Social and Human Behavior in The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Abstract:
It is my sincere attempt to indicate the contrasts and influences the Ku Klux Klan has had on the Personal Development of Humans and on Social Behavior of the people of the United States in the past 135 Years. I wish to disclaim any support of the Ku Klux Klan or of any other White Supremacist organization in the United States or in any country in the world. I never and have no future intentions of offering any support, confidence or assistance to any of these Bigoted, Racist, White Supremacist Groups whether they be the Ku Klux Klan, The White Arian Nation, The Montana Freemen, New World Order or any other related or associated group.
This presentation will attempt to indicate the effects these organizations have had and continue to have on the Social Behavior and the Social Environment of the United States of America. I will indicate the Holon Effect. This Holon is a Focal System that is Sub System that acts as a Supra System within a Supra System.
This presentation will indicate the Anomie effect on the Social Behavior of our Nation, as seen in the rootlessness , normallessness and meaninglessness of the actions of The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, The Montana Freemen, The New World Order and all the other splinter groups that have formed their particular sub-cultures in the United States and in many other Countries of the world.
It is my personal and academic belief, supported by nearly all Social Behavior Theorists and Human Development Theorists, that trends in Social Behavior are formed in each Stage of Human Development, thus each personal theory of Human Behavior is influenced and formed in our various stages of Human Development.
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THE KU KLUX KLAN The Ku Klux Klan was formed in 1865 shortly after the civil war as a social club in the small town called Pulaski, located in Tennessee. The origins of the Klan were closely guarded; there were many theories as to how the Klan was formed and by whom. One of the more absurd theories was that the Klan was originally a group of Chinese opium smugglers. But the true story is that On ...
I have attached four pictures of KKK activities, a fiery cross, KKK members dressed in white Hoods and Robes, the Cross Wheel and Blood Drop symbol and a Letter written in 1924 from the KKK Klavern in Harlowton, MT. I feel the letter from the Harlowton, MT Klan is a direct link to the sub-culture group known today as The Montana Freemen . The Montana Freemen have been linked with Timothy McVey and the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building. I offer this document as a substantial tie between the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the current group known as the Montana Freemen.
Presentation:
In the year of our Lord, 1862, on the twenty second day of September, Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States issued a very powerful and profound document that has had a continuing Social impact and has, and will continue to influence the Human Development and the Social Behavior of the American people for literally all time. Lincoln s Emancipation Proclamation was the lighted fuse that would ultimately trigger the Civil War Between the States.
That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three, all persons held as Slaves within any State or designated part of any State, the people of said State shall then be in rebellion against the United States .
All people in the United States are declared to be free persons and this freedom shall be defended by the Military, Army and Naval Ships of the United States.
Thus began the war that tore our country apart and caused many Human and Social changes to occur.
As the cannon fell silent, and the death and destruction ended and peace descended on the Battlefields of the War Between the States, there came forth an infamous chapter of American
History called The reconstruction . From this era, the abyss of human misery and despair there arose like the morning sun, like the phoenix, rising from the ashes, the Ku Klux Klan . The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and The Knights of Labor, a splinter group of the Free-Masons were two of several groups, which arose within the Deep South as a result of the tyranny imposed by the Federal troop occupation. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan movement provided for the White people of the Southern, Confederate States , the leadership and rallying point to begin their arduous struggle to regain their lost dignity and even, in their opinion the values of Western Civilization as they perceived it.
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In the Ku Klux Klan s opinion, the glorious ride of the Ku Klux Klan of the Reconstruction era is immortalized by their achievements and reputation for victory. I quote Nathan Bedford Forest Grand Wizard of the First Klan Era, as saying, No misrepresentations by prejudiced Historians or by the Aliens who control the mass media can dim the luster of its deeds, or rob of its rightful place in history as the savior of all the White Southern States and thereby, the preserver of the white race for all America . This First Era lasted from 1865, the end of The Civil War until 1920, when the Second Era of The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan began.
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan has a set of Human and social beliefs that on the surface may very well seem to be good, Christian, Patriotic fundamental beliefs, while in reality the Doctrine of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan always distort and change the true intended meaning of the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Bible, both the Old Testament and the New Testament.
