“Ohh, ohhh, Tennessee. The devil fools with the best laid plans…”
Memphis… Welcome to the 21st century.
Holy living fuck.
“Swing low, Tennessee”
http://www.abc15.com/dpp/news/national/kkk-plans-rally-in-memphis-saturday-to-celebrate-white-peoples-rights
It hadn’t occurred to me that the Klan disappeared on December 31st, 1999 (or 2000, if you want to get anal about it), so why would this be a surprise?
I can’t believe it. That’s all. I really can’t fucking believe it. I thought that after episodes like The Freedom Riders exposed, and various other demonstrations of evolution and understanding, that this couldn’t possibly exist anymore.
(shrug) There is an active KKK ranch with a bar/liquor store down the street from where I lived in Georgia; they were extremely open about their activities, and would stand down at the end of their driveway in their robes (no hoods) to direct traffic during the larger events. I’m not even remotely surprised.
My former husband, who had a degree in history and did a crap ton of research on the topic, would always point out that the state with the largest amount of registered members of the KKK was Connecticut. Whether or not that’s still true, I don’t know.
I wouldn’t worry about them as they’ve identified themselves. Worry about the silent ones. The ones who will act upon their hatred.
Bobkitty, with all due respect… the klan of the retarded evolution is planning a march. Have you seen one in conneticut in your lifetime?
The shame of being the city where Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered isn’t enough. We have a big Klan rally going on today in our black majority city. It sickens me.
A choice quote from the linked article:
Stupid people are stupid people everywhere. This has nothing to do with “Tennessee”.
In the 1980s, yes. It was a pretty huge deal actually.
Doesn’t make what’s happening in TN right by any stretch of the imagination, but honestly I’m just not surprised by anything that ignorant throwbacks do anymore.
I couldn’t help but chuckle at this part…
You don’t have a population of 360M and not have some screwballs running loose, it can’t happen. You’re gonna have a Westboro, you’re gonna have the Klan, Neo-Nazis, Black Muslims and fanatics from the militant Unitarian wing. They are the ugly canaries in the coal mine, I don’t like the song of repulsive, mindless hatred, but it is reassuring. So long as their stupid drivel is not illegal, neither is my calm reasoning, crystalline intelligence. and sound agenda for a better world.
Am I the only person who thinks that “Edward the Exalted Cyclops” sounds like the title of a children’s book?
Hey, they don’t want blacks to “go back to Africa” anymore. Things are looking up!
It’s just those immigrants. Mostly Mexicans. They should go back to the continent they came from!
Not anymore. 
One of these things is not like the others.
You will have coffee, or else.
When was that? The first Klan was started by Confederate officers, of whom I can’t imagine there were many in CT. The second Klan had its largest membership in Indiana, and then later as the Civil Rights movement heated up, N. Carolina. The SPLC says that Iowa and Mississippi are the two states with the largest modern membership.
Grand Klaxon Dragon Orville Reddenbacher
Hm, I oculd have sworn that historically it was Illinoise or Indiana [one of those northern midwest spots] but this was back before WW2. <shrug> I think they are all nuts, there is no difference in people that is visible through skin, eyes or hair colors. We are all the same, just wrapped in designer patterns [as designed by god?]