50 - The Ku Klux Klan: Who are these hatemongers?

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

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4.7 • 21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2017

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Recent events in Charlottesville, VA reminded me that the KKK is still around. I realized I've never thought much about who these people are. When was the KKK founded? By whom and why? Why are they still here? Why are people even racist in the first place? All of this and more gets the deep suck on today's Timesuck! This episode of Timesuck is brought to you by the fantastic Dollar Shave Club! Go to www.dollarshaveclub.com/timesuck today and get their badass Executive razor handle, four stainless steel, six blade cartridges and a tube of Dr. Carver's Shave Butter sent to your door for only 5 bucks! Best razor you'll ever use Timesuckers! Please rate and subscribe and follow the suck on social media!! @timesuckpodcast on IG, @timesuckpodcast on Twitter, and www.facebook.com/timesuckpodcast Merch - https://badmagicmerch.com/ Want to try out Discord!?! https://discord.gg/tqzH89v Want to join the Cult of the Curious private Facebook Group? Go directly to Facebook and search for "Cult of the Curious" in order to locate whatever current page hasn't been put in FB Jail :) For all merch related questions: https://badmagicmerch.com/pages/contact

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0:00.0	The recent events in Charlottesville got me thinking about the KKK.
0:04.1	If you somehow haven't heard what happened in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday, August
0:07.6	12, 32-year-old civil rights activists Heather Hire was run over by a 20-year-old white supremacist
0:12.8	named James Alex Fields, Jr. driving a car into a crowd where alt-right white nationalists
0:18.0	were protesting the city's decision to remove a statue of Robert E. Lee and their clashing
0:21.8	with people not interested in letting white races yell idiotic rhetoric like Jews will
0:25.4	not control us.
0:26.8	The KKK members around the country waited on Charlottesville, like North Carolina grand
0:30.7	dragon for the loyal white knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Justin Moore, who said afterwards
0:36.0	that he was glad that Heather died.
0:37.3	What a piece of shit.
0:38.4	And after hearing that, I just thought, how are we still talking about the KKK in 2017?
0:42.2	How do these people still exist?
0:43.3	And then I realized that other people, you know, no one's there were racists and white
0:46.3	hoods.
0:47.3	I really didn't know anything about the KKK.
0:48.8	And I decided it was high time these motherfuckers got sucked.
0:51.6	So strap in for a ride to the dark underbelly of America's post-Civil War relationship with
0:56.0	racism.
0:57.0	And this enough is enough addition of time suck.
1:07.4	Happy Monday, you wonderfully curious members of the tribe of time suck.
1:14.4	I'm Dan Cummins, love that you're listening.
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