In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/
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The kkk is an example of how hate groups ultimately fail. They can do lots of damage before they do but they’ll fail. When your actions require you to not show your face and operate in the shadows you’re ultimately doomed to fail.
If you’re not loud and proud, you’re a coward. They cover their faces because they don’t want their wives and employers to know who they are because both would fire their sorry ass.
If only these human cancers were fired upon on sight instead of given leniency until AFTER they've murdered everyone they wanted.
"They can do lots of damage" means: people like me or unlike me in arbitrary ways get executed. If only people stopped psychopaths before they act on EXPRESSED intent.
would be great if you did for actual Nazi child rapists like your country spewed for its entirety. but nah gotta let every government agency be destroyed first, and let the regime consolidate more power as they pardon terrorists & predators.
if the evil were all POC executions would be done already
POC executions, though funny at this time in history is not a good way to deal with things. We stopped that but we may have to fight to stop it again because I can see dissidents falling from high rise windows any time now
it's literally not democracy everything they've done is the opposite except. lawpilled naive people will always let them cheat and then try to win by the laws they're contorting. already see idiots going "if Trump runs in 2027 we'll just have to beat him".
Have you ever wondered why they call in systemic racism?
They have you convinced that we are free of them. Trump just let 1500 dem hating terrorists into society and you are telling me that racism is failing. Gimmie a fucking break
Nothing is wrong with me. There was a time in this country when entire counties were run by klansmen. kkk is a shell of its peak power. Proud boys and their ilk are not kkk, they are their own organizations and will also fail. Like I said they can/will do plenty of damage until they do.
Ours too!
We have good intentions but we can’t win elections on good intentions. We lost to a reality show host because americans are under educated and pretty fucking stupid compared to the rest of the world. Why else would musk want H-1B visas?
Maybe we have to put on a variety show instead
That is true. They never left and never will, best you can hope for is limiting them. The klan is nothing like it was in the ‘20s. Proud boys et. al will have the same fate, but there will always be hatred so a new group will pop up. Decent people ultimately prevail, don’t eliminate but curtail.
They are bigoted terrorist groups. Freedom of speech doesn't really exist in the US, apart from allowing certain hate speech to flourish unchecked aka cherry picking hate etc to be allowed. It's an illegal flawed law that fully allows white supremacist terrorists to flourish in the US
It's like ppl under the delusion that the US was anti-fascist in WWII &
"defeated the Nazis."
The US not only didn't care about them, they didn't want to accept Jewish refugees. Know who they DID accept, willingly? Nazis. (Look up Operation Paperclip)
Wait til midterms and Trump throws the weight of the RNc (now led by his daughter in law) behind all the KKK proud boys etc…candidates he wants running for local office. I hope you’re right but I think we all overplayed the hand making us think that this is just some fringe movement
And that's why we have to do it again. Make them fail again. I think the point is that it we can't give up when this tug-of-war pulls us towards the mud -- it's time to pull back harder & not give in.
We are fighting a losing battle right now. What we need to do is take this time to learn how to win elections. They beat us cuz they convinced America all their lies were truths
This regime will fail, is beginning to crack and fade as we speak. As President Lincoln once said, " You can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all the time,but... you can't fool all the people, all the time."
This! If your views are righteous, why hide your identity? They should be loudly and publicly associating themselves with these groups. Unless... wait... they aren't... ASHAMED, are they?! They don't, deep down, actually recognize how odious and wrong they are, do they?? (Rhetorical, obvi)
HERE'S A SONG VIDEO
'DONALD YOU'RE A LOSER'
(DONALD WHERE'S YOUR TROOSERS.)
The Song is a couple of years old. -
PERFORMED BY ‘KIN-OPE-SO AND HIS EX-STATIC CARAVAN’.
Yes, and thank you for using the horrible but unfortunately accurate word eugenics. Daniel Okrent’s book “The Guarded Gate” is a history of eugenics, as horrible as it is, and a must-read for our time. #wokebookclub
Plus we’re fighting rapid climate change at the same time, with the migration that will come along with it. We’ve all seen how migration of groups can increase racism with xenophobia.
Yes we need an international agreement on how countries/continents will absorb those needing to find new homes. Before it just is a shit show resulting in exactly what you outlined.