This manipulation of the wording of targeted writings causes people to be mislead and misinformed as to the real intended meanings of these powerful Human, Social Behavioral and Political Documents. The knights of the Ku Klux Klan intentionally misinform and mislead people, society and political movements to serve their selfish, self serving, bigoted and racist needs and desires. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan thrive on Human suffering, murder, violence, Human degradation and Human separatism.
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It is a matter a fact that the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan have committed acts of terrorism, acts of murder, acts of rape, acts of violence and terrorism against their own, white peers and constituents and to the black races of the United States. This supports the Anomie theory presented by Sociologist Emile DurkHeim.
I find it interesting that the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan constantly change their Doctrine to fit their own special interest needs , but refuse to accept and obey the legal amendments to the Constitution of the United States and the Equal Rights Amendments to the Constitution.
The following is a documentation of Ku Klux Klan Beliefs, Laws and BI-laws and KKK Doctrine.
America First
First before any foreign or alien influence or interest, and a foreign policy of military non-intervention.
The Constitution
As originally written and intended. The finest system of Government ever conceived by man, which is based on The Holy Bible and Christian common law.
Free Enterprise
Private property and the ownership of business, but an end to high-finance exploitation. We advocate economic nationalism and we oppose the Federal Reserve Bank and so-called free trade with other States and Nations.
Positive Christianity
The right of the American people to practice their Christian Faith, including prayer in Schools. Most Ku Klux Klan members are involved with the growing Christian Identity Religion, which continues to unite the Christian Patriot Movement in the United States.
What is The Ku Klux Klan
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a fraternal, patriotic movement promoting the ideals of Western Christian Civilization and White Racial political self-determination. It is not just a social or fraternal association , but a dynamic, crusading White movement of world class historical perspective seeking the establishment of White Christian Political Self Determination. It is a duly incorporated, non profit, legally recognized institution, working to rebuild our collapsing society on the principals of Christian honor, honesty, duty, courage, brotherhood and patriotism. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan have been referred to as the Invisible Empire because it was, and still is intended to be a continuing resistance to the Federal control of the United States Government over the Now Defunct Confederate States of America. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are a social community of their own making that strives to preserve white supremacy. As the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan strives towards the ideals it wants to enact tomorrow it lives by these ideals today.
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What the Ku Klux Klan Believes
That the White Race is the irreplaceable hub of our Nation,
This is based on our Christian faith and the high levels of our Western Culture, Society and Technology.
America should always be first before any foreign nation of alien influence.
That the Constitution, as originally written and intended, is the finest system of Government ever conceived by modern man.
That every American has the right to practice their chosen Christian Faith, including prayer in schools.
That the White American family is truly the strength of the Nation.
That all forms of abortion should be legally banned, except in the very rare cases in which the life or the mother is in danger.
That all immigration should cease until all Americans are gainfully employed and that Military Troops should be placed on all borders to stop the flow of illegal aliens to our country.
That the death penalty should be enforced on all convicted drug dealers and drug smugglers.
That all the laws of the land should always be upheld in an
unwavering manner.
That criminal acts, appeals of sentence and parole of any kind will not be tolerated in any way in our country.
The origin of the name of the Ku Klux Klan
The name Ku Klux Klan comes from the Greek word kuklos , meaning circle because it contains some of the unique characteristics of the White or Aryan race. The KKK believes the symbol of the wheel is certainly the best symbol of creativity; hence the creativity of the white race. The circle is also the oldest symbol of never ending unity. Kuklos thought about in this context simply means White Racial Brotherhood. Ku Klux was taken from the word Kuklos and Klan was added at the end to confirm the unity of the group of various Klaverns.
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Ku Klux Klan Symbols
All Ku Klux Klan groups use the traditional Blood Drop symbol. This symbol was popularized during the second era in the 1920 s. In part, this Blood Drop symbol represents the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed exclusively for the White, Aryan race of the world. The Cross within the Wheel, (Cross-Wheel) is the symbol of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which was popularized, in the 4th Era in the early 1970 s. It is simply a cross within a circle. It was directly derived from the Ku Klux Klan name and from White History as the cross-wheel is found in every White Civilization in recorded Christian History. In the Cross-Wheel we see the Christian
Cross, the Wheel of Creativity, the Circle of Unity, Motion and also the ancient Aryan symbol for the Sun or light. Throughout the centuries of recorded history no symbol has come to represent the totality of the White Race better than the Cross-Wheel.
