Did Ward Connerly "bless" the KKK?
While being challenged that the Ku Klux Klan had endorsed the Civil Rights Initiatives, Ward Connerly said, “If the Ku Klux Klan thinks that equality is right, God bless them. Thank them for finally reaching the point where logic and reason are being applied instead of hate.”
This has been spun wildly by opponents who want to destroy Ward Connerly. They’ve deceptively claimed that Ward was blessing and endorsing the KKK instead of the other way around. Opponents have rushed to call the initiatives “KKK-backed initiatives.” These initiatives are not “backed” by the KKK. The term “KKK-backed” implies that the KKK is a driving force behind these initiatives. Ridiculous.
When you imply something that you know is not true, you are lying. Our opponents are lying, spinning, and deceiving. The spin begins when Connerly’s opponents quote only the first sentence of the statement, stopping before the sentence “Thank them for finally reaching the point where logic and reason are being applied instead of hate.”
To quote only pieces of a full statement is the easiest and lowest means of deception. Selective editing, taking things out of context, is the same as lying.
The Ku Klux Klan began after the Civil War, as a sort of social club by ex-soldiers who felt their jobs were threatened by the sudden influx of black workers who had previously been slaves. The KKK is a white supremacist, anti-immigrant, virulently Christian separatist organization which has withered to impotence because sensible and decent white society wants nothing to do with them. They are not a power in America specifically because white Americans reject them. Their “endorsement” means nothing. Race Free Zone openly rejects the absurd foundations of the KKK or any race-supremecist person or organization of any color or breed.
The KKK does not believe in equality. They believe in a white dominance of America. By “white,” they mean American-born Caucasians. They want the races separated. They do not want people to come into the United States as immigrants. They are isolationists in that way.
We can speculate that they endorse the Civil Rights Initiatives because they resent “reverse discrimination” and government practices that give blacks, Hispanics, Asians, gays or any other identifiable “group” special treatment above whites who get no special treatment because they don’t belong to a politically correct “group.” They’ll have to speak for themselves, however.
White America has repudiated the KKK, is embarrassed by them and shuns them and their ideas. This is why the KKK has shrunken to a nominal, scattered, and impotent faction which decent people ignore.
Ward Connerly obviously did not endorse, embrace, join, laud or give approval to the KKK or its separatist ideals. If the KKK endorses the Civil Rights Initiatives, they would have to embrace total equality for each individual citizen of the U.S. , not special supremacy for whites. That would be new for them. It’s that “change,” if it has happened, that Ward Connerly acknowledged and blessed. Such a change would mean that the KKK had advanced its thinking.
Instead, our opponents have spun this into a way to attack Connerly. That’s how they operate. And they claim we’re deceptive?