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The Suffolk Journal

A nation led by the KKK?

By Facebook user Million Mask March

By Maggie Randall

A “hacktivist” (hacking activist) group by the name “Anonymous” released the names of alleged Ku Klux Klan (KKK) members via Twitter on Nov. 2. A good number of those on the list are members of local, state, and federal government.

“Anonymous” announced 57 phone numbers and 23 email addresses supposedly belonging to KKK members, according to the Huffington Post. “Anonymous” revealed the names and information, which was credited to a website called PasteBin.

“Anonymous said it had collected the names over the course of the last year, using a variety of ways, from ‘interviewing expert sources’ and “digital espionage” to obtaining publicly-available information,” according to  BBC.

The Huffington Post reported that the tweet was later deleted, and explained that the aim of the leak was to “[show] ties between the KKK and politicians.”

A PBS investigation explained how the KKK rose from a small confederate group in Tennessee, until it expanded to the secretive organization it is today.

Waves of KKK aggression occurred in the 1870s, 1920s, and during the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s.

Perhaps the racial violence now is another wave of hostile KKK actions.

With the well-known and notorious history of this terrorist group in mind, the question is not whether these government officials actually belong to the KKK, the larger issue is that this group still exists, and they are still terrorizing the entire United States on the platform of white supremacy.

An anonymous group can leak names and point fingers, but this is no solution. It does not solve, for instance, the problem of racism that we see in our prisons everyday.

The KKK has already left the nation with too many bullet holes and scars. It is time to take our country back from a white supremacist, terrorist organization that has both degraded the U.S., and left us divided for hundreds of years.

The KKK has a long history behind them filled with terror and by blaming high elected officials of being sympathizers, it shows just how corrupt and unjust this group is.

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