a question for KKK members

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Why do Ku Klux Klan people burn crosses at their rallies?

is it because they wuv Christianity, and want everyone to see their bright shining cross?

or is it because they really worship SATAN and are attempting to destroy Christianity by burning its most potent symbol?

DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 8 November 2002 16:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

isn't this a question for Madonna, too?

Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 8 November 2002 16:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

The former, in a "glorious flaming cross of righteousness" kind of way. Actually, a lot of their ritual imagery comes from Sir Walter Scott and other 19th-century medievalists.

(NB: I am not a KKK member, my application was rejected on unspecified grounds.)

nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw a photo from the 1920s where instead of using a flaming cross, they were using one emblazoned with LIGHT BULBS. I don't think that quite caught on.

Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

Haha they should use plastic crosses filled with that green raver glowstick stuff! It would make them look like right idiots!

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cross w/ light-bulbs = Marilyn Manson stage-show, surely.

nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 8 November 2002 17:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sorry - I can't see from under this stupid white pointy hat-thing.

lol p xx, Friday, 8 November 2002 18:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

HAHA KKKandy Ravurz!!!!!!

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 8 November 2002 19:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

kkk = king kong klub?

Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Friday, 8 November 2002 19:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Krusty Komedy Klassics!

Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 9 November 2002 00:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw a photo from the 1920s where instead of using a flaming cross, they were using one emblazoned with LIGHT BULBS. I don't think that quite caught on.

The Klan: energy-conscious before their time?

Joe (Joe), Saturday, 9 November 2002 03:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

you should email robert byrd and ask the former grand wizard.

keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 9 November 2002 04:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

They should just have a big bilboard that says " DONT MIND US, WE ARE INBRED!> Burning crosses are dangerous. Have you ever seen those Italian KKK people who are catholic? I mean they are not really kkk but they look like it

Mike Hanle y (mike), Saturday, 9 November 2002 14:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

White Strength

Dave Fischer, Saturday, 9 November 2002 22:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

there is a great book called triumph of the narrative by fulford, that spends gobs of time talking about the self mytologzing of the south, and their obsession with scott.

anthony easton (anthony), Sunday, 10 November 2002 05:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

Birth of a Nation is a pretty good movie.

A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 11 November 2002 04:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mike, that's the pope.

Ally (mlescaut), Monday, 11 November 2002 04:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

eight years pass...

http://i52.tinypic.com/k2bipt.jpg

someone just posted this on facebook. it's from my hometown in rural missouri. very, very sad. down the highway from the house where I grew up was a long driveway to a wooded area that was always blocked by a gate with a giant confederate flag on it. my dad told me that "some people did KKK stuff there sometimes", but i never really believed him.

OH YEAAAAH! (Z S), Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link

that is an incredible, and incredibly disturbing, photo

FUKIEN HOSTILE (dayo), Sunday, 20 February 2011 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah, just taken the other day. fuck.

OH YEAAAAH! (Z S), Sunday, 20 February 2011 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link

surreal, sinister, and lolpathetic all at the same time.

circa1916, Sunday, 20 February 2011 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link

I live almost next door to a house with a KKK flag flying over it--I know there's a group here in *large town just south of Venice* (It's listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center site), but I don't know if they belong to it.

Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Sunday, 20 February 2011 01:22 (thirteen years ago) link

that is a disturbing photo. it's astounding to me that, in 2011, some yahoo feels comfortable wearing a kkk outfit openly like that. i'm sure it happens, but i haven't seen it for a long time.

Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 20 February 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link

Isn't wearing an all-white costume just begging to have colorful shit thrown at him?

Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 20 February 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link

Tomatoes, beets, etc. Hell, fill a super-soaker with paint and do a drive-by.

Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 20 February 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link

It's also crying out for a swift "Yoink!" of his headgear.

Also, a serious motherfucking beatdown.

Son of Sisyphus of Reaganing (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 20 February 2011 19:14 (thirteen years ago) link

make sure your license plate is concealed as you're speeding away.

useful advice/daniel, esq.

Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 20 February 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link

the lonely racist ghost on State Highway Z

richard melville hell (crüt), Sunday, 20 February 2011 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link

me and some friends, in a fit of teen-dom, stole one of those highway Z signs down the road, once. would have thought twice if KKK dude was guarding it tho

Z S, Sunday, 20 February 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link

wow, that picture I posted above has made its way to the local news!

KKK Members Out Recruiting In Park Hills, Missouri

(KMOV) -- Ku Klux Klan members were out in full uniform Saturday in Park Hills, Missouri, handing out flyers and stirring up some discussion.

The Park Hills Police Department received numerous complaints about the KKK members handing out flyers along main street. A spokesperson for the department said they asked the members to leave.

The members left peacefully without any arrests or trouble.

Reverend B.T. Rice from he NAACP in St. Louis County said, "obviously they understand this is Black History Month and they want to make a point that racism is still alive and it's still very much being propagated throughout the community in Missouri. Secondly I think it's important that we bring these issues to light so they don't continue to spread and swell."

One woman in Park Hills was so disturbed by the hooded people's presence that she posted a picture on the KMOV.com Facebook page and voiced her concern.

7 more super creepy pictures there (see especially the second photo in the slideshow - not sure if this link will work or not: http://www.kmov.com/news/local/KKK-members-out-recruiting-in-Park-Hills-Missouri-116547173.html?gallery=y&c=y&img=1#gallery-image)

Z S, Saturday, 26 February 2011 16:39 (thirteen years ago) link

ugh, some of those comments below the article

Z S, Saturday, 26 February 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...

"I'm shocked that this state, which has on its books laws that are used to legalize killing black people, would have people in municipal police departments who participate in hate groups"

Star Gentle Uterus (DJP), Tuesday, 22 July 2014 16:32 (nine years ago) link

five months pass...

Poll?

http://i.imgur.com/bkymjGt.png

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Racists hosting talk radio programs. What has the world come to.

pplains, Sunday, 11 January 2015 03:59 (nine years ago) link

torn between cross examine and stories with grandma

call all destroyer, Sunday, 11 January 2015 04:05 (nine years ago) link

CrossExamine -- now there's a creepy name for a KKK show

walid foster dulles (man alive), Sunday, 11 January 2015 04:09 (nine years ago) link

"Stories With Grandma" though the perfect title for a racist talk show.

"Freedom Rings" is also ok if you picture them getting onion rings confused with french fries.

pplains, Sunday, 11 January 2015 05:15 (nine years ago) link

Freedom Ringtones

contenderizer, Sunday, 11 January 2015 07:23 (nine years ago) link

Money Matters But Not As Much As Skin Colour

Rallsballs@onelist.com (stevie), Sunday, 11 January 2015 10:51 (nine years ago) link


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