KKK Leader Refutes Hate Group Label: 'We're A Christian Organization'
Source: huffingtonpost.com
The leader of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is tired of a few rogue Klansmen ruining the groups reputation, and argues that the group is a non-violent Christian organization.
We dont hate people because of their race, I mean, were a Christian organization, Frank Ancona, the group's Imperial Wizard, told Virginia's NBC 12 on Thursday. "Because of the acts of a few rogue Klansmen, all Klansmen are supposed to be murderers, and wanting to lynch black people, and we're supposed to be terrorists. That's a complete falsehood.
Anconas group has come under fire from residents of Chesterfield County, Va., about 20 miles south of Richmond, for distributing KKK recruitment fliers in people's yards since January.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/21/virginia-kkk-fliers_n_5008647.html
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Dude, read a fucking history book!
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)christx30
(6,241 posts)That right there is just a lowercase T. It means "time to go to church, brother in Christ!" It's not a symbol of hate. It's a symbol of fellowship, and an invitation.
npk
(3,660 posts)Helping to shine the path of righteousness.
iandhr
(6,852 posts)"Surely you can't be serious."
Chellee
(2,095 posts)And don't call him Shirley.
You know you wanted somebody to do it.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,308 posts)It used to just mean "prove false". The KKK arsehole hasn't shown anything to be wrong. He'd like to think he has; but he's just spouted more BS. The Huff Post could have said "deny", but instead they went with the more recent usage of 'refute', which destroys understanding, rather than informing us, because when you see it used, you have to read a lot more to find out which meaning is correct.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)'Dispute' would also work.
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,308 posts)Someone must have talked to them.
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)EmilyAnne
(2,769 posts)Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)The burning cross being the big give away on that one.. just saying
freshwest
(53,661 posts)The 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed on Sunday, September 15, 1963 as an act of white supremacist terrorism. The explosion at the African-American church, which killed four girls, marked a turning point in the United States 1960s Civil Rights Movement and contributed to support for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Although city leaders had reached a settlement in May with demonstrators and started to integrate public places, not everyone agreed with ending racial segregation. Bombings and other acts of violence followed the settlement, and the church had become an obvious target. The three-story 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama had been a rallying point for civil rights activities through the spring of 1963, and was where the students who were arrested during the 1963 Birmingham campaign's Children's Crusade were trained. The church was used as a meeting-place for civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph David Abernathy and Fred Shuttlesworth. Tensions were escalated when the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) became involved in a campaign to register African Americans to vote in Birmingham.
Still, the campaign was successful. The demonstrations led to an agreement in May between the city's business leaders and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to integrate public facilities in the city.
In the early morning of Sunday, September 15, 1963, Bobby Frank Cherry, Thomas Blanton,[1] Herman Frank Cash, and Robert Chambliss, members of United Klans of America, a Ku Klux Klan group, planted a box of dynamite with a time delay under the steps of the church, near the basement.[2] At about 10:22 a.m., twenty-six children were walking into the basement assembly room to prepare for the sermon entitled The Love That Forgives, when the bomb exploded.[3][4] Four girls, Addie Mae Collins (age 14), Denise McNair (age 11), Carole Robertson (age 14), and Cynthia Wesley (age 14), were killed in the attack,[5] and 22 additional people were injured, one of whom was Addie Mae Collins' younger sister, Sarah.[6] The explosion blew a hole in the church's rear wall, destroyed the back steps and all but one stained-glass window, which showed Christ leading a group of little children.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing
No words adequate for those loving girls slaughtered for the color of their skin.
Peacetrain
(22,875 posts)It is a demonic organization like a wolf in sheeps clothing trying to hide behind a burning cross. People who join such a group of evil , should be shown for what they are and what they do.. They embrace evil. Those little girls killed in a church.. It is still hard for me to believe sometimes the depth of depravity that people will sink to.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,135 posts)Does anybody actually believe that they are organizing for philanthropic purposes?
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)going from door to door in my neighborhood, like the other peddlers of religion do.
(Or is that a Kaggle of Klan?)
jmowreader
(50,555 posts)Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Fr. Torquemada also had ways of dealing with minority groups.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Started during Reconstruction at the end of the Civil War, the Klan quickly mobilized as a vigilante group to intimidate Southern blacks - and any whites who would help them - and to prevent them from enjoying basic civil rights. Outlandish titles (like imperial wizard and exalted cyclops), hooded costumes, violent "night rides," and the notion that the group comprised an "invisible empire" conferred a mystique that only added to the Klan's popularity. Lynchings, tar-and-featherings, rapes and other violent attacks on those challenging white supremacy became a hallmark of the Klan.
After a short but violent period, the "first era" Klan disbanded after Jim Crow laws secured the domination of Southern whites. But the Klan enjoyed a huge revival in the 1920s when it opposed (mainly Catholic and Jewish) immigration. By 1925, when its followers staged a huge Washington, D.C., march, the Klan had as many as 4 million members and, in some states, considerable political power. But a series of sex scandals, internal battles over power and newspaper exposés quickly reduced its influence.
The Klan arose a third time during the 1960s to oppose the civil rights movement and to preserve segregation in the face of unfavorable court rulings. The Klan's bombings, murders and other attacks took a great many lives, including, among others, four young girls killed while preparing for Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.
Since the 1970s the Klan has been greatly weakened by internal conflicts, court cases, a seemingly endless series of splits and government infiltration. While some factions have preserved an openly racist and militant approach, others have tried to enter the mainstream, cloaking their racism as mere "civil rights for whites." Today, the Center estimates that there are between 5,000 and 8,000 Klan members, split among dozens of different - and often warring - organizations that use the Klan name.
