On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 07:43:50 +1000, Ronald Bleckendorf wrote: >> Ron,
>> Please be more specific. Exactly where did this occur and when. Filing a >> complaint with the police department does not depend on whether you are a >> citizen, visitor or what religion you are. There are a number of > legislators >> in the U. S. Congress who would be very interested in this assault on you. >> Roger Turk >> Tucson, Arizona > I doubt it. It happened around the time of Martin Luther King. >> Ronald Bleckendorf wrote: <snip> That was an era when racial tensions were running very high, especially in many small towns in the deep south. Those who wanted to preserve as much as possible the old system which failed to protect blacks from discrimination were also inclined to be very strongly prejudiced against Jews too. Jews in general tend to be very liberal minded and strongly opposed to racial and religious discrimination of any kind. The lawless Ku Klux Klan and other vigilante groups were against Blacks, Jews, and Roman Catholics. BTW, the genuine and original and legitimate Ku Klux Klan was officially disbanded by its founder, the former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forest, because members of the organization started resorting to violence. It was not his idea to use violence. He only wanted to scare people by playing on the superstitions which he erroneosly thought to be widely held by black people. This of course was not the right thing to do, but it was perfectly legal and it was not violent. His men would don white sheets and hoods so as to appear as ghosts and they would ride around on horseback and pretend to have supernatural powers by playing magic tricks and creating clever illusions. Most black people were not at all impressed by such antics. It was the intent of the Klansmen to scare the black people away from dealing with the corrupt northern politicians who descended into the south after the Civil War for the purpose of exploiting all of its people, to include blacks as well as whites. One of the favorite exploits of the corrupt northern politicians consisted of bribing the uneducated former slaves into voting for them. When the corrupt politicians got voted into power they would recover their investments in bribes by raising the taxes on real estate. The founder's tactics to scare the blacks away from the corrupt northern reconstructionist politicians met with very little success. This infuriated most of the Klansmen. Then they started to resort to violence. The founder abhorred the recourse to violence. For this reason he officially dismissed, disbanded, and disowned the organization. Unfortunately the Ku Klux Klan continued to exist even unto this day. Klansmen today are wrong to continue to acknowledge the former Confederate general as their founder. They perform a great dishonor to his memory and reputation by doing so. Also they dishonor the Confederate Battle Flag by their having adopted it as one of their symbols. All of them are common renegades. None of them are acting pursuant to the the orders of a responsible leader. They are all in plain violation of the orders of the former Confederate general who had officially dismissed them. By their having adopted as one of their symbols the banner under which the general formerly served they dishonor it. Most of the hatred against blacks was generated as a result of the abuses of the corrupt northern reconstructionists. Most northerners have the arrogance to think of themselves as morally superior to southerners because they are not as inclined as southerners to hold racist attitudes. The hypocrisy is that much of the blame for racist attitudes in the south can be laid directly to the corrupt behavior of the northern reconstructionists who descended upon the South after the Civil War. During the era of the civil rights movement most of the Jews supported the social philosophy of Martin Luther King. His philosophy was very unpopular among many white Christian protestants throughout the South during his era. Resistance to the concepts of social-mixing and integration and to non-discrimination changed very fast throughout the South during the years immediately following the assassination of Martin Luther King. There still exist today a few vestiges of the former racist thinking, but it is very unusual in the towns of the modern South of today to come across a whole lot of people who still think that way. People who still think that way are marginalized. The civil authorities nowadays place a very high priority on punishing severely any person who assaults another for reason of his hatred for the victim's race, nationality, or religion. In some jurisdictions those types of crimes are defined as "hate crimes" and additional penalties apply. So called "hate crime" legislation is very controversial because it is being used for protecting only the victims who are minorities. This is not fair. It is just as wrong for a black person to assault a white person because of his race as it is for a white person to assault a black person because of his race. Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of The Arachne Browser: http://browser.arachne.cz/
