It seems that the basic point those who invoke the KKK as the worst example of humanity try to make is: "Ignorance leads to hate, which leads to people being lynched. If you do not permit us to indoctrinate you, you support people being lynched."
The modern perception.. There's very little talk in general about the Carpetbagging that went on, the lawlessness in the south after the Civil War.
The orthodox scenario seems to be something along these lines: The North started a war with the South which resulted in hundreds of thousands of people dead, based solely on the ideal that one man should not own another. The North won the war, and started to educate the Southerners that slavery and racism are bad. Some ignorant and hateful Southerners then started the KKK, which rode into the night, murdering as many blacks as they could get their hands on.
An alternative to this simplistic and manichean perspective might sound something like this: The American Civil War was a test to see if a state could secede from the Union. It didn't go well, and many opportunistic people flooded into the South in order to exploit the aforementioned lawlessness there.
Do you think that freed slaves wouldn't try to take revenge on their owners? Justified or not, to say that it didn't go on paints a bit too rosy a picture for me personally to digest. Just look at Haiti - white babies on spikes, fo' real, with the KKK delivering swift and brutish mob justice to criminals in addition to innocents we have been led to believe wholly comprised their victims.
Which sounds more plausible?
Do they look black to you?
The modern perception.. There's very little talk in general about the Carpetbagging that went on, the lawlessness in the south after the Civil War.
The orthodox scenario seems to be something along these lines: The North started a war with the South which resulted in hundreds of thousands of people dead, based solely on the ideal that one man should not own another. The North won the war, and started to educate the Southerners that slavery and racism are bad. Some ignorant and hateful Southerners then started the KKK, which rode into the night, murdering as many blacks as they could get their hands on.
An alternative to this simplistic and manichean perspective might sound something like this: The American Civil War was a test to see if a state could secede from the Union. It didn't go well, and many opportunistic people flooded into the South in order to exploit the aforementioned lawlessness there.
Do you think that freed slaves wouldn't try to take revenge on their owners? Justified or not, to say that it didn't go on paints a bit too rosy a picture for me personally to digest. Just look at Haiti - white babies on spikes, fo' real, with the KKK delivering swift and brutish mob justice to criminals in addition to innocents we have been led to believe wholly comprised their victims.
Which sounds more plausible?
Do they look black to you?
