About a hundred back, my grandfather joined the California KKK for one year because they promised free beer at their meetings. That never happened, and, indignant, he quit a year later.
That 1920s version of the KKK was, I think, largely a pyramid scheme. It cost ten dollar to join, and if you brought in a new member, you got to keep five of the dollars. Recruiters did a lot of lying.
The original KKK and related terrorist gangs were murderous thugs, of course. President Grant used the army to crush them. But white supremicists have popped up again and again, today calling themselves "militias," as if private armies were legal. To be blunt, they are armed American terrorists. They should be prosecuted.
Republicans and some others try to compare the terrorist militias to Antifa, which is nonsense. Antifa is not an organization. It is a name for antifascists who wear black pants.
No comments:
Post a Comment