White AmeriKKKa being white AmeriKKKa- wonder how many of the "wholesome KKK grandpa" crowd had KKK relatives or grandparents of their own, when at their height, there's estimated to have been 4-6 million official Klansmen in the US in the 1920s, and that's not counting all their no doubt similarly racist wives, and the widespread political influence they had in regional governments, police departments, etc. and the fact Klan propaganda and support was so widespread, Birth of a Nation was even the first film screened at the white house. A large chunk of the country no doubt is going about with not just heaps of skeletons, but fresh corpses as well, rotting in the closet while pretending their hands are clean.
If you go traveling deep into rural US communities today it is not all different then from the days where the Klan was at it's height. Confederate flags, Christian nationalism, bombastic and racist slogans plastered everywhere. The Klan aesthetic got dropped but it's essence remains alive and well.
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White AmeriKKKa being white AmeriKKKa- wonder how many of the "wholesome KKK grandpa" crowd had KKK relatives or grandparents of their own, when at their height, there's estimated to have been 4-6 million official Klansmen in the US in the 1920s, and that's not counting all their no doubt similarly racist wives, and the widespread political influence they had in regional governments, police departments, etc. and the fact Klan propaganda and support was so widespread, Birth of a Nation was even the first film screened at the white house. A large chunk of the country no doubt is going about with not just heaps of skeletons, but fresh corpses as well, rotting in the closet while pretending their hands are clean.
If you go traveling deep into rural US communities today it is not all different then from the days where the Klan was at it's height. Confederate flags, Christian nationalism, bombastic and racist slogans plastered everywhere. The Klan aesthetic got dropped but it's essence remains alive and well.