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No Comments The KKK Boogymen
Anyone can belong to the KKK I would assume. We tend to think that KKK members have nothing in common with average Americans. One black man, Daryl Davis, has befriended many KKK members. By doing this, he has been able to “cross the bridge” to come to an understanding of their mindset and actually made friends with many.
Donald Trump stands for a more conservative view of America and that includes a view that people are free to think what they want but not at the same time not necessarily do what they want if that infringes on other people’s rights.
So, the KKK has a right to exist and are at the best silly looking but are not more dangerous or even close to being as intimidating as BLM or Antifa. Their numbers are small but like all groups, they have somethings in common with others although some of what they think may be offensive. So a member of any group could be a one-issue voter (coal miner, steelworker, etc.) and Donald Trump may be doing things that bolster the things they value in life.
That being said, we must be careful not to be overly crazy about groups who have no real power. I used to live in Couer de lene Idaho. Years ago the Aryan Nation was issued a permit to have a parade through town. The news media went crazy. The politicians had to do something to prove they were “good” people. And what pray tell? The city government spent $100,000 on special policing of the parade.
Now consider that there were 20 participants in the parade. Let that sink in. The local government spent $5000 per parade participant to protect the public from the white supremacists. So every taxpayer had to pay four dollars to pay for security for a parade that no one would have noticed if it wasn’t for media exposure.
This “Aryan Nation uprising” was news coast to coast to the detriment of the people of Idaho. Idaho was thought by many to be a stronghold for white supremacists groups which although some were there it in no way reflected who people from Idaho were.
So the politics of racism are alive and well in America. It used to be that “sex sells”; now it’s “racism that sells”. I think the KKK and other groups who are predominantly white are not quite the boogeymen they’re made out to be. As for the Aryan Nation? I think they moved to Pennsylvania.