| Fletch XXX |
03-26-2003 11:25 AM |
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Originally posted by directfiesta
kkk pic
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why you posting pics of your uncle?
<font size="1">One of the earliest examples of a racially based hate group that publicly espoused intolerance, and even the use of violence against another group, was the Ku Klux Klan. Although originally an American organization, the KKK appeared in Canada during the 1920s. The KKK had several chapters across Canada, with its most prominent chapters being on Ontario and the Western provinces. It is estimated that Klan membership was approximately 40,000 members in Saskatchewan alone, and that there were individual chapters in such Ontario cities as Toronto, Ottawa, Kingston, Sault Ste. Marie, and Belleville.
By the 1930s the KKK was had faded out of prominence and several racialist organizations based upon Hitler's Nazi Party started to appear. Adrian Arcand lead the most infamous of the groups, Goglus and the National Social Christian Party, but several smaller organizations appeared such as the Toronto Swastika Club, the Brownshirt Party, the National Unity Party, and the Kitchener-based Deutscher Bund. Contrary to the current situation, the racialist groups of the 1920s and 1930s operated in an open and public fashion, often holding meetings at local churches, Canadian Legions, and in public meeting halls, suggesting that there was much public acceptance of a radical racialist ideology. In fact, it wasn't until the annexation of Austria in 1938 that the general public felt it necessary to speak out against the growing trend of political racialism in Canada. Racialist groups were finally outlawed in Canada at the outbreak of the Second World War, and many of the group's leaders were imprisoned by the RCMP as a "security threat" up until the end of the war in 1945. </font>
The Canadian KKK and other Hate groups In Canada.
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