Posted on 05/31/2005 4:42:25 PM PDT by Libloather
Copycats? Communists with an agenda? Dumbasses of any race proving that the gene pool really is polluted?
Probably just about anything but Klan. I used to live in Durham for quite a while. I knew the town pretty well. I'm with Perdogg, there hasn't been an active Klan presence in Durham for well over thirty years. There are, however, plenty of groups in and around Durham who would profit from the perception that the Klan had popped up there again. All this media attention just plays right into that agenda.
The Klan is the perfect Southern bogeyman to scare the Yanks with and someone is using that to their best advantage. Nothing more, nothing less.
From my post #40 -
Though schools are now integrated, Chatham residents can vote regardless of literacy or race, and the school system employs a Director of Minority Affairs, racism remains an ambiguous and pervasive issue in the community; something which exists and has deep roots in history but is usually hidden beneath the surface and not often spoken of in public forums. Racism occasionally surfaces in more blatant forms, such as the "Pittsboro Community Pool", a privately owned pool that will not admit African Americans to its membership, and in isolated incidences. Last year David Duke formed a Ku Klux Klan rally in the county to protest the rapid influx of Latino residents. Around the same time, a Chatham Central high school yearbook picture depicting boys with nooses around their necks appeared and was not adequately dealt with by school administrators, leading to the forming of an advocacy group for minority students in county schools (Offen, 2000). When asked about the need for a proposed diversity training, one Pittsboro community member responded, "I think it's needed in any community that has the kind of history Pittsboro has."
http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=529&printable=1
Ku Klux Klan
Last year (2003) was a period of flux and realignment for America's Klan groups, which together probably comprise fewer than 7,000 people, making the Klan a relatively small part of the white supremacist world. More than 50 Klan chapters disappeared, but others arose to take their place, resulting in an overall gain of five Klan chapters for a total of 163.
The Imperial Klans of America, based in Dawson Springs, Ky., and boasting 34 chapters, remained the largest of some 34 competing Klan groups. The Southern White Knights rose and fell, ending 2004 with 16 active chapters. The Brotherhood of Klans, based in Prospect Heights, Ill., spurted from four chapters to 17 and bought property in Henderson, Tenn.
Several Klan groups, including the Orion Knights, based in Alabama, the Texas Knights, and the once-powerful American Knights seemed to disappear. The latter group's leader, Jeff Berry, was released from prison in late 2004 after serving time in connection with detaining a news crew at gunpoint, but he has apparently failed to bring his Indiana-based group back to life.
In addition, the once-numerous dedicated Klan message boards and Internet forums have dwindled to just four.
Racist Skinheads
The neo-Nazi Skinhead scene continued to grow, with at least 48 chapters of 28 named groups, up 23% from the 39 chapters of 22 groups counted in 2003. Skinhead Web sites also rose, from 23 in 2003 to 26 last year.
Neo-Nazis
The leading neo-Nazi group, the National Alliance, has lost more than half its membership and most of its paid staff since founder and long-time leader William Pierce died in July 2002. It has suffered repeated embarrassments, business problems and management failures since it was taken over by Erich Gliebe — a former boxer quite unlike Pierce, a one-time university physics professor.
Why are you posting such liberal crap? UNC publications reek of educrat "we lie to make our point" sayings.
Example: ""Pittsboro Community Pool , a privately owned pool that will not admit African Americans to its membership, and in isolated incidences"
*That* is a load of horsesh_t. The only place the term "Pittboro Community Pool" appears on the internet is from the very article you quoted. If you lived in this area you'd realize that any such racist action such as exclusionary swimming pools would have been ground zero for protests from every Civil Rights Group within 50 miles, and believe me there are plenty of them (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill).
If the Durham Cross burners are ever sniffed out, no one should be shocked to learn whose hands contained the splinters and hair that smelled of smoke.
"We are in Granville County and the Klan is here. They are listed in the phone book."
I grew up in neighboring Vance County. In the '70's and '80's the Klan used to rent out their building in Granville County for parties. Believe it or not, black kids would come to the parties, too.
Durham is a cesspool of corruption and mismanagement. Black racism also abounds. I'm putting my money on the cross burnings being perpetrated by black race baiters.
I view these cross burnings as I do those infamous push polls, which are usually intiated by the party that looks like the victem, in order to make the opponent appear to be unscrupulous. Therefore I would not argue against you putting your money on those black race baitors.
On the other hand, every enemy of the USA is as aware as are we, that our most vulnerable spot is between black and white Americans and our distrust and suspicions toward one another, and know that to be the best spot to plant the explosion to bring the whole of America down in rubble as they did the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.
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