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The leader of a Ku Klux Klan group in Virginia says the notoriously racist Hooded Order is really just a non-violent Christian organization.
We dont hate people because of their race. I mean, were a Christian organization, Frank Ancona, an Imperial Wizard of the Traditional American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, told WWBT on Thursday.
He insisted that the KKK had been unfairly maligned for its acts of violence against black people in the United States.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/21/virginia-kkk-imperial-wizard-were-not-hateful-were-a-christian-organization/#.UyxVvpN2Y4s.facebook
Like Jeffrey Dahmer saying, I am not a cannibal; I am a bad cook.
jsr
(7,712 posts)unblock
(52,206 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)I have to go with bad cook on this one.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)My first post was actually talking to the KKK (JUST in case it wasn't clear).
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)my bad.
edit: Should have gone with Paula Deen.
Gothmog
(145,168 posts)These people scare me. I will not stop in Vidor even to use the bathroom or to fill up.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)When you google Vidor you get sundown town. Vidor is a former (or current) sundown town?
"We've been trying to live down something for 40 to 50 years," said Orange County Commissioner Beamon Minton. "Once convicted, you're a convicted felon. You can't ever put that aside."
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One of the most memorable instances of that was in 1993, when the federal government tried to change years of racial separation, and brought a handful of black families into Vidor's public housing. In response, the Klan marched in Vidor. Within months, the few black families moved out. And African-Americans were left with a deep impression that still exists today.
"They think that's a racist town," said Walter Diggles of the East Deep Texas Council of Governments. "They think when you go through Vidor, you better be very careful, and most blacks still refuse to stop."
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/08/oppenheim.sundown.town/index.html
Huh. Mighty strange how people just don't trust driving into Vidor. Guess I saw one too many chainsaw movies or read one too many stories of lynchings.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Shows you just how scary some of these places are - "Deliverance" maybe comes to mind.
Gothmog
(145,168 posts)Santa Fe Texas is a little city between Houston and Galveston which was the topic of a SCOTUS decision on prayer at school events. This town only had two jewish families and so the idiots decided to target these families because they had to be the ones bringing the lawsuit. The Houston ADL stepped in. The funny thing was that neither Jewish family was involved in the lawsuit.
spanone
(135,830 posts)dumbfuck
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Now turn the other cheek and whack him again! I am with you on this one!
spanone
(135,830 posts)me included, of course.
but these kind of declarations wouldn't have gone anywhere in the past.
LiberalAndProud
(12,799 posts)Earlier this month, Ancona told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that [t]he thing that really gets me is that [people are] saying were teaching our children to hate people just because of their race, creed and color, and thats a complete lie and falsehood.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)but yeah you have a point. Wait, no they have the pointy hoods. They have the point.
And bedbugs.