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[Malyse]

In today’s racially charged environment, there’s a label that even the KKK disavows: white supremacy.

Standing on a muddy dirt road in the dead of night near the North Carolina-Virginia border, masked Ku Klux Klan members claimed Donald Trump’s election as president proves whites are taking back America from blacks, immigrants, Jews and other groups they describe as criminals and freeloaders. America was founded by and for whites, they say, and only whites can run a peaceful, productive society.

But still, the KKK members insisted in an interview with The Associated Press, they’re not white supremacists, a label that is gaining traction in the country since Trump won with the public backing of the Klan, neo-Nazis and other white racists.

“We’re not white supremacists. We believe in our race,” said a man with a Midwestern accent and glasses just hours before a pro-Trump Klan parade in a nearby town. He, like three Klan compatriots, wore a robe and pointed hood and wouldn’t give his full name, in accordance with Klan rules.

Claiming the Klan isn’t white supremacist flies in the face of its very nature. The Klan’s official rulebook, the Kloran — published in 1915 and still followed by many groups — says the organization “shall ever be true in the faithful maintenance of White Supremacy,” even capitalizing the term for emphasis. Watchdog groups also consider the Klan a white supremacist organization, and experts say the groups’ denials are probably linked to efforts to make their racism more palatable.

Still, KKK groups today typically renounce the term. The same goes for extremists including members of the self-proclaimed “alt-right,” an extreme branch of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism.

http://wric.com/2016/12/11/ap-kkk-members-claim-they-arent-white-supremacists/

 

[orangutang]

Why make an article like this? Isn't this giving them a platform? Just reminds me of those dapper white supremacist articles popping up recently.

 

[NealMcCauley]

The Klan’s official rulebook, the Kloran — published in 1915

Well that's not too surprising in terms of irony.

 

[Silver Arrows]

pack it up, white supremacy is finished

 

[Plum]

This is like a NeoGAF member saying they don't play video-games...

...oh wait.

 

[capitalCORN]

Why make an article like this? Isn't this giving them a platform? Just reminds me of those dapper white supremacist articles popping up recently.

The media has no backbone. Money for money's sake baby!

 

[Fantastapotamus]

The Klan’s official rulebook, the Kloran

Wait what

 

[DrForester]

I do not believe that they really call their rule book the Kloran....


That's just can't be real.

 

[John Kowalski]

Well it's not a very marketable term ya know

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

We're not white supremacists, we just believe that whites are the only good race - what?

Like.

What?

 

[A Link to the Past]

...If only white people can run a peaceful, productive society, you're literally saying that white people are supreme over others in one of the most important aspects in all societies lol.

 

[The Elite]

Kloran made me laugh out loud in a quiet office.

 

[myco666]

Of course their rulebook is called Kloran.

And not white supremacists? Just how.

 

[Viewt]

Wait a minute... The KKK bible is called the Kloran?

A pun? Really?

As far as their statement, what a load of shit. They're THE poster children for white supremacy.

 

[ModBot]

no thanks