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#OrgSyndicateTerrorismUSKuKluxKlanKKK
#FictionalCharacterSantaClaus
Context https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/SKennedy/id/13397/
Supplementary #WebsiteSnopes #EDUUSUniversityOfAlabamaJohnGiggie "It captures the Klan fantasy of returning to a time when black Americans were enslaved and white Americans could lord over them with impunity. The given year of the image is important -- 1948 -- as it marks the emergence of the Dixiecrats, who left the Democratic Party in 1948 over its rising interest in civil rights. In that context, the photo functions as a warning to blacks and those who would support them in their freedom struggle. ... The idea of former slaves literally clasping the hands of a Klansmen - dressed as Santa Claus, no less -- and sitting next to a radio seems to create a studied photo in which the Klan is merging examples of American modernity with those of its enslaved past. There is also the nagging sense that this is simply an absurd parody of Klan bravado. The idea of former slaves sitting with Klansmen seems to at least suggest a mockery of Klan pretensions of power and acceptance." [fact-checked] #IRLPrivateCitizenJackRiddle #IRLPrivateCitizenJosieRiddle #OrgClassifPPUSDixiecrat #1948_ #PowerControlChattelSlavery
Context https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/digital/collection/SKennedy/id/13397/
Supplementary #WebsiteSnopes #EDUUSUniversityOfAlabamaJohnGiggie "It captures the Klan fantasy of returning to a time when black Americans were enslaved and white Americans could lord over them with impunity. The given year of the image is important -- 1948 -- as it marks the emergence of the Dixiecrats, who left the Democratic Party in 1948 over its rising interest in civil rights. In that context, the photo functions as a warning to blacks and those who would support them in their freedom struggle. ... The idea of former slaves literally clasping the hands of a Klansmen - dressed as Santa Claus, no less -- and sitting next to a radio seems to create a studied photo in which the Klan is merging examples of American modernity with those of its enslaved past. There is also the nagging sense that this is simply an absurd parody of Klan bravado. The idea of former slaves sitting with Klansmen seems to at least suggest a mockery of Klan pretensions of power and acceptance." [fact-checked] #IRLPrivateCitizenJackRiddle #IRLPrivateCitizenJosieRiddle #OrgClassifPPUSDixiecrat #1948_ #PowerControlChattelSlavery
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