It’s hard- the US did it wrong in the 80s w El Salvador & resulted in gangs. You can’t take families who experience horrific war, plunk them somewhere, say “you’re on your own now” & expect healthy acclimation. They need planned integration methods, support services & a prepared welcoming community.
Springfield was an excellent example of successful integration until Trump and Vance lied and made the immigrants targets of racist lies and undermined all the supports that had been created to ensure success for the new and old community members. What they did will cause failures in some families.
That was especially evil of them and that alone should have resulted in their loss. But people don’t know the lessons we’ve learned or follow learn about US community immigration solutions, bec harmful scary rhetoric is more prevalent and fear doesn’t allow people to listen or problem solve easily.
Keep in mind this was considered progressive, forward thinking, and trusting science during that period. It wasn't until after WW2 it became unfashionable, in the US, and some US states still had eugenics boards into the 70s. The conservative churches opposed it, just as they still do.
The crisis that has befallen our nation today is one of equal significance to the civil war, the struggles of the 20s, the civil rights movement. It is not impossible for those living today to have that same spirit- this era of the US will impact decades even into the 2100s, together, we will win.
I know this is a serious issue but perhaps the best way to deal with people like these is just to laugh at them. I mean, they’re men in dresses wearing silly hats and carrying flags. Once more they’d really hate it!
An excellent article I look forward to sharing. What troubles me today is how small the world is today vs. then. Lies and manipulation can (and are) crossing global boundaries and inciting similar mindsets faster in the US and across the world. Social media was not a player back then.. it is now.
Thanks for this piece. The story of Mr Dale is inspiring and provides hope for this depressing era. We all need to focus on what’s possible - resistance - and what is inevitable - the defeat of these latest crop of fascists.
Thank you so much for sharing this. I did not know this was happening in 1971.
This is Amerikkka!
In 2025, these are the same KKKs that put trump and Musk in power.
Shame on our country! 😥
This is great and recalls @hcrichardson.bsky.social talking about how at the beginning of the 1850s the pro-slavery politicians seemed to be in charge and one could assume it would stay that way. Thanks!
The 1850s slave power was a classic example of how right-wing authoritarianism falls apart from inside. Pro-slavery Dems were set up to maintain national hegemony indefinitely. But splitting up into factions ranging from moderately pro-slavery to batshit pro-slavery handed the election to Lincoln.
And if they hadn't seceded out of their own batshit paranoia, Lincoln would've been a one-term lame duck facing a solid Democratic congressional majority. Instead they handed the Republicans full control of the national government.
Eventually. There are many Jews, Iranians, and others who have died or are still living under racist regimes that will tell you that eventually isn't fast enough.
Many women in the US will say the same thing. Then there are all the 'minorities' who've always been stepped on. &Now there are the everyday ppl on the street who thought they were &trmp would take care of them, the hell w/everybody else. They're not happy now. And its just starting! Just Starting!
The Tulsa Massacre occurred during this pogrom , not a coincidence. Many other Black communities were destroyed as well. Lake Martin in Phenix City AL is another example of the destruction wrought by the KKK against successful Black communities. Masters ,CO is another💙🇺🇸✊🏾
Great post! Growing up in Muncie, IN, the KKK's continuing influence in Tipton and Kokomo was well known, but its pervasiveness in the 20s was indeed blanked from memory.
Good reads:
The Fiery Cross, Wyn Craig Wade
Behind The Mask of Chivalry, Nancy MacLean
Citizen Klansmen, Leonard J Moore
I really need that to hold on to right now. "Fascism always fails," but I've never seen it fail, so I don't believe it will fail. This idea that the arc of the moral universe is long, but bends towards justice, feels like empty rhetoric. I am afraid.
His father was present at the Ku Klux Klan rally in 1927 and arrested. What was he doing there at that time if he was not participating? Trump claims address for his father on arrest record was not where they were living then but Census Bureau shows the same
I read every word of that article. Thank you so much for writing and posting. That definitely earned a follow. I hope that many of us will find the *Dale* within…
"I lost my advertising, most of my subscribers, my home, my liberty, and every dollar I had in the world. I lost all but a few loyal friends, my devoted family, and all but lost my newspaper but thank god I retained the pearl of great price—my self respect." Thanks for this great article!
