Fenton Lum
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Anyone care to go through this AGAIN can see the 200 or so posts at the hyperlink below, while this deranged little woman, continues to OCD on being bitch slapped over 2 years ago!
But PLEASE continue with your BULLSHIT.... Someone MIGHT actually believe that you ALTERED HISTORY!
OOoooOOOOooh, Googly Image memes. Well ain't that an unimpeachable source.
The link does go into, as many historians do, the resurgence of Klan activity in the '50s-'60s around the Civil Rights push, but these were again, decentralized local groups, not a unified organization as existed under Evans, and Simmons before him.
>> The Ku Klux Klan was organized—if one can use that term—in Pulaski, Tennessee on December 24th, 1866 by six former Confederate veterans. It has been suggested that originally it had been meant as simply another fraternal order, one of many being founded around that time—sort of a Southern Masonry. But if this was the intent, it failed dismally. It did not build orphanages or Old Klansman's Homes—and for that matter, even lodge halls. It did not provide its members with low cost life insurance as was becoming common with fraternal orders at that time. In fact, there is little evidence it ever did anything for its members other than provide an outlet for their racial hatreds.
Though a failure at fraternalism, it did enjoy quite a bit of success as a terrorist organization. Given the founders, there is little reason to think it was ever meant to be anything else. From the beginning, it did everything it could to conduct guerrilla warfare against the occupying Northern forces and the Republican Party. The newly freed slaves would be ruthlessly suppressed. Murder was frequently the means toward this end.
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The Historian Elane Frantz Parsons sums up Klan membership which, ironically, is a shining example of diversity:
Lifting the Klan masks revealed a chaotic multitude of anti-black vigilante groups, disgruntled poor white farmers, war-time guerrilla bands, displaced democratic politicians, illegal whiskey distillers, coercive moral reformers, sadists, rapists, white workmen fearful of black competition, employers trying to enforce labor discipline, common thieves, neighbors with decades old grudges, and even a few freedmen and Republicans who allied with Democratic whites or had criminal agendas of their own. Indeed, all they had in common besides being overwhelmingly white, southern, and Democratic, were that they called themselves, or were called, Klansmen.
.... Probably everything commonly known about the Klan comes from its second incarnation, starting in 1915. The white robes, the burning crosses, the incendiary rhetoric directed at Catholics and Jews, the Kludds, Kleagles, and Klaverns , all were originated by the Klan in its second advent. It was during this era that the Klan achieved its greatest membership and spread to numerous northern and western states.
... But if the aim of the second Klan was to become a respectable fraternal order, it failed just as miserably as the first. The failure of the first was in large part economic—most early Klansmen were dead broke—and due to government suppression. The failure of the second was its inability to reconcile a political movement and a fraternal order's need to take care of its members—that and the fact that the entire enterprise was nothing more than an elaborate con job.
In spite of laudable acts of charity, fraternal orders are not altogether altruistic. The main purpose of any fraternal order is to look after the interests of its members. This second KKK, in addition to being a vigorous backer of Prohibition, was so busy hating Blacks, liberals, Catholics, Jews, and, later, Communists, that it neglected to do anything for its members.
.... The Great Depression, beginning in 1929, deprived the Klan of virtually all its dues paying members. It proved equally devastating to legitimate fraternal orders as well and many did not survive. After 1930, the Klan was no longer a money making enterprise and as a consequence interest declined even further—the fact that there was easy money to be made was always at the heart of the Klan. In 1939, Hiram Evans, Imperial Wizard and successor to Simmons, saw the writing on the wall and sold the organization to James Colescott and Samuel Green—the Klan had been incorporated as a business. In 1944, the IRS slapped a lien of $685,000 for back taxes against the organization which bankrupted it. This was effectively the end of the second Klan. << --- Phoenixmasonry
Which is what I've already said, in greater detail.
Say --- blacks... liberals... Catholics... Jews..... and they didn't mention, labor unions.... those are all Republican Party constituents, right?
Oh wait....
And in your deranged little pea sized mind those SIX CONFEDERATES were all REPUBLICANS that formed to stop REPUBLICANS from gaining political office in the South...is that what you are trying to say in your disjointed way.....
What part of "they had no known political affiliation" somehow translates to "they were Republicans" in a land where the Republican Party didn't even exist yet, Flasher-boi? Are you fucking stupid?
Actually they were simply bored; they had no agenda, neither political nor racial. Pre-existing elements called "night patrols" took over after that point. It was that element that brought in the violence.
=> In fact, the beginning of the Klan involved nothing so sinister, subversive or ancient as the theories supposed. It was the boredom of small-town life that led six young Confederate veterans to gather around a fireplace one December evening in 1865 and form a social club. the place was Pulaski, Tenn., near the Alabama border. when they reassembled a week later, the six young men were full of ideas for their new society. it would be secret, to heighten the amusement of the thing, and the titles for the various offices were to have names as preposterous-sounding as possible, partly for the fun of it and partly to avoid any military or political implications. <= --- The Unusual Origins of the Ku Klux Klan, p. 9, compiled by Klanwatch
That about it?
Nathan Bedford Forrest was a flaming racist slave owner bub, and the "social club" ruse is what every meth distributing biker gang claims.
It's a matter of record. Has been for a long time. The racial and terror element was brought in from outside by "night patrols", which predated the Klan. See my Klanwatch link for more on them. They infiltrated what was originally just a lark. The six founders when they rode with masks went not to the homes of black folk but to those of their mothers and girlfriends, just to see if they could do it without anyone recognizing them.
Not sure about your characterization of Forrest. He was known to abhor mistreatment of slaves, and in fact freed his own. But he was not a founder anyway --- he was brought in as a figurehead after it was running amok so they'd look "legitimate". After less than two years he said "this group is fucked up" (paraphrasing) and issued an order disbanding the whole operation.
Sure pard, sure, there have always been vast efforts to white wash american history. Just some good ole boys never meanin' no harm, kinda like halloween for grown ups. Don't be asacred Maybell, it's me, in a sheet.
