Is this horrible or what?
CNN/February 7, 2007
New York -- The Ku Klux Klan has rebounded by exploiting current hot-button issues, especially immigration, according to a new report released by the Anti-Defamation League.
The Klan, and other white supremacist groups like skinheads and neo-Nazis, grew significantly more active in the past year, holding more rallies, distributing leaflets and increasing their presence on the Internet -- much of it focused on stirring anti-immigrant sentiment, according to the report.
"Extremist groups are good at seizing on whatever the hot button is of the day and twisting the message to get new members," Deborah M. Lauter, ADL Civil Rights director, said Monday. "This one seems to be taking hold with more of mainstream America than we'd like to see."
"Klan groups have witnessed a surprising and troubling resurgence by exploiting fears of an immigration explosion, and the debate over immigration has, in turn, helped to fuel an increase in Klan activity, with new groups sprouting in parts of the country that have not seen much activity," Lauter said.
Old Klan chapters have been revived and new ones started throughout the South, historically the heart of the group, and in other places such as Michigan, Iowa and New Jersey, says the report.
Last May in Alabama, an anti-immigration rally included slogans such as, "Let's get rid of the Mexicans!" according to the document, titled "Ku Klux Klan Rebounds."
"The Klan is increasingly cooperating with other extremist groups and Neo-Nazi groups," Lauter said. "That's a new phenomenon."
Between 2000 and 2005, hate groups mushroomed 33 percent and Klan chapters by 63 percent, according to Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate crimes.
Precise data are difficult to pin down, but Potok's group counts as many as 150 Klan chapters with up to 8,000 members nationwide. More than 800 hate groups exist around the country, Southern Poverty research shows.
Hate groups were fading in 1990s
In the late 1990s, memberships in such groups was crumbling as they lost leaders and struggled to organize, said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino. Many hit bottom around 2000.
"Whenever you think the Klan is down and out, they find another way to reinvent themselves," he said of the recent resurgence.
Historically, the Klan's focus had been to terrorize African-Americans -- through race riots, lynchings and other killings -- but it reached peak membership at more than 4 million in the 1920s by focusing on immigration.
Newcomers from Ireland and Germany were portrayed as Catholic usurpers invading the United States, taking jobs from native-born Americans and undermining national fabric, Levin said.
Said Potok: "It's remarkable to look back at the nativist sentiments toward Catholics -- it's very similar to what we're seeing with Mexicans now."
Today, many white supremacists blame immigrants, particularly Hispanics, for crime, struggling schools or unemployment, for instance. With many Americans already divided on how to revamp laws and practices to address the nation's swelling immigrant communities, immigration "is an issue that works for hate groups," Potok said.
A burning cross on the front lawn
Many Latinos are feeling the effects firsthand. Last September, a Kentucky family originally from El Salvador found a wooden cross burning on their front lawn just weeks after they moved in.
Earlier last year, a Latino teenager in Houston was brutally beaten and sodomized while one attacker screamed "White Power!" The victim barely survived, and one attacker was sentenced to life in prison.
"I've been doing [Hispanic advocacy work] for a long, long time and the atmosphere has never been as poisonous as it has been in the last few years," said Lisa Navarrete, a vice president at the National Council of La Raza. "The level of vitriol is new."
Increasingly, fear permeates many Hispanic communities as individuals and businesses are targeted. Last year, La Raza held a workshop at its annual convention titled "Keeping Our Institutions Safe."
"It was very well attended, unfortunately," Navarrete said.
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Notice how the KKK was dwindling until the huge invasion of the illegal alien criminals? If the illegal alien criminals weren't here, maybe the Klan would have died.
I don't agree with the Klan and think they are racist. However, so is La Raza and Mecha. Why aren't people complaining about them?
i believe even a member of KKK by the way is a U.S Citizen and has the right to speak out against illegal aliens without the fear of being call a Racist for that.
It is sad. Ignorance begets ignorance.
Perhaps if the government did there job and ran them out,the klan wouldn't feel they had to.