The Fiery Cross
The Fiery Cross is used as the Ku Klux Klan s symbol representing the ideals of Christian Civilization. According to the Ku Klux Klan, in no way does the Fiery Cross represent a desecration of the Cross of Christianity, for according to the Ku Klux Klan, the fire of the burning cross represents the Lighting of the Cross , that is the truth and the everlasting light of our sacred doctrine; the Blazing Spirit of Humanity in Western Civilization. It has also been recorded in History that the Fiery Cross was used in Scottish history as a signal of opposition to tyranny and obedience to God.
Why the Ku Klux Klan Lights the Fiery Cross
From the sacred pages of the Holy Bible comes the sweet sad story of the Holy Cross of Calvary. This Holy Cross is our Christian symbol of sacrifice, service and our true sign of our beliefs in the Christian Religion. The Cross was sanctified and made Holy over 2000 years ago by the suffering and blood of over 50 million Christian Martyrs who died in the most Holy of Christian Faith. The Cross stands in every Ku Klux Klan Klavern and Den as a constant reminder that that Jesus Christ is our Criterion of Character and his teachings are our life blood, brought Holy, Sanctified and Sublime.
Ku Klux Klan teachings say; This old Cross was bathed in the Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ and became transformed into the symbol of our faith, hope and love. Today this symbol of the Cross is used to rally the forces of sub-culture/system Christianity against the ever-increasing hordes of the Anti-Christ and the enemies of America and the White Race.
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The Ku Klux Klan says; We light the Cross with fire to signify to the world that Jesus Christ is the true light of the world. Where the Holy Light of our Fiery Cross shall shine, there will be dispelled evil, darkness, gloom and despair. The Light of our Truth dispels ignorance and superstition as fire purifies Gold and Silver, but destroys wood, stubble and chaff. So by the fire of the Cross of Calvary, we cleanse and purify our virtues by burning out our vices with the Fire of His Word.
The Ku Klux Klan also ask this question in their doctrine; Who can look on this sublime symbol, or sit in its Sacred Holy Light with out being inspired with a Holy Desire and determination to be a better person? By this Holy Light of our Fiery Cross we shall persevere.
The Ku Klux Klan Robe and Hood
The Ku Klux Klan Doctrine tells us that the White Robe and the Pointed Hood are not used by Klansmen for the purpose of secrecy or wrongdoing. They say that in many of the old Christian Rituals, as indicated by the carrying of the Pastas in Spain, the Hood was worn as a symbol of humility, of anonymity and in doing good works.
This was the conception of the hood when the Ku Klux Klan was ably led by General Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1865 and later years, and this is its true meaning for Ku Klux Klan Members, selfness dedication to our God, to our Nation, to our Race (White), our Ku Klux Klan brothers and sisters and our Ku Klux Klan Movement. The Ku Klux Klan doctrine indicates that the Robe and Hood is used for rituals such as is done by the Masonic Lodge, The Elks Lodge, The Odd Fellows Lodge, The American Legion Club, The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), College Fraternities and even the Mormons.
Ku Klux Klan Membership Requirements
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan movement is not an open membership organization. Only those who meet 100% of our requirements are admitted to our ranks as members in good standing.
No person is allowed in our ranks who cannot declare an unqualified allegiance to the Constitution of the United States.
No person is allowed in this movement who cannot pledge themselves to the protection, preservation and advancement of the White Race.
No one is allowed in this movement unless they can practice real and true brotherhood.
Only pure White Christian people, of non-Jewish, non-Negro, non-Asian, decent and who are at least the age of 18 years old and who pledge to dedicate their lives and actions to this cause can enter the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Those persons, both male and female who are under the age of 18
years can join and be a member in good standing, with parental consent, in the Ku Klux Klan Youth Corps, where they will be schooled in the doctrines and in the ways of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. At the trainees 18th birthday they will be admitted as members in good standing to the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are strictly law abiding, white Christians dedicated to supporting and upholding the laws of the land. Every member is sworn to uphold the law and the principals of justice and each member swears that he or she will not conspire with others to commit any unlawful or violent acts.
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan concedes the right of every Christian Citizen the right to worship God as he or she sees fit and will not tolerate denominational dissention of any type or nature. All members of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are united in Christian faith and endeavor to unite all White Christians under the sign of the Holy Fiery Cross.
