The KKK started because the government freed the slaves and that stirred up a whole world of shit...

The slaveowners, after years of treating the slaves like nothing, were afraid of retribution, so, with the belief that there is strength in numbers they banded together and started to kill black people in order to keep them so afraid that they were immobilized...(in much the same way that CNN and Fox News work in the present day)...

As the KKK began to see that there wasnt much to be afraid of...blacks didnt hold much hostility towards whites and they were just eager to move on with their free lives, most of the mainstream membership of the KKK realized that the KKK was unnessecary and got out of it...the numbers dwindled until only the most hardcore white supremacists remained...

However, with the emergence of hip-hop and the black power movement, race relations in the south are again coming to a head. Personally, the majority of blacks that I see in public are obnoxious. They arent obnoxious because theyre black, theyre just obnoxious because they are very loud and disrespectful. The hip hop culture promotes acting obnoxious, and while that may be fun through high school, most of the black kids you see running through the mall yelling and stirring up shit find that they either have to learn how to act (sell out) or be underemployed and poor...about half go either way right now but I think that is changing.

People are starting to realize that hip-hop stars get away with acting like that because they are already rich and they are in the music industry. Acting like a rapper is not how you excel in life, unless you are a rapper.

A strong, black middle class is just now starting to be predominant now and I am honestly very excited by that. I think in my lifetime we will finally see the breakdown of most racial barriers and a wholesale acceptance of whites and blacks by each other. We are moving away from whites feeling "liberal guilt" and trying to overcompensate for slavery by "throwing money at the problem"...which does nothing but cause more poverty..."if you give a man a fish he eats for a day, if you teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime"...

I honestly believe that during the next 50 years we will start to see each other as brothers and I think thats a really cool thing...

There will always be an extremist group called the KKK...we cant eliminate it totally...but its all about the mainstream and right now in the mainstream as white people and black people finally start to realize that we are more alike than we think, the final shreds of racism are finally starting to fade away from the hearts of blacks and whites alike...

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