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When a Jewish man was lynched for murdering a little girl, the Klan was reborn

On Thanksgiving night in 1915, Joseph Simmons and 15 men gathered at the peak of Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Georgia. Their faces lit by a flaming cross, they declared that the Ku Klux Klan was…

Most people don't know that the Klan lynched Jews as well as blacks. Obviously, in far fewer numbers. Remember that the next time you hear someone Jewish being accused of "white privilege" simply because our skin tends to be light. Bigotry is not confined to racism and never has been. People seem to selectively forget that.