We Want White Babies: The KKK Meets the NAACP

Arguing “if you want to talk about hate, get a hater,” Jimmy Simmons, the bravely hopeful head of a Wyoming NAACP branch spent months negotiating a meeting with a Klan organizer after black men out with white women started getting beat up. The meeting went about as expected: KKKer John Abarr said he likes wearing robes and they're kinder/gentler now and what violence? And skeptical NAACP leaders tried to get through a wall of denial too old and high to fall that quickly. MLK's long moral arc: maybe next time. “It’s obvious to me you don’t know what you are." - Simmons

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