Did the KKK lynch Catholics?

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The KKK in the American Southwest threatened Saint Katherine Drexel:

I The KKK was not only notoriously anti-black, but also anti-Catholic. So you can imagine how they felt about Catholic sisters helping blacks!

One thing that St. Katharine’s order did was open up schools for Native American and African-American children.

In 1922, a local KKK group turned against one of their schools in Beaumont, Texas and “threatened to tar and feather the white past[or] at one of Drexel’s schools and bomb his church.”

So what did the sisters do? They prayed, of course!

And here’s what happened, according to one telling of the story: “The nuns prayed and days later, a tornado came and destroyed the headquarters of the KKK killing two of their members.”

The result? “The Sisters were never threatened again.”
 
About a hundred years ago (literally), relatives of mine may have been involved in a act of domestic terrorism perpetrated against members of the KKK in a small town in western Pennsylvania. The incident ended the local Klan’s harassment of the town’s growing Catholic population. 😝😝

oops. that’s not funny. sorry. 😔

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BoomBoomMancini said:
The KKK harassed Catholics to be sure, but nowhere close to the degree they terrorized African-Americans
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BoomBoom’s right on this count. The KKK was much more anti-Catholic in its early existence. But the fact that some Catholic men rode with the forces of the Confederacy lessened (but did not eliminate) the Klan’s animosity towards Catholics. Catholics historically were despised by the WASP constituency of the nation pretty much up to WWII. The treatment of Irish Catholic immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th century was a testament to that. It was the contribution of so many Catholic men and women who fought along with their protestant and WASP compatriots in Europe and the Pacific that helped turn around the image the rest of the nation had towards Catholics.
 
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JanSobieskiIII said:
The klan, what little bit of it is left, is mostly atheist/neo pagan at this point.
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I interviewed an Imperial Wizard a couple years ago, and he said that you still have to be Christian to join. They do let Catholics in now because, as he said: “the Catholics are still Christian.”
 
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Interesting. You know what they say about the klan though. If there’s 5 members, 2 local under cover pd, 1 is fbi and 1 atf, the other guy is the true believer.
 
I guess there were a few black Catholics who were probably lynched…the fact they were black would have been a primary factor
 
Is is wrong of me that I 🤣 when I got to the part about the tornado? One of my flaws is that I really like to see villains get comeuppance. 😐
 
Curious11 said:
Really? Even today they’re dedicated to establishing a WASP tyranny? I thought that was what they did back in the 1920s, and today they were just a Neo-Nazi old-timer racist organization with no religion involved
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No, the KKK all but died out as an organization by the late 60’s. Catholics are also much more common in the south, mostly driven by the big increase in Hispanics. There is still bigotry but not like in they heyday of the KKK (1880-1920;s).
 
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The Klan thought they would come have a march through our town a couple of years ago. I guess they weren’t expecting anyone to protest. They said they were going to come through at 10am. They must have been thrown off by all the signage and people that were in front of the courthouse waiting for them. I got there at 9:45, and they had already retreated! All that was left were the locals, making jokes and feeling good about how they had all come together to drive them away. “You won’t see them around here no more.”
 
The KKK didn’t see that coming eh. Maybe they thought they could go on terrorizing and people would meekly bow down to them.

Not praising these people, by the way, violence should be left to the state to use justly and used only as a last resort. The death of others should never be celebrated. I hope KKK members today convert to God’s way
 
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Two infamous Germanic men did precisely that. One was Martin Luther in the 1500s. The other was an Austrian in Germany from 1933-1945.

The latter answers for bodies, the former for souls. Perhaps both for both.

Sobering.
 
Curious11 said:
Not praising these people, by the way, violence should be left to the state to use justly and used only as a last resort.
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I agree. Whether people had been hurt or killed was never mentioned in the story as it was told to me.
 
Curious11 said:
The theory of relativity exists thanks to a Jew. These people should do their research
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You’d be surprised how many don’t believe in the theory of relativity, black holes are mathematically impossible, Einstein was a plagiarist, blown up legend, his theories have kept physics down, yadda yadda types of people there are.

I don’t know how badly other groups were persecuted by the KKK. you usually just here about blacks bring lynched, but that may not be historically accurate.
 
Actually I understand that more and more scientists are not believing in black holes these days.
Theories change as discoveries are made.
 
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