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Re: "You have to be white to join the klan."
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Originally Posted by Originalist
The original klan, during the Reconstruction era after the War between the States, actually offered protection to blacks who were being harassed by carpetbaggers because they were not falling in line. But later, the klan started becoming purely a racial organization and Nathan Bedford Forest denounced it. Forest actually had klansmen hung for terrorizing blacks. He also became a champion of racial equality and was invited to speak at civil rights conventions. But he gets credit for none of this and the NAACP tries to get anything with his name on it removed.
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Let me guess: you are from the South, and you believe that Forest was a good man. There is no credible history that would support this. You probably also believe the Civil War wasn't about slavery but about states rights. This post is nonsense.
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