Comments on: Klan Economics in Black and White (But Mostly White)

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:08:00 +0000

Is the Hiram Walker mentioned in the article somehow connected to the hiram walker brand of reasonably priced cordials? Will I need to change my go to triple sec brand now?

By: Korin

Korin — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 20:24:46 +0000

One wonders how the clan survived when its leaders had such ridiculous names.

By: TeacherPatti

TeacherPatti — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 23:51:36 +0000

I teach special ed in a large, urban district in Michigan (guess which one? :)). We took some kids on a field trip to the Henry Ford museum. On display were numerous Klan robes and other paraphernalia. I actually shivered when I saw it, and one of the girls asked what the robe was. To my utter amazement, most of the kids had never heard of the Klan and had no idea about their vile history. We had an impromptu lesson, right then and there. As they say, you need to know the past, in order to avoid repeating it….

By: Shawna

Shawna — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:12:26 +0000

Interesting story, gibson8tor.

By: gibson8tor

gibson8tor — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 00:47:57 +0000

Back in the ’90s, the KKK wanted to participate in the ‘Adopt a Highway’ Program in Missouri. The officials in charge tried to veto it, but it was deemed unconstitutional to discriminate against the Klan. The highway department responded by assigning the Klan a stretch of road, which was named ‘The Rosa Parks Highway.’ When no one showed up to clean it, they were eventually dropped from the program.
I’d have liked to see the sign, because they always put the name of both the highway and the adopting organization on it together…

By: Sue

Sue — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 19:16:25 +0000

oh. my. god. someone other than me who has read from the richard zachs book.
that is my favorite book. i wore it out reading it over and over. it was your one stop shop for strange things you didn’t know you wanted to know.
number 1 great excuse for buying it, there is a picture of a real guy with two dicks. lol!
i believe it’s the underground education, but i’m spacing at the moment. lol
my friend stole it from me so i can’t look.

By: Billy

Billy — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:51:24 +0000

Growing up the south (north Georgia), I had a couple of interesting encounters with the Klan. My across the street neighbor and friend’s father was a surveyor for the DOT. He working in conjunction with the completion of I-75 through north Georgia — which was being built in areas where Civil War battles had taken place. Almost every day during this period he brought home small relics of those battles: minnie balls, cannonball shards and brass Confederate buttons. It was a pretty interesting house to go to. Anyway, one day I went over there was a luxurious garment box open on the bed and inside was a vibrant satiny scarlet hooded robe with a black and white circular cross emblem sewn over the heart. According to my friend’s father, his father was some sort of Imperial Wizard or something in the Klan. Pretty amazing.
In the mid 70s, while in college at the University of Georgia, I was out for a night of heavy duty drinking with some other art students and we ended up at a print shop in downtown Athens. The shelves in the shop were loaded with KKK materials — membership cards, manuals, fliers — one stop bigotry shopping. All that seems so long ago.