KKK in Selmer, TN

[Barb]

Originally Posted by ManOfWord

This is sadly what humanity looks like without Jesus Christ! That "void" sucks up all kinds of poison and evil deeds. This is humanity hating humanity. How sad.

Yes sir...

[Bro-Larry]

Well, sweet potatoe pie and shut my mouth!!! We're much too sophisticated for that over here in TEXAS.

[jaxfam6]

Originally Posted by Bro-Larry

Well, sweet potatoe pie and shut my mouth!!! We're much too sophisticated for that over here in TEXAS.

No, you all just have JEFF's and his LDS movement.

[Arphaxad]

Originally Posted by jaxfam6

No, you all just have JEFF's and his LDS movement.

That's FLDS, they broke away from the LDS.

ARPH

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by jaxfam6

No, you all just have JEFF's and his LDS movement.

Let's not forget Waco either

[steve p]

It's really sad that the KKK preaches that what they believe is biblical.......

[OneAccord]

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0859144.html

The First Ku Klux Klan
The original Ku Klux Klan was organized by ex-Confederate elements to oppose the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain “white supremacy.” After the Civil War, when local government in the South was weak or nonexistent and there were fears of black outrages and even of an insurrection, informal vigilante organizations or armed patrols were formed in almost all communities. These were linked together in societies, such as the Men of Justice, the Pale Faces, the Constitutional Union Guards, the White Brotherhood, and the Order of the White Rose. The Ku Klux Klan was the best known of these, and in time it absorbed many of the smaller organizations.

It was organized at Pulaski, Tenn., in May, 1866. A general organization of the local Klans was effected in Apr., 1867, at Nashville, Tenn. Gen. N. B. Forrest, the famous Confederate cavalry leader, was made Grand Wizard of the Empire

The Second Ku Klux Klan
The second Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1915 by William J. Simmons, an ex-minister and promoter of fraternal orders; its first meeting was held on Stone Mt., Ga. The new Klan had a wider program than its forerunner, for it added to “white supremacy” an intense nativism and anti-Catholicism (it was also anti-Semitic) closely related to that of the Know-Nothing movement of the middle 19th cent. Consequently its appeal was not sectional, and, aided after 1920 by the activities of professional promoters Elizabeth Tyler and Edward Y. Clarke, it spread rapidly throughout the North as well as the South. It furnished an outlet for the militant patriotism aroused by World War I, and it stressed fundamentalism in religion.

The KKK is a hate group. Pure and simple. I read somewhere that the KKK was first formed to begin the "Civil War" again. Under General Forrest, they planned to initiate "gorilla warfare" against the Union government. But, because of the intense hatred of "freed blacks", they mainly targeted former slaves, especially those who voted or otherwise attempted to take their rightful place in society.. Law was virtually non-existent in the South in those days and the KKK did "enforce" law to an extent. They were known to whip and beat men who deserted their families and targeted the scalawags and carpetbaggers that plied on the southerners. But, there was, and is, nothing noble about any group that is spurred by hatred and bigotry.

[Rico]

The KKK. There's a group of misfits.

[OneAccord]

The KKK is still pretty active in our area. Not the KKK per se, but something called the "Sons of the Confederacy". Dade Co, Ga (neighboring county) and the N. end of Sand Mountain is a "hotbed' of bigotry and prejudice. They don't wear the hoods and garb(age) in public, much too cowardly for that.

I remember years ago while still living in Tn, my first wife, kids and I came to Alabama to visit a church. We brought along Chaz, our Afro-American "son". We got there after service started. Walked in and the song leader actually stopped singing and just stared at us. In fact, the whole church fell deathly quiet and every eye was on us.

After the service, it was suggested to me that I not bring Chaz back to that church. They love all of God's children, you know, but, well, some things just aren't done. Someone said, we needed to stick with our own kind. He was, as far as I know the first and last Afro-American to visit that church. And that was my last time there too.

Chazamonderrez Jones. If ya asked him his name, thats what he'd tell you. (He was about 6 at the time.) I loved him like he was my own kind. He was my own kind. And still is....

[DividedThigh]

there are kkk groups all over that area, i am from decatur county, it is a shame and very sad, the kkk was started in that general vicinity after the civil war by nathan bedford forrest, former confed general, hate is ugly, as are these folks, they need a good dose of gods love for sure,dt