The KKK MLM: Multi Level Mondays

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Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Go to http://expressvpn.com/MLM to get an extra 3 months FREE on a 1-year package! Go to http://hellofresh.com/mlm10 and use code mlm10 for 10 free meals, including free shipping! Welcome to Multi Level Mondays, a weekly series all about multi level marketing, pyramid schemes, and ponzi schemes. Today’s episode is all about the KKK, one of the largest American made hate groups that used to have an MLM. Let's find out how. Connect With Me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii Ad music attributions: Chill Wave by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3498-chill-wave License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Backbay Lounge by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3408-backbay-lounge License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the Hello everyone and welcome back to multi-level Mondays here on the podcast. My name is Blair and today I have got one
0:27.3	hell of a topic for you to start out the new year. This one was actually
0:31.5	requested from my discord server, I believe, and honestly when I first saw the suggestion, I thought it was fake because it just seemed too out there.
0:41.0	But after a little bit of digging it turns out that the suggestion was
0:45.4	actually true and as you can tell by the title we're going to be talking about the K K K's MLM. Obviously ML MLMs are awful, the K K K is awful,
0:56.2	so somehow these two awful things combining
0:59.2	is something I just never expected to see.
1:02.0	So let's just dig into this and find out what exactly happened here
1:06.8	because I, it's almost like unbelievable.
1:11.0	So let's just get into it.
1:13.0	So let's just get into it.
1:15.0	So let's start with the article that was sent to me that kicked off this entire situation.
1:27.0	Today, the Ku Klux Klan is one of the most extreme and reviled symbols of American racism.
1:34.0	But there was once a time
1:36.0	when the Fringe Hate Group verged on mainstream.
1:39.0	In the 1920s, its members numbered in the millions
1:42.0	and made up a significant percentage of the U.S. population.
1:46.5	This is the K K K K K that claimed to control elections and counted U.S. Presidents among its members.
1:52.9	And it's the predecessor to the group that, in fiction,
1:56.0	threatened Atticus Finch in the front of the steps
1:58.9	of the Maycomb County Courthouse for defending a black man. But in 2011, Roland G. Friar and Stephen D. Levitt, the economist
2:08.1	co-author of Freakonomics, looked into historical statistics about KK
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