Subscribe! http://bitly.com/1iLOHml Recently, the federal government investigated a possible lynching in Mississippi. The investigation reignited scrutiny towards the Ku Klux Klan. So, what...
========== In March 2015, the federal government launched
an investigation into a possible lynching in rural Mississippi. The event instigated
new scrutiny towards hate crimes and the Ku Klux Klan. So what is the Ku Klux Klan? Well, it’s an American hate group, also
known as the KKK, that generally promotes the supremacy of the Christian Caucasian ethnicity.
They operate primarily in the Southern region, and are infamous for using extreme torture
and violence to oppress other races, especially African Americans. The group was founded in 1866, at the close
of the American Civil War, and the early days of the Southern Reconstruction. During this
time, African American slaves became legally free. But many ex-slaveholders sought to maintain
pre-Civil War conditions, and ...