In a strange way I’m glad these chuckleheads are coming. They’re already in the margins of the margins of American life, and the election of Sen. Obama would be the biggest and most recent nail in their coffin.
The Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan plan to be on campus for the face-off between Republican nominee John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, the first African-American nominee of a major party, according to a Friday report in the university’s student newspaper.
University officials haven’t commented. But, since winning the bid as host a year ago, they have used the attention to promote the university’s efforts toward racial reconciliation.
The university newspaper, the Daily Mississippian, first reported earlier this month that the white supremacist group planned to appear among the throngs expected on the Oxford, Miss., campus. The emperor of the White Knights group, whose identity was withheld as a condition of the interview, said his members would be ‘invisible … Our people won’t be in regalia or demonstrating. So, I guess you’ll just have to guess which of the people present are Klansmen.’
Oh, we can usually tell.
{insert Trent Lott joke here}
I always cheer and rejoice whenever the Klan, the neo-Nazis, and the like hold their public rallies and marches and whatnot. I love it whenever they show up in public.
Assholes like this thrive in the darkness. They do their best work in the shadows, in quiet, one-on-one meetings, in midnight activities, and whatnot. When they come out like this, then we all can see them clearly and remind ourselves just how repugnant and un-American they are.
Plus, it is always wonderful when the assholes self-identify like this. It makes it so much easier to ostracize and denounce them — and watch for them to stick one toe over the line so we can jump on them with both feet.
They spend so much time in the shadows because they lost the power they once held, and can’t bring themselves to admit that they lost. The best thing to do with them is the one thing such people can never stand — just point and laugh at them.
J.
“just point and laugh at them”
I do this every day when it comes to Republicans. Thanks for the suggestion!
Gee, I wonder why that is. Afraid of getting their asses kicked, I imagine.
The Klan? In Mississippi? No way.
Duros: Gee, I wonder why that is. Afraid of getting their asses kicked, I imagine.
I imagine it’s also so they can claim greater numbers than they have. “Our people won’t be in regalia or demonstrating. So, I guess you’ll just have to guess which of the people present are Klansmen.” Two guys show up, and they’ll still claim they had 50 undercover people in the crowd.
“I always cheer and rejoice whenever the Klan, the neo-Nazis, and the like hold their public rallies and marches and whattnot. I love it whenever they show up in public”.
“When they come out like this, then we can all see them clearly and remind ourselves just how repugnant and un-American they are”.
I personally don’t need “reminding” through public rallies and marches and “whattnot” of how hideous these groups are.
Good for you, daniel. But too many people forget just how bad the past was, what the Klan stood for, what they did, and what they want to return to. We, as a society, need these reminders — to keep things fresh and to make sure they never happen again.
J.
But when someone calling herself “Church Secretary”, on another thread on this blog, reminded us of the blots on US history, Jay Tea called her (him?) “disgusting”.
Thank you for your pathetic attempt to prove you are open-minded. I am reminded of Holden Caulfield’s unsaid reply when Ackley’s mother claimed Ackley was “sensitive.” “He’s about as sensitive as a goddam toilet seat.”