THOSE BORN AS SLAVES
MUST DIE AS SLAVES
A cruel motto reality.
Can you imagine how would be to hide all life only because you belong to a breed that is discriminated? And probably you are asking why to hide? I tell you why... because there is a group of people that going to pursue you until your life ends, no matter how nice you have been, they just going to kill you.
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| Sign and clothing of the KKK |
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), informally known as the Klan or the "Hooded Order", is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-imigration, historically expressed through terrorism. Since the mid-20th century, the KKK has also been anti-communist. The current manifestation is splintered into several chapter with no connection to each other; it is classified as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. It is estimated to have between 5,000 and 8,000 members as 2012.
I will focus mainly on discrimination against African Americans, as I have read in chapter 4 of the text that Miss Cardenas gave us to our presentations, the KKK was created in Georgia because the president of the USA (Abraham Lincoln) wants to end slavery but the South didn't want, so North and South go to war, before the North won slavery partly disappears, but discrimination continued of the worst way possible.
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| Two children in the KKK |
The KKK came to kill over a thousand blacks during its busiest period, but gradually began to decline their activity, until its dissolution in 1869 ordered, but the Klan didn't disappear. Far from it, Easter Sunday 1873 ocurred the most slaughter by the KKK: 280 black men were killed in Louisiana.
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| They burned crosses to oppress their victims |
There were 3 KKK but in 1994 it began to dissolve the last one. At present there are still some small organizations KKK. In 2000 it was estimated that there were a total of 3000 members. Is clear that discrimination didn't end completely. Anyway, if we can see great progress as the president of the USA that he is African American, that doesn't meant anything... look at this video:
Young girl burned by the KKK in 2012
Do you know..?
Membership in the Klan is secret. Like many organizations, the Klan has signs which members can use to recognize one another. A member may use the acronym AYAK (Are you a Klansman?) in conversation to surreptiously himself to another potential member. The response AKIA (A Klansman I am) completes the greeting.
We all belong to the same breed: H U M A N
This post took my breath away because I did not know the KKK still exist! and such a country like USA, this is hard to believe because we are living in a modern world in where respect and tolerance should be a essential principle in all of us, unfortunately the reality is still unfair for many people.
ReplyDeletein USA there are many groups or sects the most are harmless but other hidden are very dangerous and still valid, the KKK is the vivid example of this...i cant understand how is possible today these horrors
ReplyDeleteI was very surprised too, I thought The KKK did not exist. I am against all kind of racism and it is surprising that a country, as USA, permits this type of sects.
ReplyDeleteYou seriously need to do your research on the civil war. Also do more research on the Ku Klux Klan, a lot of the stuff is inaccurate. I am in no way permitting what they are/were. They are a terrible society and promoting terrible things. But the KKK was created in Pulaski,Tennessee, not Georgia. The civil was was fought to end slavery, but the north actually had more slaves than the south did at that time, the only people who has slaves around the time of the civil war were southern democrats, which southern republicans fought against. They did not just target blacks, they also targeted republicans who spoke out against slavery. One of the first governmental assassinations took place because of the KKK, they killed a Republican Sentator for speaking out against slavery. I think you need to brush up on your history a bit, a lot of what you said is very inaccurate.
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