[sargon]

The lessons ascribed to this curriculum regarding the KKK, if true, would be absurd.

What is said about slave owners is less controversial. There can be no presumption that slave owners were cruel simply because they owned slaves. It does not follow. So I don't see what all the hysteria is there.

But the KKK material is woefully revisionist and fraudulent, if presented as claimed.

[cripplecreek]

Phillis Wheatley 1753-1784 is an interesting case.

She was a slave and superstar poet of the day and freely traveled to Europe and back on her own. She wrote about the crime of slavery and the fact that she had been freed from the barbarism of Africa. She wrote the eulogy for George Whitefield’s funeral.

The left wildly oversimplify things for a reason.

[Hugin]

There have been at least 3 distinct periods of the KKK. To speak of them as if they are all the same is misleading in itself. The original KKK formed by Nathan Bedford Forrest and others after the Civil War was disbanded by Forrest a few years later. The second was the nationwide mass movement of the 20s that had millions of members, and was considered respectable for a time, until leadership scandals brought it down. The 3rd came into being in the 50s as small often violent groups that share ideology and symbols but aren't connected. The author takes a quote which I assume is about the 2nd period, and uses that to portray them as describing the current Klan--"the KKK is really a reform organization".

[editor-surveyor]

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The KKK was the religious arm of the Democrat party.

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[Sherman Logan]

The KKK remarks quoted, if about the Klan of the 20s, by far the most powerful iteration, are 100% accurate.

The Klan of the 20s was more powerful outside the South, where it focused on immigrants and Catholics. Since those were key components of the “outside the South” Democratic Party, the Klan in these areas tended to ally with the GOP.

In many areas there weren’t many blacks, Catholics or immigrants, so they focused on wife beaters and bootleggers.