what do you think of ku klux klan?
2007-12-03 19:08:57 · 21 answers · asked by pollie_cute_yra 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
There have been a ton of answers, but nobody has got it quite right.
Assuming that the one existing now means nothing, there were actually two distinct klans.
The first, from 1865 through the end of Reconstruction in 1877, was a way for former Confederates to express their displeasure at societal changes that were happening about them and they were otherwise powerless to to halt.
The second, 1915 to 1930, or maybe... now? was a way to sell silly outfits at an outlandish profit to white protestant males who resented immigrants' displacing them in the marketplace.
This was not confined to the South. I can recall my grandmother showing me a fine house which used to be the klan headquarters. In Milwaukee.
2007-12-04 01:47:27 · answer #1 · answered by obelix 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Evil, racist bigots, in an association founded by white supremacists afraid or jealous of the coming competition from the newly emancipated black African-Americans after the civil war.
2007-12-03 22:49:07 · answer #2 · answered by Duffer 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
An organisation started by a Scottish descendant although it wasn't known as the KKK, at that time. (Check Wiki) for details.
A white supremacy organisation, whom derided the existence of the Black Afro-American race.
'Strange Fruit from a Popular Tree', By 'Billy Holiday'.
Check that out should you find a recording.
2007-12-03 21:16:37 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Evil, bigoted scum. But remember, if we ban the KKK, BNP, etc etc, we are not a Democracy. Groups like this need to exist (Unfortunatley. I personally would get them all castrated) for Democracy to be confirmed.
2007-12-06 03:23:47 · answer #4 · answered by skullpicker 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think is a question that belongs in the Polls & Surveys category.
2007-12-03 21:31:25 · answer #5 · answered by WMD 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They're a handful of demented, pitiable and slightly dangerous crackpots.
2007-12-04 03:43:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I have wished my view was through a set of cross-hairs.
2007-12-04 00:52:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are an organisation that should be banned and all their members killed off so that their poisonous hatred can be stopped from spreading.
I'm white and I feel this.
2007-12-03 20:48:24 · answer #8 · answered by Orla C 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
They're a joke in out area. Michigan.
2007-12-03 20:42:08 · answer #9 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
A Fascist organisation!!!! All known members should be hanged or crucified as they did to their 'victims'.
2007-12-03 19:12:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