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To: SirWalterRalegh who wrote (126088)	7/19/2005 12:29:27 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793928

Is this an apology? Nope, keep looking. BTW, he's saying he didn't lynch any negroes. Which is likely, a lot of people joined the KKK in order to get ahead socially and business-wise, sort of like joining the Masons or the Elks. More so in the South. My step-grandfather was in the Klan. To the best of my knowledge, he never lynched anybody. He did have a story of killing a black man once, only it was when he was working in a saw mill. He was working the crane and accidentally dropped a log on a black man and killed him. He regretted it all his life. Said he was a good man, only "man" isn't the word he used. My dad wasn't in the Klan but he had friends who were. It was just a common thing. Thing was, they were not just anti-intigration, not just anti-Jew, not just anti-Catholic. They were also anti-Communist. Anti-gay. Anti-hippy. Pro-Viet Nam war (that was the era I grew up in). Anti-evolution. Anti-immigration by non-Protestant non-British. Nativists. Very religious. Very conservative. Lots of them were Southern Baptists and Evangelicals. What you might call Religious Right. But of course it's gone out of style so all of a sudden nobody admits their past.