Here in Alabama, it was not until Doug Jones got a conviction, and the Southern Poverty Law Center got a judgment to take their money that it felt like they had lost
I grew up in Indiana in the 60s and 70s. While living in a university town, I knew the KKK lurked nearby. I agree with your premise & worry (greatly) about what it will take to get to the other side. It's amazing that we have to go through this again, only 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz.
By the way, also a pretty poor choice of costumes if you want to be taken seriously.
When have you ever heard anyone say: “Those people with the crazy hats - they're really good and have it all figured out”
Great article! It's a little poignant to me personally, since I attended Ball State for a while. Indiana is beautiful. So sad that parts of it were dominated by the KKK.
George Dale was remarkable, though! An AMERICAN hero.
The Second Klan was... weird. It was sort of like "Bigoted Masons" crossed with "a pyramid scheme run by gangsters" (unlike the 3rd Klan, which was more of a bunch of terrorist cells). They threw carnivals, childrens' events, and even owned their own vacation properties. It's a wild history.
On a side note, while cross burning is a famous Klan thing, the Second Klan did so with *pageantry* ;) The pictures look like they're from the filming of "Klan! The Musical"
Again, the Second Klan was totally a hate group, but a *weird* hate group.
But the KKK hadn't gained control of the entire federal government. Certainly there were members of Congress who were KKK. But the president wasn't, and remained in control of the executive branch rather than outsourcing it to a KKK member. Or to anyone.
But if D C Stephenson hadn’t been revealed to be a kidnapper and sadistic r*pist leading to the death of Madge Oberholtzer, it’s quite possible the Klan is viable and wins the presidency in 1932.
I'm saying it is too late to HOPE that our police forces are not aligned with the fascists. Speaking from personal experience, my local and state cops are very far along on that alignment, and it is only getting worse.
Is it too late to fight them? Hell. No. It is never too late for that.👍
1920’s were. The specific date he wrote an article about.
Let me ask you, do you think AOC is a beneficiary of colonialism?
Is she the progeny of Spaniard colonialists who butchered the indigenous Mexica? She carries the surname of Hernan Cortez.
Should AOC feel bad for her part in colonialism?
This is an old slur. Do you not know how enslaved and/or conquered people got their last names? How about subjugated women forced to carry their rapist babies and give those babies the rapist name?
KKK burned crosses in Italian 'hoods.
Largest lynching of people all at once were Italian laborers in New Orleans.
The lynchings were followed by mass arrests of Italian immigrants throughout New Orleans and waves of attacks against Italians nationwide.
One of the ways I am mindless on my phone isn’t on social media as much is my https://newspapers.com subscription. It’s fascinating to look at things from 1700s, 1800s. It provides hope. Even though what we are going through is unprecedented. I didn’t intentionally try to do this but am genuinely intrigued.
The poor child is begging the father not to leave him and asks if he promises to return.
He says, "My love, I can't promise that, please don't cry, Mama will return after work."
Lifelong trauma.
Inhumane 💔
I have a petition is at https://change.org. I call it: An Amendment to the US Constitution, Checks and Balances. Here is the link. https://chng.it/DBqPdkb5YV Add to that recall petitions across the country.
Recall Trump, the GOP Congress and for good measure Democrats as well. The idea is to see just what the American People are thinking. To establish how they expect issues to be dealt with.
Why is recalling the Democrats "good measure"? They don't support what's happening, but are powerless to stop it. When they had power they delivered the best economy in decades, a strong America, investments in America. We were on the verge of a Great Society. Don't throw that out with the trash
I see the issue as dealing with the US Congress in a way that gives the American People an opportunity to establish for all to see what they think and what they want. The Democrats need help. The New Deal did one thing more than it did anything, else. It put people to work.
Reaganomics in the form of privatization took 13 US billionaires & just shy of a trillion dollar National Debt & 45 years later 800 US billionaires & a 36 trillion dollar National Debt. I agree that Democrats are doing their best. But the American people need to believe their vote matters.
If Reaganomics is responsible for this mess (I agree it is) and Democrats need help, how is recalling Democrats a "good measure"? It really sounds like we need MORE Democrats.
We gave people a voice last November. Look what happened.
In the past, fascism has been everything from temporarily silenced to written into law under a new label. I don’t feel fascism has ever truly or sufficiently failed.
