what pathetic denial! I'd suggest a visit to the Atlanta History Centre for the
truth about the KKK, its origins and its racism.


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> Geez!  I think this crap is destined to live on forever.
> The KKK (racist org) was not created after the Civil War.
> What was created after the Civil War was an organizationof Southern loyalists,
called the Ku Klux Klan, that was aresistance group against the Northern
occupying army andthe Northern "carpetbagger" politicians and Southern
"scalawags"who went along with them.  General Nathan Bedford Forrestdisbanded
that organization not long after.
> The racist KKK was started in the 1920s or thereabouts andbased their name and
organization on the "heroic exploits" ofthe post-Civil-War KKK.
> The original KKK was not about race -- except insofar as morethan one million
freed slaves were roaming the Southern countrysideraping and pillaging with
abandon during the Reconstruction Era.
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reportedly appealed for new members to join the organisation in Italy. According
to the Italian daily, La Repubblica, the KKK established operations in Europe in
2007 and after internal conflict, the movement was dissolved.
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members known as the United Northern and Southern Knights in a bid to spread the
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European Klan loyal to the American one. This initiative was ratified by the
rest of the world in August 2008," said an Italian neo-Nazi forum on the
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join the movement, which just like its US counterpart fights against "blacks,
homosexuals and immigrants," but also "Jews".
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to fight for your race and for future generations, if you are tired of seeing
our descendents, our rights and our future trampled on and thrown away, if you
want to put an end to this destruction, we will be happy to have you as part of
our group and listen to you," the Italian site said.
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Let's recapture what was taken from us and let's give to our children the future
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identity document.
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through a "trial period". Official acceptance into the group takes place after
12 months of observation.
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and proud of being Italian," and say that Italian pride is being discouraged in
national discourse.
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gay pride," while "the majority of the population is not encouraged to be proud
of their own descendants and the conquests of their ancestors and that ethnic
group is the white race," said the daily quoting the Italian chapter of the KKK
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