Lynch mobs, if said aloud today might bring out an image of a trend or party, but they are a part of something bigger, and held by a group which has been around for 150 years with the intention of ridding people of color. The Ku Klux Klan has been around since the beginning of the United States Constitution, and their only goal is to tor-ture and rid of all the slaves who attempted to be free or es-cape. Racism and discrimination has been around for many years. U.S. history is built on racism and discrimination some of these are for other people’s cultures, sexuality, or even opinions. Majority of these groups would have limited privi-leges compared to “white privileged people”. Even though Afri-can Americans have made a huge impact on the
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This makes them unable to receive and use rights that the pioneers at this time used, so their owners would treat them almost like cattle or products with no pay. The only reason slavery existed was due to the economy, the economy is what brought slavery into this world which provoked the creation of the Klu Klux Klan. Most of the farmers wished to abolish it but could not because they worried their farms and land would go unattended if they set the slaves free. This ended up lead-ing to the first civil war of the united states, when the civ-il war was over the slaves had to be set free but most slave owners did not wish to listen and those slaves who attempted to run were captured or scared back into their plantation by men on horses wearing robes that looked like ghost. This was when the Ku Klux Klan started their traditions that would con-tinue on for many years (Kronenwetter 13). As the Klan had expanded they made a basic admission fee to join the Klan, at $10 a member. As they grew they started asking fewer questions to join, and at this time the Klan’s influence had been spreading throughout the United States like fire, thousands of members joining for the basic fee over 85,000 members had joined in the first fifteen months and made the Klan $850,000. And this was only in the start of the Klan’s new era; they eventually started to take political con-trol and economical control by having manufactures and pub-lishers …show more content…
This is the new Klan, the robe and hat still apply but the members do not use hostility, their goal is to survive now. Without the anger and violence the Klan is slowly falling apart. Some say the only reason of the Klan existing was to do acts of violence. Now that the law is more stable and strict, the Klansmen can-not harm or do things that they used to do without facing the consequences. The new leader had changed the admission and ed-ited it to embrace the Jews, colored, gays and those who are opposed for their culture. (Leonard
This makes them unable to receive and use rights that the pioneers at this time used, so their owners would treat them almost like cattle or products with no pay. The only reason slavery existed was due to the economy, the economy is what brought slavery into this world which provoked the creation of the Klu Klux Klan. Most of the farmers wished to abolish it but could not because they worried their farms and land would go unattended if they set the slaves free. This ended up lead-ing to the first civil war of the united states, when the civ-il war was over the slaves had to be set free but most slave owners did not wish to listen and those slaves who attempted to run were captured or scared back into their plantation by men on horses wearing robes that looked like ghost. This was when the Ku Klux Klan started their traditions that would con-tinue on for many years (Kronenwetter 13). As the Klan had expanded they made a basic admission fee to join the Klan, at $10 a member. As they grew they started asking fewer questions to join, and at this time the Klan’s influence had been spreading throughout the United States like fire, thousands of members joining for the basic fee over 85,000 members had joined in the first fifteen months and made the Klan $850,000. And this was only in the start of the Klan’s new era; they eventually started to take political con-trol and economical control by having manufactures and pub-lishers …show more content…
This is the new Klan, the robe and hat still apply but the members do not use hostility, their goal is to survive now. Without the anger and violence the Klan is slowly falling apart. Some say the only reason of the Klan existing was to do acts of violence. Now that the law is more stable and strict, the Klansmen can-not harm or do things that they used to do without facing the consequences. The new leader had changed the admission and ed-ited it to embrace the Jews, colored, gays and those who are opposed for their culture. (Leonard