Well I hope they learned the error of their ways and stopped being racist and joined the party of Lincoln.
But I don’t think they all did, demklan is still very much alive in the south
KKK funded by leftwing SPLC
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But I don’t think they all did, demklan is still very much alive in the south
Th Klan was a massive organization created as the terror wing of the Dem party
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Untrue but you knew that.
The Ku Klux Klan was founded by six Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee, in late 1865. While not started by one man, it was organized into a terrorist entity under its first "Grand Wizard," former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who joined in 1867 and amplified its white supremacist violence. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
Key details:
- Origin: The group began as a social club/fraternity in 1865.
- Founders: A group of six veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee, including Frank and Luther McCord.
- First Leader: Nathan Bedford Forrest was chosen as the first Grand Wizard.
- Purpose: It was designed to maintain white supremacy and oppose Reconstruction through violence and voter suppression.
- Resurgence: The Klan was re-founded in 1915 by William J. Simmons, a different individual, at Stone Mountain, Georgia. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
- On Dec 24, 1865: Confederate Veterans Establish the Ku Klux Klan
The Klan was devoted to white supremacy and ending Reconstruction in the South. The Klan's first leader was former Confederate Lt.
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Moonglow
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Today’s Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is fragmented, significantly smaller, and less violent than in its past iterations, although it remains a white supremacist threat. [1, 2, 3]
Here is a breakdown of the current state of the Klan:
The decline is driven by decades of lawsuits that have bankrupted major Klan factions, effective law enforcement infiltration, and internal infighting. [1, 2]
A "Rebranded" Approach
Many current Klan leaders have tried to rebrand, officially claiming to forbid violence except in self-defense, shifting their focus toward anti-immigration and joining with other far-right groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) notes. However, analysts warn that even small, isolated cells can act as breeding grounds for violence. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Here is a breakdown of the current state of the Klan:
- Small and Fractured Membership: While the Klan had millions of members in the 1920s and tens of thousands in the 1960s, estimates now place total membership at roughly 5,000 to 8,000, broken into many small, competing, and independent groups (often called "Klaverns").
- Declining Influence: The KKK is no longer a cohesive national organization. Many chapters are considered small, marginal, and lack the significant political or social influence they once held.
- Shift from Overt Violence: While historical iterations were known for widespread lynchings and terrorist attacks, modern Klan groups are often described as more focused on hateful rhetoric ("more bark than bite").
- Ongoing Criminal Activity: Despite a reduction in large-scale, organized violence, individual Klan members are still linked to arrests involving threats, illegal weapon possession, and plotting violence. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
The decline is driven by decades of lawsuits that have bankrupted major Klan factions, effective law enforcement infiltration, and internal infighting. [1, 2]
A "Rebranded" Approach
Many current Klan leaders have tried to rebrand, officially claiming to forbid violence except in self-defense, shifting their focus toward anti-immigration and joining with other far-right groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) notes. However, analysts warn that even small, isolated cells can act as breeding grounds for violence. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
Moonglow
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No, the SPLC is in trouble for using donations for other reasons than they gave when urging donations.
Same thing Trump and the Clintons got into trouble for.
Same thing Trump and the Clintons got into trouble for.
Very true, it was created as you noted by Dems to oppose the gop and maintain power
Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction Era - New Georgia Encyclopedia
From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists.
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
The klan is small largely due to the gop passing the klan act
It would likely not exist at all but for funding from the SPLC
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Back in those days the Democrats were the clan right ? So yes they probably did. From that time period to now, the Democrats have been gaslighting the Republicans/Union enemy by attempting to brand them as everything that they are or were back in those days.
Brilliant operation in an attempt to get the stigma of being the original racist off of themselves and onto another.
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Thanks, as much information as possible is gathered the better the possibility of the truth coming out. for Both sides of the question. So much better than just spewing out political hate,Anyway....here is the actual story:
What to know about the Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center has been charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants.apnews.com
The Southern Poverty Law Center was indicted Tuesday on federal fraud charges alleging it improperly paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups without disclosing the payments to donors, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said.
The center’s CEO Bryan Fair said the payments went to confidential informants in order to monitor threats of violence from the extremist groups — and that the information the center received was frequently shared with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies. The information gathered by the informants helped save lives, Fair said Tuesday.
“We are outraged by the false allegations levied against SPLC,” Fair said.
The Justice Department alleged that the civil rights group defrauded donors by using their money to fund the same extremism that it claimed to be fighting. The indictment says payments of at least $3 million went to informants affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations, the National Socialist Party of America and other groups between 2014 and 2023.