The blackberry thicket just outside my fence keeps trying to take over my vegetable garden. I must always pull up blackberry roots and cut back blackberry canes, or it will overrun my garden and I will not be able to plant garlic, or potatoes, or chard.
Invaluable. My mother, born 1926, tutored me in the ways and waves of fascism. So I know that it’s not new here, and that we can take it down yet again.
Mine immigrated from Italy in 1923. We’re lucky we had our Mom’s insight and wisdom.
Mom and her family of WOPs were treated horribly. BUT, I still have my Grandpa’s “papers” meaning he was indeed NOT a WOP. Partly why fascism fails is how dumb they can be.
We can take our power back simply. No need to gather. No arrests. No boycotts
If, 1 day a week at noon, we all stopped our cars, opened the hood, and paused for 5 mins, we would disrupt traffic and show them the power we have EVERYWHERE, if we chose to use it. They need to fear us.
@dansinker.com to be fair, we're not exactly taught in history schools how many folks in robes also caught the business end of a shotgun or a revolver.
There is no predetermined path here. Yes, last time the less-fascists won. This is not an *immutable law* — it was tenacity and a whole lot of luck. So do not take away optimism from this: take away the cost you must be willing to pay to resist.
It goes back to long before then. E.G. the 1973 CIA overthrow of Allende in Chile. The 1954 Guatemalan coup, etc. Republicans have always been fascists.
IDK, I tend to think funding and training death squads to kill union members and political opponents qualifies. Previously they limited their actions to Latin America, but it's still fascism.
There have always been fascist elements in the right, but not all radical rightism is fascist any more than all radical leftism is communist. Fascist is a word that anyone who has studied the history of Fascism and Nazism uses quite carefully.
We were written off as alarmists and left wing extremists. But now it's too late to stop it because it has already happened. All that's left to do now is to fight to remove it, but I don't see that happening because Americans are too fearful to risk what they still have to regain what they lost.
A peaceful transfer of power even complete change is possible as the second Philippine Power experience showed. Filipinos were able to force their President to voluntarily leave office in less than a week. The formula is People +Power (military) = People Power.
Our true enemy is the folks living in LaLa Land.
Don’t care about what is going on….”it’s too boring “ or haven’t the historical context to put any meaningful thought into it.
Just go to work, get by there, then go do something that triggers your dopamine. Doesn’t matter what!
Saying "those people are bad" isn't the same as addressing the issues that give rise to such hatred. This isn't excusing the fascist thinking, but we need to focus on long-term solutions.
"...written off as alarmists and left wing extremists."
The scary part is that we still are. Corporate centrist upper middle-class Dems are in denial, while they cheer on Liz Cheney getting an award from Biden, Jeffries on a book signing tour, and Mark Cuban being the hero of the people 🙄
Oh, it was well before that, unfortunately. Ayn Rand planted the first seeds. We've always had a thread of authoritarianism running through our society with the stranglehold the wealthy have on the US, but her theories helped the rise of libertarianism, and eventually the Tea Party.
The KKK was still having rallies and taking up money at four-way stops in my Alabama hometown until the early 80’s. The last klan rally I know of was in a pasture in 1996 and they railed against “these fucking Mexicans” the entirety of it. There were maybe 50 people in attendance.
They never stopped having rallies. People just realized they were only there to provoke a confrontation and stopped rising to their bait. After that, their play dates were largely ignored and even became the punchline of many a joke.
It was an attempt to bring back an organization that had been dead to the public for 15 years at the time. Until recent magatard rallies it was the last one I’m aware of. Me and a friend of mine attended it to see if any local business owners would show up. They didn’t. It was 50 racist rednecks.
Don't forget Citizens United had a hand in this mess too. I really dislike when a destructive group has a "helpful" sounding name, just to fool the masses (that don't research) into thinking its good to vote for.
Frank Zappa was right!
“The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it’s moving America toward a fascist theocracy, and everything that’s happened during the Regan administration is steering us right down that pipe.”
It always does. But the first signs that fascism was on its way was when the Tea Party started forcing moderate, reasonable voices out of congress and started replacing them with ignorance and insanity.
Yes. I’d even go back to Goldwater, the Powell Memo, and the ‘70s Christian Reconstruction movement. This is where the GOP started to go off the rails and anoint themselves as the only legitimate ruling party.
