Ku Klux Klan's History And Its Relevance to Today

As soon as Mrs. Garber began to discuss this issue I was automatically engaged in the topic. Instantly, I knew what my blog was going to be out. The Ku Klux Klan is a formed social group of Confederate Army veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee. It is obvious that "white superiority was the philosophy of the Klan". The group would usually use violence and terrorization of Blacks as a "means of exercising this philosophized superiority". Still today the KKK organization lives on. Recently, it is believed that the Ku Klux Klan endorsed Barack Obama because they felt that "anything or anyone is better than Hillary Clinton". Now, doesn't this sound odd if the group abhorred Blacks?

Many would hope that someone who is morally a good person would come along and try to put an end to these horrible actions that were occurring. Well, President Lyndon B. Johnson used the Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe the Ku Klux Klan and sent some Klan members to prison. Following this, Klan member ship fell to about 5,000 by the early 1970s. The action Johnson took did make somewhat a difference but, it didn't change everything. Soon something new would occur.

In June of 1995, Gary Christopher Cox and Timothy Welch (members of the Klan) admitted to burning down the Mount Zion AME Church in Greeleyville and the Macedonia Baptist Church in Bloomville. Both facing a maximum sentence of 55 years in prison. Next, five white teenagers were charged with setting a fire that destroyed a black church on July 6th, 1997. During the investigation it is believed that the teens attended a "White Knight of Alabama" rally held about two weeks before the incident. How could they be so careless to these people? What did they ever do?

They did not do anything wrong. Being a different skin color is not enough to assume these people were bad people. Secrecy is the number one component of the Klans. They do not believe in equality or respect evidently. The number of fires has arisen to more than 70 fires in August 2006. Today, the KKK seem to be a little more "hush hush" with their actions.

In addition, I feel very upset about the cruel events that these individuals displayed. Who are you to say you are "better" than anyone else? Who are you to take the lives of innocent people? Maybe one day soon the KKK group will be banned from having any more revivals and especially doing harm to anyone. All in all, I believe that if you have a problem with anyone then you should keep that to yourself instead of acting out because that shows you have a heart and you can be considerate. Like Martin Luther King stated, "Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time..."