It is Ku (as in coo) not Klu. Almost everyone mispronounces it. I even hear it on NPR. Thus, it is Ku Klux Klan. The urge to pronounce it as an alliteration is strong.
BTW, Michael Schwermer was a friend of Robert Reich. His murder was one of the factors that motivated Reich’s life of working to fight injustice.
At the risk of seeming insensitive to this conversation, I will add the word ‘nuclear’ to the pot of mispronounced words. Nuclear, not nuke-u-lar. Drives me wild!
This is essential reading/listening to perhaps the most important moments of the second half of the 20th century in the U.S. This history shaped the politics of many of us who came of age and awareness in the 1960s. Racial reckoning caused tensions within families. My father was an unreconstructed Southerner and my uncle worked as a crusading SC newspaper editor and later for LBJ's Justice Department and with Dr. King in Selma. The powers that be in Washington, both Democrats and Republicans, in my eyes as a 10-year-old, acted heroically. https://jimbuie.substack.com/p/when-lbj-the-kennedys-civil-rights
These horrific murders were the result of incomplete Reconstruction, which allowed terrorist organizations like the KKK to grow and indeed flourish.
When the KKK first raised its ugly head, the federal government should have acted quickly to crush the organization, hanging or shooting its Grand Wizard, imprisoning all its other officers. destroying its headquarters, and seizing all its assets. All the Jim Crow laws should have been invalidated. Instead, the organization was tolerated and even allowed to move north, and federal officials looked the other way as an horrific apartheid system was instituted right before their noses. Occupying armies should have remained in the South until its spirit was completely broken, and no one would have dared set up anything like the KKK. We wouldn't be having all the problems we are having today with Donald Trump, who for all his New York accent is closer to George Wallace than to any Republican politician, if the federal government had finished the job of Reconstruction.
I have to wonder if Reconstruction would have been halted mid-stream, as it were, if Hannibal Hamlin had succeeded Lincoln rather than the half-literate Southern slaveholder Andrew Johnson, or if Johnson's impeachment had been followed by his conviction and removal from office.
As Jim Buie says,this story shaped the politics of many of us who came of age and awareness. I would add for better or worse. I had joined a fine law firm in my hometown of Newark NJ. I got involved in the local efforts to support Johnson. When a letter arrived asking the firm to support the Johnson campaign,one of the name partners and asked whether i had was using the firm name in muy campaign. I said no, only as part of my mailing address. No problem, said the partner. He added that the firm did not get involved in the
It is Ku (as in coo) not Klu. Almost everyone mispronounces it. I even hear it on NPR. Thus, it is Ku Klux Klan. The urge to pronounce it as an alliteration is strong.
BTW, Michael Schwermer was a friend of Robert Reich. His murder was one of the factors that motivated Reich’s life of working to fight injustice.
At the risk of seeming insensitive to this conversation, I will add the word ‘nuclear’ to the pot of mispronounced words. Nuclear, not nuke-u-lar. Drives me wild!
This is essential reading/listening to perhaps the most important moments of the second half of the 20th century in the U.S. This history shaped the politics of many of us who came of age and awareness in the 1960s. Racial reckoning caused tensions within families. My father was an unreconstructed Southerner and my uncle worked as a crusading SC newspaper editor and later for LBJ's Justice Department and with Dr. King in Selma. The powers that be in Washington, both Democrats and Republicans, in my eyes as a 10-year-old, acted heroically. https://jimbuie.substack.com/p/when-lbj-the-kennedys-civil-rights
These horrific murders were the result of incomplete Reconstruction, which allowed terrorist organizations like the KKK to grow and indeed flourish.
When the KKK first raised its ugly head, the federal government should have acted quickly to crush the organization, hanging or shooting its Grand Wizard, imprisoning all its other officers. destroying its headquarters, and seizing all its assets. All the Jim Crow laws should have been invalidated. Instead, the organization was tolerated and even allowed to move north, and federal officials looked the other way as an horrific apartheid system was instituted right before their noses. Occupying armies should have remained in the South until its spirit was completely broken, and no one would have dared set up anything like the KKK. We wouldn't be having all the problems we are having today with Donald Trump, who for all his New York accent is closer to George Wallace than to any Republican politician, if the federal government had finished the job of Reconstruction.
I have to wonder if Reconstruction would have been halted mid-stream, as it were, if Hannibal Hamlin had succeeded Lincoln rather than the half-literate Southern slaveholder Andrew Johnson, or if Johnson's impeachment had been followed by his conviction and removal from office.
As Jim Buie says,this story shaped the politics of many of us who came of age and awareness. I would add for better or worse. I had joined a fine law firm in my hometown of Newark NJ. I got involved in the local efforts to support Johnson. When a letter arrived asking the firm to support the Johnson campaign,one of the name partners and asked whether i had was using the firm name in muy campaign. I said no, only as part of my mailing address. No problem, said the partner. He added that the firm did not get involved in the
You did not finish but I get the drift. This is the problem with this experiment in democracy....people take it for granted and don't get involved.