[tgusa]

Haven’t I read somewhere that Nathan Bedford Forrest started the KKK as simply a social club? Or was I hallucinating?

[meandog]

Actually, Bedford Forrest procured the idea of the KKK from a group of students who began it as purely a social club. Forrest saw the potential of the Klan as a political instrument to counter Radical Republicanism and rabid reconstructionists in the South. At first he urged on its ability to strike fear but, later witnessing the awful violence and lynchings administered by the Bill Clinton types of racist rednecks that it attracted, he later ordered it disbanded. And most Forrest and CSA-hating historians, race card players and baiters, seem to miss that historic fact consistently.