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Klansmen Rally Before Ole Miss Football Game
ABC News
/November 21, 2009
Ku Klux Klan members rallied briefly at the University of Mississippi before a football game. The members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan spent about 10 minutes waving flags, displaying Nazi-style salutes and occasionally gesturing at a group of about 250 hecklers.
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on November 25th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
Don’t you find that childish for a group of grown men to masquerade around in costumes for the littlest reason.
on November 25th, 2009 at 12:49 pm
The KKK at Ole Mississippi is just more proof that the southern perspective still lives in America in 2009. This event is a reflection of the nation at large and it’s lack of change, and a deeper/wider cognitive reasoning.
on November 25th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Who would have thought that in 2009 damn near 2010, that the klan would still be around? I mean running around dressed like clowns and saying the same things they did over 100 years ago. Have we really gone anywhere? I mean, with a depression looming, have we really gone anywhere? sans the iphones. They to keep doing the same things looking a different out come is the definition of………you know the rest.
on November 25th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
When Bush and the Republicans declared war on terror, why did they not go after domestic groups like the klan ? They hide behind free speech but it’s clear that they use violent means to achieve their goals and they are clearly anti american. Of course under those sheets are problem some members of the G.O.P.
on November 25th, 2009 at 2:01 pm
I’m sure you already know this but I want to caution anyone who finds these loathsome people ridiculous, childish & clownish that they are indeed capable of horrific violence. We cannot dismiss them. To us they look like a joke but believe me they are not joking.
Stay safe!
on November 25th, 2009 at 2:18 pm
Isn’t it sad that these small minded backwards thinking people are still around in the year 2010? Where do these people think that that this display is going to take them ? No where!!! We must work extra hard to dispell their myths and misinformation!!! Wake up America. If we do not stop these people the hate will continue!!!!
on November 25th, 2009 at 2:21 pm
Pathetic.
on November 25th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
LOL! Your comments on the klan’s dresses remind me of back when Rivera used to have these jokers on his show, he would tell them how pretty their dresses were to ridicule them. You’d think they’d eventually get a clue and ditch the evening gowns. But stupid is as stupid does.
on November 25th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Bravo for U of Miss!! Would that more colleges recognize their discriminatory practices and take strides to change them for the better regardless of how entrenched.
Yes, the KKK is still alive and growing in the US as shocking as that is. 141 years and still around — whereas, most Americans would never consider joining the Klan, yet, it still flourishes because so many of our population share common beliefs with the Klan concerning white supremacy. Read more about it in my new book, “One Nation Under CURSE.” — Dr. Richard C. Harris
on November 25th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
To rephrase the often-used cliche: When are these idiots going to realize that the 60s are over — the 1860s and the 1960s?
on November 30th, 2009 at 12:19 am
The Klan are bullies, and nobody loves a bully. They are scared and feeling helpless because of the poverty and decrepitude they see all around them in American cities.
So, of course, that makes it easier for them to blame the other victims of corporate greed.
on November 30th, 2009 at 5:48 am
God Bless America! Reading this makes me think
that these same men work for a company. They may even be a Doctor or a lawyer, or school teacher What ever the case is, it is so sad. I think that they should show their faces so the world can see them for who they really are. It’s a new day, come clean with America. Show your love for your country and reveal who you are. This way everyone will be able to see you and will be able to pray for your salvation. At a school where people are trying to be positive! The next time that they rally, they should do it at a place where people are trying to be negative like them!
on December 3rd, 2009 at 4:08 am
Sadly Ole Miss has generated controversy at football games for years with the display of the Confederate flag; not surprising given that they are called the “Rebels”.
Klan members and others in Mississippi were upset when the former head coach, teachers and African-American (and white) members of the football team began calling for the banning of the Confederate flag from games in the 1990′s.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.c...../index.htm
I certainly don’t know for sure but it’s possible the Klan rally was made up of Ole Miss supporters trying to fan the flames of the current undercurrent of racism that followed the election of Barak Obama.
Hard to tell who or what’s beneath those hoods, genuine “old school” Klan members? A bunch of drunk locals? Or some young members of a fringe neo-Nazi group looking to whip up some media attention by resurrecting the dark symbols of the KKK violent past.
I agree with Jim Carlson – pathetic.