Anthony’s Karen’s behind the scenes photos of the Ku Klux Klan shows a glimpse into a secretive racist brotherhood that most of us have (hopefully) never seen. I know first hand how these individuals have terrorized this country for decades, so it is interesting to see how they interact with each other when they are not trying to start race riots or rob banks – or steer the country’s politics from within. What disturbs me the most is seeing how the adults totally indoctrinate their kids with their inaccurate and fucked up worldview…
via Flashbak
Photos & Captions: Anthony Karen
“Little Charlie” poses in her custom made Klan wedding veil, as her fiancé watches on. I was told the black eye was from a work related accident.
Karen tells FotoEvidence
“I think a lot of the credibility I’ve earned also stems from my basic philosophy that you need to give some of yourself in order to receive anything back. I spend time with people, I listen to what they have to say, and I treat each person as an individual. I don’t have to believe what they believe, but whenever I’m in someone’s space, I feel I’m obliged to observe without judgment.That’s not to say I wouldn’t intervene if I felt a situation called for it, but I choose to observe moment to moment and simply take in what I see and experience without presumption or pretext.”
“Momma Ruth,” a seamstress who makes robes for the Ku Klux Klan in the process of taking a robe order for an Imperial Wizard (an officer within the KKK).
A Ku Klux Klan Labor Day gathering in Arkansas on Saturday, September 1, 2007. Members and supporting Klan realms from five different states came together for a three-day weekend of racial unity.
The gathering included BBQ’s, games, fellowship, an award ceremony and a Klan naturalization. A historical cannon was fired every hour on the hour during daylight hours, until local neighbors complained. Saturday evening closed with a cross lighting ceremony which, according to Klan beliefs, dispels darkness and ignorance. Due to a statewide burn ban, the lighting was done with Christmas tree lights.
Affirmative Action” tee-shirt, depicting a young Klansman urinating on a young black person eating a watermelon.
Cross lighting ceremony. Virginia.
Carl, an Imperial Wizard of a southern-based Ku Klux Klan realm, takes aim with a pellet gun
The son of an Imperial Wizard of a North Carolina based Klan realm.
The granddaughter of an Imperial Wizard of a southern-based Klan realm.
More often than not, truth and comfort are antagonistic bedfellows, and as they should be, should we refuse to see the world and humanity as it is. But it is only from that place of truth that we can walk forward, in whatever capacity, and deal with what is, rather than the illusion of what we want it to be.
Simple or complex, masked or unmasked, both individuals within and outside of a group dynamic, such as the Ku Klux Klan or white separatists, should be seen in the light of day, and they will be who they are, with or without our judgment. Society can’t have it both ways; we can’t pick and choose who has the enviable right to free speech. It’s everyone’s right. Disliking someone different from you is not a rights violation; it’s lost opportunity.
At her busiest, Momma Ruth was sewing one robe a day on average and could work 70 to 94 hours a week. After having two strokes, she’s had a difficult time keeping up that pace and has since slowed down production.
A confrontation immediately following a rally hosted by The Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan at the Lee county courthouse in Tupelo, Mississippi on Saturday, October 20th, 2007. The protest was against illegal immigration and local sex offenders, and supported putting prayers back in school. The rally included several Klan groups, including the Brotherhood of the Klans, Georgia Knightriders, Bayou Knights, MKA and the International Knights.
The last time the Klan made any major appearance in Tupelo was in the 1970’s. The Klan marched down Main Street with the United States National Guard protecting citizens on either side.
A black “Cabbage Patch” doll hangs by noose at the home of Mississippi Klansman.
Members of The Knights Party during a break at the annual congress. Harrison, Arkansas.
At the home of Imperial Wizard Dennis Labonate, shortly before a Ku Klux Klan naturalization ceremony.
Ryan Leonard
August 13, 2015 at 9:12 am
I live in North Carolina. If I wanted to see Klansmen, I’d just head to one of the more rural areas, and look out my cars window.
