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Actor Adam Driver: I Had KKK Neighbors in Indiana
Breitbart ^ | August 22, 2018 | Breitbart Staff

Posted on 08/22/2018 8:06:49 PM PDT by EdnaMode

Star Wars” actor Adam Driver is bringing his northern Indiana hometown’s hate group history to light after saying Ku Klux Klan rallies were frequent during his childhood and that some of his neighbors were Klan members. The Mishawaka native made the comments during a USA Today interview about his role in the new movie “BlacKkKlansman,” the Indianapolis Star reported.

“If anything, I was more aware of it as a kid growing up in Indiana, because there were always Klan rallies, like, every summer,” Driver, 34, told USA Today. “There were people in the Klan who were in our neighborhood.”

Indiana University professor emeritus James Madison said he doesn’t doubt that Driver was exposed to the KKK but doubts he saw many, if any, rallies.

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KEYWORDS: adamdriver; blackkklansman; driver; indiana; kkk; kukluxklan; kyloren; mishawaka; starwars
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To: Skywise

Every time the media here in PA gets worked up about a MAJOR KLAN RALLY it turns out to be four guys with green teeth passing out leaflets in front of some county courthouse somewhere.


61 posted on 08/23/2018 7:24:44 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Every time the media here in PA gets worked up about a MAJOR KLAN RALLY it turns out to be four guys with green teeth passing out leaflets in front of some county courthouse somewhere.

Just when I thought I'd get outta there with my skin,
These five big dudes come strolling in
With one old drunk chick and a fella with green teeth ...

Charlie Daniels "Uneasy Rider"

62 posted on 08/23/2018 7:27:49 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Antifa and Social Justice Warriors (SJWs) = SturmAbteilung)
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To: ConservativeMind

Academic research (when there was still such a thing) at he University of Wisconsin proves that the state with the greatest number of lynchings in the 2 main periods of Klan activity is INDIANA.


63 posted on 08/23/2018 8:26:50 AM PDT by myerson
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To: Kazan

Define “racist”.


64 posted on 08/23/2018 8:28:18 AM PDT by myerson
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To: EdnaMode
Damn, that's one HOMELY man!
As for the KKK, whether or not they are still active, it's not white Klansmen who are leaving black bodies in the streets every night. It's not white Klansmen who destroyed the inner cities like Chicago and Detroit. AND- if the mere existence of groups that hate and have meetings must be eradicated-can we start with Muslims and mosques, or their demonstrations demanding Sharia law and demands for obedience to Islam? Why not? KKK, BLM,ISLAM...all the same.IMO.
65 posted on 08/23/2018 8:34:54 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: ConservativeMind
Liar. Indiana is not racist and was a Union state in which thousands died to end slavery.

This is true, but the twentieth century Klan was not the original nineteenth century Klan. It was at its peak in the 1920s when its primary target was the Catholic Church, and it was very powerful at that time in Indiana, led by D.C. Stephenson.

66 posted on 08/23/2018 8:44:55 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator ("Conservatism" without G-d is just another form of Communism.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

Interesting. His Wikipedia entry says he was a Democrat and ran for office as that.


67 posted on 08/23/2018 9:58:46 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: myerson
In this case, using racial slurs and claiming blacks were stupid. Not actually discriminating or harassing them.

But, the only racists I've ever known are all dead now.

68 posted on 08/23/2018 10:07:12 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: EdnaMode

Now we know who this idiot is. Mission accomplished.


69 posted on 08/23/2018 10:22:40 AM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Uh, yeah. Like 1918.

Comparable figures in neighboring states and those to the south.

70 posted on 08/23/2018 4:13:27 PM PDT by caddie (Tagline: Tag, you're it.)
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To: BlueLancer
His 'mother' may have had to deal with them.

71 posted on 08/26/2018 2:40:04 PM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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To: EdnaMode

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/former-church-employee-pleads-guilty-arson


72 posted on 08/27/2018 8:46:14 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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