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'''Ku Klux Klan''', commonly shortened to the '''KKK''' or the '''Klan''', is an American [[White Nationalist]], and formerly, an occasional terrorist-lite activist group whose primary targets were Blacks and [[jews]], and even [[Catholics]] but the group has not burned crosses on anyone's lawn in a very long time, and that sort of terrorism-lite has not occurred since your great grandparent's day, and even then it was unusual. Their activism | '''Ku Klux Klan''', commonly shortened to the '''KKK''' or the '''Klan''', is an American [[White Nationalist]], and formerly, an occasional terrorist-lite activist group whose primary targets were Blacks and [[jews]], and even [[Catholics]] but the group has not burned crosses on anyone's lawn in a very long time, and that sort of terrorism-lite has not occurred since your great grandparent's day, and even then it was unusual. Their activism these days is strictly legal.<ref>title=KKK targets LGBT ordinance in Florida |url=https://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/11/24/kkk-targets-lgbt-ordinance-in-florida/ |website=Washington Blade |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220801141000/https://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/11/24/kkk-targets-lgbt-ordinance-in-florida/ |archive-date=August 1, 2022 |date=November 24, 2015 |quote=The Ku Klux Klan has distributed fliers against a proposed ordinance that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Andrea Castillo |title=Fresno GLBT Pride Parade a celebration of culture, history |url=https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article23116893.html |website=The Fresno Bee |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210617195130/https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article23116893.html |archive-date=June 17, 2021 |date=June 4, 2015 |quote=Two dozen Klansmen showed up in white robes. A Bee article quoted their spokesman, Jim Cheney, saying, “We can’t hang them or tar and feather them anymore, but we can do other things.” Members of the group continued making appearances at the festival through 1998.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Jaime Ritter |title=Anti-Muslim KKK fliers pop up in Alabama |url=https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/anti-muslim-kkk-fliers-pop-up-in-alabama/ |website=CBS42 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220801203722/https://www.cbs42.com/news/local/anti-muslim-kkk-fliers-pop-up-in-alabama/ |archive-date=August 1, 2022 |date=December 9, 2015 |quote=The Alabama chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says that the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is recruiting in Alabama to “fight the spread of Islam in our country.”}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Klan Plans Protests At Abortion Clinics |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-21-mn-29625-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803110416/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-08-21-mn-29625-story.html |archive-date=August 3, 2022 |language=English |date=August 21, 1994 |quote=Ku Klux Klansmen plan to demonstrate at abortion clinics in Pensacola within the next month, a spokesman for the group said Saturday. The group plans to picket against abortion and the use of federal marshals to guard the clinics.</ref><ref>{{cite web |author1=Moira Donegan |title=White nationalists are flocking to the US anti-abortion movement |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/24/white-nationalists-are-flocking-to-the-us-anti-abortion-movement |website=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803104633/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/24/white-nationalists-are-flocking-to-the-us-anti-abortion-movement |archive-date=August 3, 2022 |language=English |date=January 24, 2022 |quote=In 1985, the KKK began circulating “Wanted” posters featuring the photos and personal information of abortion providers. The posters were picked up by the anti-choice terrorist group Operation Rescue in the early 90s.}}</ref><ref>last=Bowley |first=Nicoli |title='Ten Dollars to Hate Somebody': Hispanic Communities and the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado, 1917-1925 |type=Undergraduate honors thesis |url=https://scholar.colorado.edu/downloads/vt150j866 |access-date=January 13, 2022|</ref><ref>archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025160616/https://scholar.colorado.edu/downloads/vt150j866|archive-date=October 25, 2021}}</ref><ref>|date=November 2022|Baudouin|1997|loc=p.23: "A new Klan leader began to beat the drums of anti-Communist hatred. This man was Samuel Green, an Atlanta doctor."</ref> | ||
The Ku Klux Klan is the oldest and most famous of American pro-White groups. Although Blacks have typically been the Klan’s primary target, adherents also name the [[jew]], illegal aliens, gays. | The Ku Klux Klan is the oldest and most famous of American pro-White groups. Although Blacks have typically been the Klan’s primary target, adherents also name the [[jew]], illegal aliens, gays. | ||
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Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American White Nationalist, and formerly, an occasional terrorist-lite activist group whose primary targets were Blacks and jews, and even Catholics but the group has not burned crosses on anyone's lawn in a very long time, and that sort of terrorism-lite has not occurred since your great grandparent's day, and even then it was unusual. Their activism these days is strictly legal.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
The Ku Klux Klan is the oldest and most famous of American pro-White groups. Although Blacks have typically been the Klan’s primary target, adherents also name the jew, illegal aliens, gays.
