Don't forget...
*I*ndianapolis was the birthplace of the John Birch Society - that group of
haters often described as KKK without sheets.
On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 5:33 AM, Chris Crawford <
chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> True, but the history of racism here is long and deep. As recently as the
> 1990s, there was a big KKK presence here.
>
> One day in the late 90s, I ran into the national imperial wizard of the
> KKK at a gas station in Fort Wayne. He was putting gas in his pickup, and
> was wearing a T-shirt that had a Klan hood on it with the caption "Boyz in
> da Hood." This was around the time that the movie "Boyz in the Hood" came
> out (the movie is about kids in the inner-city black ghetto of Los
> Angeles). Still mad at myself for not having a camera with me that day.
>
> When I was seven years old, I watched the Klan march through Waynedale,
> the area of Fort Wayne where I grew up. My grandpa told me the KKK burned
> a cross on his next door neighbor's front yard when he was a teenager in
> the 1940s! He grew up in Fort Wayne. Most of the small towns near here,
> including Huntington (former Vice-President Dan Quayle's hometown) had
> signs on the edge of town that warned blacks that they were not welcome
> after sunset: "Nigger, you don't live here so don't stay around to see the
> sunset!" The signs didn't come down until the 1960s. "Sundown Towns" were
> common in the midwest, and rare in the deep south.
>
> Indiana University has a mural depicting Indiana history, painted by
> Thomas Hart Benton. One of the things is shows is a group of Klansmen
> burning a cross!
> http://www.indiana.edu/~benton/
> He painted it in 1933. Just a few years earlier, Indiana's governor and a
> large portion of the state legislature had been KKK members, and statewide
> more than 40,000 men belonged to the Klan in the 1920s.
>
> Given our history, this is probably a sentiment shared by many more people
> than just the guy with the marker.
>
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> On 7/20/14 5:34 PM, "Chuck Norcutt" <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >It only takes a single person to write that.
> >
> >Chuck Norcutt
> >
> >On 7/20/2014 4:51 PM, Chris Crawford wrote:
> >> I noticed the racist graffiti on this building last week when I was
> >>downtown
> >> to photograph the Three Rivers Festival. Unfortunately, such attitudes
> >>are
> >> still alive today. I think the future will be better, though. My high
> >>school
> >> students didn't segregate themselves by race, and had very diverse
> >>groups of
> >> friends.
> >>
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> >>
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