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September 26, 2008, 4:22 pm
Ku Klux Klan Members Plan to Appear at Presidential Debate Site
Corey Dade reports from Oxford, Miss., on the presidential race.

When the University of Mississippi hosts the first presidential debate tonight, the two sides of its troubled racial history could converge.

The Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan plan to be on campus for the face-off between Republican nominee John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, the first African-American nominee of a major party, according to a Friday report in the university’s student newspaper.

University officials haven’t commented. But, since winning the bid as host a year ago, they have used the attention to promote the university’s efforts toward racial reconciliation.

The university newspaper, the Daily Mississippian, first reported earlier this month that the white supremacist group planned to appear among the throngs expected on the Oxford, Miss., campus. The emperor of the White Knights group, whose identity was withheld as a condition of the interview, said his members would be “invisible … Our people won’t be in regalia or demonstrating. So, I guess you’ll just have to guess which of the people present are Klansmen.”

Some at Ole Miss, as the school is commonly known, worry that the possible appearance of Klan members might undermine the debate as a symbolic turning point.

Ole Miss senior Paul Quinn, who wrote the articles, said in an interview that “some people standing up and saying this is not who we are. Everybody thinks it’s pretty chilling.”

Since 1962 when students and others rioted to prevent the enrollment of the first black student, James Meredith, the school has symbolized the most violent period of segregation.
At the time, two people were fatally shot and the mob raged for 14 hours before 30,000 U.S. soldiers arrived to end it.

For more than a decade the school has worked to overcome its image, starting with the elimination of some of its Confederate Army symbols. In 2006, Ole Miss unveiled a life-size bronze likeness of Meredith, which sits at the site of the riot and 100 yards from the statue of a Confederate soldier.

Black student enrollment has more than doubled in that span to 16%.

“We know people make jokes about us,” University Chancellor Robert Khayat said in an interview. “We’ve been on the wrong end of too many messages. It’s a great opportunity to be presented to the rest of the world as we are in 2008, not as we were.”

By not wearing their regalia, the Klan members would avoid being cordoned in the protest area, on a campus practice field.

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Originally posted by F350:
Yeah, they'll be there showing solidarity with the Robert Byrd side of the Democrat party.



F350, Robert Byrd is like the democrats in Alabama who are very conservative like Gov. Wallace who also was a democrat. None of these democrats liked John F. Kennedy. The democrats in the south are not true democrats as they are dixiecrats who claim to be democrats who are consevative but only republican lite.
This explains why Alabama is a red state. Read you histroy! Wink
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Originally posted by JJPAUL:
LMM, All Klan members are conservative not liberal. Wink

You did not answer the Black Power issue. You said all Klan are:

Posted 26 September 2008 06:02 PM Hide Post
I told you the KKK votes republican. They use to vote democrat,but their party left them.:

Republican, not conservative and I said Obama is Black Power.
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Originally posted by Monet:
their Dims



IF you really think that the KKK is liberal and democrat, I see you do not know your history very well. Do you really think the KKK is backing Obama? The KKK has been voting with the republicans since Nixon.


I can just visualize it now. All the Ku Klux Klan members wearing their white sheets and hoods, holding big red, white and blue signs saying 'Obama for Change', rallying for Obama. LMAO. The day that happens, you can say that will be the signs of the end of time. LOL. Big Grin
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Duke was also a democrat.

The klan is a non issue. There are only a handful of them left, they have absolutely no influence in our society anymore. Their radical views do not reflect the views of either political party, so to compare the klan to either party is an emotional scare tactic that only works on the ignorant.
The day that happens, you can say that will be the signs of the end of time. LOL. Big Grin[/QUOTE]
this world is going to change no matter what .it has to it cant go on this way for much longer.the whole world is full of evil low lifes and the good in the world is suppressed by them.
i dont think it will matter much whos in office ,it will be changing soon and its not going to be pretty.
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Originally posted by tnt5862:
I watched the debate and never seen any KKK ,nor did I hear any talk about them being there ,,When I seen who started this thread ,I knew I clicked on the wrong thing lmao Wink



The mainstream media never shows protest or anything like they did in the 60's. The media only shows what they want you to see and hear. Wink
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Originally posted by NashBama:
Duke was also a democrat.

The klan is a non issue. There are only a handful of them left, they have absolutely no influence in our society anymore. Their radical views do not reflect the views of either political party, so to compare the klan to either party is an emotional scare tactic that only works on the ignorant.




Nash, I will repeat it again, Yes back in the days as far as the 60's and back, the Klan were democrats. The Klan as well as others started leaving the democrat party when JFK was elected in 1960 as well as others who join the right party. When Bill Clinton was elected more conservatives join the right wing party. The republican party use to be small until all the democrats cross over to the right wing GOP. Yesterday's democrats are todays republicans.