The difference is that they didn't let any of their nuttery get in the way of GOVERNING. Working across the isle wasn't political suicide until the Tea Party.
It is real. Politics were really different back then. Dems and Republicans traded ideologies. Images like this are used today by the current GOP to sow confusion. Current GOP mirror the 1920s democrats who were infiltrated by the KKK.
Please repost as many times as it can. People like Elon are evil. The real smoke screen the super rich push to increase inequality. Money and power is a wealthy person's addiction and want more so they hurt the poor and middle class to get it because they're easy targets. https://youtu.be/wPoXOwiEfrQ?si=_bkPgWu-KhvUyZfB
Before Roosevelt nominated Hugo Black for the Supreme Court, he asked Black about his 1920s membership in the Klan. Black reassured Roosevelt that he had never persecuted a Black man, only Catholics.
Like all evil.. they learn from their mistakes. Fascism is literally the history of man. Modern democracy is the outlier? Do you think there were bot centuries of kingships and autocracy? That is our base nature..
It only fails if we actually fight. If we just sit back and plaster a smile on our faces while repeating "Oh, but the courts said that's illegal so we're fine" as some liberals seem hellbent on doing, we will be so screwed.
I've been spending five minutes trying to think of commentary that would make a semblance of addition to this article.
The best I could come up with is, "this is all going to happen again." But, that includes the defeat. Don't forget that there has always been the defeat.
It was the conviction of D.C. Stephenson, who kidnapped, raped and murdered Madge Oberholtzer, that really started the downfall of the KKK. He was the head of the Indiana Klan.
Do you remember when Reagan let the klan March on the WH lawn? They were again supposed to march down Pennsylvania Avenue. It was in the evening news. Them on the lawn. While riots were happening. I was there. In the middle of it. Worst since MLk was assassinated
The young ones don't realize the GOP is just picking up an old playbook, the Reagan Era. We survived, but a sh*t ton of damage was done we are still suffering today from those policies.
Hi. Yeh I just finished it all.
I was a teenager. We didn’t drive thru twice. We drove thru after it was over and the area was totally quiet. After we ate. That scene. It was so bizarre to realize I’d been in the middle of it.
Thanks. I couldn’t find an article referencing it. Reagan tried to have it both ways but I think I’d remember the KKK on the White House lawn. I spent years trying to understand what others saw in Reagan. Same for Trump. My mind doesn’t work that way.
Reagan had nothing to do with either the event or the klan.
"In 1980, I said that I have no tolerance for what the Klan represents, and would have nothing to do with any groups of that type. If anything, my feelings on this subject have only grown stronger. "
You said "It was on the news"
Provide one contemporaneous source reporting that it happened, or one historical account of it happening. There would be a record, somewhere, of something like that happening.
Awful as he was, Reagan was too media and image-savvy to publicly align himself with the KKK
I have never been able to find any record of that news report. It was just a local dc station. Believe me I wish I could. We all saw it. But it was the 80’s and while I know it happened and that Reagan was a white supremacist I’m sure they had that one disappear after it aired. Bad TV!!!…
I would love 💕 to get a paintball gun with lots of bright colors and cover them in 🌈 rainbows! Also the idiots nazis that walk around in black. That would be fun.
i just started reading a fever in heartland which is all about this and i just got to the first mention of george dale and after reading your article, i can’t wait for them to talk more about him. people
like him give me so much hope. thank you for writing this!
Thanks for the recommendation! Just borrowed The Big Burn on Libby from my library. I enjoyed The Immortal Irishman - the incredible life story of an Irish rebel who became a Union General in the Civil War
In the early 1980s, the Klan tried to March down Pennsylvania Avenue again. We had so many counter-protesters there lining both sides of the street, including a group of us from Massachusetts, that the police wouldn't let them march. They decided it wasn't safe. lol They were right!
#EffTheKlan #BLM
Powerful 🚨🎯👏🏾
Fascism always fails.
"It is destructive. It is awful. Not everyone lives to see the other side, but it always, always fails. It takes work, fighting back, throwing punches, and doing whatever it takes to beat it back to protect those who are most vulnerable from its many attacks.
