Not one for posting controversial threads :1orglaugh but thought this article was rather interesting (rather surprising for Murdochs' Sun which normally concentrates on anti-Muslim articles). To the American members of the forum how common/relevant is this to the US today or is it just a British newspaper making a bit issue out of one isolated ****** to make a story?
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I never understood the whole cross burning thing isn't that what the church of Satan does?
You wouldn't know that the Klan existed if it wasn't for articles like this. That best describes the modern KKK's relationship with America. Every now and then there's a Klan "rally" and those consist of about 14 overweight junior high dropouts marching as about 80 unemployed idiots jeer them and pretend to be outraged.
Funny about 7 years ago I was preparing to hand in some work at Uni and had popped into a Newsagents to photocopy the work and there was a quiet respectable looking middle aged guy in front of me using the photocopier, he didn't say much from what I remember but was sort of apologetic about taking so long, when I saw what he was photocopying it was hundreds of KKK pamphlets which rather surprised me as we were in North London (large Black community) of all places. Anyway each to their own I guess but all those pamphlets were gonna get distributed somewhere, surprised he chose such an ethnically diverse area where to photocopy his stuff, trust me he was no fighter and he was playing with fire.
I never understood the whole cross burning thing isn't that what the church of Satan does?
The Ku Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme ******** to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy. Of all the types of right-wing **** groups that exist in the United States, the Klan remains the one with the greatest number of national and local organizations around the country.
More than 40 different Klan groups exist, many having multiple chapters, or “klaverns,” including a few that boast a presence in a large number of states. There are over a hundred different Klan chapters around the country, with a combined strength of members and associates that may total around 5,000
But Jesus is/was Jewish. I mean, doesn't that like screw up your whole mindset?:dunno:
i believe it has something to do with the kkk being anti-catholic if i'm not mistaken as to to the story that boy is going to be one majorly fucked up adult nothing like early indoctrination to make a true believer it works with religion after all
The original Ku Klux Klan, which was founded in 1866 and disbanded in the early 1870s, didn't burn crosses, but that didn't stop author Thomas Dixon from saying they did in his pro-KKK novel The Clansman (1905). "The Fiery Cross of old Scotland's hills!" a character in the book announces. "In olden times when the Chieftain of our people summoned the clan on an errand of life and death, the Fiery Cross, extinguished in sacrificial *****, was sent by swift courier from village to village."
Though it had done well enough on its own, The Clansman didn't become a national phenomenon until Dixon sold the movie rights to the pioneer filmmaker D.W. Griffith, who used it to make his groundbreaking film The Birth of a Nation. In a dramatic scene, the movie's hero rears up his ***** and brandishes a flaming cross to summon the Klans to drive out the black oppressors (!) and their northern white allies who controlled the south during Reconstruction. Meanwhile the movie theater's orchestra (remember, this was the silent era) struck up Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries." Southern white audiences generally when nuts at this point, clapping and cheering.
Knowing a good idea when he saw one, William J. Simmons, the founder of the Klan in its second incarnation (1915-1944), cobbled together a cross and burned it at a meeting of the newly-established Knights of the Ku Klux Klan on Thanksgiving night, 1915, on Stone Mountain near Atlanta. Flaming crosses have been a Klan trademark ever since.
EXACTLY ... Jesus was a Jew for sure!
Nope, Jesus never existed. But yes, the Jesus character was certainly a Jew.![]()
And one more thing ... I always say this and get shouted down, but this supports my point. Much of the far right hatred of Obama is based on Racism not reality.
Just my :2 cents:
I won't shout you down and I'm not an affiliate of any such fringe wing of politics, but my distaste for this president is based on his politics,
he's such an inflexible ideologue and his definition of ''justice'' isn't much different from, say, a hugo chavez or even a che guevara if you want to go back in history. see : far left