In an ironic twist D. W. Griffith followed up his pro-KKK film *The Birth of a Nation* (1915) with *Intolerance* (1916) which was surprisingly not anti-tolerance. I imagine that Griffith saw formerly enslaved black people as being intolerant of their benevolent masters.

I've seen neither film. Nor have I seen *Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl* (1919, for some reason usually referred to as simply *Broken Blossoms*) based on the short story *The Chink and the Child*. The racial politics of that film were apparently fine **for its time** but awful by any objective standard.

I wouldn't rule out watching Griffith's films but I don't envision a scenario in which I could watch a pro-KKK film with an "open mind" and enjoying it for aesthetic or technical reasons.

Today in Labor History April 13, 1873: The Colfax massacre, occurred in Colfax, Louisiana. A mob of former Confederate soldiers and current KKK members murdered 60-153 black militiamen after they surrendered. The militiamen were guarding the parish courthouse in the wake of the contested 1872 election for governor. Southern elections during Reconstruction were regularly marred by violence and fraud. It was the worst act of racist violence during Reconstruction.

Today In Labor History April 11, 1934: Frank Norman, who had the gall to organize ALL citrus workers in the south, regardless of their race, was kidnapped from his home in Florida and murdered by Ku Klux Klansmen, dressed in local sheriff’s uniforms. Despite overwhelming evidence from the union, the case was swept under the rug by state officials, in the pocket of the citrus bosses. In May, 2018, the Sioux Falls AFL-CIO passed a resolution banning fascists and white supremacists from holding any positions of power in their union. In their resolution, they referenced both the murder of Frank Norman, and the recent murder of Heather Heyer, by white supremacists, in Charlottesville.

Magazine article, with picture of klansmen, dressed in hoods and robes, facing off against a room full of African American people, and the headline: Union Organizer murdered by kkk on April 11, 1934.

Where have I seen that before? Oh yeah...

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#JohnLewis: #Democracy is not a state. It is an act.

#Lewis left us marching orders that are even more urgent today. “When you see something that is not right, you must say something. You must do something.” – @jonathancapehart@bsky.social

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‘Segregated facilities’ are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts : Shots - Health News : NPR

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/18/nx-s1-5326118/segregation-federal-contracts-far-regulation-trump

The freaking KKK is back in town...

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"George Dale — Indiana’s Jazz Age version of a Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart — focused his ridicule on a powerful group famous for wearing nighties and “mother goose caps” around cornfields at night. That group, of course, was the Ku Klux Klan, whose grip on big cities and small towns alike led to its near-domination of state politics in the 1920s."

https://blog.newspapers.library.in.gov/koo-koo-side-lights-george-dale-vs-the-klan/ #KKK #antifa #fascism #politics #GeorgeDale #resistance

Interesting that the 1920s were such a boom time for the #KKK. Could that have been a symptom of the same underlying corruption of social norms and governance that finally caused the #GreatDepression?

https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/

Does the resurgence of #WhiteSupremacy during an unreasonable tech bubble mean that we are about to enter a dark decade of collapse and suffering?

Article by @dansinker

My sister-in-law just spotted this flyer on her Facebook timeline. Anybody feel like taking a trip to Daniel Boone National Forest? Too bad they don't have a specific date on the flyer.

Anybody else seen anything like this going around?

s of anti-#Klan #cartoons from 100+ years ago

by @bornwithatail.bsky.social‬ and ‪@mattjord.bsky.social‬

https://skyview.social/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbsky.app%2Fprofile%2Fmattjord.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3limlfykpwk27&viewtype=tree

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#ItsGoingDown - This Week in #Fascism #139: Communities Hit Back Against #NeoNazis As #Trump Comes to Power; Thousands Protest Against #ICE & in Solidarity with #TransPeople

February 13, 2025

"The second Trump administration has officially begun and less than a month in, we are already in a #ConstitutionalCrisis. As the #Trumpian state embraces the threat of ignoring court orders, it also risks pushing the US into an all out #TechnoDictatorship. But as the line between the State and the far-Right becomes increasingly blurred – the question must be asked, what does the antifascist struggle mean when an oligarch like Trump is in power? We don’t have any easy answers, but antifascists have a lot of skills that we can bring to the table: both in terms of analysis, understanding the players in the unfolding terrain, and skills that we can share with people.

"More importantly, we have movement memory of battles fought and lessons learned: from the working-class kids who formed the backbone of #AntiRacistAction (#ARA) and took on the #KKK and neo-Nazi skinheads, to the fight against the #AltRight during Trump’s first term, which saw tens of thousands of people hitting the streets against #WhiteSupremacists. These past struggles can inspire and inform what is happening today.

"And there’s a lot to do. With the pardoning of the January 6th rioters, Trump has signaled that far-Right loyalists will receive a pass from the State to engage in violence against enemies of the regime. This is a reality that only amplifies what we saw during the first Trump administration, when Chad Wolf’s DHS pushed for #antifascists to be targeted by law enforcement and for the state to downplay the threat from the far-Right. This move lead to federal forces descending on Portland, OR during the #GeorgeFloydUprising, and the outright assassination of #MichealReinoehl. The more we can build public opposition to this new reality and encourage widespread #resistance to Trump’s policies, the safer we all will be."

Read more:
https://itsgoingdown.org/this-week-in-fascism-139/
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The First Superhero Film Was Racist
Anansi’s Library
#AnansisLibrary #Culture #History #Spectacle #Propaganda #Cinema #Film #whiteNationalism #Terrorism #KKK
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0icCpGWdDA