Never Turn Your Cheek To Ignorance

Apparently, my post yesterday "The KKK Is Coming To Your Town" sparked a little anger in someone. That's okay, because it is supposed to spark some feelings. Hopefully, they are feelings of "Maybe it's time to do something about." This person subscribes to the theory that if you ignore something it goes away. Ignoring a problem does not make the problem go away by far. Did ignoring Racial Segregation make the problem go away? No, it didn't. It took people like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. standing up and uniting people for change to make a difference. Ignoring the KKK has not made the problem go away either. They are gaining strength and recruiting more than ever now that there is an African American President in office. They don't recognize it's a great leap for mankind. They are holding more rallies to recruit our young people and recruiting our young people is not as hard as you think. There are a lot of teens out there looking to belong to something or fit in somewhere. They use their teens to recruit other teens who are lonely and need friends. It is eating them up inside that a black man is running the country they live in and they are trying to prevent it from happening again by recruiting more people to the KKK. More members for the KKK means more people to vote against a black man running for office again.


I am in no way promoting the KKK by writing posts about them. I am trying to bring awareness to the problem. If the KKK was trying to hold a rally in my town, believe me I would be on the phone with city hall and the police department in an attempt to make it more difficult for them to hold rallies where I live. But, sitting by and taking a "lets pretend they don't exist approach" would be the last thing I would do and I hope that would be what others would do also. The KKK effects everyone. What about when they tried bombing the people (including children) who were participating in the Martin Luther King March this year? If no one was aware the KKK had made threats and pretended they didn't make them. Then the bomb would have went off and innocent people would have been killed and injured. The fact the KKK is taking a terrorist approach is pretty scary. The fact that they are willing to harass and kill people for their cause is scary. It doesn't sound like a problem that should be ignored.


If people are offended by my blog promoting cultural and racial diversity, then they should just move along, because I will continue to write against hate groups and discrimination. Ignoring a problem does not make the the problem go away, it only gives them the power they need and the room to grow. Take a good look at my children, they are not white according the KKK's definition. I am fighting to make a better world for my children and other children to grow up in. Change begins with one person at a time. If I can change the thinking of one person, then I have made a difference. The world we live in is a colorful world, being different from one another is what makes us part of the human race.

KKK Public March 2011

That is a shame that in the year 2011, the Klu Klux Klan can hold a public demonstration. It's a scary, but very true possibility the KKK can gain momentum and power in a community. Then before you know it, there will be an attempted bombing, like the one that was found in Spokane, WA during the Martin Luther King Parade this year. It is an act of terrorism, no matter how you look at it. The cities are partially responsible for the KKK becoming more active in communities. If they allow them to hold public demonstrations in the middle of town, they are supporting the activities of the KKK. Yes, there is such a thing as Freedom Of Speech, but the KKK crosses the line. They are preaching white power and hate. What makes them any different from any other terrorist group?

You don't have to be Middle Eastern, Jewish, African American, Hispanic or any other nationality to be a victim of the KKK. All you have to do is to not look European or for your skin to be too tan. You think your and your family are safe from the KKK and hate crimes, because you and your family is white. But, are you white enough according to their standards? Most people aren't white enough according to their standards.

A lot of people would prefer to just sweep the KKK under the rug and pretend they don't exist in their community. But, they are there and they are not going away anytime soon, because people just turn the other cheek when it comes to the KKK. That is pretty scary to me, my children are half Middle Eastern. There is always the possibility they call fall victims to hate or experience prejudice. I remember during 9/11, right around the corner in Dearborn, MI or other communities around the U.S., people from Middle Eastern descent couldn't walk into a grocery store or anywhere else without the fear of attack. I remember the stories of a woman who was attacked in Kroger, a woman who was attacked in a movie store, the family who had rocks thrown at their van while driving down the street. During the time of 9/11, I was married to my ex-husband, who was Middle Eastern, someone called our home and threatened to bomb our home and were doing the same to other Middle Eastern families in the area. Middle Eastern women were afraid to leave their homes for a while. Incidents like these ones happened all around the United States. That is a terrible thought that things can escalate to the point of people being afraid to leave their homes in the United States. The funny thing is, you don't hear about too many of these incidents in the world news. It's like hate crimes are a dirty little secret in the United States, they are trying to hide.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour Is In The Hot Seat Over His Refusal To Condemn The Sons Of Confederate License Plate

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour is in the hot seat over his refusal to condemn the state's Son's of Confederate Veterans Group's effort to propose a new optional license plate for the state of Mississippi honoring Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. The General slaughtered black union troops that surrendered at Fort Pillow Tennessee in 1864 and then became a Grand Wizard in the KKK after the war ended. The Forrest commemorative plate is planned to debut in 2014. Governor Barbour says, he has no plans of denouncing the people or the plate, because he feels the plate will not make it to production.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans, says the license plate is intended to commemorate those who lost their lives in the war and the number of black soldiers that served under the general during his command.

If the plate does make it into production, then this will be a victory for the KKK. I can only imagine what it would be like for those African Americans who live in Mississippi and those who come to visit the state to be driving around and have to look at plates supporting the KKK. It would be rather intimidating. A step like this will only strengthen the KKK in Mississippi.

Drew & Amy "The Modern Day KKK Family"

This is an absolute disgrace to raise their children like this. It just doesn't sit right with me to teach children to hate. They are proud of how they are raising their children and really don't care what people think about how they are raising their children because they feel their views are right. Children are born pure and non-prejudice. They are corrupting their own children teaching them to be unrealistic. I don't agree with the view of sending different nationalities back to their countries. The only true natural born Americans is the American Indians. They were driven off their land and treated like animals. For a Caucasian to say send them back to where they came from is hypocritical. Unless your an American Indian, you came from somewhere else and the same can be said about Drew and Amy. Being culturally diverse is the foundation of the United States. Most everyone came here seeking freedom and a better life. Besides, the African Americans who came here as slaves.  Everyone but the American Indians came from somewhere other than the United States. I don't buy into the whole race thing. We are all part of the same race,  the human race. We were all created in the image of God. We are all different in one way or another. We may have different skin colors, but we all have different color eyes, hair and shaped differently. But, the same blood that runs through my veins or my husbands veins run through everyones veins. That is like saying someone with blue eyes shouldn't marry someone with brown eyes or someone with blonde hair shouldn't marry someone with black hair. Why is the color of someone's skin any different? We are all different in one way or another. Why separate one another by the color of skin or their nationality? If you  think about it, it doesn't make sense.