WaPo: Photographer takes pictures of Maryland and Tennessee KKK groups

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The Ku Klux Klan is the oldest and most well-known hate group in the United States. At one point, during its heyday, the Klan boasted a membership of around 4 million. That number has greatly dwindled, with the Southern Poverty Law Center putting current numbers between 8,000 and 10,000. Despite their fewer numbers, the KKK has seen some recent exposure in mainstream society, most notably during this campaign season.

In February, former Knights of the Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, and politician, David Duke expressed support for Donald Trump, telling listeners of his radio show they would “meet people who are going to have the same kind of mindset that you have” if they went to one of his rallies and that “voting against Donald Trump at this point is really treason to your heritage.” Trump came under heavy criticism for not immediately and consistently disavowing Duke. When CNN’s Jake Tapper asked Trump if he would disavow Duke, his response was, “I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists….So I don’t know. I don’t know — did he endorse me, or what’s going on? Because I know nothing about David Duke; I know nothing about white supremacists.” A few days later, Trump did reject Duke’s support, telling NBC: “I don’t mind disavowing anybody, and I disavowed David Duke. And I disavowed him the day before at a major news conference…. I have no problem disavowing groups, but I’d at least like to know who they are. It would be very unfair to disavow a group if the group shouldn’t be disavowed. I have to know who the groups are. But I disavowed David Duke.”

Photographer Peter van Agtmael, on assignment for a European magazine, in 2015, headed to Tennessee and Maryland, where he spent time with some members of today’s KKK. His pictures offer us a glimpse into a world that despite having been around for a long time in the United States, is still rarely seen by most Americans.
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More pictures in the article, I thought this was pretty nuts.
 
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It's a white fucking dog. Of course. I just had to crack up there. Dear God. The human filth...
 
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Man I really thought it was two dudes in the first picture. I thought they were going Chappelle show gay-kkk on me.
 
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These all look exactly how I picture KKK types in my head.

ESPECIALLY the one with the truck, confederate flag and ready-to-burn cross.
 
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This one made me laugh. It's like a KKK coca-cola ad.
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This is their last hurrah. Just a bunch of old white guys clamoring for the good ole days. They have no political support, no economical support etc. In 20 years, white/europeans are no longer a majority in the US, but a large minority that will have similar numbers equal to hispanics. The days of white people being 80-90% of the population are gone and will never return. All these guys can do is dress up in the middle of the woods and hang out with the other 20 guys who showed up. The numbers the SLPC mentions just explains how irrelevant they really are in a country of 330 million+.
 
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I've always wanted to shoot something like this but I've always had the lingering sense they'd kill me for the whole brown thing.
 
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That Anne Frank poster... How can you not at the very least empathize with the horror a poor girl went through? I hate to be so terse, but god damn are those people sub-human pieces of trash.
 
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Madness said:
This is their last hurrah. Just a bunch of old white guys clamoring for the good ole days. They have no political support, no economical support etc. In 20 years, white/europeans are no longer a majority in the US, but a large minority that will have similar numbers equal to hispanics. The days of white people being 80-90% of the population are gone and will never return. All these guys can do is dress up in the middle of the woods and hang out with the other 20 guys who showed up. The numbers the SLPC mentions just explains how irrelevant they really are in a country of 330 million+.
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You'd be surprised. The guys in politics are just more subtle about it.
 
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They look exactly like the stereotypical lower income white KKK type I picture in my mind. Like to a fucking T.

Pure human garbage.
 
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Madness said:
This is their last hurrah. Just a bunch of old white guys clamoring for the good ole days. They have no political support, no economical support etc. In 20 years, white/europeans are no longer a majority in the US, but a large minority that will have similar numbers equal to hispanics. The days of white people being 80-90% of the population are gone and will never return. All these guys can do is dress up in the middle of the woods and hang out with the other 20 guys who showed up. The numbers the SLPC mentions just explains how irrelevant they really are in a country of 330 million+.
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Did you see that GAF anonymous confession?
The scum are deeply rooted in political/educational fields, you wouldn't even know.
Here it is.
 
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"This will be an interesting expose. There must be something about the modern hate movement I'm not grasping for it to persist in a rapidly-changing world."

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"Nope, that's just a bunch of dumb rednecks."
 
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