Word: klux
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That might, however, be very hard to see if, as the University's Daily Mississippian newspaper reported on Sept. 12, the audience of thousands right outside the debate hall watching by simulcast includes some unwelcome guests: the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The Klansmen won't be wearing robes or hoods or making "a big hoopla," says Imperial Wizard Richard Greene, 46, who refuses to divulge how many members the Mississippi chapter has. Nor will they take advantage of the designated protest zone outside the debate theater to stage one of their typical demonstrations - which include fiery...
...reject the nomination of Jefferson Sessions, 39, the U.S. Attorney in Mobile picked for a federal district court judgeship in Alabama. Witnesses said that Sessions had called the N.A.A.C.P. and several other civil rights groups ''un-American,'' and once remarked that he had thought Ku Klux Klan members were ''O.K.'' until he found out they smoked pot. Sessions protests that he was ''caricatured'' unfairly by his opponents. ''It's rough on Capitol Hill right now,'' he says. ''Some good people are getting hurt.'' Anti-Reagan forces mean to get still rougher. And Manion is the next target. Last month...
...demographics. Black women, who usually vote Democratic, may be inclined to give the Republican ticket a second look if they see someone on the ballot who personally understands their struggle as black women. Rice is intimately familiar with black issues. She was actually there in 1963 when the Ku Klux Klan bombed Birmingham’s sixteenth Street Baptist Church killing four young girls. In an interview with 60 Minutes Rice remembered, “Well, we knew those little girls. Denise McNair was my little friend from kindergarten. And she was a playmate and I just couldn't believe...
...just Wu-Tang Clan, we just look at it as Clan. Clan is the crew, the family, everything is family-oriented. FM: When you say ‘The Clan,’ I just think, it just sounds like...doesn’t it sound like... R: Ku Klux Klan? FM: Yeah. Does that sound weird? R: (laughs) I know, it sounds like that only because you think of it like that. But The Clan to us, it means like a family, if you got a bunch of siblings, that’s a clan too, it?...
...they liked the movements it represented. They saw it as an inverted broken cross or "the footprint of the American chicken." But it kept spreading through the culture. Like the Christian cross, which has served the purposes of soup kitchens and Crusaders, the Sisters of Mercy and the Ku Klux Klan, it was adaptable. Over time, it evolved from its narrow association with nuclear disarmament into an insignia for countercultures of all kinds. Hippies made it a sort of all-purpose symbol of peacefulness. The environmental group Greenpeace, the militant wing of flower power, adopted it for its eco-defense...