Revisionist BS about the Ku Klux Klan

[steve2470]

Lawlessness among ex-slaves and troublesome whites was the rule of the day. No relief was given by the carpetbag and scalawag government or by the Union troops. The result was the emergence of secret societies claiming to bring law and order to the county. One of these groups was the Ku Klux Klan, an organization that sometimes took vigilante justice to extremes but was sometimes the only control the county knew over those outside the law.

from: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/07/16/florida_kkk_courthouse_mural_controversial_finally.html , in a GD thread. The artist of the Baker County, Florida courthouse mural depicting the "heroic" Klan said that. I have NEVER run into that piece of revisionist bullshit in all my reading about the Reconstruction era.

[Number23]

1. "Painted in 2001..."

I was fully expecting that mess to have been painted in the 1940's, 1960's at the latest.

Great job, America!

[heaven05]

4. No surprise

the country is full of toxic hate that can and will be returned. None of this turn the other cheek BS..

[randys1]

2. KKK are murderous terrorists, were then and are now. Teaparty wants to be KKK without

the hoods and bad PR

[heaven05]

3. these racist POS think

no one can or will fight back. Too many have been where all blood that is shed is red. I just want them to come out in the open and state where they would like POC to go. So that I can escort them to the door, forcefully if necessary. To hell with these ignorant assholes. This is not democracy, it is an oligarchic hierarchy controlling these ignorant low life foot soldier/brown shirts. No trains for me.......promise.

[heaven05]

5. time to throw a bottle

or bottles of black paint all over it, soil those white sheets. Hell they aren't clean anyway with the pig stink of the racist buffoons that revere these "heroes". Heroes my ass.!!!!!!!!!