Norman says all that needs to be said. Tell the goverment to do their ^&^%$^$#$#^& job.
If only the U.S. politicians would close the blasted open border we wouldn't be having this problem!
Close the borders now!!!!!! Before its too late.!!!!!!
Fascinating. White people, organizing to DEFEND White people, and White civilization, are "horrible."
No - it's NOT horrible. The breakdown of American society is HORRIBLE.
Please translate the name "La Raza".Do YOU appreciate the BITTER irony of a bunch of brown racists - and ones that PROMOTE utter lawlessness, at that - complaining about White ones?
Check out the FBI crime stats. Blacks commit serious, violent crimes WAY out of proportion to their numbers. Why don't you post some info about the Witchita Massacre, or the recent Knoxville, TN SICK murder of two Whites, by Blacks that deliberately targeted Whites. The Latinos are catching up to Black crime stats fast, by the way. 1/3 of Federal prisons are filed with illegals - mostly from Mexcrimo. Federal jail is BIG Jail - murder, rape, arson. assault with a deadly weapon. It's not for jaywalking. Read up on the outrageous crime wave being committed against Whites.
The ADL and the SPLC are the most well-funded, and ACTIVE hate groups around.....they are vicious fascists. And their stranglehold is starting to loosen.
100 years ago Caucasians were 30% of total world population. Now - Whites are only 8% of total world population. Whites are the TRUE racial minority of Humanity. Whites are currently being demonized - eyt EVERY-ONE seems to want to benefit from the societies CREATED by White people. No one is trying to break into the Sudan, Lesotho, Saudi Arabia, or Venzuela. If "White America" , or any European nation, is SO horrible - why try to get in, by any means?
Whites have EVERY right in the world to defend and protect themselves - and their own. The Klan is growing, due to self-defense. Whites are FINALLY awakening to the peril of their potential demise.
Being since this information came from LaRaza....I don't beleive in it's accuracy. They have made false claims when Anti-illegal immigration rallies were set up saying the KKK would be there and the hispanic community lived in fear for their safety ........ and the KKK was never there......was never supposed to be there......it's just lies trying to live off what happened to the blacks. As far as LaRaza is concerned....every anti group is a white supremist group. I swear that group and others like them have created a race war when there was none before. I can tell you the hispanic communities around here are far from cowering in fear. They aren't the least bit afraid of white people and are the first to shoot off racist remarks. Not all........but the majority and especially the younger ones. Even in there own words they say there wasn't this level of anomosity till the past few years. How many times have we heard "brown power" and all the rest ? How many of our women and children been raped, beaten and murdered with racists chants being said? How many people have been run out of their homes and towns by people who claim to be taking over. I can't tell you how many times I see men running around with t-shirts that say "kill the gringo".......and that's not racist? Please. This little game is getting old of accusing others for what they are doing and then crying on how they're the victim. If there's been an increase maybe they need to look in the mirror. I mean they think they can spew their hate and lies and we're just supposed to grin and bear it? Sorry.....there's a limit to tolerance and people have reached it.
I've always thought that anti defamation leagues were a bunch of hokey pokey. Any immigrants need to stay out.You're forgetting that even legal immigrants speak that awful language and steal jobs. It's not just illegals you know. Let the KKK fight the illegal immigration problem. History shows they know what they're doing and mean business. It just goes to show you how bad things are nowadays when an almost dead organization awakens from the grave to assist in a subject that the government will not acknowledge exists.
What's so horrible? Someone is sick of having 20 million illegals in the country, bringing crime, disease, and third world values and they want something done about it?
I don't see a problem here.
Why is it that only the white people are prepared to do something about illegal immigration? Do you think that the KKK would be growing so drastically if it were not for the fact that the illegals who work for less are taking other legitimate peoples jobs? i dont see the government doing anything about these problems and the best solution would be for ALL American citizens to take action against the situation.
it would be better if they was not so racist agents non whites born in the united states of america. did you know they are racist agents certain whites? i hope they can help get rid of the illegals the right way.
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