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...professor said he realizes that this "two-pennied" form of racism hardly compares to "big shot million dollar racists" like the Ku Klux Klan. But racism, small or large, must be challenged, he said...
...Nations. Yasser Arafat has weathered a reputation as a terrorist long enough to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Alfonse D'Amato is serving out one more term, not in a penitentiary for corruption, but as New York's U.S. Senator. A couple of years ago, a former Ku Klux Klan leader as close to the governorship of Louisiana as North is to the Senate seat...
While tracking Klan activities becomes more difficult with the emergence of new factions, civil rights groups generally welcome the apparent unraveling of Robb's regime. "The Klan is more splintered than ever," says Thomas Halpern of the Anti-Defamation League in New York City. "But for the sake of public safety and the country as a whole, this is better than if the granddaddy of the far-right extremist movement presented a united front. If we're lucky they'll expend their energy fighting each other, and they won't have anything left to infect the American body politic...
CONTROVERSY: Whither the Klan...
Divisions arise within the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...