KKK Leader Disputes Hate Group Label: 'We're A Christian Organization'

[moonbladem]

The leader of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is tired of “a few rogue Klansmen” ruining the group’s reputation, and argues that the group is a non-violent Christian organization.

“We don’t hate people because of their race, I mean, we’re a Christian organization,” Frank Ancona, the group's Imperial Wizard, told Virginia's

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[lady_leia_solo]

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[nextdrinksonme]

"We want to stay white,”

Last I checked, you can't just change your skin color or ethnicity (unless your Michael Jackson for the former, I guess). So if you have European ancestry, and identify as white due to that and your skin color, you're gonna stay white. That's not going to magically change overnight because POC, Jewish folks, Catholics, and everyone else you're against exists. The fact that you're white is not at all influenced or changed by the fact that others are not.

It's not a hateful thing to want to maintain white supremacy."Definition of supremacy: "the state or condition of being superior to all others in authority, power, or status

[howlin_wolf_66]

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[rayofblacklight]

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[hammersxstrings]

Ancona defended the strategy, however, citing a boom in KKK membership across the country since 2008.

this is my shocked face

[zinnia_rose]

“It's not a hateful thing to want to maintain white supremacy."

Give me a fucking break.

“You can sleep tonight knowing the Klan is awake!” the fliers said

Yeah, totally! Unless you're a person of color.

[mickeym]

“We don’t hate people because of their race, I mean, we’re a Christian organization,”

And HOW many horrible things have been done throughout history, in the name of Christianity (and supremacy)? More often than not, Christians are at the top of the food chain, as far as hate goes.