IF you really think that the KKK is liberal and democrat, I see you do not know your history very well. Do you really think the KKK is backing Obama? The KKK has been voting with the republicans since Nixon.


I can just visualize it now. All the Ku Klux Klan members wearing their white sheets and hoods, holding big red, white and blue signs saying 'Obama for Change', rallying for Obama. LMAO. The day that happens, you can say that will be the signs of the end of time. LOL. Big Grin
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IF you really think that the KKK is liberal and democrat, I see you do not know your history very well. Do you really think the KKK is backing Obama? The KKK has been voting with the republicans since Nixon.


I'll repeat it again for you.

Comparing the klan to either party is an emotional scare tactic that only works on the ignorant. Your post proves that statement correct.
I'll repeat it again for you.

Comparing the klan to either party is an emotional scare tactic that only works on the ignorant. Your post proves that statement correct.



I'll repeat it again for you, There is no Comparing the klan to either party, the klan left the democrats for the republicans, that is the way it is. The Klan will tell you the democrats left them. Wink
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Originally posted by JJPAUL:
LMM, All Klan members are conservative not liberal. Wink

You did not answer the Black Power issue. You said all Klan are:

Posted 26 September 2008 06:02 PM Hide Post
I told you the KKK votes republican. They use to vote democrat,but their party left them.:

Republican, not conservative and I said Obama is Black Power.



Well...I don't know where the Black Power group stands politically but they are the only real group that has been protesting AGAINST Obama. So I don't think their with the Dems this year.
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''As there are only about 8,000 or so kluxers in all three klans.''

Howard Roark, I guess you can back that up and prove that there only 8,000 or so kluxers. Howard, you are the only one in here that has answers to everything to make the republicans look good, but you have to lie to do that.


True, I may have overestimated. I took the best guesses and added a few peckerwoods hiding in the boondocks, nationwide.

year membership
1920 4,000,000
1924 6,000,000
1930 30,000
1980 5,000
2008 3,000

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More than 40 different Klan groups exist, many having multiple chapters, or “klaverns,” including a few that boast a presence in a large number of states. There are over a hundred different Klan chapters around the country, with a combined strength of members and associates that may total around 5,000.

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You keep accusing me of lieing and I keep bringing up the truth. The father of the Big Lie would be proud of you.

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Now you are confusing me. Which ones are the KKK members and which one is McCain. . . they all look alike to me.

McCain will be the one who (like GHW Bush) will fight against the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. Remember, GHW Bush ran on the sole platform of opposing the Civil Rights acts when he ran in the formerly Confederate state of Texas. Isn't McCain upholding Republican party standards when he isn't pretending to be a maverick?

McCain will be the one who (like W . Bush) will fight against affirmative action, and he will try to oust Blacks from colleges and universities on that bases. If it wasn't for Republican Supreme Court justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, Bush would have had his way. Bush gave numerous speeches (at the University of Michigan and other places) condemning affirmative action and ordering it to stop.

Will McCain tell us these things? Bush didn't tell us before hand, but we knew, just the same, because we know who Bush was.
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Now you are confusing me. Which ones are the KKK members and which one is McCain. . . they all look alike to me.

McCain will be the one who (like GHW Bush) will fight against the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965. Remember, GHW Bush ran on the sole platform of opposing the Civil Rights acts when he ran in the formerly Confederate state of Texas. Isn't McCain upholding Republican party standards when he isn't pretending to be a maverick?

McCain will be the one who (like W . Bush) will fight against affirmative action, and he will try to oust Blacks from colleges and universities on that bases. If it wasn't for Republican Supreme Court justice, Sandra Day O'Connor, Bush would have had his way. Bush gave numerous speeches (at the University of Michigan and other places) condemning affirmative action and ordering it to stop.

Will McCain tell us these things? Bush didn't tell us before hand, but we knew, just the same, because we know who Bush was.


So if McCain is elected, blacks will be ousted from college, the Civil Rights act will be repealed and we'll go right back to 1959?

Do you seriously believe that crap? I'm no McCain supporter, but honestly, you really believe that?
JJP,

"''As there are only about 8,000 or so kluxers in all three klans.''

Howard Roark, I guess you can back that up and prove that there only 8,000 or so kluxers. Howard, you are the only one in here that has answers to everything to make the republicans look good, but you have to lie to do that."
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I gave you proof of my statements, now provide proof to the opposite or an apology for referring to me as a liar. Or, stand condemned as a self confessed liar by your own statements.

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