Diane Lynne
August 13, 2015 at 3:02 am
“If you define racism as “a system of group privilege by those who have a disproportionate share of society’s power, prestige, property, and privilege,” then the answer is no, blacks cannot be racist. Individual blacks can be and sometimes are racists. However, collectively, blacks are neither the primary creators nor beneficiaries of the racism that permeates society today.” (Source: Ferris University). If you deny that whites hold the majority of our power, prestige, property and privilege, and use that position to discriminate against minorities, then you are being willfully naive.
Chris G. Simmons
August 12, 2015 at 11:32 pm
Christ. I’m not sure which is more idiotic, this fuck-dumb page or the halfwits who comment on the posts.
Thomas Proskow
August 12, 2015 at 9:00 pm
Racism is the tool of the Masters to keep us segregated and controlled.
Cög Stiedy
August 12, 2015 at 7:55 pm
Who cares
Daimon Rugh
August 12, 2015 at 7:13 pm
So if your in the KKK and you need a blood trasfusion and get a black persons blood do you have to go kill yourself? Also you can all go to hell if your in and racist group.
Yeauxleaux Breaux Chabeaux
August 12, 2015 at 6:43 pm
Yeah it’s really a joke how much hatred and racism everybody who’s not white gets away with and is even encouraged to harbor. It’s just pride in oneself right? But woe to any white folks who stand up for themselves. It’s really a joke this double standard. Everybody’s always crying and being victimized by everything under the sun but us whiteys who legitimately are getting trashed and slandered left and right are branded ignorant racists merely for speaking the truth. This society is pathetic.
B David King
August 12, 2015 at 7:36 pm
What’s “the truth”?
Yeauxleaux Breaux Chabeaux
August 12, 2015 at 7:37 pm
Telling it like it is, with anything really. Not just racial matters. Nobody wants to be blunt and honest anymore because everybody’s offended by everything.
Joel Kolley
August 12, 2015 at 3:59 pm
uneducated, poor, south..shows the regression of brain cells stuck in civil war era mentality passed on through generations. I have seen this photo shoot and as interesting it is..it sickens, still.
David Muerte
August 12, 2015 at 12:47 pm
You all ready fucked up in your headline. They are called the KU Klux Klan, not the KLU KLUX KLAN.
Ahkin Mendoza Crüe
August 12, 2015 at 12:08 pm
Lesh Gibran topa!!
Lesh Gibran
August 12, 2015 at 12:28 pm
Se “topa” re loco
Elena Konstantinovna
August 12, 2015 at 12:04 pm
Red Airila
August 12, 2015 at 9:32 am
That’s what you get when you do multiculturalism. It’s bad for you.
GianMarco Xill Tangox Romano
August 12, 2015 at 8:48 am
We’re talking about people teaching their children to HATE other people… just because.
If you guys can’t stand that people that listen to “your music” are aware of these kinds of topics… maybe you should switch to something else.
Cut the bullshit.
Big Dick
August 12, 2015 at 7:59 am
Seem like nice enough people. They should go into Dindu territory more often tho & get the tribe stirred up fot the lulz.
Santi S Iñiguez
August 12, 2015 at 7:20 am
Racism, like cocaine, is a lot more common than most people would like to think.
Julian Gavia
August 12, 2015 at 8:00 am
The fuck does that have to do with anything?!
Santi S Iñiguez
August 12, 2015 at 8:03 am
LOL
Stephen Lavasseur
August 12, 2015 at 7:00 am
Looks like Pat McCabe
Michael John
August 12, 2015 at 6:43 am
Ku Klux from kuklos, Greek word for circle.
B David King
August 12, 2015 at 8:06 am
“the pc brigade”. Hahaha. What a pathetic loser.
Matias Kee
August 12, 2015 at 6:21 am
And I thought the Industrial scene was full of brainless right-wing racists… by reading the comments in here, you guys win.
Jeremy Trotter
August 12, 2015 at 6:00 am
It take long for the assholes to show up.
Justin Dodd
August 12, 2015 at 5:46 am
The time you spend arguing with a racist is time you could spend having a conversation with a rational person.
