The official flag of the KKK.

[Bugfatty300]

Surprised? I was too when I found that out today after doing some research on the KKK.

The official KKK symbol is the American Flag and not the Confederate battle flag as I believed. And apparently it has been for 100 years. Their other symbol is the Christian cross similar to ones on many European flags.

So does this change your opinion (if you had one) on the CS battle flag being a racist symbol such as the Nazi-styled swastika?

 

[Fetus4188]

I've never felt that the Confederate flag was a racist symbol, nor does it surprise me that the KKK uses the stars and stripes as they are essentialy an übernationalistic cult.

 

[amadeus]

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us}kkk.html

Actually, they use their own.

 

[Taliesin]

McGill University's flag. The three red figures are martlets, a bird of mythology that has no feet and never rests from flight, but I'll tell you, I did a double-take the first time I saw it flying over the Arts building.

 

[Ultima Dragoon]

McGill University's flag. The three red figures are martlets, a bird of mythology that has no feet and never rests from flight, but I'll tell you, I did a double-take the first time I saw it flying over the Arts building.

The bird or the flag?

 

[Abaddon]

image doesnt show for me in the first post...

 

[bhsup]

image doesnt show for me in the first post...

It's just the US Flag. You know, star, stripes, blue field in the upper left?

 

[tossi]

I think the confederate flag is way cooler .

 

[bhsup]

I think the confederate flag is way cooler .

I want to make sure we're talking about the same thing. The Confederate Battle Flag is the red flag with the "X" filled with stars. It was not the national flag of the CSA. There were actually a few of those, the first one being the "Stars and Bars".

Also, even within the CSA battle flag, there are differences. The Naval one is a 5x3 ratio with the "X" in blue. As far as I know, the armies used a square one with a black "X".

 

[skadistic]

The Ku Klux Klan was not always a raceist group at the beggining it was a religious organization and at one time had alot of members. The hoods and cloaks were taken from a sect of priests and then bastardized by the idiots. Much like how the neo-nazi shinheads stole there look from a group that had nothing to do with raceists stupidity. As for the confederate flag it has made its way to south America when southerners unwilling to intergrate with the north left the states and setteled in the carribian and northern coast of south America.

 

[Taliesin]

Religious organisation? I thought Andrew Jackson founded the KKK as a defence militia.

 

[skadistic]

The KKK much like the Knights of Columbus started as a social/religious group. It was quickly perverted by the members to become a vigilanty group. At its hieght it was a political movment that could have had member numbers in the low millions and streched from the south to Canada. Many members at that time were not raceists but more like lemmings drawn to herd. After the Klan leaders were exposed for the vile hate mongering criminals they were it fell apart to what you see today. While the Klan does have some sway in small towns its political power has been greatly marginalized. And now just consists of cross burning fools who are so imbread and brainwashed they decline in numbers steadly.

 

[Irish Caesar]

Yep, at least one American President was a KKK member (after it had become a horrid racist lynch-fest, though...).

Hm. I have both the KKK flag and the Confederate Battle Flag flying in my dorm room...is that bad?

 

[puglover]

Yep, at least one American President was a KKK member (after it had become a horrid racist lynch-fest, though...).

Woodrow Wilson approved of the KKK, but was he a member?

 

[Irish Caesar]

I was thinking of Harding.

I don't know if Wilson was, but he was certainly a member at heart, wasn't he?

 

[Whomp]

Wilson's racist views were hardly a secret.

He embraced D.W. Griffith's 1915 film, The Birth of a Nation.
The film portrays the overthrow of debasing black rule in the Reconstructionist South by the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. The film's black characters (most of them white actors in blackface) are either servile or savages; Klan members are represented as both heroic and romantic. The movie was based primarily on The Clansman, a novel written by Thomas Dixon in 1905. Not only was Dixon a personal friend of Wilson's, he had been pushing for a Wilson presidency for years, and Wilson regarded himself as being in Dixon's debt.

Wilson paid them back by helping Dixon and Griffith publicize their movie. He arranged for preview screenings for his cabinet, for Congress, and for the Supreme Court, and he gave Dixon and Griffith an endorsement they could exploit. "It is like writing history with lightning," Wilson said of this KKK celebration, "and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true." The first half of Wilson's endorsement is still affixed to prints of the film that are screened for film students studying Griffith's advances in editing.

 

[blackheart]

Hm. I have both the KKK flag and the Confederate Battle Flag flying in my dorm room...is that bad?

Eh I pledge allegiance to the KKK flag every now and then and salute it during sporting eventss.

 

[Shadylookin]

Yep, at least one American President was a KKK member (after it had become a horrid racist lynch-fest, though...).

Hm. I have both the KKK flag and the Confederate Battle Flag flying in my dorm room...is that bad?

there was also a kkk supreme court justice that supported the civil rights acts(I think it was Black but I'm not sure)

 

[mrtn]

The official KKK symbol is the American Flag and not the Confederate battle flag as I believed.

That's a weird use of the word "official". Just because I claim that the St Andrew's cross is the official symbol of the Invisible Pink Unicorn Church doesn't make it so.

 

[ChrTh]

Hm. I have both the KKK flag and the Confederate Battle Flag flying in my dorm room...is that bad?

Of course it's bad. By definition, anything hung in a dorm room is a "poser position" (includes but not limited to Confederate Battle Flags, Che Guevara posters, Kubrick movie posters, and Clash/Sex Pistols posters).


Poser.


EDIT: There is one main exception: it is acceptable for international students to hang the flag of their own country in the room/window, especially during the World Cup. This does not apply to Americans.