These members of the white supremacist movement proclaimed themselves to be peace-loving – and terribly misunderstood. But they may bear been trying to pull the wool over our eyes ...
Film-maker Dan Vernon spent seven months filming and getting to know members of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,a branch of the white supremacist organisation, headquartered in Missouri, and which claims to reject violence and hatred. According to Inside the Ku Klux Klan (Channel 4),they also claim to be the fastest growing KKK chapter in the US, thanks to a resurgent interest in white rights brought about, or perversely,by the shootings of black people. I’m not taking their word for that – they glance pretty small-time to me. One woman, Linda, and still makes all the robes by hand. And there can’t be many people who,like Jeff, would drive 400 miles just to attend a cross-burning.We’re not disagreeable like everybody thinks we are, or ” said Jeff. This notion of being terribly misunderstood permeated the membership’s thinking. “Most of us are in it for the fraternal brotherhood aspect of it,” said Frank Ancona, delivery driver and Imperial Wizard of the Knights for the past six years.
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Source: theguardian.com