Ku Klux Klan
The new Hulu doc “Grand Knighthawk: Infiltrating the KKK” is an eye-opening peek into the inner workings of a century-old racist organization.
Students protested in the Jackson High School lunchroom after vile SnapChat videos involving students and even a parent circulated online.
Timothy Egan’s book shows how the Klan left the South, and swept in massive waves across the Midwest, with Indiana as the ultimate zone of racist-religious-anti-immigrant terror.
When asked if racial identity had anything to do with his vote, one Republican lawmaker shot back to The Daily Beast, “Absolutely not. The facts are how I decided my vote.”
When Vietnamese immigrants who had resettled on the Texas Gulf Coast got a toehold in the local fishing industry, white fishermen were spoiling for a fight.
The Fresno school’s lame effort to respond to the racism backfired, too.
Today’s Republican politicians are counting on ignorance of or apathy about that history as they try to create their own election-crime cop forces.