Carlos Santos
August 12, 2015 at 5:39 am
I liked this article. Quite revealing. The photographer’s point of view is also interesting.
Tasia Williams
August 12, 2015 at 5:22 am
Are people really trying to say the KKK isn’t that bad?
And are some people getting offended as if this might be an attack at their views?
If you’re not a part of the KKK…. Then WHY are you getting so upset when we say they’re bad? Hmm…
Francis Cotton
August 12, 2015 at 8:24 am
Guilty conscience. I’ve always thought that when racists accuse me of ‘white guilt’ that there’s a whole load of projection going on.
J.d. Hayes
August 12, 2015 at 5:07 am
Yeah CVLT Nation leave the Klan alone !! What did the klan ever do to anyone ??
Preston Ell
August 12, 2015 at 4:05 am
I am quite surprised that people are doing the usual “poor white me!” internet battle cry when the article itself seemed to be pretty passive in relation to it’s content. Then again, I don’t expect a bunch of inbred fascists to be able to read.
Richard A Burchard
August 12, 2015 at 2:33 pm
Fuck you, I’m an inbred nihilist.
Giorgos Talampekos
August 13, 2015 at 5:00 am
you re a white trash, nothing more
Mac Bloscaidh
August 12, 2015 at 4:01 am
It’s Ku, not Klu, show some respect if not for the Klan than for yourself before posting an article like this.
Dylan Connolly
August 12, 2015 at 7:41 am
Why would you ever show respect to the klan? They’re a bunch of disgraceful pussies with a gang mentality.
B David King
August 12, 2015 at 8:01 am
Haha, fuck the Klan and it’s inbred members. It’s “ku”! Waaaaah, somebody take me seriously, I’m a racist and I have feelings too!
Hans Grïnder
August 12, 2015 at 3:47 am
Liberal propaganda? This is a collection of photos with descriptions. Trying to figure out how the kid’s shirt with the klansman peeing on a black kid eating watermelon/the black cabbage patch kid hanging by a noose can be spun or taken out of context…
Francis Cotton
August 12, 2015 at 5:05 am
Racists are fragile little daffodils.
Amanda Eurynomos Kizar
August 12, 2015 at 3:32 am
Hate is great, but it should be well informed.
B David King
August 12, 2015 at 8:05 am
Oh, teen angst! I’m so sorry for your oppression and the darkness of your black existence. 🙁
Rafał Mrozowski
August 12, 2015 at 3:00 am
To hell with KKK idiots, but they are NOTHING when compared to all the hatred and violence that comes from BLACK PEOPLE and MUSLIMS. Why don’t you write anything about it?Afraid of controversies? It’s LAME. Why talk only about white racism while there’s so much racism and violence from many black and muslim communities? Fuck stupid racism, but there are much bigger problems in the present world than a bunch of white power rednecks…
Luka Sigar
August 12, 2015 at 4:13 am
Also,what does this have to do with metal?So cvlt nation is now political?Fuck off with this racism bullshit already,I’m here for the metal not politics.
Dylan Connolly
August 12, 2015 at 7:38 am
What are these “bigger problems”? Assholes like you generalizing all black people and Muslims maybe? Everything you said just makes you sound like you’re a closet racist sympathizer. Have fun believing everything whatever fear mongering news outlet you follow tells you you should.
B David King
August 12, 2015 at 7:58 am
Yeah, like the casual racism of idiots like you. Are you fucking kidding me that nobody covers Muslim violence? Are you that fucking stupid and openly racist?
Luka Sigar
August 12, 2015 at 3:18 pm
Lol,B david King you are definition of intolerant behaviour.You’re acting like savage,you’re not letting people express their opinions openly.You just jump to personal insults,yet you portray yourself as a liberal?Pathetic.You’re acting like gestapo.
B David King
August 12, 2015 at 6:30 pm
Luka Sigar Not a liberal you idiot. How am I not allowing him to express his idiot opinion? Yeah, not a liberal at all, I don’t think bigots should have a say in anything. I think they should be kicked in the face and run out of town. Fuck you if that hurts your liberal feelings.
