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Klu Klux Klan day out

What on earth to make of this picture! KKK have a day out. I bet they also had fun lighting fires and scaring folk as well :)

Members of Canon City Klan No. 21 pose on and around the ferris wheel at the site of a carnival at 8th and Greenwood in Canon City, Colorado. Klan members were invited by W. H. Forsythe, owner of the outfit and a klansman from Fort Collins, to don their gowns and pose for a group portrait. Houses and trees can be seen in the background. At left are a flying swings amusement ride and a ticket booth.

From here
http://www.pantherhouse.com...

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By netchicken: posted on 16-2-2007

Heres some interesting background on the Klan, turns out they got the idea of burning crosses from a book :) I didn't know they could read :)

The original Ku Klux Klan, which was founded in 1866 and disbanded in the early 1870s, didn't burn crosses, but that didn't stop author Thomas Dixon from saying they did in his pro-KKK novel The Clansman (1905).

... Quote:

The Fiery Cross of old Scotland's hills!" a character in the book announces. "In olden times when the Chieftain of our people summoned the clan on an errand of life and death, the Fiery Cross, extinguished in sacrificial blood, was sent by swift courier from village to village.

Though it had done well enough on its own, The Clansman didn't become a national phenomenon until Dixon sold the movie rights to the pioneer filmmaker D.W. Griffith, who used it to make his groundbreaking film The Birth of a Nation.

In a dramatic scene, the movie's hero rears up his horse and brandishes a flaming cross to summon the Klans to drive out the black oppressors (!) and their northern white allies who controlled the south during Reconstruction.

Meanwhile the movie theater's orchestra (remember, this was the silent era) struck up Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkyries." Southern white audiences generally when nuts at this point, clapping and cheering.

Knowing a good idea when he saw one, William J. Simmons, the founder of the Klan in its second incarnation (1915-1944), cobbled together a cross and burned it at a meeting of the newly-established Knights of the Ku Klux Klan on Thanksgiving night, 1915, on Stone Mountain near Atlanta. Flaming crosses have been a Klan trademark ever since.

Just one problem. The fiery cross of Scottish legend wasn't the upright Roman cross commonly used by the Klan. Rather it was the X-shaped cross of St. Andrew. St. Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland, and an X-shaped cross probably also was a lot easier to make a signal bonfire out of. But nobody ever said the Klan's big attraction was its meticulous sense of detail.

Where does the name Ku Klux Klan come from? It seems the men who founded the original Klan were tossing out ideas for a name when somebody came up with kukloi, plural of the Greek kuklos, circle. Somebody else had the bright idea of twisting kuklos into Ku Klux. Klan was added later for alliteration, and they spelled it with a K rather than a C so as not to confuse the rank and file.

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By netchicken: posted on 16-2-2007

Another unique klu Klux Klan photo!

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By netchicken: posted on 17-2-2007

Well now they call themselves Knights of the Klu Klux Klan and they have quite an interesting set of collection of christian flags, swords etc.

I think in a thread a while back on Sucu about that australian comedian, there is a video of him going to America and meeting up with Klansmen.

By IAF: posted on 17-2-2007

SpongeBob and Patrick? Say it isnt so

By Venus: posted on 17-2-2007