Abraham Lincoln was a white supremacist. As were most of the yankees. The KKK was not formed as a white supremacist organization. It was formed to combat the wrongs done by the carpet bagging yankees who were coming down from the north to take advantage of a defeated Southern people.
The Federal govt, (yankee), used the black people against the Southern defeated people. The Fed. govt. made the black man the enemy of the Southern people. Promised them many things. Forty acres and a mule. They used the black man, not because they looked at him as equal, but because they wanted to create a political voting majority in the South.
The KKK was formed to fight against the yankee rule of Reconstruction. Have you ever heard of that? Probably not. So because the Fed. govt. did use the black man against us, then yes, we fought against the black man.
Consider this...or better yet...let me ask you, have you ever heard of the 'emancipation proclamation'? You are Canadian but don't feel bad if you haven't because you would be surprised at how many Americans don't know anything about it either. I will add more to this upon your response.
But, the black panthers have nothing in common with the KKK except they both are racist. The KKK was more than racism. Go to any KKK web site that gives what they believe, and tell me the things you agree with and those you don't. Can you be honest in this? The black panthers are against the white people period. The KKK was agaisnt the Fed. govt that was putting them under 12 years of martial law where the Southernor had no rights what so ever. And the Fed. govt. was using the blacks to enforce this upon the Southern white people. Just as they continue to do today with the NAACP.
So, you see how your statement that both the KKK and the black panthers are racist, is an over simplification.
Quantrill
