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The KKKs version of passing on family values

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By Mona Austin It looked like a page from a 1960s history book:  A drove of alt-right protesters (est. 1500-2000) descended on Charlottesville, VA causing a violent ruckus on Saturday that ended with one woman dead and multiple others injured at a "Unite the Right" rally.   An overwhelming majority of them were  young it appeared and hungry for a fight.  The fight to  preserve monuments and symbols from the Civil War Era brought them there.  Antebellum slave heritage -- painful heritage that millions would voluntarily erase were it that simple --  is a part of the symbols they wish to protect -- reminding many of America's darkest hour. In President Donald Trump's America scenarios of opposing factions facing off are becoming more common place. In Charlottesville, the assembly consisted of various alt-right, White Nationalist, College Republicans and KKK groups with similar ideology.  It was reportedly one of the largest such public gat...

DIVERSITY GONE WRONG: "New" KKK leader actively recruiting Blacks, others

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buzzz worthy. . . By Mona Austin Black people are now welcome to join the White supremacist hate group  known  for targeting and terrorizing them historically, the Klu Klux Klan (KKK). John Abarr As a part of its "re-branding" campaign, a new off-shoot of  the Klu Klux Klan, The Rocky Mountain Knights, has an open door policy. Its founder, John Abarr has relaxed age-old membership requirements to accept people of all races, gays and Jews. The Montana  based leader plans to continue the tradition of wearing hoods, although he said his views have evolved.   The focus of Abarr's "new Klan"  is to stand against a new world order.  He met with NAACP leader under heavy security  in Wyoming last year to discuss violence against black men and racial issues among other things. "The KKK is for a strong America," Abarr told The Great Falls Tribune newspaper. "White supremacy is the old Klan. This is the new Klan." But so far recruitmen...