[Chyld]

African-American cop infiltrates the KKK
Ron Stallworth speaks about his experience with the Klansmen

In the late 1970s, the Ku Klux Klan was expanding in Colorado. Ron Stallworth was an undercover cop who tried to infiltrate the group. He disguised himself as a bigot and signed up with a local KKK chapter.

He began by answering a newspaper ad by phone and used what he said were all the buzzwords the Klansmen liked to hear. They liked Stallworth, asked him to join. Time went by and he became intimately involved with the group. He even exchanged numerous phone calls with Klan leader David Duke, who would often mock or insult minorities on the phone with Stallworth.

He was considered one of the KKK's most loyal members. So one day, the group even asked him to be the leader of their local chapter in Colorado Springs. But there was one huge hurdle Stallworth had to overcome during his work, he’s black.
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Former police officer and card-carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan, Ron Stallworth joined Dan Abrams to talk about his extraordinary experience.

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I can't see what everyones scared of the KKK for these days. I mean, its not like Hitler had a Jewish batallion in his army now, is it? Lazy bastards...

Thanks to JM for both the story, and a better title than I could have done!

This post has been edited by Chyld: 21 January 2006 - 11:07 AM

[Deepsycher]

How would someone generally know what a person looks like over the phone, especially if the voice was faked? Shows that they were too assumptive in this case to protect their own organisation. It would have been better if there were voice recodings.


As again, somtimes "what appears to be isn't".

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 21 January 2006 - 01:36 PM

[Otal Nimrodi]

Still, it sounds like a sitcom.

[Deepsycher]

Still, it sounds like a sitcom.

What sounds like a sitcom?

I'd say it is a sitcom to judge people physically over phones, to know if they are genuine to their organisation. Simply voices can be deceiving.

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 21 January 2006 - 02:08 PM

[Jordan]

This guy didn't do shit all. He just acted like a jerky boy.

This post has been edited by Jordan: 21 January 2006 - 05:56 PM

[Mirithorn]

It's sort of sad that that would work.

All though, according to a comedian, the only KKK members you really see are 85 year old men with buckets trying to collect money. So maybe the organization isn't so picky about members.

[Deepsycher]

Never heard of this group before. I do not know the whole story behind this, as for getting mixed messages:

http://en.wikipedia....ki/Ku_Klux_Klan

For the ignorant groups, what are they campaigning about if they own their place. Okay a guess is that they are trying to add meaning to their ignorance and I suppose they made their statement, now direct to the point of money making.

Well it looks like that was used to prove other points above it's true meaning:

http://www.pointsout.../csanet/kkk.htm

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 21 January 2006 - 08:18 PM

[Otal Nimrodi]

You didn't know the KKK?

[Mirithorn]

Maybe people who aren't American won't have heard about them... although that still seems kind of unlikely. Deepsycher, where do you live?

This post has been edited by Mirithorn: 21 January 2006 - 09:30 PM

[Deepsycher]

You didn't know the KKK?

I knew that there were many racist cults but did not hear of KKK until now.

Maybe people who aren't American won't have heard about them... although that still seems kind of unlikely. Deepsycher, where do you live?

Just for now, somewhere far away from there.

[J m HofMarN]

I usually don't care much for cops but this guy kicks ass. It would have been cooler if he'd gone to an actual Klan meeting and hidden his blackness under the hood.

[Mirithorn]

As I think I remarked a few days ago, that's the trouble with those hoods. You can't see their faces. I was wondering if something like that could happen.

This post has been edited by Mirithorn: 21 January 2006 - 11:49 PM

[Deepsycher]

As I think I remarked a few days ago, that's the trouble with those hoods. You can't see their faces. I was wondering if something like that could happen.

Cannot find your comment, but I take it that you mean the hooded yobs?
It appears that hate and crime organisations normally have resources to hide under, a hooded yob typically hides under the hood, shown by what might be, delicate shyness.
I suppose it is already happening in the form of recruiting the yobs to do their work

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 22 January 2006 - 08:30 AM

[Gobbler]

You know, I never really understood just why they had those hoods until I saw South Park... scaring the shit out of non-caucasians by disguising as ghosts seemed to be the best explanation.

[Deepsycher]

Never watched South Park but that sounds right, "the ghosts of society" cursed upon the "non-Caucasians". I was wondering why they don't wear masks, but of course as for now targeted as a hoodie.

This post has been edited by Deepsycher: 22 January 2006 - 09:53 AM