Thanks for the Indiana story. My great grandparents in a small town in Indiana were repeatedly threatened and extorted in the 1920s. The KKK was also active in Brooklyn and assaulted the first Jewish medical residents at the hospital across from my office.
bro the continued existence of the immigration act of 1924 suggests it did not (completely) fail. we can't just perservere, we have to get them the fuck out of power as fast as possible, by any means necessary
if i catch you out walking around like that and I'll make it my civil duty to beat you so bad you'll want your mama, just like Gorge Floyd did take his last breath, be mindful of the fact we have had enough of your shit and you made yourself a target because of who you are, not your skin color
Yes. Think of how daunted enslaved people & abolitionists must have felt in the 1600s-late 1800s. They saw atrocities every single day, but they kept fighting. This country has had badly broken features from the start, but we can and we will overcome this terrible epidemic of hatred & greed.
I wonder if a lot of the freaks are ancestors to current Congress. Generational evil needs to stop. I wish those families had more love in their hearts. Their homes must have and are horrible places to live in to end up with values like that
If you dig into the family histories of some of these people in Congress, there is a lot of “not far from the apple tree” types. But there are also political career opportunists.
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"They can do lots of damage" means: people like me or unlike me in arbitrary ways get executed. If only people stopped psychopaths before they act on EXPRESSED intent.
if the evil were all POC executions would be done already
break out of the backwards pacifist bubble
They have you convinced that we are free of them. Trump just let 1500 dem hating terrorists into society and you are telling me that racism is failing. Gimmie a fucking break
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/02/28/politics/donald-trump-white-supremacists
is going to be their downfall
We have good intentions but we can’t win elections on good intentions. We lost to a reality show host because americans are under educated and pretty fucking stupid compared to the rest of the world. Why else would musk want H-1B visas?
Maybe we have to put on a variety show instead
"defeated the Nazis."
The US not only didn't care about them, they didn't want to accept Jewish refugees. Know who they DID accept, willingly? Nazis. (Look up Operation Paperclip)
Can't learn from history if you whitewash it.
Be better
“Bob (Norris) was right there,” KCRCC chair Brent Regan said. “Nothing was done without him being aware.”
Norris denied knowledge of the event’s security arrangements and said he didn’t know the security personnel.”
'DONALD YOU'RE A LOSER'
(DONALD WHERE'S YOUR TROOSERS.)
The Song is a couple of years old. -
PERFORMED BY ‘KIN-OPE-SO AND HIS EX-STATIC CARAVAN’.
https://youtu.be/F_p5uvbaG2Y?si=IhCaQnAAtqKtSZ_B
Here Is a link:
https://blog.rorymcleod.com/elon-musk-is-like-nazi-henry-ford
Will we survive it? Sure, easy prediction
But the cost will be horrific and it will take an entire generation if not longer
Remember Hitler started by learning about Eugenics by reading books by AMERICANS who were already doing sterilization by 1930s
Heads up everyone and speak out.
Is that real or AI?
This is Amerikkka!
In 2025, these are the same KKKs that put trump and Musk in power.
Shame on our country! 😥
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195391624-wide-awake
Interesting read
“fascism always fails”
Good reads:
The Fiery Cross, Wyn Craig Wade
Behind The Mask of Chivalry, Nancy MacLean
Citizen Klansmen, Leonard J Moore
The President of the United States from 2017-2021 and presently is the son of a man who was arrested at a Klan rally in the 1920s.
"Proud boys stand back and stand by."
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-father-kkk-ku-klux-klan-rally-arrest-report-suggestions-a7607556.html
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2016/10/07/forever-buffs-norlins-lasting-call
https://bsky.app/profile/henleyparker.bsky.social/post/3livikk3fr22n
When have you ever heard anyone say: “Those people with the crazy hats - they're really good and have it all figured out”
#Trump Got @77 million Registered Votes!
That's @35% Of @245 Million Eligible Voters!
Too Often, It Is, "Minority Making The Rules".
Decent America MUST:
- Register To Vote
- Monitor Registration Status
- VOTE In Every Election-Despite, "These Minority Rules"!
🇺🇸 ⚖️ 🗽
George Dale was remarkable, though! An AMERICAN hero.
Again, the Second Klan was totally a hate group, but a *weird* hate group.
