The Klan went away for two reasons for one the industrialisation of the south removed the material conditions the Klan was a product of. and the Soviet union was using it as an example for why African nations should align with them rather than the US so their driving factor went away at around the same time they became a liability.
How life improved was segregation and lynchings stopped. America is institutionally racist but it still used to be worse when there was a terrorist organisation dedicated to making life unlivable for black people
I don't know that it did. I'd say it was just rebranded and reintegrated under the evangelical movement and then the Tea Party / Trump movements that followed.
How life improved was segregation and lynchings stopped.
Segregation wasn't stopped. It was rebranded as meritocracy. Neighborhoods are no less segregated than they were fifty years ago. Schools and businesses continue to enforce racial divisions under secularized metrics.
Lynchings simply became a role of the state rather than the mob. Again, look to the modern prison system and police state. You'll find plenty of lynchings. Now you can kill someone by SWATing them.
you are only thinking of the Klan as a political organisation dedicated to racism. What you aren't taking into account is that the organisations you mentioned have nowhere near the hold over their communities that the Klan at it's height managed to maintain and they are not nearly as capable of campaigns of organised and sustained terror.
The US both now and then has structures dedicated to ensuring that people who use institutional power and violence to suppress black people and other minorities get away with it and are rewarded. The difference is the presence of an organisation dedicated to making use of this to wage guerrilla warfare and conduct terrorist campaigns against the black community.
To compare the capitol riots for example with the operations of the Klan in Mississippi in the 60's is ludicrous.
you are only thinking of the Klan as a political organisation dedicated to racism. What you aren’t taking into account is that the organisations you mentioned have nowhere near the hold over their communities that the Klan at it’s height managed to maintain and they are not nearly as capable of campaigns of organised and sustained terror.
Now we just have the modern police. And maybe the police happen to be staffed with the exact same people who were formally in the Klan, but I assure you that this time its going to be different.
The US both now and then has structures dedicated to ensuring that people who use institutional power and violence to suppress black people and other minorities get away with it and are rewarded. The difference is the presence of an organisation dedicated to making use of this to wage guerrilla warfare and conduct terrorist campaigns against the black community.
How is the modern Saint Louis PD engaged in conduct materially different from the Klan era? What about the Baltimore PD? Or the Chicago PD? Or the Dallas PD?
To compare the capitol riots for example with the operations of the Klan in Mississippi in the 60’s is ludicrous.
The capital riots were only able to occur because the police were in on it.
The Klan went away for two reasons for one the industrialisation of the south removed the material conditions the Klan was a product of. and the Soviet union was using it as an example for why African nations should align with them rather than the US so their driving factor went away at around the same time they became a liability.
How life improved was segregation and lynchings stopped. America is institutionally racist but it still used to be worse when there was a terrorist organisation dedicated to making life unlivable for black people
I don't know that it did. I'd say it was just rebranded and reintegrated under the evangelical movement and then the Tea Party / Trump movements that followed.
Segregation wasn't stopped. It was rebranded as meritocracy. Neighborhoods are no less segregated than they were fifty years ago. Schools and businesses continue to enforce racial divisions under secularized metrics.
Lynchings simply became a role of the state rather than the mob. Again, look to the modern prison system and police state. You'll find plenty of lynchings. Now you can kill someone by SWATing them.
you are only thinking of the Klan as a political organisation dedicated to racism. What you aren't taking into account is that the organisations you mentioned have nowhere near the hold over their communities that the Klan at it's height managed to maintain and they are not nearly as capable of campaigns of organised and sustained terror.
The US both now and then has structures dedicated to ensuring that people who use institutional power and violence to suppress black people and other minorities get away with it and are rewarded. The difference is the presence of an organisation dedicated to making use of this to wage guerrilla warfare and conduct terrorist campaigns against the black community.
To compare the capitol riots for example with the operations of the Klan in Mississippi in the 60's is ludicrous.
Now we just have the modern police. And maybe the police happen to be staffed with the exact same people who were formally in the Klan, but I assure you that this time its going to be different.
How is the modern Saint Louis PD engaged in conduct materially different from the Klan era? What about the Baltimore PD? Or the Chicago PD? Or the Dallas PD?
The capital riots were only able to occur because the police were in on it.