Decline
With a persistent ability to attract media attention, organized Ku Klux Klan groups are unfortunately continuing a long-term trend of decline. They remain a collection of mostly small, disjointed groups that continually change in name and leadership. Down slightly from a year ago, there are currently just over thirty active Klan groups in the United States, most of them very small.
The long-term decline of Ku Klux Klan groups is due to several contributing factors, including rampant cultural Marxism feeding increasing societal rejection of what the Klan stands for; a growing perception by pro-Whites that Klan groups are outdated; and competition with other White nationalist movements. In recent years, one of the clearest signs of the declining state of Ku Klux Klan groups has been their unfortunate instability.
More than half of the currently active Klan groups were formed only in the last five years. This illustrates how short-lived today’s Ku Klux Klan groups actually tend to be. Just some of the recently disbanded Klan groups include the Aryan Nations, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Eastern White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and the United Dixie White Knights.
While a few longstanding Klan groups still exist, they continue to fade away. Just a decade ago, Klan groups such as the White Camelia Knights, the Mississippi White Knights, and the Church of the National Knights exhibited consistent activity. Today, all three are mere shadows of their former selves. Despite their diminishing numbers, there are still approximately 3,000 Klan members nationwide, as well an additional but unknown number of associates and supporters. Even with relatively small numbers, groups like the North Carolinabased Loyal White Knights (LWK), perhaps the most active Klan group in the United States today, have a fairly expansive geographical reach. In 2015, with just 150-200 members, they were able to draw attention to themselves in 15 different states (mostly in the south and east), typically through fliering, which requires only a single participant.
Many of the newer Klan groups promote a traditional Klan ideology infused with more inclusive beliefs, continuing a trend from the early 2000s. EBBOK is one of these, its website explaining, “We are a group unlike other groups. We accept all Nazis and skin heads cause we have the same beliefs.” Two such Klan groups have already formed in 2016: the Great Lake Knights, based in Alpena, Michigan, and the Pacific Coast Knights of Spokane, Washington.
References
- ↑ title=KKK targets LGBT ordinance in Florida |url=https://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/11/24/kkk-targets-lgbt-ordinance-in-florida/ |website=Washington Blade |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220801141000/https://www.washingtonblade.com/2015/11/24/kkk-targets-lgbt-ordinance-in-florida/ |archive-date=August 1, 2022 |date=November 24, 2015 |quote=The Ku Klux Klan has distributed fliers against a proposed ordinance that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
- ↑ Fresno GLBT Pride Parade a celebration of culture, history (June 4, 2015). “Two dozen Klansmen showed up in white robes. A Bee article quoted their spokesman, Jim Cheney, saying, “We can’t hang them or tar and feather them anymore, but we can do other things.” Members of the group continued making appearances at the festival through 1998.”
- ↑ Anti-Muslim KKK fliers pop up in Alabama (December 9, 2015). “The Alabama chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says that the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is recruiting in Alabama to “fight the spread of Islam in our country.””
- ↑ 'Ten Dollars to Hate Somebody': Hispanic Communities and the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado, 1917-1925 (English). Los Angeles Times (August 21, 1994). “Ku Klux Klansmen plan to demonstrate at abortion clinics in Pensacola within the next month, a spokesman for the group said Saturday. The group plans to picket against abortion and the use of federal marshals to guard the clinics.
- ↑ White nationalists are flocking to the US anti-abortion movement (English) (January 24, 2022). “In 1985, the KKK began circulating “Wanted” posters featuring the photos and personal information of abortion providers. The posters were picked up by the anti-choice terrorist group Operation Rescue in the early 90s.”
- ↑ last=Bowley”
- ↑ |date=November 2022|Baudouin|1997|loc=p.23: "A new Klan leader began to beat the drums of anti-Communist hatred. This man was Samuel Green, an Atlanta doctor."