Word: klux
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Since I've never been to the museum, I can't argue with Sofen's claim that they treat the Ku Klux Klan flippantly. I only hope it wasn't as flippantly as Sofen laughs off the Union army's wartime atrocities. The most infamous case involved Union Gen. John B. Turchin who looted, plundered, raped and ravaged Athens, Ala., during the war. When he was court-martialled, he received a presidential pardon and was then promoted by Lincoln, sending a clear message that atrocities were not only acceptable, but encouraged...
...over--or the War Between the States, as it's called in Vicksburg. Exhibit cases contain Confederate uniforms and still-polished Confederate weapons. Photographs of "loyal slaves" who, the captions approvingly note, refused to leave their masters even after the war. A white hood from the original Ku Klux Klan, described as a "fraternal organization" protecting the South from the ravages of Federal troops. A shrine to Confederate President Jefferson Davis, his portrait lovingly protected in its own special room...
...treatment of the Ku Klux Klan was even more troubling. According to the museum, the actions of the Klan were morally equivalent to those of Union soldiers, who "were often guilty of theft and murder" against defenseless Southern whites, and Northern carpetbaggers, who "were exploiting the ignorance of the former slaves for their own selfish purposes." Worst of all? The abolitionists, who dared "to place blacks in positions of authority." This was Alice in Wonderland history, a version in which everything I had learned was turned on its ear and served up as fact. And yet the white-haired Vicksburg...
...senders' addresses can give you a good idea of the nature of your kid's correspondents. The proliferation of mailing lists being such a Web commonplace, what's coming in can sometimes tell you what's been going out: even unsolicited e-mail--from, say, a Ku Klux Klan site--can be a clue that someone's been surfing some pretty scary pages...
...question isn't academic. In the 1990s hate has grown up and logged on. The Ku Klux Klan doesn't use the term cross burnings anymore; it prefers "sacred cross lightings." Klansmen have waged more legal war than race war in the past few years, trying (mostly in vain) to persuade local judges to let them Adopt-a-Highway. "If somebody comes up with a bottle of Jack Daniel's in one hand and a shotgun in the other and says, 'Let's go kill 'em all,' I say, 'You're not for our group,'" says Jeff Coleman, grand wizard...