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Connecticut Newspaper: KKK’s “Basic Message” Has Been “Embraced” By Fox News, Conservative Media…
I could have sworn the KKK was tied to the Democratic party.
Via New Haven Register:
Connecticut Newspaper: KKK’s “Basic Message” Has Been “Embraced” By Fox News, Conservative Media…
I could have sworn the KKK was tied to the Democratic party.
Via New Haven Register:
Gov. Dannel Malloy and an array of public officials and community leaders stood together recently in a public condemnation of the emergence of a KKK chapter that was distributing leaflets in Milford. The New Haven Register described “new tactics” the KKK is using in places like Milford to appear more mainstream. Violence, cross-burning and obscenely racist epithets have been replaced with “neighborhood watches,” toy drives and racist code words.
Scot X. Esdaile, president of the Connecticut chapter of the NAACP, called this “putting a pink-collared dress on a pig.”
That’s an insult to pigs. In fact, an Emory University research project that made headlines Monday found that pigs are as smart and sociable as dogs and other domesticated pets. The hatred spewed by the KKK is not found in your average dog or barnyard animal.
The governor and others stood up publicly in Milford because the word “KKK” was involved. Everyone knows the disgusting history of that movement and how disgusting one’s mindset has to be to embrace the label today. And everyone should know what a “neighborhood patrol” by the KKK is all about.
Meanwhile, though, the same basic message that the KKK has promoted for 148 years is embraced by the likes of Ted Nugent, Fox News, Ann Coulter, a burgeoning array of fringe “conservative” media and members of our own community commenting on stories on the New Haven Register’s website.
Nugent will be in New Haven Aug. 6 with prominent billing for a concert at respected local music institution Toad’s Place. He has brought the KKK’s traditional message to the mainstream — to the point of being embraced by the leaders of the Republican Party during the last presidential election campaign (against the re-election of a black president, it should be pointed out).
Keep reading…
Scot X. Esdaile, president of the Connecticut chapter of the NAACP, called this “putting a pink-collared dress on a pig.”
That’s an insult to pigs. In fact, an Emory University research project that made headlines Monday found that pigs are as smart and sociable as dogs and other domesticated pets. The hatred spewed by the KKK is not found in your average dog or barnyard animal.
The governor and others stood up publicly in Milford because the word “KKK” was involved. Everyone knows the disgusting history of that movement and how disgusting one’s mindset has to be to embrace the label today. And everyone should know what a “neighborhood patrol” by the KKK is all about.
Meanwhile, though, the same basic message that the KKK has promoted for 148 years is embraced by the likes of Ted Nugent, Fox News, Ann Coulter, a burgeoning array of fringe “conservative” media and members of our own community commenting on stories on the New Haven Register’s website.
Nugent will be in New Haven Aug. 6 with prominent billing for a concert at respected local music institution Toad’s Place. He has brought the KKK’s traditional message to the mainstream — to the point of being embraced by the leaders of the Republican Party during the last presidential election campaign (against the re-election of a black president, it should be pointed out).
Keep reading…