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and non-White Races
The doctrine of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan tells us that the movement does not consider itself the enemy of non-Whites or Jewish people. Their doctrine says that the only way all races can develop to their full potential and culture is through racial separation. The Ku Klux Klan believes that every race has a natural right to have pride in its heritage and in its work to better itself. The doctrine says that it is only the White Race that is told it cannot have White Pride . The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are opposed to all forms of integration and all its manifestations, including Affirmative
Action laws, the high non-White crime rate, racial intermarriage, the destruction of our Schools, the lowering of labor standards and any law, rule or regulation that causes integration of the races with the pure white race in any form.
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan also takes a position on many other issues that have an effect on the future of our children. The Ku Klux Klan doctrine says we are the alternative to the treasonous policies that that are now being promoted by those who control the Democratic and Republican Political Parties. The Klan indicates they offer protectionism in foreign trade, closing our Northern and Southern Borders, laws prohibiting foreigners from purchasing American property and Businesses and drug testing for all welfare recipients.
Why the Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan doctrine says; We have people from around the world that comment that they believe in what we stand for and
are fighting for, but want to know if it would be more acceptable to use a different name than the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. What these people do not realize is that if we do not stand up honestly and use the historically true name of our movement, then in all likelihood, they would never have heard our message. The media can block out from the American People an innocuous sounding right wing movement , but they cannot block out a movement that they themselves have said is such a dire threat to race mixing . History proves that the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are Americas oldest and most effective White Christian Fraternal Movement.
Ku Klux Klan doctrine tells us; Today, many people have experienced integration first hand and have seen the marked
differences between the races. white people are no longer buying the equality myth (even though many pretend that they do) and have began to doubt some of the anti-Klan hysteria that they have been fed in school, on television and in the movies. Ku Klux Klan doctrine says; Once people understand that the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is simply a movement of White people attempting to achieve the highest standards of Western Christian Civilization, and that the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan won its first struggle for our white people in the Post-Civil War period, they will naturally turn to us (KKKK) as a true White Christian answer to the problems of today.
The Reasons the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are growing rapidly
Ku Klux Klan doctrine says; The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan s name and symbols break through societies paper curtain of the anti-white media and brings to us the attention of those who want and truly desire to learn more about our movement. Before you can convince someone of a new concept, you must first reach that person with your idea .
Ku Klux Klan doctrine says; The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are honest and open as to their beliefs, especially those concerning racial matters. To win victory for an idea that idea must first, be stated, then promoted, then defended.
Ku Klux Klan doctrine says; By our open stand on the issues at hand, the men women and their children that we attract to our movement are not cowards or hypocrites, but are of the quality education and level of dedication that can and will bring our cause to victory.
Ku Klux Klan doctrine says; The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan have a reputation for victory. It is well known that in the post Civil war years the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan saved the Southern States from Federal Tyranny; the same Federal Tyranny that today is trying to take away your guns, is promoting homosexuals in our schools, is permitting the White Race to be polluted by interracial marriages and is permitting the flood of illegal aliens coming across our borders. This is the same Federal Tyranny that is taxing hard working White Americans to death to pay for the welfare and entitlement programs in this country.
Ku Klux Klan doctrine says; The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are Youth Oriented . The young people of today will determine the type of Nation we will have tomorrow. Any movement that wants to win the social battles of racial separation and to literally shape the future history and events of our Nation must win the thoughts, the hearts and the desires of the younger, soon to be in power generation. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are winning the loyalty of the white youth of this nation and the white youth of the world.
Ku Klux Klan doctrine says; The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Organization is world wide in scope, gesture and action. Wherever there are White people the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are present and working for our common goals. Those that hate the White Race, our Christian Faith, our beliefs in racial separatism are every where.
Ku Klux Klan doctrine says; The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Movement are surging forward, pulsating and growing stronger and more influential every hour of every day, every place
where there are white people in the world.
