Pass the Marshmallows Mommy, The Cross Is Burning!

Anybody care to take a stroll back to the 1950s in the rural South and attend a good, old-fashioned KKK cross-burning? Hey readers, I only wish I were kidding you about this one, truly I do. But it came to my attention today that the New Empire Knights of the KKK in the Realm of Kentucky have proudly announced just such a throw-back event as if it were a giant, fun-for-all picnic, which will be held on a member's private property on September 14, 2013, in the Louisa-Yatesville, KY area. Thank the Goddess I've already made alternative plans to be out of town that evening. Of course I wouldn't be welcome to attend anyway, my ethnic sensibilities aside, as the event is only open to members, families of members and those who have met, and presumably been cleared to attend by the local KKK leaders as a prelude to hitching their benighted stars to this ignominiously tainted wagon. No thanks, not for me. But not to worry! They are going to light the damned cross on top of a hill, so it should be visible for miles! Luckily, the population in them thar hills is 95% homogeneous, so I doubt they are going to be offending many who are not already of their own kind, but I can only hope that the good townspeople will show up to protest anyway. Have we made no progress in race relations in the last 60 years? Must we continue to suffer these fools in hide-and-go-peep hoodies (yes, Virginia, some criminals DO wear hoodies, don't they?) while they prance about and preach their poorly-disguised hatred for anybody that isn't white? Oh, and by white, I don't mean looking white - these folks check your bloodlines back to when your grandpappy was a gleam in his grandpappy's eye and if there's an alien drop in there - you ain't "white enough, boy!" Some of their other membership requirements - because I know you are all just wanting to run right out and sign up in time to attend this unusual folk festival - well, let's see, you have to be a Christian and conduct yourself in a Christian manner (no drunks, drug addicts, wife beaters (somebody please tell me who is going to explain all this to Cousin Bubba, who is probably all three under his hood!), no child molesters, homosexuals, bisexuals, swingers, porn supporters, race-mixers or bums). Makes you wonder how they could drum up a decent membership roster, doesn't it? And you must obey the law - no criminals allowed either. Hey, I've been to Louisa and the law is subject to interpretation there, just like everywhere else! So what DO they espouse? Why Christian love, charity and doing good work, of course! There's even a statement on their site that being white and proud doesn't make them racist or evil, and that their goal is NOT to hate non-whites and others. They might have sold me on it, too, if I were an impressionable skin-head youth with neo-Nazi leanings and HADN'T seen the extensive treatise and "statistics" they also had prominently displayed on their same site about the inherent "inferiority" of the Negro race. They say their mission is Christian love and defense of the white race. Well folks, I'm not a Christian myself, but if you are a believer, just be glad that Christ managed to get himself off that Cross before this planned cross-burning being done to show his type of love to the world by a bunch of cowardly ghosts. I think He would be heartily ashamed and run screaming into the night!