"You have to be white to join the klan."

[Jermyn Davidson]

After being offered an invitation to join the NAACP, klansman and white supremacist John Abarr accepted.

However, the black person who invited John Abarr to join the NAACP, Abarr did not offer Jerry Simmons an invitation to join the klan.


"You have to be white to join the klan."


This meeting was instigated by Jerry Simmons of the NAACP in response to the hateful lliterature being distributed in Gillette, Wyo., about 130 miles north of Casper, and reported beatings of black men out in public with white women.

http://news.yahoo.com/kkk-member-jus...111700190.html

[Godzchild]

Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson

After being offered an invitation to join the NAACP, klansman and white supremacist John Abarr accepted.

However, the black person who invited John Abarr to join the NAACP, Abarr did not offer Jerry Simmons an invitation to join the klan.


"You have to be white to join the klan."


This meeting was instigated by Jerry Simmons of the NAACP in response to the hateful lliterature being distributed in Gillette, Wyo., about 130 miles north of Casper, and reported beatings of black men out in public with white women.

http://news.yahoo.com/kkk-member-jus...111700190.html

there will be a lot of on this thread! "look but don't touch"

[Pressing-On]

I knew I would find you here, Godzchild.

[Godzchild]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

I knew I would find you here, Godzchild.

LOL .... betcha thought I would be saying something.....didn't ya....

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by Godzchild

LOL .... betcha thought I would be saying something.....didn't ya....

[FlamingZword]

Would the Klan take me if I paint my face white?
I think I have a little bit of white paint somewhere in the garage.

[Originalist]

Originally Posted by FlamingZword

Would the Klan take me if I paint my face white?
I think I have a little bit of white paint somewhere in the garage.

The original klan, during the Reconstruction era after the War between the States, actually offered protection to blacks who were being harassed by carpetbaggers because they were not falling in line. But later, the klan started becoming purely a racial organization and Nathan Bedford Forest denounced it. Forest actually had klansmen hung for terrorizing blacks. He also became a champion of racial equality and was invited to speak at civil rights conventions. But he gets credit for none of this and the NAACP tries to get anything with his name on it removed.

[deacon blues]

Originally Posted by Originalist

The original klan, during the Reconstruction era after the War between the States, actually offered protection to blacks who were being harassed by carpetbaggers because they were not falling in line. But later, the klan started becoming purely a racial organization and Nathan Bedford Forest denounced it. Forest actually had klansmen hung for terrorizing blacks. He also became a champion of racial equality and was invited to speak at civil rights conventions. But he gets credit for none of this and the NAACP tries to get anything with his name on it removed.

Let me guess: you are from the South, and you believe that Forest was a good man. There is no credible history that would support this. You probably also believe the Civil War wasn't about slavery but about states rights. This post is nonsense.

[Pressing-On]

Originally Posted by deacon blues

Let me guess: you are from the South, and you believe that Forest was a good man. There is no credible history that would support this. You probably also believe the Civil War wasn't about slavery but about states rights. This post is nonsense.

After the war he was alleged to have participated in the founding of the Ku Klux Klan. Despite rumors that he was the first Grand Wizard of the Klan, the Congressional investigation of the Klan in 1871, which included several former Confederate generals, undertaken by Radical Republicans concluded that Forrest did not found the Klan, was not its leader, did not participate in its activities and worked to have it disbanded.

http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/...edford_Forrest


After the Civil War, Forrest lent his name to a group of enforcers of the Democratic Party known as the Ku Klux Klan. Disenchanted with the activities of the group he ordered it to disband in 1869, which did not happen. The Klan and Forrest went separate ways but the stigma of his days as slave trader, the Fort Pillow incident and his brief association with the Klan would forever raise questions about one of America's greatest tactical minds.

http://www.aboutnorthgeorgia.com/ang...edford_Forrest

[Originalist]

Originally Posted by deacon blues

Let me guess: you are from the South, and you believe that Forest was a good man. There is no credible history that would support this. You probably also believe the Civil War wasn't about slavery but about states rights. This post is nonsense.

I defer you to the post PressingOn.