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teenagefeeling · 1 day ago

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oh my gosh. i've been reading old newspaper stories abt the klan for a minute now and a lot of them are. well frankly pretty hard to stomach but this ad is insaneeee. this same paper also ran a story about them hosting like, an outdoor picnic thing and recruiting a bunch of people (in my town, i literally know the exact park they mentioned) AND a story about some people getting married at a klan rally in ohio and called it "a fine spectacle" like literally white people are evil wtf

just opened a newspaper archive from 1861 and the first thing i saw was an ad for aetna insurance??!?

#don't come for me for calling white people evil im literally white i mean on a societal level #do not send me an anon i will embarrass you the way i embarrassed the person who called me a slur the other day #anyway this is absolutely a wild experience #i have read a decent amount about the history of race in this country (kept taking classes about it in college)#but ive never really delved That far in to midwestern attitudes on the klan specifically #and i find the midwest quite interesting here because this was an area where it was a debate #like. it was considered a socially acceptable view (ish) to endorse the klan but generally most ppl condemned it #for a modern comparison it reminds me a little of how donald trump is now #like generally decent people know he's awful but ppl are not afraid to say they like him and support him #inch resting story about a political convention where the delegates from alabama and i wanna say delaware (or somewhere like that)#started an anti-klan “parade” during the event and got almost everyone to join in and loudly mock klan supporters #and funny to me: the event organizers started playing patriotic songs to try and calm everyone down #all these stories are like 1922-25 #the screenshot here is 1924 (and i apologize for the quality but it is 100 years old that's what we get)#racism cw

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