That was one of the funnier interviews Colbert has done.
You're right they aren't in your home state of MS. Ask Medgar Evers? How about Goodman et al? How about the CCC?
There's no KKK left in MS....I'm sure there are no racists left. Maybe they just see you coming and hide under their sheets.
Where did I say there were no racists in MS? We got em all over the place. I feel like a broken record, but RJ you need to read rather than infer. I merely said that if I had to classify the worst racists that I have ever come into contact they are from the northeast. I will tell you why. Mississippi racists still have to co-exist with black people. So they understand that there is a certain level of decor that needs to be maintained, even if in their hearts they hate every breath that a black person breathes. I have met people from the northeast who literally have never had a conversation with a black person their entire life. They came to Wake Forest and were asking what all the black people were doing here. Seriously....at Wake Forest. So they had zero idea how to handle their prejudices.
So next time before you flame away in your normal moderate fashion, please read what I write. I have met a lot of racists in my life. The worst offenders in my own personal experience are from the northeast. I am not generalizing this to the population, just merely making a personal observation. This does not mean that Mississippi is not full of racists, because it clearly is.
This has been my experience too. My college roommate, from CT, had no problems telling racing jokes, dropping the n bomb, etc. I was astounded.
Connecticut for me as well....
Just FYI- American White supremacist groups by location of HQ (and some active places if readily available)
American Third Position Party- California
American Nazi Party- Virginia
Aryan Nations- Idaho
Council of Conservative Citizens- Missouri (active in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Texas, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, California and New York)
Creativity Movement, (formerly known as the World Church of the Creator)- Florida
EURO- Louisiana
European Americans United, ??
Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as The Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present right-wing organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy and nationalism: doesn't have one headquarters, but is spread throughout the south and midwest.
National Alliance- West Virginia.
National Association for the Advancement of White People- Delaware
National Policy Institute- Augusta, Georgia in the United States
National Socialist Movement (United States)- Detroit
Nationalist Movement, Mississippi-based
The Order, or Brüder Schweigen ("Silent Brotherhood")- Washington (actively engaged in assassinating people and wanted to create civil war)
Pacifica Forum- Eugene, Oregon, United States
Phineas Priesthood ??
Volksfront- Portland, Oregon
White Aryan Resistance- Warsaw, Indiana
ETA some I left off:
NSDAP/AO- Nebraska
National Vanguard- VA
National Socialist Vanguard- The Dalles, Oregon
Hammerskins- Dallas, TX
American Front- San Francisco, CA
Aryan Brotherhood- separating it because its a prison gang (about 25,000 members, responsible for 25% of prison murders despite being about 1% of the prison population)- California
. Allies of the Aryan brotherhood include the Irish Mob, Gambino Crime family, Philadelphia crime family, Nazi lowriders, public enemy number 1, and hells angels.
Public Enemy No. 1- Southern California
Nazi Lowriders- Southern California
Hells Angels- California
There are also at least 5 neo nazi groups active in Canada.
I didn't realize Hells Angels is a white supremacist group.
Where did I say there were no racists in MS? We got em all over the place. I feel like a broken record, but RJ you need to read rather than infer. I merely said that if I had to classify the worst racists that I have ever come into contact they are from the northeast. I will tell you why. Mississippi racists still have to co-exist with black people. So they understand that there is a certain level of decor that needs to be maintained, even if in their hearts they hate every breath that a black person breathes. I have met people from the northeast who literally have never had a conversation with a black person their entire life. They came to Wake Forest and were asking what all the black people were doing here. Seriously....at Wake Forest. So they had zero idea how to handle their prejudices.
So next time before you flame away in your normal moderate fashion, please read what I write. I have met a lot of racists in my life. The worst offenders in my own personal experience are from the northeast. I am not generalizing this to the population, just merely making a personal observation. This does not mean that Mississippi is not full of racists, because it clearly is.
Where did I say there were no racists in MS? We got em all over the place. I feel like a broken record, but RJ you need to read rather than infer. I merely said that if I had to classify the worst racists that I have ever come into contact they are from the northeast. I will tell you why. Mississippi racists still have to co-exist with black people. So they understand that there is a certain level of decor that needs to be maintained, even if in their hearts they hate every breath that a black person breathes. I have met people from the northeast who literally have never had a conversation with a black person their entire life. They came to Wake Forest and were asking what all the black people were doing here. Seriously....at Wake Forest. So they had zero idea how to handle their prejudices.
So next time before you flame away in your normal moderate fashion, please read what I write. I have met a lot of racists in my life. The worst offenders in my own personal experience are from the northeast. I am not generalizing this to the population, just merely making a personal observation. This does not mean that Mississippi is not full of racists, because it clearly is.
In all honesty, the most racist people I have ever met have been from the northeast.
I was going to say almost exactly the same thing yesterday, but opted against it. Blacks and whites have coexisted for years in the south. Regardless of the hatred that may brew there, there's a level of mutual acceptance.