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To: SoothingDave
If you really want to rub it in, mention that a short characterization of of the Established Church in New England was "Hang a Quaker, beat a Baptist." Baptists have a perrty good record, until we get to the time of the KKK, when they did their dead-level best to intimate Catholics who were not where they should be. A "Cajun" member of my parish in East Texas was literally horsewhipped by members of the KKK and had the scars on his back to prove it. I know the marks because I have also seen them on the back of a black man. I was age 5, but I can remember it like it was last week. Our maind was keeping me at her place overnight, and a friend of her who disapproved deliberately showed them to me, just to shock me and embarrass her. If I ever thought of being a racist, that experience cured me.

BTW: Protestants don't seem to realize that the KKK was much more avidly anti-Catholic than they were anti-black,because the Church was powerful enough to fight back. You may recall the "Battle of South Bend," where the KKK ran into students from Notre Dame and got run out of town. And that was when the Klan was really powerful in Indiana. (And that was before Notre Dame became politically correct.)

31 posted on 10/15/2001 9:11:42 AM PDT by RobbyS
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To: RobbyS
where the KKK ran into students from Notre Dame and got run out of town.

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Woulda loved to see those mackeral snappers whaling on those sissy KKKs.

2,945 posted on 10/25/2001 11:32:37 PM PDT by Proud2BAmerican
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