Obama and the KKK

This is terrible. This stuff usually happens in other countries, but I never thought it would happen here.
I can not imagine how Obama(or anyone else who has has had death threats coming at him or her) is feeling right now.

 

It will keep happening here until we defeat poverty and ignorance.

 

Do any of you guys think Obama'll end his campaign because of this?

 

In other words, it will probably never end.

 

You don't honestly think he didn't prepare for exactly this kind of thing, do you?

 

God, no.
The Klan doesn't have that much relevance.
I do remember Colin Powell's wife telling him not to run because she feared him being killed.
From what I've read and seen from Obama's wife, she'd say "bring it, bitches".

 

It's not that shocking. The Klan controlled Indiana's politics in the 1920s. At one point, roughly 30 percent of all white men in Indiana belonged to the KKK.

 

Trivia question for all y'all:

American city farthest north that had a documented racial lynching?

 

Also, Indiana was one of the first places the Klan took root. I was always taught that the Klan was founded in Indiana, but I think that's since been debunked.

 

Not without a cultural revolution.

 

Indiana didn't really have anything to do with the original Klan (which was founded in Pulaski, Tenn.), or the founding of the second one, which was at Stone Mountain, Ga.

But Inky's right: The revived Klan was probably more prevalent in Indiana in the 1920s than anywhere else in the country. Hell, the Indiana governor was in the Klan.