Its strange, you would think someone of my ethnicity would absolutely dispise the KKK. However, I really don't!
I can remember my mother telling me stories about her childhood in South Carolina (1955). . . . how the KKK would march past their delapitated share-croppers home, chanting and carrying a burning cross. When this happened, her family was trained to turn off the lights, lay on the floor not making a sound! Yet, I'm not bitter and either is she, 15-20 years later she married a white man. And 32 yrs later, they are still happily married.
I will pass on to you what my mother shared with me. "Read all you can about the KKK and like organizations, understand their plight in life. Why they are the way they are."
Most members of the KKK and like groups are hard working joes . . . blue collar workers and most of the time, uneducated. They feel threatened and affected when "people of color" work at jobs they feel are theirs. They feel threatened and affected when "ppl of color" date or marry family members that they feel are theirs. When you actually think about it, it makes perfect sense.
When your organization was born during a time of slavery, all you saw was a country built and farmed by the sweat of these people. And yet they survived 400 yrs and only got stronger dispite KKK attempts to keep them ignorant. I would be afraid for my job too! Not too mention afraid for my children to marry ppl of color. Lets be real, the "pure white" gene is lost when combined with any other racial gene. Not dilluted . . . . . . but gone forever!
I want you to know, although I am bi-racial, I do believe in the preservation of race. We are all different and our differences should be appreciated and celebrated. I like the fact that I can eat either poultry, fish, red meat, or white meat. I like the fact that I can choose from Italian, Japanese, West Indian, or East Indian restaurants (I consider myself fusion-food) LOL. I love the fact that I can sit with 4 different ppl who will all share different cultural stories about their life yet they all have one thing in common . . . . survival and their love for their family.
Have I rambled enough yet? Anyways, my point being, read beyond the printed word of this type of literature . . . between the lines . . . . then you will have depth and understanding . . . . an no disgust and no hate.