Now, I have known Klansmen (not on purpose, I promise, I just happened to live in SE Arkansas 40 years ago or so). I actually had a grandfather that may have been one (per some clues my old granny gave me).
But to try and tell me 20% of any large group of people is in the Klan is beyond unbelievable. I doubt there are a number as high as "20% of Trump's supporters" in the whole south, mighty hard to swallow. They are irrelevant, an almost immeasurably small number of Americans, in my estimation.
Man, I ain't a Trump fan and everyone knows it, this is just stoopid. But my coworker (a very well educated tech professional in the DC area) is sold on the idea. I don't think he would know the KKK from Casper the Friendly Ghost.
I asked for some way to confirm this and got ... CRICKETS. Of course. And this is someone who's vote will cancel yours this November when he casts it for Sanders (in his dreams).
Remember who the enemy is You People. It ain't your fellow FReepers.
Boy, this post should have the Trumpsters in here with their pitchforks and torches in ... what ... ten seconds? It's cool, I got my titanium undies on.
A healthy percentage of the Klan’s membership are probably Fed agents or informers.
Tell him the Communist Party USA endorsed 0bama TWICE.
I do not believe Trump is a racist and he denounced quite clearly the KLU Klux Klan.
He still seems ignorant in a few areas of history and government though.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/ku-klux-klan
“Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center estimates that there are between 5,000 and 8,000 Klan members” (in the USA).
If 20% of Trump supporters are Klan, he only has 40,000 or fewer supporters - mostly registered democrats. I wonder where he got the other hundreds of thousands of republican votes so far. Has he topped even the Democrat fraud machine? Or is this guess at his Klan support absurd?
When I was in high school in the 60s the most beloved teacher in school was W.C. Hickman. He taught the higher math classes and was retired as football coach.
When he was a young man he belonged to the Klan. We loved to get him off subject and tell stories about those days. Some really good tales. Most of them BTW, had nothing to do with race.
Tell your co worker that Trump’s spokesperson, Katrina Pierson, is a black woman. Also, ask you co worker why would someone like Medgar Evers brother endorse Trump if he has Klan affiliation or support? And last, remind him that it is a free country and there IS such a thing as the First Amendment, allowing people to speak freely, no matter how repugnant their message is.....
Here’s a “lib” acceptable link, MSNBC, to the endorsement, in case your co worker is the type of liberal who always “shoots the messenger” when you present the facts: http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc-news/watch/brother-of-civil-rights-icon-endorses-trump-638823491568
To ‘H’ with the titanium undies. Do you have your tetanus shot up to date?
Harry Truman was also a Klan member.
Tell him to watch this video of Trump through the years.
Then ask him if he believes what his eyes and ears are telling him or does he let the TV do the thinking for him?
https://www.facebook.com/endfederalreserve/videos/681625301939928/?fref=nf
Tell him you’re insulted. At least 110% of all trump voters are in the KKK. Especially the blacks and Jews that support Trump.
KKK members are mostly black these days, so 20% black support Trump? Show him a picture of black person wearing the KKK hood