Weren’t the 20s when Fred Trump was an active klansman? And now here we are with his impotent son doing the same shit.
There's no historical analogy.
The last time it fell was at the end of WW2.
It took an untold amount of violence.
Can it fall again without that level of violence?
Great article, thanks!
Is it too late to fight them? Hell. No. It is never too late for that.👍
Their new motto👇👇👇👇
In 2024...the klan won.
The supply of racism will never meet the demand for you people.
Hence, Jussie Smolett.
Let me ask you, do you think AOC is a beneficiary of colonialism?
Is she the progeny of Spaniard colonialists who butchered the indigenous Mexica? She carries the surname of Hernan Cortez.
Should AOC feel bad for her part in colonialism?
Largest lynching of people all at once were Italian laborers in New Orleans.
The lynchings were followed by mass arrests of Italian immigrants throughout New Orleans and waves of attacks against Italians nationwide.
https://plumstchili.blogspot.com/2016/12/pushing-back-on-white-guy-update.html
Vigilance is key.
The ones today better not get too comfortable.
Just saying.
they fail into power over and over 😂
It's time to step up and start burning crosses on Klucker's front yards.
America has lost
Its humanity!
I was just following orders....?
He says, "My love, I can't promise that, please don't cry, Mama will return after work."
Lifelong trauma.
Inhumane 💔
We gave people a voice last November. Look what happened.
Mom and her family of WOPs were treated horribly. BUT, I still have my Grandpa’s “papers” meaning he was indeed NOT a WOP. Partly why fascism fails is how dumb they can be.
If, 1 day a week at noon, we all stopped our cars, opened the hood, and paused for 5 mins, we would disrupt traffic and show them the power we have EVERYWHERE, if we chose to use it. They need to fear us.
Project Snarl
hint: it was actually QUITE a few.
Right?!
It didn't start with the 2024 election, or even the 2016 election. It started with the Tea Party and the radicalization of the Republican party.
Some words should not be cheapened by overuse.
Don’t care about what is going on….”it’s too boring “ or haven’t the historical context to put any meaningful thought into it.
Just go to work, get by there, then go do something that triggers your dopamine. Doesn’t matter what!
The scary part is that we still are. Corporate centrist upper middle-class Dems are in denial, while they cheer on Liz Cheney getting an award from Biden, Jeffries on a book signing tour, and Mark Cuban being the hero of the people 🙄
That's only true if either the administrative or legislative branch upholds the court ruling . . . So, are they?
Being optimistic doesn't end fascism.
“The biggest threat to America today is not communism, it’s moving America toward a fascist theocracy, and everything that’s happened during the Regan administration is steering us right down that pipe.”
https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3393
https://youtu.be/wPoXOwiEfrQ?si=_bkPgWu-KhvUyZfB
https://www.amazon.com/Fever-Heartland-Klans-America-Stopped/dp/0735225265
Sound familiar?
The best I could come up with is, "this is all going to happen again." But, that includes the defeat. Don't forget that there has always been the defeat.
Under the oryx post below I’ve responded with more detail and I’m going to add more.
I was a teenager. We didn’t drive thru twice. We drove thru after it was over and the area was totally quiet. After we ate. That scene. It was so bizarre to realize I’d been in the middle of it.
https://wamu.org/story/18/08/09/brief-history-white-supremacist-rallies-d-c/
"In 1980, I said that I have no tolerance for what the Klan represents, and would have nothing to do with any groups of that type. If anything, my feelings on this subject have only grown stronger. "
https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/letter-chairman-commission-civil-rights-concerning-presidents-views-ku-klux-klan
Provide one contemporaneous source reporting that it happened, or one historical account of it happening. There would be a record, somewhere, of something like that happening.
Awful as he was, Reagan was too media and image-savvy to publicly align himself with the KKK
F the K
Under the oryx post below I’ve responded with more detail and I’m going to add more.
I was probably in high school when it happened, but I went to high school abroad. It may have been in the newspapers abroad and I just never saw it.
like him give me so much hope. thank you for writing this!
#EffTheKlan #BLM
Fascism always fails.
"It is destructive. It is awful. Not everyone lives to see the other side, but it always, always fails. It takes work, fighting back, throwing punches, and doing whatever it takes to beat it back to protect those who are most vulnerable from its many attacks.