My comment has nothing at all to do with the American Civil War or student enrollment policies at the University of Alabama. It doesn't matter how many jews or blacks stood up to serve their cause. Given the chance, those redneck [censored] would of had bot of us flogged, castrated, and swinging from a tree.
The fact that the Klansman in the photo below may have a PhD from the University of Georgia doesn't attest to the level of ignorance and hate that he carries with him. If he had the opportunity, he'll cut my balls off and force you to eat them.
The founding of the second Ku Klux Klan in 1915 demonstrated the newfound power of modern mass media. The year saw three closely related events:
* The film The Birth of a Nation was released, mythologizing and glorifying the first Klan.
* Leo Frank, a Jewish man accused of the rape and murder of a young white girl named Mary Phagan, was lynched against a backdrop of media frenzy.
* The second Ku Klux Klan was founded with a new anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic agenda. The bulk of the founders were from an organization calling itself the Knights of Mary Phagan, and the new organization emulated the fictionalized version of the original Klan presented in The Birth of a Nation.
An illustration from The Clansman: "Take dat f'um yo equal—"
D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation glorified the original Klan, which was by then a fading memory. His film was based on the book and play The Clansman and the book The Leopard's Spots, both by Thomas Dixon who said his purpose was "to revolutionize northern sentiment by a presentation of history that would transform every man in my audience into a good Democrat!" The film created a nationwide craze for the Klan. At a preview in Los Angeles, actors dressed as Klansmen were hired to ride by as a promotional stunt, and real-life members of the newly reorganized Klan rode up and down the street at its later official premiere in Atlanta. In some cases, enthusiastic southern audiences fired their guns into the screen.[36]