Tuesday, August 16, 2016

this turns my stomach

I've been happily enjoying the Olympics recently and avoiding the news, especially politics, but this evening I heard a news report that made me sad and mad.  Evidently the KKK is advertising from somewhere in Auburn, Indiana trying to recruit members.  Really?  I thought, hoped, this hate organization had died out long ago. Many years ago Indiana had the reputation of being the "most southern northern state" and it wasn't meant as a compliment.  25 years ago, when I first started in real estate, Auburn had the reputation of being a very "white" town, again not a compliment. They certainly weren't the only town in Indiana with that kind of reputation. Sixty years ago the small Indiana town in which I grew up still had a sundowner law - if you weren't the right color or ethnicity you were expected to be out of town before sundown. Again, all of this is, should be, ancient history and long over.  I'm guessing these KKK wannabes are focusing on a new enemy - Muslims.  I don't know that, it's just a guess. It did occur to me, as I looked at the sketch on the flyer of a Klansman in his pointy hat cover up that if you lopped off the point. it would look like he was wearing a burka. Hummm...

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