Thank you federal government for always doing the right thing! And this is why we need more black leaders like John W. Flynt!
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Spicy meatball right here.
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No you cockless loon.
What paved the way for the KKK disbanding is Nathan Forrest seeing that the organization - which he started to resist reconstructionist Yankee carpet-bagging appointees who were behaving in a high-handed manner to the populations they'd been placed in charge of - was now being used as an excuse to terrorize civilians.
I will scream this every time the KKK is mentioned because I was lied to about this for all of my schooling:
NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST DISBANDED THE KKK WHEN IT CAME TO HIS ATTENTION THEY WERE TARGETING BLACKS
The fact his order was largely disobeyed is not on him.
Also, LOL about black politicians. Black politicians did very little stop the Klan, because why would they? It was more effective as a boogey man. In the 1800s, Klan Membership was in a couple hundreds, at best. The maximum extent of the Klan, in the 2nd wave of the 1920-40s, was only in the tens of thousands, and that included all 50 states and several chapters in Canada. The federal government's only real contribution to stopping the Klan was WWII.
Three things stopped the Klan. The first was WWII. Southern boys got to know northerners and a bunch of the "evil papist immigrants" - they stopped being abstract figures and became real people; also the German racial purity rhetoric got a little uncomfortable. The second was the Klan's national leadership; they stopped really doing ANYTHING except collecting membership checks. At the height of the Klan, during the 20s, the Klan lynched around 200 blacks. Not a year, total. Lightning killed more blacks.
The third was the Superman radio program. I shit you not. to tl;dr the producer had a mole inside the KKK, and got all the secret signs and codes that Klan used. The police & federal agencies didn't care too much, so the producer wrote a Superman plot line with a secret organization that used all the real Klan secret handshakes and code words and symbolism. They did this because they knew kids would hear it, and then emulate it in their own secret clubs.
So when the KKK went to recruit someone, they'd see grown-ass men doing this handshake shit and just be "Wait, I saw my kids doing this stuff with their secret club. This is isn't cool and spooky, its completely gay kids stuff. I'm out."