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Thom Robb is a reconstructed racist. He calls himself the national director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, eschewing the hoary title of Imperial Wizard. Indeed, the lower ranks have been defanged as well. There are no more Grand Dragons, no more Great Titans. Gone too are the robes and hoods. "We don't hate blacks," declares Robb, who assumed the leadership in 1989. "We just love whites...
Robb's diminution of the Klan's charter has not gone down well. "Thom Robb is a poor example of a Klansman. He comes off as a young Republican, not as a racialist," says David Neumann, 40, an auto-plant machinist who heads the Michigan chapter of the Knights. "He goes to great lengths not to say anything controversial that might alienate people from giving him money." In April, Ed Novak, born Ed Melkonian and an ex-lieutenant of Robb's, started a rival Klan out of Chicago. According to Klanwatch, based in Montgomery, Alabama, Novak's Federation of Klans...
...Neumann, he and the Klan leaders of Indiana and Illinois led a walkout from the Knights last month. This weekend they will stage an old- fashioned K.K.K. rally in Lafayette, Indiana, complete with robes and hoods. Neumann, with the blessing of his associates, has assumed the title Robb dislikes: Imperial Wizard. The rebel triumvirate maintains that most of the Knights are now with them...
...that time, Blacks were treated "in every aspect of life" as second class citizens, Seigenthaler said. Local authorities were often themselves involved with the Ku Klux Klan, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation hesitated to get involved," he said...
...toll," says Ashley Phillips, director of the WomanCare clinic in San Diego. "I don't know how much more of this we're supposed to take." Following the killing, several members of Congress demanded that the FBI begin infiltrating radical antiabortionist groups as it has the Ku Klux Klan in the past. Harsh as that sounds, if Britton's death causes Phillips or other abortion providers to step down in fear, Griffin, Hill and others like them will have achieved the goal of all terrorism: to thwart the established policy of a nation through the pinpoint application of brutal violence...