A University of Texas Law Professor and Confederate Vet Discusses His Role in the KKK

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Confederate veteran William Simkins became a respected law professor at the University of Texas at Austin. In between the war and the law he helped found the Ku Klux Klan in Florida. On Thanksgiving Day 1914 he spoke to his students about his years as a terrorist. This is his story.
 

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Good read about the motivations of such folks.
 

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That article adds an extra dimension to why the KKK happened and such groups didn't happen in other countries that also had slavery and eliminated it. More than one former slave expressed sympathy for 'poor missus' or the master because they knew who was utterly dependent on who! I've always pointed out with Forrest - he was a middle-aged, uneducated, shot-up vet whose wealth was based completely on slavery. Gone with the wind! He was scared, and he wasn't the only one.
 

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The lesson from WWII was that beggaring your enemies does not work.
 

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That article adds an extra dimension to why the KKK happened and such groups didn't happen in other countries that also had slavery and eliminated it. More than one former slave expressed sympathy for 'poor missus' or the master because they knew who was utterly dependent on who! I've always pointed out with Forrest - he was a middle-aged, uneducated, shot-up vet whose wealth was based completely on slavery. Gone with the wind! He was scared, and he wasn't the only one.
Perhaps that was because in Brazil and Cuba people of color didn't receive equal rights post slavery. Afro-Cubans arguably didn't receive equal rights until the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and even then there have been issues about equality through the present day.
Afro- Brazilians have had a complicated history regarding equality since 1888. Police officers in Brazil can murder Afro -Brazilians at will if they choose to do so.
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Perhaps that was because in Brazil and Cuba people of color didn't receive equal rights post slavery. Afro-Cubans arguably didn't receive equal rights until the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and even then there have been issues about equality through the present day.
Afro- Brazilians have had a complicated history regarding equality since 1888. Police officers in Brazil can murder Afro -Brazilians at will if they choose to do so.
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It wasn't until the late 1990s that Guatemala finally made it illegal to kill an Indian. (At least on paper...) It's something that every nation has to keep working on.
 
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