One of the biggest lies in the history of America is the estimation that the membership of the Ku Klux Klan went from 4,000,000 in 1920 and dwindled to merely under 10,000 in 2008. Even if this were true, all those people did not perish, die, vanish, fall off the face of the planet or magically convert and become minority-loving peaceful people as America keeps trying to convince us of. Aside from the in-your-face prejudicial and racist nature of American society, economic exploitation of the mostly minority masses and the gross inequality ingrained in this society, one cannot downplay the importance this hate-filled movement has had on the present state of affairs in this country. At least five past Presidents of the United States of America were members of the Ku Klux Klan including Senators, Governors, Congressmen, Mayors, Judges, Sheriffs, Policemen, Aldermen, Clergy, Teachers, Ordinary Citizens, Businessmen and other people in positions of political importance and decision-making, much like today. The reality is that not much has changed. These same people, their children and their grandchildren, to whom these Old Boy Network ideologies have been handed down from generation to generation, are still in power, and they are still making the same decisions, fighting every attempt from the rest of society to prevent the advancement of progress. These people did not simply vanish into the cracks, but consolidated their hold and power on the ownership of the land. Americans loves fairy tales. They would have us believe that these people were all taken up in a spaceship, en masse, and there is no more racism in America. Racism is the status quo. Racism is the norm. Racism is the cancer that we have been fighting ever since before the slave days. Racism in America is what everything is predicated on. Most political and socio-economic decisions are based on race. The news and current political commentary is heavily laden with race. Politics, religion, economics, banking, government policies- domestic and foreign, education, sports, housing, ownership of property, the entertainment industry, the media, the arts, science, the manufacturing sector, loans, employment, homelessness, crime and the justice system, the military, farming and agriculture, tourism, business opportunities….and can I reiterate and say it again loudly- EVERYTHING in America is based on race, lets not delude ourselves. A hundred and fifty years ago, influential white people used the Klan as a mask for nonpolitical crimes and state and local governments seldom acted against them. African Americans were kept off juries. In lynching cases, all-white juries almost never indicted Ku Klux Klan members and when there was a rare indictment, juries were unlikely to vote for a conviction. In part, jury members feared reprisals from local Klansmen. The current manifestation consists of numerous small unconnected groups that use the KKK name in local and state chapters. Some have evolved and are known now as militias. They have all emphasized secrecy and distinctive costumes, and all have called for purification of American society, and all are considered right-wing terrorist hate groups. The KKK may have gone underground but in reality they are practicing their hate in plain sight.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:36:29 +0000
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