Okay - it was a hundred years ago, but still - that's modern times and these idiots were walking around in them fucked-up dunce cap outfits.
On that day, the most hateful people in the Garden State - the Ku Klux Klan - showed off their might for all the world to see.
It took less than two years following their 1923 arrival in Monmouth County to swell to approximately 100,000 members statewide. A poll conducted by the Red Bank Business Association, in seeking to determine what fraternal organizations men were members of, found that the Klan was second only to the fire department. While their initial goal in this immediate area was to combat bootleggers, rumrunners, and crooked police officers and politicians during Prohibition, they quickly reverted to what they were known for: the targeting of African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants.
In Monmouth County, the Italians took the brunt of their violence due to their involvement with organized crime syndicates distributing alcohol. But there were acts of violence committed in Port Monmouth, Red Bank, Atlantic Highlands, and Highlands against people of all kinds. After getting kicked out of their initial 1923 rallying point in Perth Amboy via riots by angry citizens, the Klan relocated to Point Pleasant where they cut a swath of destruction up the northern portion of the Jersey Shore.
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I didn't know they had African Americans back in 1925.
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I can imagine that you know that the KKK still exists, but they're now wearing Covid masks.
Several states have signs along the freeway stating something like "Litter for the next mile is removed by GROUP NAME". There is such a sign in Kentucky indicating that the National Socialist Workers Party is doing their civic duty. Although, as long as they call themselves socialist, the left doesn't object to their ideological cousins the Nazis.
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