Trump's Rise Signals the Renaissance of the Ku Klux Klan
Taly Krupkin Apr 08, 2016 4:20 PM
... Prof. Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at the California State University, San Bernardino, says ... “We are seeing a large number of Klansmen supporting a mainstream candidate, something that has just not happened previously” ...
The Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the leading organizations for tracking the activities of hate groups, warned last month that the number of KKK chapters in the United States had grown significantly in 2015 ...
He says that ... the immediate danger actually comes from other, more powerful organizations. In California, for example, the real danger comes from white supremacists, neo-Nazis and others who are unaffiliated but with similar beliefs, Levin explains.
“I want to put this in perspective: there are more rotary dial phones in the United States than Klan members. We have much more danger from unaffiliated haters, skinheads, and neo-Nazi and white supremacist criminal syndicates” says Levin ...
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