Political Influence of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Hugo Black was a political leader and Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Constitutional experts have lionized Mr. Black, contending he was one of a handful of great Supreme Court Judges in the History of the United States, second only to John Marshall in his impact on the Constitution of the United States . Mr. Black left a deep impression on this Nations most fundamental document. To this
writer, this seems remarkable in light of Mr. Black s rural Alabama origins and pre-judicial career. Mr. Black first practiced law in Birmingham Alabama and served as the Police Court Judge and County Prosecutor before entering the United States Senate in 1927. His campaign was aided by his membership in the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan . In the U.S. Senate he became a strong supporter of The New Deal and a tenacious, ruthless Senatorial Investigator, particularly of the economic powerful. When Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1937, his critics objected because of his affiliation with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, but on the Supreme Court he proved to be very active and very supportive of the Constitution of the United States. Mr. Black s critics charged that he was making the court an active agent of reform, he did not consider his actions to be anything other than the direct support and interpretation of the Constitution of the United States. When the Supreme Court
Justices attempted to create new rights Mr. Black was always the dissenter. He rejected the notion that the Constitution contains general guarantees of privacy or natural rights , beyond those expressly articulated in the original text.
David Stevenson, was a Ku Klux Klan leader in the State of Indiana in 1926. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan elected him as the Regional Imperial Wizard of the Realm of Indiana.
David Stevenson had a great charm and personality, a true politician in every sense of the word. He had the popularity, the influence and the charm to certainly be elected Governor of Indiana in the up coming election. Stevenson had dreams and goals of being elected President of the United States after serving several terms as Governor of Indiana and being a long term, Imperial Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the Realm of Indiana. Stevenson had blackmail type documents and information, including letters of incrimination and cancelled checks indicating corruption and payoffs from the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Indiana Realm, on nearly ever Judge and Politician of that period of time in the State of Indiana. Mr. Stevenson, was, like Hitler , a malevolent, malicious leader in every way. Mr. Stevenson was attracted to a woman named Madge Overholtz and in 1926 he and three of his cohorts in crime convinced Ms. Overholtz to travel overnight on a Train with them to Indianapolis, Indiana. During this night Train ride Stevenson brutally raped, beat, assaulted, and chewed the flesh of Ms. Overholtz. When the group arrived
in Indianapolis, Ms. Overholtz was in such a state of shock and terror that she ingested Oxide of Mercury, a common substance of the time used externally for skin rashes. This ultimately was the cause of death for her. This brutal sadistic attack was so horrific for Ms. Overholtz that she chose to end her life rather than live with what Stevenson had done to her mind and body. Stevenson and cohorts did nothing to ease her suffering and misery, instead of taking her to a Doctor for medical care they drove her from Indianapolis to her home some three hundred miles away and left her overnight in a Carriage House before taking her to her home. When they finally took her home they told her mother that she had been in an Auto accident, other than this they offered no further explanation for her demise. Madge Overholtz died 1 week after her attack by David Stevenson, but not before she legally deposed the true story of what happened to her at the hands of David Stevenson. Stevenson, when arrested and charged with the crimes committed to Ms Overholtz laughed and said, this is Indiana, I am the Imperial Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and I will never go to trial for this nor will I ever be convicted of these charges. Stevenson, relying on his Ku Klux Klan influence soon was rejected and dethroned by the Ku Klux Klan. He was convicted of the rape, kidnapping, torture and the First-Degree Murder of Madge Overholtz. This was the end of the Second Era of the Ku Klux Klan. People in Indiana and in ever State of the Nation saw the Ku Klux Klan for just what they really were.
Membership fell from 1.7 million members nationwide to a few thousand members nationwide in a matter of a few months. Stevenson was sentenced to life in prison, but was paroled in 1953 after serving 25 years of a life sentence. He was out of prison 3 months when he brutally raped and beat a 19-year-old woman in Indiana. He was convicted of this crime and died several years later in an Indiana prison.
