Keep you enemies close: NAACP And KKK Have secret meeting, Klansman Joins NAACP

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The title is a bit alarming...misleading until you read the article... but I see the ruse. It's all about keeping tabs on your enemy and protecting their brand... even if it's a racist brand :ehh:
http://www.businessinsider.com said:
DENVER (AP) — A secret meeting between a representative of the Wyoming chapter of the NAACP and a Ku Klux Klan organizer ended with the Klan organizer paying $50 to join the civil rights organization, participants said.
Saturday's meeting between Jimmy Simmons, president of the Casper NAACP, and John Abarr, a KKK organizer from Great Falls, Mont., took place at a hotel in Casper, Wyo., under tight security, the Casper Star-Tribune reported.

The Southern Poverty Law Center and the United Klans of America said Tuesday that the meeting was a first.

Abarr told The Associated Press on Tuesday he filled out an NAACP membership form so he could get the group's newsletters and some insight into its views. He said he paid a $30 fee to join, plus a $20 donation.

Simmons said he asked for the meeting after receiving reports that KKK literature was being distributed in Gillette, about 130 miles north of Casper, and to discuss race relations, including what he said were reported beatings of African-American men. He did not provide details.

Abarr said he knew nothing about hate crimes or the literature, which was distributed in a residential neighborhood of Gillette in October.

Gillette police Lt. Chuck Deaton said there have been 10 hate or bias crimes reported in the past five years that involved name-calling but no assaults on African-Americans. Deaton said police also were unable to speak with a young man distributing the literature, and he was chased away by neighbors.

"In the 21 years that I've been here, that's the first I heard of the Klan in Gillette," Deaton said.

Officials with the NAACP in Washington, D.C., requested questions about the meeting in writing but did not immediately respond.

United Klans of America imperial wizard Bradley Jenkins of Birmingham, Ala., said in a telephone interview that he sanctioned the meeting and called it a first between the KKK and the NAACP, the nation's oldest civil rights organization.

"I don't know if we accomplished too much," Abarr said. "We're not about violence. We're about being proud to be white."

Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, said there have been meetings between white and African-American groups, but none between the NAACP and the KKK.

He called the United Klans of America a "copycat wannabe" group that's not the group responsible for violence during the civil rights movement of the 1960s, including the deaths of four girls at a Baptist church in Birmingham. The original UKA was dismantled in the 1980s following a lawsuit by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

"I think it's outrageous and counterproductive," Potok said of the Wyoming meeting. "It gives legitimacy to the Klan as an organization you can talk to."

Simmons insisted the meeting was worth it.

"It's about opening dialogue with a group that claims they're trying to reform themselves from violence," Simmons said. "They're trying to shed that violent skin, but it seems like they're just changing the packaging."

Abarr said he didn't ask anybody if they would like to join the KKK.

"You have to be white to join the Klan," he said.

In 1989, Abarr was a campaign manager for William Daniel Johnson, a white separatist who ran unsuccessfully for dikk Cheney's Wyoming U.S. House seat when Cheney became defense secretary. Johnson proposed an amendment to the U.S. Constitution calling for citizenship for whites only.

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how many millions of black people are there in the USA? and he names like 25 things :aicmon::laff:
 

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@Mr. Somebody Shut that down quick. :pachaha:
Killed what? :what: What was there to kill?

Dude said the "black community" doesnt run the NAACP. Iasked him to name things that are and he names a buch of companies and organizations who may be run by black INDIVIDUALS but not run by the black community or necessarily care for the black community.... just like the NAACP.
So again doggy, what did he shut down, here?
 

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Killed what? :what: What was there to kill?

Dude said the "black community" doesnt run the NAACP. Iasked him to name things that are and he names a buch of companies and organizations who may be run by black INDIVIDUALS but not run by the black community or necessarily care for the black community.... just like the NAACP.
So again doggy, what did he shut down, here?
Niigga, you tell me. I never said the word kill. :usure:
 

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Niigga, you tell me. I never said the word kill. :usure:
shut down/kill, whatever. My point remains. I'm not trying to argue shyt. Just trying to understand that he means by not run by black community and how that differs from all the others
 

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how many millions of black people are there in the USA? and he names like 25 things :aicmon::laff:
I could drop another 50 if you want, friend. :sitdown: Sorry but we didnt get a head start owning legacy like businesses because we were enslaved for a while and faced alot of cism trying to get loans. We managed though, friend. :sitdown:
 

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shut down/kill, whatever. My point remains. I'm not trying to argue shyt. Just trying to understand that he means by not run by black community and how that differs from all the others
Started by, headed by and employing the black community via an individual of African descent, friend. The NAACP was not started by or headed by the black community and in fact, individuals of African descent were asked to join it after it had already been started, friend.
 

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Started by, headed by and employing the black community via an individual of African descent, friend. The NAACP was not started by or headed by the black community and in fact, individuals of African descent were asked to join it after it had already been started, friend.
:ohhh:... i never knew this
 
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