I know someone who claims to be a former KKK member.
Not the best written article I have ever read from this author but he brings out a very salient point of going on the offensive against liberal slander of conservatives simply for disagreement.
As to the question, yes, I have known several white supremacists. To a person, they were all very cordial and friendly to all minorities that they met, even engaging many in lengthy conversations. They simply believed that whites have demonstrated the ability to act societally in manners that promote all races and have led the world in advancements that are unparalleled by other races.
I had a friend who had a travel agency in the days of Richard Butler. One day, he came in and wanted to buy some plane tickets. My friend explained that he didn't approve of his views and for the sake of his business, he didn't want to be associated with Reverend Butler's church. My friend said that Butler was disappointed but gracious and that was the end of it. Today, all Butler would have to say is that he is gay Nazi and my friend would probably have to do business with him.
Other than the majority of white progressives I have met, no.
The closest I can come is my dad says my grandfather had an uncle that was a Klan member 100 years ago. I tried telling a black co worker the Klan didn’t exist fifteen years ago and he insisted one of his black buddies showed him a “membership application” that they swore proved the Klan did exist.
I tried telling him, “Look, I am (at that time) a 50 year old white conservative amateur competitive shooter” don’t you think at some point in my life they would have asked me to join?”. He just would not accept it. He was worse than TG on the Twin Peaks threads. I mean I have been asked to join, at one time or another, the Mormons, the Masons, Jehovah’s witnesses, you name it but in all these years not a peep from the Klan.
ONCE, in all my motorcycle journeys across America, I met ONE person, who never SAID anything to make me suspect him of being a White Supremacist, who had a tattoo that indicated that he WAS. And it was under his sleeve, so I only saw it briefly.
One lonely biker who didn’t say much...not really a big problem for America.
No! I’ve been called lots of things for saying that the ARMY had only one color - Army Olive Green.
Therefore if you are against Common Core and would rather see kids get a Classical education you are a white supremacist.
If you want people to work for a living so they can make their own way in the world you are a white supremacist.
If you believe in a civil and polite society you are a white supremacist.
If you believe in law and order and not in mob rule you are a white supremacist.
I could go on but you get the point. The left hates America, hates Western values. They think that labeling it White Supremacy will help them gain followers and let them continue to destroy the culture of this country. It's also a way for them to put Americans on the defensive. If enough people in the media pick up the mantra, right and wrong won't matter. You will just be labeled a White Supremacist and you will have to jump through hoops to prove you're not.
The best defense is to not buy into their premise in the first place. Tag them as Anti-American haters and move on to defending the policy of jobs, fair trade, and a free society.
Never known one personally. I grew up in Chattanooga, TN. There were some that lived atop Signal Mountain, TN. One was quite infamous a fairly long time ago...they made a movie about his actions.
By far, the most racism I ever witnessed was in Boston, MA and surrounding towns and Providence, RI. I lived in New England almost 20 years as an adult. Still quite racially/ethnically segregated. I have children still up there. I am glad to be back in the south where we mostly get along and have no problem with different races in the neighborhoods. Of course, there are some areas in the south where white men wouldn’t be welcome. But I don’t see it the other way around, really. That’s my experience, anyhow.
If one says school integration is a failure, is he automatically a white supremacist?
None.
They talk like it’s still 1940. I’ve known some people that will use the N-word but even they clarify that they differentiate between “black people” and N-ers. The N-word being directed at the gang-thug attitude. The same people having black friends who share the same opinion.
I’m sure there’s Neo-Nazi types out there but I’ve never known any. You’re more likely to find the skinhead racist in the UK.
Just a few racism incidents from my younger days.
1967 - first year of school integration in our southern town. On the bus, headed for my first day of fourth grade. We stopped to pick up two little black boys. Several kids yelled out, “Hey snowball!”... and other epithets. By the end of the year, things settled down.
Early 1980s getting a 3 dollar haircut in east Memphis. Little barber shop full of old white guys just hanging out. The talk got so racist in there that I never went back.
A grocer in Centerville, Iowa who cheated on food stamps by selling non-approved items.
> Do You Know or Have You Ever Known a White Supremacist?
My grandfather would turn over in his grave if he knew I married an oriental lady.
In Junior High in the 60’s, had a classmate who wanted to bust my jaw for being an “N” lover.
At our 20th High School reunion he was a very different Protestant Minister.
Neither of us addressed the altercation, and instead enjoyed the fact we’d grown up.
Keep in mind, at that earlier age, its most often parental influence.
Interesting that in Basic Training in 71, I saw no signs of it at all, except minor pandering from the DI.
I grew up in a rural county that was right on the verge of the old “plantation belt.” West, the county was foothills to mountainous and almost entirely white. East, the county was dominated by river bottom and had a large black population. In the western part of the county, there was a town with a Klan presence, an actual “sundown town” and they’d tell you so. The black kids on the high school teams didn’t like having to travel through there on the school activity bus on the way to other schools in the league. There were a few actual white supremacists there. That town has since turned into a bedroom community, a four lane highway was built in the sixties and upgraded to interstate later on. There are black residents now, some locally prominent. It’s a pretty place, nice mountain views. But, I could still point out, for anyone curious, the old crumbling cinderblock building where the Klan once met in that town, it was fairly notorious. Still there as far as I know, overrun by scrub pine and honeysuckle.
No but I do know some realists.