The influences of the Ku Klux Klan and Human Development and Behavior
As we look at the Eight Stages of Human Development and Human Behavior we can see the ways that the KKK has influenced Humans and how this organization has caused people to have their Human Behavior shaped and controlled by the KKK. The influence and control of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is everywhere. This organization has now, in the past decade attempted to use various names and has branched out in the form of splinter groups or sub-cultures. The Montana Free-Men, The White Aryan Nation, The Militia of America, The American Freedom fighters, The National Alliance, The White American Patriots and The New World Order, the people that bombed the Federal Building in Oklahoma City and even The Una-Bomber, Ted Krazinski. All of these groups operate under the pretext of being Patriotic, Defenders of the Constitution and loyal Americans, and these organizations are all associated with each other and with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The truth of the matter is they are in all reality the very people that would undermine the laws of this Country and deny the most basic of rights and freedoms to minorities and to all people as is guaranteed by the Constitution, the twenty six Amendments to the Constitution and by The Bill of Rights, and The Civil Rights Bill. All of these groups pray on the uneducated, the young people and the people that have made few real accomplishments in their lives. While some members of these groups are very well educated and appear to be socially
good Christian people, they are actually basic terrorists that operate constantly within our country. They break the laws of the land with terrorism and harass and intimidate any group of people they choose to target. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were the people that bombed the Fifth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing two innocent, black teenage girls. They are the people that murdered several Civil Rights Workers in the early Sixties, and they have been involved in thousands of acts of terrorism, intimidation, theft, murder, violence and social influence, disruption and intimidation. The Ku Klux Klan Doctrine is a writing that evokes the very worst of prejudices, the separatism of whites from all other races. They evoke the very essence of the Nazi Holocaust by their hatred and prejudices against the people of Jewish and Catholic religious Heritage.
The Infancy Stage of Human Development
The influences in the Infancy stage of Human Development can be the most destructive and the most difficult to intervene and to correct as the person continues in the following stages. Parents and influential adults who teach children to hate and to be prejudice to other races are the ones that continue this social problem. The infant mind is constantly learning thoughts, actions, sounds, the feelings of touch, feelings of need, satisfaction, comfort and emotional feelings and the teachers are the parents peers and families of these children. These children in the infancy stage can be taught nearly anything the parents and families wish to teach them.
The Early Childhood Stage of Human Development
As children enter into the early childhood years they will find these thoughts of hatred and prejudice to be normal thoughts and will experience no guilt or shame as these thoughts are now becoming deeply implanted in there cognitive way of thinking as normal acceptable thoughts. This is the time when the thoughts, feelings, and emotions are really starting to become firmly implanted and are very difficult to change. These children will separate themselves from other children at playtime, they will start to form aggressive behaviors, will be very demanding on parents and other people and will have little or no respect for parental or adult authority. These children will not have good, regular sleep habits, will not have good eating habits and will exhibit signs of poor or improper nurturing. These children will cry a lot and will be very disruptive most of the time. Pavlov tells us about his theory of Classical Conditioning. Pavlov s theory is based on a Canine s gastric juices as related to stress and excitement. It is this writer s opinion that this is an involuntary and non-genetic response that is taught by a given type of stimulus. This theory seems to apply, in many ways to the conditioning and Human Development of infants and very young children by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
The Fourth to Fifth Year of Human Development
As these children enter into their fourth to fifth year of development, they start developing initiative vs. guilt thoughts. They will have no guilt or shame from the racist, prejudicial, bigoted ways of thinking that has been taught to them by their families, parents, peers and the influential adults in their early lives. These children will be highly motivated and enthused by the teachings and influences of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. This stage is when the child will acquire the sense of motivation and direction in his/her life. This is also the time when the child would become aware of the exposure to the social and functional life in the Ku Klux Klan as an active youth member. At this point in the child s Human Development these thoughts are now deeply implanted and are considered to be normal and the child will be motivated to please his/her families, parents, peers and the leaders and members of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. This is how young children are conditioned to have the thoughts of hatred, violence and prejudice. They have had their once empty mental slates partially filled with the thoughts of white supremacy and racial/religious separatism by their families, parents and the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. These children will develop aggressive social attitudes, will have little respect for authority and little respect for other children s feelings or property. They will, at this stage start developing anti-social thoughts, tendencies and actions. These children will, at this point in time start having learning problems and social problems on the playground and in school.