Klan glossary
AKIA: A password meaning "A Klansman I Am", often seen on decals and bumper stickers.
Alien: A person who does not belong to the Klan.
AYAK?: A password meaning "Are You a Klansman?"
CA BARK: A password meaning "Constantly Applied By All Real Klansmen."
CLASP: A password meaning "Clannish Loyalty A Sacred Principle."
Genii: The collective name for the national officers. Also known as the Kloncilium, or the advisory board to the Imperial Wizard.
Hydras: The Real officers, with the exception of the Grand Dragon.
Imperial Giant: Former Imperial Wizard.
Imperial Wizard: The overall, or national, head of a Klan, which it sometimes compares to the president of the United States.
Inner Circle: Small group of four or five members who plan and carry out "action." Its members and activities are not disclosed to the general membership.
Invisible Empire: A Ku Klux Klan's overall geographical jurisdiction, which it compares to the United States although none exist in every state.
Kalendar: Klan calendar, which dates events from both the origin and its 1915 rebirth Anno Klan, and means "in the year of the Klan," and is usually written "AK."
Kardinal Kullors: White, crimson, gold and black. Secondary Kullors are grey, green and blue. The Imperial Wizard's Kullor is Skipper Blue.
K.B.I.: Klan Bureau of Investigation.
KIGY!: A password meaning "Klansman, I greet you!"
Klankfraft: The practices and beliefs of the Klan.
Klanton: The jurisdiction of a Klavern.
Klavern: A local unit or club; also called "den."
Kleagle: An organizer whose main function is to recruit new members. In some Klans, he gets a percentage of the initiation fees.
Klectokon: Initiation fee.
Klepeer: Delegate elected to Imperial Klonvokation.
Klonkave: Secret Klavern meeting.
Klonverse: Province convention.
Kloran: Official book of Klan rituals.
Klorero: Realm convention.
SAN BOG: A password meaning "Strangers Are Near, Be On Guard."
Terrors: The Exalted Cyclops' officers.
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/ku-klux-klan
Most of these Klowns are now wearing business suits or working clothes in the day. It's at night time they show what they are all about. Here are some videos posted by Segami on them in 2012:
ABC Nightline: Inside the New Ku Klux Klan
http://www.democraticunderground.com/101772450
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)I wonder, do they have DEN MOTHERS?
jmowreader
(50,555 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)This!
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)Except that even the fictional Hutts are more refined and decent.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)LeftOfWest
(482 posts)the rest of us with brains know better.
"We want to stay white."
"It's not a hateful thing to want to MAINTAIN white supremacy."
Uh yeah it is.
You cannot make this stuff up...
freshwest
(53,661 posts)thelordofhell
(4,569 posts)Oooooops
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Revanchist
(1,375 posts)AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)They do satire to a T.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)oh well, Just carry on then....
olddad56
(5,732 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)"and Freddy's dead...that's what I said..." ~Curtis Mayfield.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)could hardly be anything BUT a hate group.
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Whatever you say asswipe.
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)..of 2 Klansmen wearing their white sheets at a Klan gathering,
one turns to the other and says:
"Don't you love it when they're still warm from the dryer?"
I tried to post it here, but couldn't find it, even at Callahan's site.
red dog 1
(27,792 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)He had another one that showed a bunch of deer with protest signs, and the caption reads:
"We're here! We're queer!" and We're deer!
onehandle
(51,122 posts)trusty elf
(7,390 posts)as an "equal opportunity employer".
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2706&dat=19800603&id=Fd1JAAAAIBAJ&sjid=yx0NAAAAIBAJ&pg=4409,1500659
Gothmog
(145,131 posts)Just ask all of the Jews who died at the hands of this christian group.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)stillwaiting
(3,795 posts)So are some Muslim groups, and so are some jewish groups, etc.
Being a member of a religious group does not give someone a free pass to do, say, or think whatever they please AND be exempt from criticism.
dogknob
(2,431 posts)rurallib
(62,406 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)Christian organization my ass.
struggle4progress
(118,280 posts)Caretha
(2,737 posts)your reputation was ruined in the 1940's
Die already KKK.
The future of the world has no place for you.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)And am not taking His name in vain. The Ku Klux Klan is damned by G-d. So if you're a "non-violent Christian organization" use another name.
Reter
(2,188 posts)David Duke said the same nonsense 40 years ago.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)These idiots all need to move to some desert island near Greenland.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)for the visit of the Red cross in 1944
ck4829
(35,068 posts)grandpamike1
(193 posts)of Christians are the KKK.
QuestForSense
(653 posts)This guy's claim is just as self-serving, and ridiculous.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)In fact it more or less confirms it.
relayerbob
(6,544 posts)They forgot the "anti" part of the statement - they're "an antichrist-ian organization"
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)And you wouldn't want to be the one who told 'em that His Mom was Catholic.
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)Ecumenist
(6,086 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)as a synonym for "good." As many have pointed out in this thread, there are and always have been plenty of "Christian" organizations that are far from good.
Nice try in rewriting history, Frank Ancona.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Just by chance, I happen to be watching "KKK: A Secret History" on H2 right now. Some KKK piece of filth just blew up the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL. Killed four little girls. You call that nonviolent? Samuel Holloway Bowers was nonviolent? Bull Connor was nonviolent?
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)The stupid burns.
You earned your label.
Arkana
(24,347 posts)These idiots have convinced themselves their own farts smell like fresh cinnamon rolls.
Pterodactyl
(1,687 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)support from the Koch brothers...
To paraphrase George W Bush - "Some people call them crazy violent racists, we call them our base."