From: bd@fluent@dartmouth.EDU (Brice Dowaliby)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american
Subject: Re: Could this possible be true?!
Date: 23 Nov 92 18:38:00 GMT
Reply-To: bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU
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Organization: Fluent Inc., Lebanon NH

mmoore@staff.tc.umn.edu ("None of ya Bizness") writes:

>In article <BD.92Nov21101224@fluent.UUCP> bd%fluent@dartmouth.EDU writes:
>$mmoore@staff.tc.umn.edu ("None of ya Bizness") writes:
>$
>$>In article <jac1.722153269@Isis.MsState.Edu> jac1@ra.msstate.edu (Jennifer Cox) writes:
>$>$das@voodoo.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz) writes:
>$>$
>$>$>This definitely is one of the most bizarre rumors I've heard recently:
>$>$
>$>$>A friend this weekend told me that an acquaintance of his from Missisippi
>$>$>told him that there is a movement in the South by the KKK and others of their
>$>$>ilk to reinstitute slavery!  Anyone heard of this?
>$>$
>$>$I don't know about that.  The newspapers down here haven't mentioned
>$>$it.  I wouldn't doubt it though.  David Duke is out of work and
>$>$needs some more money and hate mail.
>$>
>$>That's the point.  If somethin like this was jumpin off, you certainly
>$>wouldn't read of it in the paper.  What would the headline be? "KKK:
>$>We finah jack all niggas livin down here"  Yeah right.  People that
>$>have 3/4 of an ounce of sense would be either in a major exodus or a
>$>major revolution.
>$
>$Nice rhetoric, but do you really believe it?
>
>I certainly wouldn't put it past them.

That wasn't the question I asked.  The question I asked was "do you 
really believe it?"

>$I recall that when the KKK even plans a march in a major city
>$it's national news, on all the networks, and is talked about
>$for weeks.
>
>Yeah, that's right.  So what?  What about all the marches that ain't
>gettin any kind of radio play.  And for those that are, what better
>way to get more people to go over to your cause than to get some radio
>play?

When you ask "what about all the marches that ain't gettin any
kind of radio play" there is an implication that there are 
many organized KKK marches that the media has ignored.  Is this 
true?  It would be absurd of me to say I hadn't heard about 
that (since hearing about it is what this conversation is 
about), but can anyone support this claim?  Does the KKK 
routinely march without it makin the news?

>But really, that ain't the point, the point is:  THe KKK is evolving
>with the times, and it's no longer "cool" to come out and actually say
>that you hate a different race.  It's politically incorrect...or one
>of them damn incorrect things to do.  So they're much more quiet about
>their actions.  In Minneapolis, some of the city's top businessmen are
>members, but you'd never know if somebody didn't tell you.  Another
>perfect example:  Some sucker named Tom David put a 1x3 inch ad in the
>U of M student newspaper that said "Want to join a White Student
>Union?  Not racist", the paper loc'ed on the ad and went nuts, and 
>within two weeks, the entire school was embroiled in controversy.

I agree with what you say about the KKK, and other racist organizations.  
There was a guy on the radio from the John Birch Society the other day
who was saying that the JBS was never racist or anti-semitic, that that 
was a label the liberal media put on them to make them less effective.
David Duke tried the "I've changed" line in Louisiana, but please
note that it didn't work, and the media was a primary reason why
it didn't work.

(My two favorite bumper-stickers to come out of that election
were "Vote for the Lizard, not the Wizard" and "Vote for
the Crook - It's Important").

I don't know anything about the White Student Union.  How is it
different from a Black Student Union?  Yes, I know, in the WSU the
students are white in the BSU the students are black. 8-)

But seriously, if black separatists want to start a black student
union why is that okay but it's not okay for white separatists
to start a white student union?  I'd actually prefer it if they
did since that would keep them away from the saner students.

(This is not meant to start a flame-fest, I am truly curious.)

>So while most groups would appreciate the radio play, some wouldn't,
>not if they're tryin to hook up a surprise.
>
>$And you suggest that if the KKK was openly calling for a return to 
>$slavery the press would cover it up?
>
>If they were bought for enough, sure.  Believe me, the press has done
>it before.  Example?  The Cuban Missile Crisis.  According to ABC, we
>were within 45 minutes of a nuclear confrontation, while the papers
>were spewing "Everything's cool, it's off." What's to keep them from
>keepin the lid on a possible KKK revolution?

Your example is not, IMHO, a very good one.  Press cooperation with
a government crisis is not new, especially in situations with a 
military/security element to it.  Are you implying that the feds are
behind the new KKK?

What would the motivation be for the press to keep the lid on
a KKK revolution?  After all,  a free press would be one of the
very first things to go in the new order.
-- 
   Brice Dowaliby, Fluent Inc., 10 Cavendish Court, Lebanon, NH  03766
                         bd%fluent@dartmouth.edu        
             I don't speak for them, they don't speak for me
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