Thursday May 24, 2012, 9:23 am
Thank-you for posting. Most Americans have their heads in the sand and are paying an enormous price for doing do. . .nothing short the demise of what is left of our very fragile democracy. Quite frankly. . .I'm tired of talking to so many backsides. . .it's very unpleasant and quite disturbing.

http://www.splcenter.org/

NOTE: Without the Southern Poverty Law Center...White Supremacist Groups would have waged Civil War until the rest of us are all dead. Make no mistake they believe they claim to be in Guerrilla Warfare at all times to do just that and do practice continually. European recruits are arriving in record numbers. Not conjecture...was told this verbatim in an Evangelical Church Lobby.

WAKE UP AMERICA! HEADS OUT OF THE SAND PLEASE...if you don't heed the obvious warning signs those backsides sticking up will be kicked to smithereens into the next universe.

Thursday May 24, 2012, 9:24 am
PS. Don't be fooled many of these boys n girls are in the GOP and/or vote Republican.

Thursday May 24, 2012, 10:15 am
Sad. We don't need to go backwards!

Thursday May 24, 2012, 9:04 pm
This is more of a blog than a comment, but it's how I see it:

Deb, I agree with you. we should not ignore this. It must be exposed. As a matter of fact I believe it is our lack of condemnation and exposure of those who perpetrated the atrocities of white supremacy campaigns of 1898 and 1900 (that I believe are largely at the root of the Worley/KKK mentality) that help support this mentality. I'm speaking of Josephus Daniels, Furnifold Simmons and Charles B Aycock, who, instead of being openly condemned by the world for their atrocities, went on to enjoy lucrative careers after their propaganda campaign brought Jim Crow to NC and led to an increase in lynchings and other violent and repressive acts against those with any noticeable African ancestry (our country's holocaust).

Because Hitler was put to enormous shame after his more obvious and more acute atrocities were revealed to the world, you don't see any streets in Germany called "Hilter" or statues of Hitler or Goebbels. But in NC, there's an Aycock street in every town I've lived in - one just two streets south of me. Aycock is the name of the auditorium at my college, and there's a statue honoring Daniels at the state capital - near the Capitol lawn. Daniels went on to be Wilson's Sec of the Navy, Ambassador to Mexico, and he was even sent to Haiti to try to force Jim Crow on that country.

NC has just recently gotten around to acknowledging the Wilmington massacre that Daniels' propaganda created, but it wasn't talked about much outside of Raleigh or Wilmington.

I grew up in Greensboro, which interestingly - despite being the site of the infamous Klan massacre (1979) - had one of the few newspapers in the South that did not bow to Daniels' demands. (Daniels would destroy any politician who tried to be lenient with blacks or even college professors who pointed to black intelligence - he controlled most of the state's press and its politicians.). G'boro became one of the larger cities and has a large population originating from outside the state as does Raleigh, however there are still a lot of small towns that hold on to the mindset that began with that 1898 propaganda campaign. Brainwashing is a very powerful tool - many people need to be "deprogrammed" - but that's not really in the interest of the current system either.

Sadly they don't realize that the campaign aims were almost as much for the detriment of the majority of whites as they were for blacks - almost. It's as simple as this - slave labor was still needed to pick cotton, and white almost slave labor was needed in the mills. Cotton was the king of the US and had been since the 1800s.
The aim of the political campaign of 1898 was to break up a bond that had developed between the two communities - black and white (I use the terms, knowing that race, itself, is a myth) in an attempt to block growing takeover of land rights and other oppressive actions meant to benefit only the wealthy majority - meant to move a lot of whites off their lands and into the mills for one. And at first this bond (a Populist Party takeover) was successful in breaking up elitist control of the state and in initiating some very progressive reforms that benefited the majority.

So, elitists knew they'd have to find something stronger than physical force and threats of violence to break up this new bond - the old tactics would not work this time because the bond -all the poor working together for the good of all -- itself was working so well

So they opted for the psychological approach. They targeted the most base of basic human emotions - sex and fear - exploiting these using what I see as very sophisticated tactics for their time, and historians say the brainwashing was effective beyond their wildest dreams. Daniels, with vicious editorials (reinforced by crude, degrading and sexually suggestive cartoons - for the illiterate), daily attacked people of color in every way imaginable, turning them into beasts and threats in the eyes of whites, and shaming whites who had joined them, politically, in the Populist movement -warning that the consequences would be social equality accompanied by the rape of their white women ( of course totally ignoring the reality that white men had been raping black women for centuries in America).

That's why politicians today, particularly Republicans (who replaced the Dixiecrats - Old Democratic Party in the South) continue to focus on sex and fear to win votes. Because non-thinking people buy it.

Not always, but usually the least educated are the ones targeted because they are the most receptive to these tactics, as they were back in 1898.

Those who never moved from their rural villages and small towns are often those who retain the old prejudiced views, passed from one generation to the next, not realizing that like those they condemn, they too are being exploited right along with them -- to keep them distracted from the fact that their country is robbing them blind. And their blindness is allowing the elites to continue their economic oppression -- of all of us! the politicians couldn't care less about sexual orientation, abortion or race, except for how their exploitation benefits those who keep them in office.

I am 8th generation North Carolinian - and believe me, not all of us agree with the Worleys and the Klan - we just don't garner the attention they do. Hopefully they are now the minority. But sadly, this horrible economy and the Supreme Court decision making it easier for money to buy elections, may be creating more bigots as it becomes more and more impossible for the average citizen to get a college education -- or even travel away from their backward backgrounds. (add to that the growing technology of mind control (sometimes called advertising - attack ads etc) - touched on in the film - the Greatest Story Ever Sold).

Below are my petitions on this. DEMOCRACY BETRAYED is the best book I've read on this topic, and my book focuses on this issue in one chapter. I'd like to write one contrasting Hilter's atrocties with those in the US - slavery -Jim Crow - Lynchings - Eugenics.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/923/983/058/ban-all-cross-burnings-in-nc/

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/543/223/001/fire-nc-pastor-for-lgbt-hate-language/