Awhile back someone sent me so information about how the National Rifle Association was started up so the Union army generals that founded it could arm ex-slaves in the South so they could fend off attacks by the Ku Klux Klan. I checked the information out and couldn’t find anything to substantiate it. It seems that the information came from a conservative Internet commentator. I heard nothing more about it until last week when someone from Texas contacted me informing me that this same commentator was again saying the same thing. And supposedly he now named Albert Pike as the founder of the KKK and took the trouble to mention that Albert Pike was a Confederate general. I don’t know if this was supposed to be guilt by association or not, but out of curiosity, I did just a little checking on General Pike.
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Forbidden Knowledge also names Pike as the KKK founder. He was a high-end
ReplyDeleteFreemason. In the heart of Washington, D.C., there is a large statue and monument honoring the most important founder of the Ku Klux Klan. Inscribed on the base of the statue are the words, ``poet''--the terrorist anthem of the KKK was his most famous literary work--and ``jurist''--he was called the KKK's chief judiciary officer, and reputedly wrote the organization manual for the terrorist anti-black movement after the U.S. Civil War.
The immense, bearded figure of Confederate General Albert Pike is looming over a public square in the nation's capital. Why has it never been pulled down in that predominantly black city? The statue is a tribute to the influence of Pike's organization. It has power in the Executive Branch, and the Congress, and it is decisive in the courts. It has great power in all branches of law enforcement and the military. Do I mean that the Ku Klux Klan has such sway over the government? No, I'm speaking here of the ``Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Southern Jurisdiction,'' of which Pike was the chief, or ``Sovereign Grand Commander.'' The Ku Klux Klan, the Southern Confederacy, and the pre-Civil War secession movement were a single, continuous project, with Pike's ``Scottish Rite'' at its center. Though the Confederacy was defeated, this project lives on today, and now dominates U.S. political life.
Pike as the KKK founder
DeleteCan't have it both ways: Was the founder Pike or Forest? Neither is the answer and the KKK after the War was in response to the Union League.
http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/kkk.html
http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=5093&highlight=kkk
http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=479&highlight=kkk
Pike, reading some info on him, seemed to be an unsavory sort, hence his name
ReplyDeletementioned in the KKK history is slight as his leadership does not match Forest's.
I thought this brief passage was eloquently written:
http://www.confederatepastpresent.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=161:extracts-from-the-book-qthe-ku-klux-klan-or-invisible-empireq-by-mrs-sef-rose-and-endorsed-by-the-sons-of-confederate-veterans-and-the-united-daughers-of-the-confederacy-&catid=37:the-nadir-of-race-relations