Originally Posted By mawnck >>When the University of Mississippi hosts the first presidential debate tonight, the two sides of its troubled racial history could converge. The Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan plan to be on campus for the face-off between Republican nominee John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, the first African-American nominee of a major party, according to a Friday report in the university’s student newspaper. University officials haven’t commented. But, since winning the bid as host a year ago, they have used the attention to promote the university’s efforts toward racial reconciliation. The university newspaper, the Daily Mississippian, first reported earlier this month that the white supremacist group planned to appear among the throngs expected on the Oxford, Miss., campus. The emperor of the White Knights group, whose identity was withheld as a condition of the interview, said his members would be “invisible … Our people won’t be in regalia or demonstrating. So, I guess you’ll just have to guess which of the people present are Klansmen.”<< <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/09/26/ku-klux-klan-members-plan-to-appear-at-presidential-debate-site/" target="_blank">http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/...te-site/</a>
Originally Posted By dshyates At least McCain will have some supporters there. Or are some of you conservative going to claim the KKK will be there supporting Obama?
Originally Posted By vbdad55 No Obama's buddy in Illinois - Bobby Rush is a former Black Panther though - does that count ? Trying to tie McCain to the beliefs of the KKK is just as disengenuous. Really does this really need to stoop to this level ?
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>At least McCain will have some supporters there.<< Sorry, but that's just vile.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>The emperor of the White Knights group, whose identity was withheld as a condition of the interview, said his members would be “invisible … Our people won’t be in regalia or demonstrating. So, I guess you’ll just have to guess which of the people present are Klansmen.”<< Oh brother.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Trying to tie McCain to the beliefs of the KKK is just as disengenuous. Really does this really need to stoop to this level ?<< It'll stoop even lower in the next day or two if the polls tilt even more toward Obama. You watch. FWIW, I posted the article just because I found it interesting and a bit disconcerting, not because I thought McCain is a Klansman.
Originally Posted By dshyates I wasn't trying to say that McCain supports the KKK, just that the KKK would support McCain. Not because of anything Sen. McCain has said or done, but because Sen. Obama is black. I'm pretty sure that Sen. McCain feels the same way I do about the KKK. Sorry if my statement was misleading. I don't think Sen. McCain is a racist. He has a quite liberal record on immigration. Not a common trait among racists. I think the Knights in White Satin are racists and would have a proclivity to support McCain for obvious reasons.
Originally Posted By DAR <<I think the Knights in White Satin are racists >> The Moody Blues are not on trial!!!
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Boy I am out of touch... I didn't even know there still was a KKK!!
Originally Posted By mawnck >>Boy I am out of touch... I didn't even know there still was a KKK!!<< You have NO idea. Alive, well and thriving.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains <You have NO idea. Alive, well and thriving.> I guess I don't travel out of California enough...Maybe that is a good thing.
Originally Posted By kennect Yeah they are still around and there has been some news stories with comments from some the higher ups regarding this election....I just wish I could find a link right now to a couple of the articles I have read...It seems for the most part they are rather small time at this moment but that doesn't mean they are any less dangerous...But scarier than the KKK are a few friends that I know that still harbor great hatred for any race that isn't theirs...I just cringe when I hear some of their comments...And what makes it worse is they are socalled good Christians...I can't get over the idea that someone thinks, these days, that they are maybe better than you are...Regardless of who you are...We still have a long way to go....
