its hard to make heads or tails out out of that … statement.
please, spend 30 minutes of your time reading up on the
klan just half an hour. you might get an insight into why some people go ballistic over their continued existence.
Westerby
I’m aware of the Klan’s history, JW. I’m aware of the history of the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade too.
I think my point was I don’t get as excited over “freedom of speech” in the United States as most people nor over burning of books. I have a paperback copy of Mein Kampf by the way. It wouldn’t bother me is someone burned 100 copies of the book out on their front lawn, especially in an era of Kindle.
The Ku Klux Klan are essentially a heretical group. For whatever the oppression of the Inquisition it is fair to reason that the Inquisition would have prosecuted and punished the likes of the Nazi Party and the KKK.
The KKK in the South killed at some point - over a short span of several years - something like 5,000 Black-Americans. About roughly that number of people received the sentence of death, over the course of
several hundred years, by the Spanish aristocratic authorities after being found guilty during court trial by the notorious Spanish Inquisition.
And the Inquisition lasted several hundred years throughout Latin America. Our current President is called black and not mulatto partly due to the rise of the KKK and other reactionary response to Reconstruction era. The HBCU’s (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) would have done wonders throughout Latin America. Unfortunately, in the predominately Catholic run nations south of the United States, the government response and commitment to blacks and mulattoes were less benevolent in terms of education and providing other tools for upward mobility.
However, if President Obama was half Amerindian and half white of Mexican descent, no one in the United States would call him
Indian. And here’s my point, the Inquisition in a place like Mexico disproportionately tried and sentenced mestizos, mulattoes, and converso Jews (although, the slave trade throughout Latin America was predominately run by converso Jews, and consequently used to get pelted by blacks and Amerindians on their way being walked to execution). For the mestizos and mulattoes at least, this usually did not result in a death sentence. But it’s the Inquisition arguably, that helped create that vast nation of Amerindians in Mexico we call mestizos. I phrase it that way because the Amerindian population in the United States grows, often looks white or black, because we call them Indians instead of mestizos or the like.
The Inquisition throughout Brazil and Mexico probably helped create a multiculturalism hundreds of years before it became “cool” in the United States of today. This is something the Ku Klux Klan would have persecuted under their identity of the ghosts of the Confederate soldiers.
And bear in mind the white, Spanish, creoles of Latin America (in Brazil Portuguese) were more opposed to the mestizos and mulattoes than the Spanish crown - and I’m hazarding a guess the clergy in the Inquisitions.
A lot of wrongdoings can spread through freedom of speech. Take legalized abortion for example. It partly maintains it’s influence and legality - and gained those things - through freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech in the U.S. really only means the government can’t arrest you for unpopular speech and expression. But in more real and practical daily terms speech and expression are highly regulated in the United States through other means. That’s both in the private and public sector. I doubt an FBI agent can call someone the “n word” on recording and not get fired. I doubt the more liberal run newspapers would tolerate one of their journalist caught making similar remarks.
It’s probably courting disaster in any public or private job to compliment a woman on how her butt looks in a skirt.
Brazil outlaws racial hate groups and has one of the lowest racial hate crimes rate in the world. That does not mean racism - especially institutional racism - does not exist in Brazil. But it does not really nurture grounds conducive for the rise of organizations similar to the KKK.
