The Klan Unmasked Ebook Readers
Kennedy went undercover with the Klan during the 1950s. His courage to do so was amazing, particularly given the web of law enforcement, politicians, and federal agents who were Klan members. I was surprised by how freely he would walk into, say, an FBI office, and announce that he had infiltrated the local Klan under the name of John Perkins, and then walk out. Why was he so free with his secret identity? How could that work? The book reads pretty sensationally, almost like a comic book. That pl Kennedy went undercover with the Klan during the 1950s.
His courage to do so was amazing, particularly given the web of law enforcement, politicians, and federal agents who were Klan members. I was surprised by how freely he would walk into, say, an FBI office, and announce that he had infiltrated the local Klan under the name of John Perkins, and then walk out. Why was he so free with his secret identity? How could that work? The book reads pretty sensationally, almost like a comic book. That plus the hate spewed by Klan members, and their casual violence, makes it hard to read. I made it through the first third and then skipped to the end. Juvenile 400 Degreez Album Download.
Kennedy's brilliance, though, was in making the Klan ridiculous, exposing their secret passwords and rituals to make them seem like an overgrown boys' club. A nasty and dangerous one, but silly. At one point he had the writers of the Superman radio show include all the Klan's passwords in episodes about Klan-busting. Kennedy claims that President Harding had been inducted into the Klan, and that Eisenhower was pro-segregation. At the end of the book he includes some Klan-fighting tips (such as investigate their charter and tax status) and laments that many people in 1990, when the book was reissued, no longer saw the Klan as a threat. He thinks they're more of a threat, especially as they ally with neoNazi groups. I heard a bit of an with Kennedy on NPR several years ago, an interview which was replayed this past August when he died.