We’re not hateful, we’re a Christian organization

[Generic Other]

The leader of a Ku Klux Klan group in Virginia says the notoriously racist “Hooded Order” is really just a non-violent Christian organization.

“We don’t hate people because of their race. I mean, we’re a Christian organization,” Frank Ancona, an Imperial Wizard of the Traditional American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, told WWBT on Thursday.

He insisted that the KKK had been unfairly maligned for its acts of violence against black people in the United States.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/21/virginia-kkk-imperial-wizard-were-not-hateful-were-a-christian-organization/#.UyxVvpN2Y4s.facebook

Like Jeffrey Dahmer saying, I am not a cannibal; I am a bad cook.

[jsr]

1. Why are they giving airtime to this goddamn loser?

[unblock]

3. deny him airtime? why would they do that? it not like he's a liberal!

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Pick one

[Generic Other]

5. I tried

I have to go with bad cook on this one.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. I see what you did there

My first post was actually talking to the KKK (JUST in case it wasn't clear).

[Generic Other]

8. I wasn't sure my analogy was any good

my bad.



edit: Should have gone with Paula Deen.

[Gothmog]

4. The KKK is still active in Vidor Texas

These people scare me. I will not stop in Vidor even to use the bathroom or to fill up.

[Generic Other]

7. Visit sunny Texas and tour a sundown town!

When you google Vidor you get sundown town. Vidor is a former (or current) sundown town?

Vidor is a small city of about 11,000 people near the Texas Gulf Coast, not too far from the Louisiana border. Despite the fact that Beaumont, a much bigger city just 10 minutes away, is quite integrated, Vidor is not. There are very few blacks there; it's mostly white. That is in large part because of a history of racism in Vidor, a past that continues to haunt the present.

"We've been trying to live down something for 40 to 50 years," said Orange County Commissioner Beamon Minton. "Once convicted, you're a convicted felon. You can't ever put that aside."

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Vidor also had a reputation as a haven for the Ku Klux Klan. In fact, Jones recalls seeing a Klan rally in Vidor when he was a child. Vidor city officials point that that doesn't mean the rally was filled with Vidor residents. They say the Klan brought members from all over and targeted Vidor for rallies.

One of the most memorable instances of that was in 1993, when the federal government tried to change years of racial separation, and brought a handful of black families into Vidor's public housing. In response, the Klan marched in Vidor. Within months, the few black families moved out. And African-Americans were left with a deep impression that still exists today.

"They think that's a racist town," said Walter Diggles of the East Deep Texas Council of Governments. "They think when you go through Vidor, you better be very careful, and most blacks still refuse to stop."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/08/oppenheim.sundown.town/index.html

Huh. Mighty strange how people just don't trust driving into Vidor. Guess I saw one too many chainsaw movies or read one too many stories of lynchings.

[nomorenomore08]

13. Hell, I've known young white women from Texas who were afraid to pass through certain towns.

Shows you just how scary some of these places are - "Deliverance" maybe comes to mind.

[Gothmog]

16. Santa Fe Texas used to be sundown city

Santa Fe Texas is a little city between Houston and Galveston which was the topic of a SCOTUS decision on prayer at school events. This town only had two jewish families and so the idiots decided to target these families because they had to be the ones bringing the lawsuit. The Houston ADL stepped in. The funny thing was that neither Jewish family was involved in the lawsuit.

[spanone]

9. that racist asshole can say whatever he wants. one thing he's not. Christian.

dumbfuck

[Generic Other]

10. I think that is a given spanone

Now turn the other cheek and whack him again! I am with you on this one!

[spanone]

11. the internet has given every nut in the world a voice...

me included, of course.

but these kind of declarations wouldn't have gone anywhere in the past.

[LiberalAndProud]

12. c'mon they're being unfairly maligned.

And they think that is god's honest truth, too.

Ancona’s KKK group has been tossing racist fliers onto residents lawns in Chesterfield County in the middle of the night. The fliers include a phone number, an email address and information about two websites that claim the KKK is a non-violent group that is not the “enem[y] of the colored and mongrel races.”

Earlier this month, Ancona told the Richmond Times-Dispatch that “[t]he thing that really gets me is that [people are] saying we’re teaching our children to hate people just because of their race, creed and color, and that’s a complete lie and falsehood.”

[nomorenomore08]

14. A KKK member worried about being perceived as hateful? This is friggin' Onion material!

[Generic Other]

15. I swear I did not lift it from them

but yeah you have a point. Wait, no they have the pointy hoods. They have the point.

And bedbugs.