Word: klan
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...major mistake to define it to terms of black and white. Guns can kill and be wielded by anyone, and they need to be more strictly regulated to protect everyone, not any specific minority. Gun advocates comparing the suit’s tactics to those of the Ku Klux Klan are clearly off base, but the NAACP has opened itself to such criticism by conflating the issues of gun control and race. By putting forth its suit on these terms, the NAACP has distracted from the real issues surrounding gun control, and that is indeed regrettable...
...Swain says, she "turned from a Pollyanna into a Cassandra" as her research into a book criticizing racial preferences made her aware of the spread of what she calls "the new white nationalism," a form of racial extremism more dangerous than the Ku Klux Klan because of its veneer of erudition and mastery of the Internet. Groups such as former Klansman David Duke's National Organization for European American Rights and the National Association of White People eschew the discredited notion of white supremacy. Indeed, they don't claim that whites are superior to anyone else and may even...
...Harvard Crimson reported on the presence of the Klu Klux Klan at Harvard, drawing national attention and embarrassment to the University. The pressure to end the negative coverage was considerable. Harvard’s Alumni Bulletin “counselled the omission of these lurid tales...
...recurring Hollywood fantasy that might be called the Magic Negro--strange black beings who come to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men, then use them to solve white folks' mundane problems instead of helping black folks by, say, routing the Ku Klux Klan...
Mann said the play centers around a 1979 incident, when the Ku Klux Klan murdered five people who were peacefully protesting the Klan’s activities...