- I'm almost soyisrrh, but are you REALLY that ignorant that the only reason that she would wear a campaign shirt like that is to rile her teacher up? All of a sudden, it's disrespectful to wear a t-shirt? Do you actually believe that or did you just puke while in the middle of the human centipede? I have to wonder if you went to a special school, my not-so-intelligent sir or madam. - You CAN joke about the KKK to people. I do it all the time, much to the amusement of my peers. Perhaps, it's just white people you can't joke about them with. They're so stuck up on racial topics, you can actually make a carving of the words racial topics and sooner or later, the entire white community will be up there because none of them can get back down. It's just something you have to be smart enough to know how to work.

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In 1866 the Ku Klux Klan formed, it diesprsed three year later feeling it completed what it set out to do. By 1915, it was reinstated and had expanded in to a greater number of supporters. As Alina states the KKK was created to deal with the changes that were taking place in America at that time. They believed that African Americans, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants were responsible. They felt all the social problems were because of these certain groups of people. Tyler and Clarke were the main recruiters in the early 1920’s. They used the term, “100% Americans” which at the time got peoples attention. They stated that the KKK organization was used to rid the U.S. of enemies. As Scott says that World War I was going on at this time so the public had an easy time believing.A majority of the press was either for the Klan or disliked the Klan but was silent about the organization. Only three newspapers stood up for what they believed was unethical. The New York World, Commercial Appeal, and Montgomery Advertiser used their power to try and bring down this organization. They stated facts about the Klan, all the negative aspects to show the public how they were. Cartoons help give a picture to what is really going on. They stand out to the people and something that most people will remember. By portraying the KKK in such a negative light in these cartoons, people really seemed to see that the organization wasn’t something to support.I agree with Scott when he states that Streitmatter said, “newspapers had more impact on the Klan than any other force.” At that time there were a large number of anti-KKK supporters that did fight for their rights. I felt Streitmatter should have mentioned them somewhere in this statement. Not only did newspapers work to help put a stop to this but a majority of the public played a significant role as well. http://wdxtkuia.com Link widoczny tylko dla użytkowników! [link=http://ikfbnbghun.com]ikfbnbghun[/link]

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