Michele Obama To Host Rapper At WH Who Talks Of Killing Cops, Burning Bush

Larson · May 10, 2011

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A history lesson larson.Your welcome

First Klan 1865â1874
Creation and naming

Six well-educated Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee, created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, during Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War.[25][26] The name was formed by combining the Greek kyklos (κυκλος, circle) with clan.[27] The group was known for a short time as the "Kuklux Clan." The Ku Klux Klan was one among a number of secret, oath-bound organizations using violence, including the Southern Cross in New Orleans (1865), and the Knights of the White Camellia (1867) in Louisiana.[28]

Historians generally see the KKK as part of the postwar insurgent violence related not only to the high number of veterans in the population, but also to their effort to control the dramatically changed social situation by using extrajudicial means to restore white supremacy. In 1866, Mississippi Governor William L. Sharkey reported that disorder, lack of control and lawlessness were widespread; in some states armed bands of Confederate soldiers roamed at will. The Klan used public violence against blacks as intimidation. They burned houses, and attacked and killed blacks, leaving their bodies on the roads.[29]

In an 1867 meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, Klan members gathered to try to create a hierarchical organization with local chapters eventually reporting up to a national headquarters. They elected Brian A. Scates to be the Leader and President of this organization. Since most of the Klan's members were veterans, they were used to the hierarchical structure of the organization, but the Klan never operated under this centralized structure. Local chapters and bands were highly independent.

The second Klan: 1915â1944
Refounding in 1915

Three events in 1915 acted as catalysts to the revival of the Klan:

The film The Birth of a Nation was released, mythologizing and glorifying the first Klan.

Leo Frank was lynched near Atlanta after the Georgia governor commuted his death sentence to life in prison. Frank had been convicted in 1913 and sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a young white factory worker named Mary Phagan, in a trial marked by intimidation of the jury and media frenzy. His legal appeals had been exhausted.

The second Ku Klux Klan was founded by William J. Simmons at Stone Mountain, outside Atlanta. It added to the original anti-black ideology with a new anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, prohibitionist and antisemitic agenda. Most of the founders were from an Atlanta-area organization calling itself the Knights of Mary Phagan, which had organized around Leo Frank's trial. The new organization emulated the fictionalized version of the Klan presented in The Birth of a Nation.

Later Klans, 1950 through 1960s

Soviet propaganda poster (Freedom, American style, 1950, by Nikolay Dolgorukov and Boris Efimov), showing the KKK's lynchings of blacks.

The name "Ku Klux Klan" began to be used by several independent groups. Beginning in the 1950s, for instance, individual Klan groups in Birmingham, Alabama began to resist social change and blacks' improving their lives by bombing houses in transitional neighborhoods. There were so many bombings in Birmingham of blacks' homes by Klan groups in the 1950s that the city's nickname was "Bombingham".[17]

During the tenure of Bull Connor as police commissioner in the city, Klan groups were closely allied with the police and operated with impunity. When the Freedom Riders arrived in Birmingham, Connor gave Klan members fifteen minutes to attack the riders before sending in the police to quell the attack.[17] When local and state authorities failed to protect the Freedom Riders and activists, the federal government established effective intervention.

In states such as Alabama and Mississippi, Klan members forged alliances with governors' administrations.[17] In Birmingham and elsewhere, the KKK groups bombed the houses of civil rights activists. In some cases they used physical violence, intimidation and assassination directly against individuals. Many murders went unreported and were not prosecuted by local and state authorities. Continuing disfranchisement of blacks across the South meant that most could not serve on juries, which were all white.
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I know the history of where it began, you just can't admit that bigotry is in the North also. When MLK was killed, they lit up Newark and Detroit. You can't blame that on the South. There were race riots in the North also.

AK Forty Seven · May 10, 2011

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I know the history of where it began, you just can't admit that bigotry is in the North also. There were race riots in the North also, there just wern't any cotton fields, I guess that is a climate thing.
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I agree there is bigotry in the north,but not nearly as much as the south and the KKK was not nearly as active in the north as it was the south

Artful D0dger · May 10, 2011

Of course there wasn't, the North was republican back then.

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I agree there is bigotry in the north,but not nearly as much as the south and the KKK was not nearly as active in the north as it was the south
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huh · May 11, 2011

I find it amusing that just a few months ago fox featured Common as being "very positive" and a "conscious rapper", but as soon as he got invited to the white house he's suddenly a vile rapper on Fox.....so Fox which is it? He's positive when doing an interview on Fox but Vile when he's going to the white house???

I'm not a fan of dumbocrats or Obama, but moronic, pointless, clearly political trash like this from Fox is just so fucking stupid. There's more important crap going on in the world than a rapper going to the white house...fucking morons.

377OHMS · May 11, 2011

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I'm not a fan of dumbocrats or Obama, but moronic, pointless, clearly political trash like this from Fox is just so fucking stupid. There's more important crap going on in the world than a rapper going to the white house...fucking morons.
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Change the channel, I hear there are several others available nowdays.

RCG Trader · May 12, 2011

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You do know that Reagan added more to the national debt then any other president before him right ?

You do know that Reagan had bigger deficits then any other president before him right ?

If you support Reagan's fiscal policy you have no business arguing for fiscal responsibility
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Didn't Reagan also do the earned income credit, thereby rewarding people for having kids? Some welfare mom's have turned this into a business.

RCG Trader · May 12, 2011

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Actually Reagan was more of a Stalinist. Read this book to see why.
http://totalinvestor.blogspot.com/2011/04/23-things-they-dont-tell-you-about.html

But to the topic at hand. Black people like the Obama's should not be associating with people like âCommon.â I agree with Chris Rock's philosophy that decent black people really need to quit hanging with niggers if they ever really want to make it out of the ghetto, be it literal or figurative.
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+1 and thanks for the link

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Michele Obama To Host Rapper At WH Who Talks Of Killing Cops, Burning Bush

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