KKK leader claims hate group has grown at record pace since Trump became President

[DonViejo]

Source: The Independent




‘I’ve been doing this for over 20 years and I haven’t seen the Klan grow at the pace it’s growing now,’ says Chris Barker

Emily Shugerman New York an hour ago

The Ku Klux Klan has grown faster since Donald Trump’s inauguration than any time in recent memory, a Klan leader has claimed.

“I’ve been doing this for over 20 years and I haven’t seen the Klan grow at the pace it’s growing now,” Chris Barker, an Imperial Wizard of the KKK, told The Independent. “I mean, it’s even hard to keep track of the numbers you’ve got ’cause there’s so many coming in.”

Mr Barker said that after the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville he received 50 applications to join his group in one day. The next day, he received 80.

Mr Barker leads the Loyal White Knights of the KKK, which has less than 200 members. As one of the most active Klan groups in the US, the group takes part in “activism” such as burning crosses, advocating for the murder of immigrants, and distributing leaflets claiming, among other things, “transgender is an abomination”.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/kkk-trump-membership-rise-grown-record-pace-says-leader-chris-barker-a7905811.html

[jpak]

1. Suprise Suprise

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Any resulting Civil War won't be regional

it will simply be a race war

[lapfog_1]

5. rural v. urban

not that much a race war although one side will be comprised of all white (or 99% white) the other will be all races

[Yonnie3]

8. Traditionally the clan has also been anti-jew and anti-catholic.

They are equal opportunity for hate.

[forgotmylogin]

3. Gonna get real crowded in their hidey-holes.

We just gotta continue not allowing them to emerge in public.

[red dog 1]

4. Kick for exposure!

[Yonnie3]

6. Prove it!

Publish the names and addresses of all the new members. We will also need the same for the present members so we can calculate how successful you are.

Oh, I almost forgot. ESAD Barker.

[SharonClark]

7. Didn't they claim the same thing when Obama was elected?

Or am I confusing my right-wing groups?

[keithbvadu2]

9. "Trump "emboldened" the Nazis

"Trump "emboldened" the Nazis

America fought a war against the Nazis and supposedly won.

Yet here they are marching to "take back America".

" Michael Von Kotch, a Pennsylvania resident who called himself a Nazi, said the rally made him "proud to be white."

He said that he's long held white supremacist views and that Trump's election has "emboldened" him and the members of his own Nazi group. "

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fights-in-advance-of-saturday-protest-in-charlottesville/2017/08/12/155fb636-7f13-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?utm_term=.b54a0162fe07