It seems to me that the agenda of the KKK was not as simple as I first thought. This reading saddened me. What started out as a group of four men being silly, ended up being a group of people that raise hell to this very day.
So what did the KKK really want? Well they wanted slavery back, just that plain and simple. It was unbearable for the majority of white men to see black people running around free; and not in the fields where they belong. Black people could now own land, learn to read, and soon to vote. Not having slaves was a big blow to the South's economy. Rumors of outbreaks and fights gave the KKK the reason they needed to to wield their power at the slightest infraction. They wanted black people to know who was really in charge and in control. They wanted black people to know that they would always be inferior, they did not want black people to have the same rights as them, and to be honest, I think deep down the KKK and people who thought like them were afraid. They people that they had oppressed and kept down for so many years now had a voice, had power, the KKK could not, would not, allow that to happen. So for black people and anyone who was seen to be helping them out, whether it was teaching at a black school, or giving their business to a black man, they must be eradicated. Though they spread their terror and hate around, it did not keep the black people and others who helped them down. So what lesson can be learned from this? Hate can be overcome, maybe not extinguished, that underneath our skin we all bleed and ignorance does not always prevail.
Question 1: What reason did the KKK give as to why they were formed?
Question 2: Did the KKK only terrorize black people?
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