re: Supposed "Lynching" in Mississippi

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I’ve spent the majority of my life in LA, MS, and TN. How is I never ever met an actual Klansman?

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If true you've been fortunate. Of course they don't usually introduce themselves as members and if they ain't hiding behind their hood its hard to identify them on site. This is true outside of LA, MS, TN and the rest of the south. I have lived in the south most of my life, have known many people who claimed to be in the klan, know for certain that family members have been (my great grandfather performed a ritual with me on my 14th birthday where he presented me with a robe and told me it was time to become a man. I call this a white trash bar mitzvah). I have been around a lot of southerners who made no bones about it but by far the worst people I have ever met, and the most universal area for various white supremacists of various stripes, was the Pacific Northwest. Idaho, Oregon, Eastern Washington and Utah is chock bock full of some of the most deranged folks one could ever hope to encounter. Loads of deranged religous types who also happen to despise, openly, anyone who does not think exactly like they do. The really interesting thing is that the area is almost completely white. They can't possibly have much first hand experience with anyone who isn't white. There are some hispanic folks who have been there for several generations but there are almost no black people. The worst mouth breathing racist I ever met in the south who was from the south was my mother's brother, an imperial lizard or whatever they call who it led a well known riot in a county adjacent to Atlanta in the late 80's and went to jail for it and was sued for several million dollars and lost. This dude was ate up with hatred and was active in the white supremacy movement until he died at 60 years of age. As bad as he was he worked every day with black folks and got along more or less with them. He lived in College Park Georgia, an area of Atlanta that is probably majority black...as bad as he was he was able to more or less function amongs black people. He would have been viewed as a progressive hippy in Idaho in 2023. It is BAD. They don't even like white people...within the same family. The PNW is really really horrible....

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I’ve never laid eyes on a klansman.

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How would you know? It's not like they walk around in white sheets and hoods.

As far as I am aware I have never met a klansman, but being from Alabama there is a good chance I have unknowingly met one.

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As far as I am aware I have never met a klansman, but being from Alabama there is a good chance I have unknowingly met one.

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There's literally an extremely minute chance that you've met one unless you're 70 years old or older.

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There's literally an extremely minute chance that you've met one unless you're 70 years old or older.

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I’m not anywhere close to 70 and I remember the KKK in robes and hoods handing out pamphlets at the highway intersection outside my parents’ subdivision in the mid-1970s.

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But without reading any of that I’m gonna call bullshite.

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This made me laugh because I clicked and immediately went "nope, frick that wall of text."

No construction boss would kill a worker just cause they didn't see eye to eye. He'd either just fire him or call the hall to get him replaced. If he was going to have one of his workers killed, he wouldn't get 3 truck loads of people to go kill him, talk about witnesses to keep quiet and forensic evidence for days with that amount of people involved in a crime scene. #1 reason murder for hire plots don't work is people cant keep their mouth shut. Especially a bunch of construction workers, if you've ever been around a group of them they're like a bunch of high school girls gossiping.

the dude clearly had some kind of mental break or something.

My cousin got methed out and called his brother spouting the same non sense about people coming to get him and that he needed weapons and back up. He too was out in a random location in a field. He's in jail now, which is better than dead in a field, but there's plausibility in a methed/drugged out stupor ending up dead in a field.

This same exact scenario happened in MS a few years ago.

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My cousin got methed out and called his brother spouting the same non sense about people coming to get him and that he needed weapons and back up.

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this type of behavior is pretty common for people with severe schizophrenia.

Crazy that so many people really, really desire for this to be an actual lynching, but do not bat an eye towards all of the many instances of black on black crime. Or black on any race crime.