The charges, filed in Alabama where the center is based, include wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. "
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The piece continues:
Indictment alleges the center ‘fraudulently obtained’ donated money
The indictment says the center told donors the money would be used to help dismantle violent extremist groups, but did not disclose that some of the funds would actually be used to pay members of those groups. Some legal experts say it’s an unusual legal approach.
“That’s a new way of going after a charity — I’m somewhat surprised,” said Phil Hackney, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Typically, when a nonprofit group is charged with fraud, it’s because someone is accused of pilfering donated funds to line their own pockets, Hackney said.
But in this case, the government is targeting the method and intent in which a nonprofit used its money, he said.
The government is looking at the informant payments “as an intent to further hate — and I doubt Southern Poverty Law Center had that intent,” Hackney said.
The law has never required nonprofit groups to hand donors a line-item receipt for every sensitive operation, said Todd Spodek, a federal criminal defense attorney with Spodek Law Group P.C. in Manhattan.
“From a defense perspective, this isn’t a fraud case. It is a political attack on standard investigative tradecraft,” said Spodek. “We are talking about high stakes intelligence work where discretion isn’t a form of deception, it is a matter of survival.”
In order to win a conviction, the government will have to prove the center engaged in a deliberate scheme to lie, Spodek said.
“They simply cannot. Silence of tactical details is not a crime, and you don’t get to call it fraud just because the government dislikes the methods used to get results,” he said. He later continued, “The prosecution is trying to turn operational discretion into a felony, which is a massive overreach.”
Other organizations also have relied on undercover workers
Other nonprofit groups also have sent people undercover or used confidential informants to get information. For instance, the nonprofit conservative group Project Veritas, founded in 2010, is best known for conducting hidden camera stings that have embarrassed news outlets, labor organizations and Democratic politicians.
The anti-abortion organization Center for Medical Progress was behind secretly recorded videos of Planned Parenthood executives in California. The videos were then edited in a way to falsely suggest that the executives were selling fetal remains. The videos triggered several investigations, and Planned Parenthood was cleared of any wrongdoing but two of the activists with Center for Medical Progress were ultimately convicted of illegally recording someone without consent.
The center says the informants helped monitor threats of violence
Fair says the organization began working with informants to monitor threats of violence during a time of increased risk, and the program was kept quiet to protect informants’ safety.
“When we began working with informants, we were living in the shadow of the height of the Civil Rights Movement, which had seen bombings at churches, state-sponsored violence against demonstrators, and the murders of activists that went unanswered by the justice system,” Fair said. “There is no question that what we learned from informants saved lives.”
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I predict a speedy “not guilty” verdict if it makes it to the jury.
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If the SPLC can prove in a court of law that they were just paying informants to keep tabs on or to stay deep infiltrated then so be it, but with the amount of money involved it looks like more than just paying informants were involved here. Could be kick backs and all sorts of things involved.
How is that when white women have benefitted from them more than anyone.
Federal contracts guarantee black folks 10%, whites get 90% and you think that is anti-white.
At white universities and colleges black enrollment is between 4 and 8% and you think that is anti-white.
If you can huh, you can hear.
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They are being charged with bank fraud. Should be pretty easy to prove in court. Their only hope is a few looney tune lefties get on the jury.
Hear what? This is a message board, what are you hearing? Maybe you should start reading…and maybe take some meds for the voices you are hearing
OK, so show me where Dems are removing black war memorials, when over 300k black women lost their jobs, when over 60% of officers that were forced out of the military were black or women, when they have destroyed programs that have helped black folks to advance. When you can do that I will agree with you.
Give us the history of where the Democrat Party created the KKK. Now I will agree they definitely supported them and I will also say the Republican party supports them today.
Let's see if you are woman enough to address any of that.
Well I hope you can read.
What program was destroyed that helped you advance?
Dem party and the kkk https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU00/20210414/111451/HMKP-117-JU00-20210414-SD002.pdf
I can, try it some time
That's false.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was founded on December 24, 1865, in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six Confederate veterans as a secret fraternal organization.
Notice how your coward ass keeps running from this.
OK, so show me where Dems are removing black war memorials, when over 300k black women lost their jobs, when over 60% of officers that were forced out of the military were black or women, when they have destroyed programs that have helped black folks to advance. When you can do that I will agree with you.
What’s false? Yes it was created by Dems to oppose the gop in TN
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