#kukluxklan — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #kukluxklan, aggregated by home.social.
-
Some encouraging #USpol news from the #social scene in #Tennessee. I was talking to a friend raised in the birthplace of the #KuKluxKlan. His father was among the first to land on Omaha Beach in #Normandy during #WorldWar2.
When personally asked by a #Republican politician for a donation to a recent campaign (implying he had been a generous supporter in the past), my friend’s response was as vitriolic as mine would’ve been. To my surprise, he said “I’d vote for #BarackObama over #DonaldTrump.”
-
The indictment, which was handed up by a federal grand jury in Alabama, charges the organization with 11 BS counts, including bank fraud, wire fraud, & conspiracy to commit money laundering.
#ToddBlanche told reporters Tuesday that between 2014 & 2023 #SPLC paid at least $3 million to 8 people, including affiliates of the #KuKluxKlan & #Nazi parties in the #US.
#law #Trump #DOJ #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism #PoliticalViolence
-
How soon people forget...
A century ago, #FrancoAmericans were targeted in #Maine like today’s #Somali #immigrants
Opinion by Tommy Pinette, March 3, 2026
"Two years ago, I learned the infamous #KuKluxKlan exploded in popularity throughout Maine during its resurgence in the 1920s. Across the United States, the terrorist group amassed hundreds of thousands of new followers in a rather clever dissemblance as a community service and fraternal organization. At one point, in fact, approximately 30% of Maine’s native-born population were enrolled members of the KKK. Yet they did not target Somali-Americans, people on work visas, or permanent residents from Africa — they vehemently attacked the people we now call Franco-Americans.
"Prominent Franco communities in #LewistonME, #RumfordME, #OldTownME, #AugustaME, and #WatervilleME, called 'petits Canadas,' became targets of violence for the #KKK.
"One local history of the Franco-American community of Old Town recounts a horrific stand-off at French Island: holding torches and weapons, a mob of angry klansmen attempted to cross the bridge onto the island in order to burn it down. Only the rapid efforts of men in the community to block the bridge physically kept the island from going up in flames.
"And yet, I hear many of my Franco relatives talk poorly about immigrants. They repeat similar slogans to the ones President Donald Trump spreads about immigrants who come from Africa, particularly those from East Africa: “they shouldn’t be here … Somalia is not even a country” Animus defines how many Franco-Americans understand immigrants, the people who stand in the very same place their ancestors once stood a couple generations ago.
"Do not forget that our #WhitePrivilege came at a great historical cost in the forms of systemic French language suppression, decades of shameful stereotypes, and barriers to higher education. For almost 70 years, the state of Maine had a legislative policy of only offering public education in English. We must remember our ancestors, the memères and pepères who endured the same xenophobic insults immigrants in America face today."
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/83Hi6#USPol #WorldPol #MainePol #NewAmericans #NewMainers #USHistory #MaineHistory #ICESucks #AbolishICE #Hypocrisy
-
Today would be the 96th birthday of #CliftonWalker.
On February 28, 1964, near midnight, on a dirt road in #SouthwestMississippi, a mob of whites ambushed Walker. They stopped his car, gathered around it with shotguns and fired in at close range. It was possibly the first organized #lynching of a Black man by the #Mississippi White Knights of the #KuKluxKlan. No arrests have ever been made. The murder could still be solved.
#BlackHistory #RacistViolence #ColdCase #KKK #histodons (1/14) 🧵