Luka Sigar
August 13, 2015 at 7:24 am
Again low insults.You must be brain dead.Bigots and idiots?Is there more words in your vocabulary?You’re the only ”bigot” here.Stupidity of muricans always amaze me.You are just big nobody who tries to find some attention by being loud and agressive on internet.
Richard A Burchard
August 12, 2015 at 2:52 am
Hey, CVLT Nation, how ’bout you guys stick to music & art related articles ? Leave the political propaganda to the Huffington Post and Gawker/VICE type, shit sites. P.S. The KKK have been irrelevant for decades. Nice attempt at stirring the pot, though.
Adam Bernhard
August 12, 2015 at 3:24 am
Get in the fight, brother
Justin Dodd
August 12, 2015 at 5:48 am
Their numbers are actually at their highest point, thanks in part to the internet and active recruitment.
Joshua R. Banks
August 12, 2015 at 6:13 am
Kkk are very relevant in some areas of the country. They are better at blending in than they used to be
Dylan Connolly
August 12, 2015 at 7:46 am
Hey Richard, how ’bout you go ahead and make a site yourself and you can write about whatever the fuck you want. “uh guys? I know I did nothing to contribute to this site in any way but I feel you somehow work for me because I read your articles so please don’t talk about things I don’t like.” fucking dipshit
B David King
August 12, 2015 at 8:02 am
Hey Richard, how about your go fuck yourself? Next, talk about “race baiting” and try not to expose yourself as an old, out of touch loser that actually makes humanity more stupid by existing.
Francis Cotton
August 12, 2015 at 8:26 am
I assume you had the same reaction when they published pieces on Rojava, or that photo-series on execution methods in Imperial China? No? Fucking thought not.
Richard A Burchard
August 12, 2015 at 2:41 pm
What the hell is a “B David” anyhow? Transgender half wit from another galaxy? YOU should (and probably COULD go fuck yourself) but if Im going to try it myself. Why don’t you join in? I always loved a threesome. Big talk from some ninny who doesn’t have the guts to have any personal photos on their profile.
Richard A Burchard
August 12, 2015 at 2:50 pm
Little Dylan, my snot nosed punk of a friend. I have plenty of websites, and they don’t portray themselves as one thing and then jump on the “racial bandwagon” as soon as it becomes a big deal in the news in other circles. I also contribute to this site by buying, supporting and downloading many of the bands featured on CVLT Nation. I may have even played on a few of their featured releases. (GASP, what an out of touch loser am I !!! Thanks, B David) Now go get a job so you can do the same. BTW. Keep calling me names like “dipshit” and I’ll have my 11 year old daughter come to your mom’s basement and slap the piercings outta your zit covered face.
B David King
August 12, 2015 at 5:54 pm
Homophobic and racist. What a fucking abortion you should have been.
Richard A Burchard
August 13, 2015 at 2:09 am
Sorry B David King. Are you more of an F Lee Bailey or an F Scott Fitzgerald type? I love pretentious twits that twist their name around to sound more “regal”. How bout countering my points I made instead of trotting out the Ol ” racist” and “homophobe” cards? As far as aborting my pretty little fetus goes, I’ll bet you all the money in your piddly bank account that I have contributed more to society the first 20/years of my life than you ever will. Wouldn’t the egg on your face look nice after you hear that I’ve been openly gay my whole life ? Back off the insults. You are clearly not good at them.
Dylan Connolly
August 13, 2015 at 8:40 am
Wow I feel sorry for your kids. It’s a shame she/they have/has a useless father who threatens people on the Internet with violence over being called a name. It must suck having such thin skin. I sincerely hope you don’t have custody of them if this is how you think and behave. Probably fill their heads with ur racist bs too. BTW buying stuff from somewhere doesn’t mean you become part owner of the business. Neither does having your little band featured. Shouldn’t you be setting an example for your children and not be arguing with people online? Grow up grandpa, sorry your glory days are long behind you.
