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King probably harbored some racist beliefs before he checked into Texas' 3,200-inmate, maximum-security Beto I unit. He already had a book on the Klan, stolen from his high school library. Michelle Chapman, 18, a friend, testified that she could see him becoming increasingly racist in the 10 letters he wrote her from prison between 1995 and 1997. His missives were full of vulgarities and racial slurs denouncing blacks, Jews, Hispanics and a variety of "race traitors." White women who date blacks are "whores," he said, and they should "hang from the same tree as their black boyfriends...
King and Brewer joined a local prison chapter of a gang called the Confederate Knights of America, a small North Carolina-based Klan faction that recruited heavily from biker groups and prison inmates in the early 1990s. He began getting tattoos that would cover 65% of his body. His body art was a litany of racist images, including Nazi SS lightning bolts, Klan emblems and a black man lynched from a tree. One witness, psychiatrist Dr. Edward Gripon, suggested the tattoos may have been a way to make the 5-ft. 7-in., 165-lb. King look forbidding to threatening...
...defendant ought to be judged on the basis of his personal guilt or innocence, not on the basis of actions committed by others who share the same ideology. The Ku Klux Klan is free to say what it likes, pornography will not be banned, neo-Nazi hate groups will not be silenced; yet when it comes to pro-life activists, a limit on free speech seems to be uniquely justified. Such a double standard is not only intolerant and undemocratic but also hypocritical. Supporters of choice are ever-fervent in their rally for liberty--just as long as they...
...However, it would be ridiculous to denounce the study of all American history because it contains the story of the Ku Klux Klan. Black History Month is a claim to black cultural and historical equality, not a "silly therapeutic excess...
However, it would be ridiculous to denounce the study of all American history because it contains the story of the Ku Klux Klan. Black History Month is a claim to black cultural and historical equality, not a "silly therapeutic excess...