EPISODE 76 | Klown Kar - The KKK Can KMA (World Is Weird 8)
We're always products of the time and place we live in, so when a Southern group of friends got together in the wake of the American Civil War to start a fun club, it’s really not that big a surprise that it quickly transformed into the largest racist organization in the country. We’re talking about the Ku Klux Klan, a terrorist group that has been responsible for literally thousands of deaths and violent acts over the years.
But the Klan is not just one thing. It’s had at least three different incarnations and today is a motley collection of power-hungry criminals and grifters who may or may not believe some of the inflammatory and even outlandish narratives that try to bind the turbulent world of white supremacy into a cohesive whole.
As always, though, they can dress up in white robes with silly pointy hoods all they want, but they can’t stop being who they really are, deep down inside. Very often, their ambitions and appetites end up being their undoing.
We look at the three different incarnations of the Klan, how a movie helped revitalize them, the time Superman made them laughing stocks, when Beulah Mae Donald took them to court, some of their symbols, some of their more egregious crimes, and even a Klan-sponsored effort to take over a Caribbean island.
Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee
You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast.
Review us here or on IMDb!
SECTIONS
More Info
Follow us on social for extra goodies:
Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt
Tartaria Sauce: The Tartarian Empire and 15-Minute Cities
Oh, Canada!
JBS BS: The John Birch Society
Weird AI Yankovic (Not-So-Scary AI Futures)
CSI: Conspiracy - Three Cold Cases (WIW 9)
The Skynet Matrix: AI Goes Rogue
Project Pegasus - Mars and Beyond!
Sound Advice: A440 vs. A432
Play Ball! Sportspiracies
Reptiles of the Mind - The Reptilian Conspiracy
The Logos Prophecy w/Martin Treanor
Fair Dinkum - 4 Mysteries from Down Under
Film Flam - JFK & Stone w/Fred Litwin
Khazar Love Triangle
Monster Mash - Werewolf? There Wolf!
Org Chart - Insidious Institutions
Red Alert - UFOs as Threat!
My Chemtrail Romance
Everywhere Is Haunted w/Bob LeMent
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The Modern West
Just Dumb Enough Podcast
Voices of Misery Podcast
House of Whimsical Terror
Stuff You Should Know
Timcast IRL