Klan in the family.
 

I've always known about my great-grandfather's involvement in the klan...but was speaking to my father last night and learned something very disturbing.

Many people are familiar with Rosewood, but not too many are familiar with the Tulsa "race riot" back in the 20's.

Anyway, my grandfather always denied his father's past but my father was talking to his sister the other night and she finally confirmed things...anyway this is basically what she said..that when my grandfather was a young man his dad told him to get into the pick up one night and they headed to Tulsa..he said that his father and friends proceeded to burn houses down...after that night was over he told his father that he never ever wanted to go along with him again on such trips, to never speak to him about the klan and that he would never speak about the issue with him ever again.

I'm sure he saw some bad things that night.

It's amazing what we find in our own family history sometimes.

I have family that were clan back then as well. Nothing I am proud of but it's part of my history none the less. You learn from your fathers mistakes in life sometimes.:2 cents:

id like to think my family had nothing to do with that sort of thing..but who knows :(


it isnt you though dude those were different times

Well I'm glad that kind of hate wasn't passed down...glad my grandfather broke the cycle right then and there...funny thing he eventually converted to Catholocism....I now wonder if that was just to spit in his own father's face because Catholics weren't looked upon too kindly either.

Yeah it was a surprise to say the least...we had a sneaking suspicion that my great grandfather had some involvement there...but damn.

I do know that something went down years ago when my father was a kid that noone in the family will talk about. All I do know from eavesdropping conversations and pandering my mother is something about crooked cops, a black chick in the woods and someone being tied to a tree. I have never heard the full story and I am probably better off not hearing it.:(

well at least you were enlightened that it was not right to do that... can't do anything about the past though so at least you've made the present different

one of the men my wife works for is the great grandson of nathan bedford forest. Talk about close ties to the clan.

people get warped up in some pretty shitty stuff