Sixth Year to Onset of Puberty Stage of Human Development
As these now, KKK , conditioned children enter into this stage of Human Development the thoughts of hatred and prejudice are now firmly implanted in their young and impressionable minds. These children now are becoming more and more curious about the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the actual rituals and workings of this organization they are now a major part of. This affiliation with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan full-fills the social needs and the feelings of belonging to and being a part of a group that offers praise, social gatherings and a purpose in life. These children will become very attracted to the ceremonies and the pageantry of the meetings and activities of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The basic Human need to belong to a group is fulfilled and they now are a part of a social activity. This activity and the sense of belonging will be focused along with the exclusiveness of being a member of a secret, and closed group. The ceremony of the Burning Cross, the White and Hooded robes will be very attractive and captivating to these young impressionable children. These children will now be having social problems in school and at play, as they will attempt to mimic and be like their parents, families, peers and the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan leaders and members. As these children continue to mimic their KKK families and leaders they will bring KKK thoughts actions and emotions into their
personalities and into their playtimes and friendships. This will separate them from most other children and give them a feeling of superiority and will cause their Social and Human Behavior to become more aggressive with each action that fortifies their position of White Supremacy. They will now be developing an attitude that will cause them to have little respect for authority; they will possibly become destructive and will have domineering personalities.
The Stage of Adolescence in Human Development
This is the time in the child s life that children will be searching for identity. Role confusion will be enhanced and protracted by the influences of the child s parents, peers and a very negative influence by the teachings and examples of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. These children will develop a false sense of ego based on the racist, bigoted, white supremacy teachings and role modeling of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Adolescent children are in need of proper role modeling and proper self and social guidance as they are at a very impressionable time in their lives. As they try to answer the question of who am I, they will seek out the roles of the adults, peers and family members that they are impressed with. These children will now start to have large and destructive social, school; legal and moral problems because of the teachings based on the doctrine of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. This is a very confusing critical stage of Human Development where a persons social attitude is being formed
and shaped for the rest of their lives. The influences of the KKK on these most impressionable young minds is destructive and unproductive to the person and society as a whole. These KKK influenced children will grow to be people with criminal intent and violence in their hearts and minds.
The Stage Of Young Adulthood
This is the stage of Human Development when the person is seeking partners in friendship and in sexual relations. These young adults will have many problems understanding and finding human intimacy with members of the opposite sex, as they are now ready to become full members in the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Their attitudes towards people of the opposite sex will be distrustful, domineering, violent, and distant. The KKK teaches them that White Males are truly the only worthy people on earth and that women are of a lesser class and of lesser intelligence than white males so their attitudes will be domineering and of a superior nature to those of the opposite sex. These are young men and young women that have been taught all their lives to be violent, superior, separate, hateful, racist and arrogant. This will prevent these young men and women from ever reaching the true capacity to work to a specific educated career, thus indicating a pattern of failure and disappointments throughout their lives. These people will never find or have the ability to involve themselves in an intimate, lasting caring and loving relationship.
The Adulthood Stage of Human Development
As the person now is deeply involved and committed to the doctrine and teachings of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, they will inevitably be in a state of stagnation as they have lived their entire lives as members of the KKK. This life long teaching and activity will not allow them to have any concerns for other people in society nor will they ever reach out and embrace society for improvement and the well being of future generations. These people are now locked into and totally committed to the thoughts, violent social actions and the doctrine of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. These people will now start to question what purpose they have served in life, their life accomplishments and their identity and position in their communities and their societies. They will now be ready to take steps of violent action for the KKK as they are attempting to fill the most basic of the Human wants, needs and desires as is indicated in Maslow s Hierarchy of Human needs model. These people will feel that they have missed the meaning of life as based on their most basic wants needs and desires. This is a critical time of Human Development for these KKK influenced people as they are now beginning to realize that they have missed out on most of the truly and important satisfying aspects of life.
The Old Age Stage of Human Development
This is the last stage of Human Development, the last years of a person s life. This will be a time of physical and possibly mental deterioration. The person will now have the time and opportunity to reflect on his/her past life. The person will now attempt to reconcile their life with the accomplishments and or failures of the life and the type of Social Behavior that they have lived. This is the time in their lives that they will reflect on and try to find satisfaction with the course, direction, thoughts and actions of their lives. While these people will now be beyond the age of being productive members of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. These people may be financially independent, however it is very unlikely that they will find any friendship, satisfaction or gratification in their life long accomplishments.
It is very difficult for this writer to imagine any satisfaction, family commitment, gratification or contentment from a life lived as a bigot, a racist, a life of crime and violence, that caused various groups of people fear, hardship, pain and even death. To feel in any way connected to or responsible for any of the deadly racist bigoted acts of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan must truly be depressing and fearful. Ku Klux Klan members in this stage of human life will very likely be without friends, family or social support. These people will have feelings of regret, loneliness, sadness, aloneness rootlessness, meaninglessness and normalnessless as is indicated in Emile Durkheims Anomie theory.
