Tag: KKK
Is David Duke Trying to Hurt Donald Trump?
Look, Donald Trump do whatever you need to do to get elected to this country because we need a change.
— David Duke, quoted by the Los Angeles Times, on Donald Trump disavowing the former Ku Klux Klan leader’s endorsement.
A High School Named for a Klansman?
Boy, white people did some wacky stuff during the Civil Rights era. Here’s one example.
In 1959, after being compelled by the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education to stop maintaining separate “but equal” public schools, the Confederate Daughters of America (CDA) in Jacksonville, Fla. exacted revenge. They led a successful drive to name a public high school after none other than Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Spiteful and childish move, amirite? I bet you’re thinking it didn’t take long to correct that little work of malice. Well, you’d be wrong. Because to this day, students in Jacksonville continue to graduate from Forrest High.
Sure, over the years, there have been various attempts to have the name changed. After all, Forrest, a Tennessee native, had no relationship with Jacksonville. In fact, he never even visited the town. The CDA just looked around for the worst example of a white guy they could find, and there, like a shimmering star, was Nathan Bedford Forrest.
Cuomo Not Fazed by KKK’s ‘Death Ray’
These extreme right wing nutsies think of everything.
— New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D), quoted by the New York Daily News, laughing off news that he was being targeted by a “death ray.”
No More Nooses
There’s one thing you can say about the KKK —
They do use the latest technology of today.
It just costs a few bucks
And it mounts on a pickup truck,
And you can kill Muslims or Democrats with your X-Ray death ray.
