Racism

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its violence, has a relatively innocent beginning. It was
formed from some veterans from the confederate army and was first called
the Kuklos Clan which, in Greek, meant Circle Clan. One person thought it
would be a good idea to call it the "Ku Klux Klan" as a parody of the
fraternity names which always had three Greek alphabet letters in it. They
created the Clan to be mischievous and to do it without anyone knowing who
they were which accounts for their costumes and masks. They, like most
whites, were upset that the black people were free because black people
were a constant reminder of the bitter defeat of the South. So to have fun
they terrorized black people. Eventually the group grew, fluctuating, but
grew to become the first white supremacy group in America and with that
growth, their hatred grew as well into what was seen in the early and
middle 1900's and what is seen today.
Along with the KKK, other anti-black, pro-white groups formed and
stemmed out all over the ...

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