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<DIV>On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 16:37:00 -0700 (PDT) <A
href="mailto:gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net">gcfl-discuss@gcfl.net</A> writes:</DIV>
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<DIV>I wonder if the modern day Aryan Nations (a violent white-supremisist
organization) is an off shoot of the KKK or what? Anyone?
Frank<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
<DIV>I haven't studied it in detail, but I understand it is not so much an
offshoot as something that moved into the vacuum. Both Aryan Nations and KKK are
somewhat disorganized collections of rival organizations, both link "white" and
"Christian" as somehow related, in order to define themselves. What's left of
the KKK seems to be trying to smooth their image, show what nice guys and good
citizens they are, while those who really want to kill and blow things up (or
talk about it) are going to Aryan Nations. One of the funnier things about Aryan
Nations is the talk of "our Anglo-Celtic heritage." I do have both Anglo and
Celtic ancestors, and I know that these two tribal groups spent most of their
respective histories burying axes in each other's skulls. The original ethnic
slur in colonial Virginia was "Scotchman" -- long before either Anglos or Scots
thought of Africans as anything but exotic. Truth be told, most members of the
Klan probably had African ancestors, inter-marriage among all but the wealthiest
being a common thing from 1630-1820. Most Southern Baptists have ancestors
baptized and saved during revivals by evangelists who were of African descent.
Ethnic identity is not a very stable thing. It changes every 20-200 years. At
the time the civil rights movement began, Jim Crow laws had only been on the
books for about 60 years.</DIV>
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<DIV>Siarlys</DIV>
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