Gaëtan Dugás
August 12, 2015 at 2:47 am
Oh, some proud white supremacist dickhead around here. Not a big surprise
Emmy Lu
August 12, 2015 at 2:25 am
Watch a documentary about KKK two nights ago. So sad that this mentality still exists. One of the guys loved jammin Jimi Hendrix on guitar?!? Ignorant people :0(
João Nuno Ramos
August 12, 2015 at 2:25 am
Rita Jorge
Christopher Peach
August 12, 2015 at 2:08 am
‘MuriKKKa!
Itisi LeGlenn
August 12, 2015 at 2:04 am
Neel Vanassche Olav Watteny
Vito De Benedictis
August 12, 2015 at 2:03 am
I guess anytime and everywhere are the right time and place for liberal propaganda.
Olse
August 12, 2015 at 3:11 am
Not if you’re a right winged, proud to be white, anti-liberal prick like that guy on top. All hail them dickheads. Lol.
Vito De Benedictis
August 12, 2015 at 3:41 am
To be honest third kkk is not even remotely comparishble with the one started by Forrest and continued by Simmonsm still is better than being liberal.
Alun Beard
August 12, 2015 at 6:46 am
Where is the “liberal propaganda” exactly?
B David King
August 12, 2015 at 8:07 am
When bigots aren’t allowed to be bigots, it’s liberal propaganda. I’m so embarrassed for metal that these idiot fucks are allowed to exist.
Vito De Benedictis
August 12, 2015 at 8:12 am
Nice try B King whatever your name is. I am not taking the bait.
Richard A Burchard
August 12, 2015 at 2:30 pm
B David (?) is bigoted against idiot fucks. Which is the very definition of bigotry, by the way…..
Siegfried Invictus
August 12, 2015 at 1:58 am
What about the ferguson riots and the black looting just because they don`t want to obey the law? why are people only spreading white racism and glorifying the black pride ? not to mention the racist black organization black panthers who people never speak of; Everybody is racist; This is just bullshit mainstream liberal propaganda aimed against white people. I am white and i will not say sorry for being white, so fuck you and your white hate.
Diane Lynne
August 12, 2015 at 3:12 am
Racism requires a power relationship, meaning one group has institutionalized power over another and uses that that position to discriminate. Blacks do not have any institutionalized power in this nation. Whites do. That’s why there is no such thing as black racism. However, there IS such a thing as black prejudice. Anyone can be prejudiced against anyone else, but racism requires an unbalanced power dynamic.
Adam Bernhard
August 12, 2015 at 3:22 am
Shut up
Richard A Burchard
August 12, 2015 at 3:29 am
Thank you, Dianne Lynne, Great Defender of the Poor, Oppressed, black community. Thank the Jesus guy that you are here to enlighten us poor, toothless, knuckle dragging whitefolk.
Siegfried Invictus
August 12, 2015 at 3:57 am
Racism consists of ideologies and practices that seek to justify, or cause, the unequal distribution of privileges, rights or goods among different racial groups.
Diane what drugs are you on ?
Preston Ell
August 12, 2015 at 3:59 am
“Jarl at viking clan”
Siegfried Invictus
August 12, 2015 at 4:06 am
yes, it’s a facebook minigame 🙂 and if you take facebook info seriously and not the common sense of one’s argument you are more retarded than an mental pacient
Francis Cotton
August 12, 2015 at 4:20 am
Diane only adherents of privilege theory use this entirely bogus definition of racism. You are still, mercifully, a minority. Black people are perfectly capable of racism. The ludicrous logical conclusion of what you suggest that if a white person was murdered by a black person due to the black person’s prejudice, it would not be known as a racist murder, it would not be given the same parity if the roles were reversed because the murderer had an underlying justification because of the systemic, structural racism he or she experiences. This is why the distinction is made between every-day, personal, prejudicial racism and the institutional sort. Every time you spout this shit, it plays right into the hands of cousin-fucking racists.