Summary:
The knights of the Ku Klux Klan, their Doctrine, the actions and the teachings will have a very profound and destructive effect on the Human Development and Human Behavior of all people that are affiliated in any way with them and with the Racial, Social, Religious and Cultural groups that they prey upon. The murder, the violence and the hate that is created by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a disgrace and a shame to this country and all people that support them in any way. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a Fraternal Cult who s mission, solely, is to create and promote hatred, violence, bigotry, racism, religious predjudice, white supremacy, fear, intimidation and social unrest in this country. While the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan may present themselves as Patriotic, Religious, Christian, protectors of freedom and the Constitution of the United States, they are in reality a hate mongering, violent sub-culture that is not wanted or needed in the United States or any place else in the world. These KKK people and supporters are a disgrace to the religious, social, cultural, ethnic and moral communities in this country. Their acts of murder and violence are despicable and treasonous to all that our great nation stands for. The Southern States were not saved from Federal tyranny at the end of the Civil War by
the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, but were actually put in a position of being treasonous because of the actions of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The normalization of the relations between the Federal Government and the Southern States was slowed, hindered and prolonged by the violent, murderous actions of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The black people of this country, the Jewish community, the Latinos, the Catholics, the Mexicans, the Asians and literally any person who was not blue eyed, white skinned and blonde of hair has been a target of this Cult and all the splinter factions that have sprang up from this original KKK group. The solution and the end of these groups will only start to occur when parents, teachers, responsible adults, and all people stop teaching hatred, bigotry and separatism of the races. This social problem may never totally end but can be improved on by not teaching our young people to hate and by society, people, communities, law enforcement, government and politicians form and enforce a zero, no tolerance attitude to these hate monger groups like the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. When we the people refuse to tolerate these groups and refuse to allow them to exist and operate in our communities and when all people stop teaching their children to hate will this social problem be improved and corrected.
The following is a paragraph from a book written in 1935 by Pierce Harper, a black, first generation descendant of a slave family. I feel that this paper would not be complete with out
this paragraph, and I quote:
After de colored people was free an turned loose de Ku Klux Klan broke out. Some of de colored people commenced to farming like I s tol ya an all de old livestock de Yankee s left from the war we took care of. If you got so you made a little money an had a lil farm de ku kluxers would come and murder you. Da govment built de colored s school houses an churches but de ku kluxer s would just ride in at night all covrd in white sheets an white hoods and set dem schools and churches on fire. Deyd go to the jails and take de colored men out and bash de haids in and knock der brains out and trow dem colored s in da river.
Der was a man dat they tooked by the name of Jim Freeman. Dey taken him and burned his house and crops and stuff cause his name was Freeman and he was making some money on his farm. Dey hung him on a tree in his front yard right in fronts of his cabin. Kilt ol Jim Freeman dey did. Der was some young colored boys dat went to de schools de govment built for de coloreds. Some white widder woman said some colored s stole some stuff from her so dey puts dem young fellers in de jail. De ku kluxers rides up to de jail an dey takes dem boys out an kills dem. One night da Ku Kluxes was up on dis big ol flat mountain and deys a burnin a cross and all chantin and wearin deys white sheets, well da coloreds all git scared and goes an hides in da river.
Da Ku Kluxes dey go n dey burn da coloreds camp and the ones dey ketch deys hang in da trees for all da folks to see and be warnd that the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan were willing and able to violently and by any acts deemed, could and would Socially influence the lives of all Americans.
References
www.usgov.com
http://www.theknightsofthekukluxklan.com
http://usattorneygeneral./fedgov.org
http://www.kkk.com
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Human Behavior in the Social Environment Anderson, Carter and Lowe/1999
Gerald T. Dunn The KKK and the Political Revolution 1977
Vander Zanden Human Development/Sixth Edition/1997
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“Harlowton, MT Letter from Realm of Montana
This is a letter written in June, 1925 from Harlowton, MT from Klan Number 29, Realm of Montana. It was written to Clifford Moser and was to inform members that the Wheatland Klan #29 would be conducting a Naturalization Ceremony Lecture and Lunch on July 19th. In 20 years of dealing with KKK items, this is the first one I ve seen from Montana. They are rare. Condition is Excellent.