(September 12, 2012 at 4:26 am)JohnDG Wrote: Once again I'm counting the people in the states know to support them, just because somebody doesn't claim to be in a gang does not mean they are not affiliated or share the same ideals. What I said was extremely exaggerated but I will not say they are any less than 1 million who share the belief that white's are superior. And knowing that I can safely assume there are allot more that are not known. On top of that you still don't realize that even if the white supremacy belief is not shared that is still what we have in america and it's not going to change soon.
Read this so you learn something.
Many middle-class white people, especially those of us from the suburbs, like to think that we got to where we are today by virtue of our merit - hard work, intelligence, pluck, and maybe a little luck. And while we may be sympathetic to the plight of others, we close down when we hear the words "affirmative action" or "racial preferences." We worked hard, we made it on our own, the thinking goes, why don't 'they'? After all, the Civil Rights Act was enacted almost 40 years ago.
What we don't readily acknowledge is that racial preferences have a long, institutional history in this country - a white history. Here are a few ways in which government programs and practices have channeled wealth and opportunities to white people at the expense of others.
Here's the link for the rest of it.
http://newsreel.org/guides/race/whiteadv.htm
My evidence is in american culture.
While some (maybe even a majority, though I think that's unlikely) white people in states that have supported the KKK in the past, may be sympathetic to their views (anti-affirmative action, etc.) there is a key difference: though sympathetic, they would not take up arms or even openly support the KKK's cause. Where I grew up, there were annual KKK rallies around our town square. It was tolerated and not objected to, but that's a far cry from jumping up and joining in. Frankly, I think most Southerners are openly embarrassed by the KKK's (and other white supremacist groups') actions, even if they are sympathetic to their cause, they don't like their methods.
