KIng of the Hill - AmeriKKKa ?

Cafe Society
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I caught the last 2 minutes of a King of the Hill rerun last night, and was wondering why there is a bumper sticker with “AmeriKKKa” on the door of the pickup truck ?

Was this part of the story ? Was it explained earlier in the show ?

thanks !

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I saw the same rerun last night. The deal was Hank, Bobby, and the boys went on a camping trip, where Hank was going to teach Bobby self-reliance. The park also happened to be chosen for a large gathering of hippies–some gratuitous hippy/lawyer bashing ensued. Bobby was supposed to eat only what he caught, but ended up sharing hippy food. The hippies then decided to “share” Hank’s truck, fishing poles, and other gear. Hank and the ranger drove off the hippies by discontinuing all park services, and the scene you saw was when Hank found his truck after the hippies left…

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thanks for the recap but, I guess I wasn’t clear on what I was asking:

So did the hippies put the “AmeriKKKa” sticker on the truck ? Are these pro-Klan hippies ?

I’m still confused …

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No, no, no - putting a bumper sticker on your car saying “AmeriKKKa” isn’t advertising that you like the Klan; it’s saying that you believe that the government of the United States and Ku Klux Klan are essentially the same thing (thus, putting them together into a single word). You’re stating that you believe that the government of the United States - and, therefore, most of its population- is inherently racist and evil. Which isn’t that uncommon a belief for modern hippies. Or at least hippies that like to gather in the park and “share” peoples’ stuff.

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The hippies are equating America (or American government or whatever) with the Klan, and are presumably in support of neither.

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This is why people need to fill out their location fields - so we when we get questions like this we’d know whether the poster has been living under a rock or just in Iraq (ba-dum-bum).

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Wikipedia’s take, which pretty much echoes what John Corrado and Cat Fight said.

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AmeriKKKa was also the name of an Ice Cube album, sometime in the early 1990s.

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It looks like I misremembered. The album was actually called AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted.

Another interesting connection is that one of Ice Cube’s most famous songs was called “King of the Hill”.