Chris Rock Quotes
I hate niggas! I hate em! I wish they'd let me join the Ku Klux Klan!
Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Bring the Pain. HBO, 1996.
This quotation was used by the Lyndon B. Johnson 1964 Campaign as: “We represent the majority of the people in Alabama who hate niggerism, Catholicism, Judaism, and all the isms of the whole world.” So said Robert Creel of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. He also said, “I like Barry Goldwater. He needs our help.” The second statement was made at a different time.
Lott was under great fire for publicly stating that if the Dixiecrat’s and segregationists had won the Presidency in 1948, things would be better today.
The KKK were riling up the white shrimpers because Vietnamese-American fishermen were fishing in ‘their waters”. The Southern Poverty Law Center, on behalf of the Vietnamese Fishermen, sued the KKK in Federal Court and won an injunction prohibiting the Klan from continuing its training program to burn the Vietnamese-American’s boats. Some of the Vietnamese-American fisherman had fought agaist the Viet Cong in Vietnam before coming to American and they armed themselves with shotguns and rifles, Faced with legal and possible violent resistance, Beam and the Klansmen disappeared from the area.
The FBI was trying to investigate the brutal murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi—Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, & James E. Chaney. However it was very difficult to get witnesses to provide information as the suspects and later defendants at trial were also members of the Klan—one of them was the Imperial Wizard of the Mississippi KKK. Other criminals were the Sheriff and his deputy.
The Kansas City Public Libraryhad been vandalized in the wake of the Donald Trump victory in the 2016 Presidntial race. Almost all of the racist, white supremicist, and Nazi organizations and their members were Trump supporters although Mr. Trump denied that he had ever overtly solicited their support, However hia frequent racist and misoginistic remarks attracted frings groups and people who had never before endorsed an American major party Presidential candidate. After Trups victory there was a large increase in the nunber of racist, religious and ethnic attacks against people and property, despite the fact that Trump had appeared on 60 Minutes and told these extremsits in no uncertain terms to "Stop". Neo Nazis and other White Supremecists generally do not with shows like 60 minutres however, and Trump and his staff made little effor to communicate Trums message through the vehicles that they communicagte through.
The KKK is the oldest of the White Supremicist Hate groups in America. Their self styled mission has been to protect the dominance of the white race. They have, over the years, been responsible for lynchings and other forms of murder and torture. Many Southern politicians in the 20th century were members of this group which in teh first half of the century was a major political force in Souithern States and Indiana. By the end of the 20th century there were almost no politicians who would jion the organization, and the attitude of most politicians, including those from the South, was rather nagetive towards the Klan. However, a few were rather insensitive to the evil nature of the Klan and would make jokes loke this one. Sessions, over his career, had several racist commens that he had made inclding this one. He called an attorney who defended Blacks accused of crimes a race traitor and referred to civil right groups as unAmerican. His appointment as Attorney General by Donald Trump was met with consternation by many biven his history of racial remarks.
Christopher Julius Rock is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer, producer and director.
