KKK
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- noun
- /keɪ keɪ keɪ/
- Offensive
- Many activists work to dismantle the legacy of the KKK's hate and violence.
- KKK members
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Watch on YouTubeSo, so, so like the KKK has always existed.
- So, so, so like the KKK has always existed.
- Would you say that all KKK members are would be Trump supporters?
- Should we say, well, you've got the KKK, you like to lynch black people, don't you?
- These are the words of the modern grand Wizards of the modern KKK.
- I don't understand why he showed the KKK rally.
- So he has, he has among his friends, a ton of former KKK members where he did exactly what you just said.
- You know, that's the sort of KKK Proud Boys boogaloos, like that's that overt racism.
- So the KKK and woke leftists.
- The same talking points as KKK grand wizard integrity of our society.
- Then I was interviewing the KKK on stage.
- And they were defending the KKK and Skokie.
- Written by a KKK member, Carter or whatever his name was.
Examples
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Jim Crow was the law of the land, and the KKK openly terrorized black folks.
Blog text (9) -
But his second claim to fame is that he successfully got hundreds of members of the KKK to leave the KKK.
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Wait, the KKK and the United States Army?
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The issues around the KKK are far more complicated than that.
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The KKK doesn't want us to have equal rights, so they are trying to scare us.
Fiction book (1999) -
The middle-class black family moves into a small Southern town that is run by the KKK.
Fiction book (2000) -
We've already seen this recently with the race riots that swept the country and the rise of the KKK in the southern states.
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The KKK is racist.
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Narrator 2: Rosa and her grandparents stood proud as the KKK members rode away.
Fiction book (1999) -
The KKK organized a march to promote its racist agenda.
Synonyms
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A secret group that believes white people are better and uses violence against Black people and other groups
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A secret group of white people in the United States that used violence to harm Black people
Surface Forms
Etymology
KKK is short for Ku Klux Klan, a name made from the Greek kuklos ('circle') and the word clan ('family'), so it originally suggested a 'circle of family'. Today KKK is known as a secret white group that used terror and violence to stop Black people from gaining equal rights.