Growing up within a few blocks of the Southern New Jersey HQ of the Ku Klux Klan, my parents forbade me to dress up as a ghost on Halloween. They did not want anyone to think that their son was a member of the Koo Koo Klan.
My late friend and mentor infiltrated the KKK, lived a full live, and lived to tell about it. Wm. Stetson Kennedy told me that all the KKK members in St. Johns County are now Republicans. Bigots of a feather flock together. Developers and their toadies work hand in hand with bigots to elect candidates. Except, it is no longer working for them -- not in the City of St. Augustine, anyway. Ask Sheriff DAVID SHOAR, ex-Mayor JOE BOLES, and ex-City Manager BILL HARRISS, whose effort to restore feudalism is failing. (Ask KRIS PHILLIPS, whose Hate Radio Station does not exactly qualify her to be elected BOLES' puppet mayor).
St. Johns County's developer-driven Establishment taps into bigotry to maintain control.
Courage, as exemplified by Wm. Stetson Kennedy, who infiltrated KKK, will defeat monsters.
Howard Zinn in his book "A People's History Of The United States" points out that racism and white supremacy had much of its origins in legislation made by white European landowners. I did a comic strip called the Middleasses™ based on his work a long while back. You can see a sample here... you might need to zoom your browser to read the text...
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