose the hoods (they're so 1920s)
2. Hire Jesse Jackson as new Imperial Wizard
3. Instead of burning just crosses, they can include Stars of David and Islamic Crecent Moon and Stars
4. Have lots of interracial babies!
5. Recruit illegal aliens by making sure to include Spanish in all official KKK documents

Answer 2

I dont think the KKK wil ever be able to lose its negative image. Even if they lost the hoods, dropped their flag and wore business suits, they would never gain this back. As long as there are organizations like the NAACP etc every white organization will be dumped on. Whites as the majority and have no rights. To have rights now in the USA you have to be black, mexican, illegal-immigrant or gay.

Also if the Klan did what you said and renounced its violent past and respected other races and cultures, What would be the point to the Klan?

Answer 3

What was ever positive about the Klan? They were so powerful at one point and stood for absolute hatred. America is a forgiving nation and if Klan members want to stop there life of hatred then I have no objection, they two can get a second chance(granted they themselves never killed anyone), However the Klan itself is an evil organization period. They represent hate and evil.

Answer 4

Klansmen can, but not through the Klan. The negativity associated with the Klan cannot be overcome sufficiently. Joining another group, or even founding a new group is the only thing that will provide enough renunciation to be forgiven.

The real problem is that those who are currently members of the Klan are not the likeliest candidates to be repudiating it en masse...

Answer 5

I at first thought that this question was a joke! Then I read on to what others have answered to the question. Is it not amazing, or should I say ironic, that the KKK is renowned for "hating blacks, jews and non-christians" but some of the same hatred and "string em all up" attitude is prevelant in the answers given.
To rehabilitate the "image" of the KKK you would have to go back to the beginning of it's inception; the closing days of the civil war. It's illustrious founder/leader, General Nathan Bedford Forrest, used the losing cause to continue his "gorilla" tactics at intimidating not only blacks but churches who "allowed" blacks to worship together, to killing of blacks for just working and getting paid to whole burnings of shanty towns to "purge this black demon" from amongst our land.
Yet, in his latter years, he finally came to the realization that this was not the way to the "freedom for all" nation that was founded upon in the mind of the forefathers, albeit a generation late in it's understanding. He himself disavowed his relationship with the organization in 1869 and became the first white man to speak at the Independent Order of Pole-Bearers Association, a precusor to the organizaton now known as the NAACP.
Nathan Forest DID TRY to renounce it's hateful and violent past but his warnings were not heeded. After 140 years of what the KKK has become to be known as, there will never be a time when it will ever be considered other than what it has always been; a group of uneducated people who use hatred and violence to stamp out anything that conflicts with their beliefs as well as killing people who are of an inferior color to them.
Sounds much like what the Islamic Facists terrorists are like today!

Answer 6

Isn't the whole point of the Klan racism? I think if an individual wants to go ahead and put that horrible life behind him then yeah,their is always a chance of a new life.But the KKK as a whole can do nothing in my mind that can rehabilitate their image.

Answer 7

I think the KKK has lost total credibility with the remainder of the civilized world. They are much like the Nazi Party, or any other institution that preaches hatred and discrimination based on ethnicity or religion. It has never espoused any policy that is constructive, positive, unifying, or even courageous, and has no place in today's society. Redemption, in this case, is an individual choice. But it isn't society with whom the individual must deal with. It's a matter of God to judge.

Answer 8

That would be like Al-Qaida trying to rehabilitate its negative image and becoming a force for good in the world. Hate is the driving force of both organizations.

The purpose of the KKK was to prevent black people from voting in Southern elections. Their doctrine expanded to hassle anyone not of their color, religion or national origin. Without this doctrine of hate, the KKK has no reason to exist.

Your query is nonsensical, and I feel silly even answering it...

Answer 9

The God damned KKK is based on racism. The whole premise of the KKK is to kill, like the Nazis all colour of skin except pasty white. The only way to acknowledge the KKK is its complete folding and acknolegement that they were wrong and to apolgize to all the people ande races they have damaged.

Answer 10

By examining its own violent past, seeing that it is, and was, a reconstruction post civil war group whose real intention was to keep african americans down, or worse, and decide to forever fold the group into the dust heap of time.