Mathieu Pression
August 12, 2015 at 4:29 am
lol
Francis Cotton
August 12, 2015 at 4:47 am
Speaking of which; ‘Siegfried’, your whiny, incoherent faux-victimhood is fucking laughable.
‘What about the ferguson riots and the black looting just because they don`t want to obey the law?’
Tiny number of looters vs overwhelming majority who did nothing of the sort. Also, what’s so immediately admirable about ‘obeying the law’ you gutless little boot-licker? Bet you were one of those ‘Blue Lives Matter’ whores, weren’t you? This is practically a non sequitur in any case, unless you’re claiming that the protesters were all out protesting against white people in general.
‘why are people only spreading white racism and glorifying the black pride ?’
I don’t follow. You think there is some parity between the dozen of so decades of racist, Christian terrorism by the KKK and the fight for black equality? If so, you are so fucking stupid as to be beyond the point of help.
‘not to mention the racist black organization black panthers who people never speak of;’
The New Black Panthers get a fairly solid rotation of Fox news and other outlets, so once again, you’re full of shit. I myself worry about these racist, anti-semitic, homophobic, sexist pricks trying to infiltrate protest movements, just as I worry about fascists of any sort exploiting anyone’s anger, in an attempt to suck them into their web of bullshit. I’d imagine you’d probably get along quite well with them on everything other than melanin-content.
‘Everybody is racist.’
I’m not. Neither are my friends or family. I realise imagining that everyone thinks like you makes you feel justified in the moronic shit you believe, but it just doesn’t square with reality, puddin’.
‘This is just bullshit mainstream liberal propaganda aimed against white people.’
That’s the fascinating thing about you nazi fuckwits; you think any affront to your ideology or world-view is ‘against white people.’ It’s not, it’s just against you. You are a tiny, insignificant minority. You do not represent white people. You do not speak for me.
Tasia Williams
August 12, 2015 at 5:18 am
Oh shut the fuck up, you sound so stupid.
“I’m white, everyone hates me. I think I’m being discriminated against :(((”
Boo fucking Hoo.
Christopher Redar
August 12, 2015 at 5:27 am
Shut the fuck up
Chris Whitehead
August 12, 2015 at 5:51 am
All races can be racist, but as a white guy, I’ve never been a victim of racial oppression and I am in benefit as pretty much all white folks- of race privilege, it may not amount to much in a quantifiable sense but it’s real and denying it is putting blinders on
Joshua R. Banks
August 12, 2015 at 6:10 am
Michael John
August 12, 2015 at 6:46 am
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2013/nov/27/allen-west/allen-west-more-black-black-murders-six-months-86-/
Dough Boy Ccr
August 12, 2015 at 8:45 am
Diane Lynne,Bullshit! I’m tired of you Liberals claiming that only whites can be racist.
The most powerful racist are running the country right now, and they are black.
Obama and his Cabinet have used racist anti white power moves from day one.
Then the black privilege movement that thinks they are above the law are just as bad.
GO lay by your dish,you old dog your lying excuses won’t work anymore. Obama killed you dream world.
Diane Lynne
August 12, 2015 at 2:13 pm
This states my argument better than I did before: “Can blacks be racist? The answer, of course, will depend on how you define racism. If you define it as “prejudice against or hatred toward another race,” then the answer is yes. If you define racism as “the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race,” the answer is yes. And if you define racism as “prejudice and discrimination rooted in race-based loathing,” then the answer is, again, yes. However, if you define racism as “a system of group privilege by those who have a disproportionate share of society’s power, prestige, property, and privilege,” then the answer is no. In the end, it is my opinion that individual blacks can be and sometimes are racists. However, collectively, blacks are neither the primary creators nor beneficiaries of the racism that permeates society today.” (If you’d like to read the source material yourself, instead of just calling me names: http://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/question/march09/index.htm
Aaron Venis
August 13, 2015 at 6:58 am
Well said Francis. I’m sick and tired of reading about white people feeling victimized. It’s fucking laughable .