so whites gather and they're called a hate group. meanwhile, a black group gathers, and they're standing up for their rights. makes sense. what EXACTLY do you know about the kkk? ill tell you what you know. you only know what you're told. you only know history as it was written, not how it happened.
excerpt of the 1911 encyclopedia article of the kkk:
"The various causes assigned for the origin and development of this movement were: the absence of
stable government in the South for several years after the Civil War; the corrupt and tyrannical rule of the
alien, renegade and negro, and the belief that it was supported by the Federal troops which controlled elections and legislative bodies; the disfranchisement of whites; the spread of ideas of social and political equality among the negroes; fear of negro insurrections; the arming of negro
militia and the disarming of the whites; outrages upon white women by black men; the influence of Northern adventurers in the
Freedmen's Bureau and
the Union League in alienating the races; the humiliation of Confederate soldiers after they had been paroled - in general, the insecurity felt by Southern whites during the decade after the collapse of the Confederacy."
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Ku_Klux_Klan
if this is the roots of the group why does everyone think they were "lawless" and only out to lynch them some black folks? if you were a slave and tomorrow you didn't have to slave anymore, what would you do? couldn't just go to the unemployment office. was it the kkk that was lawless? or the other way around?
believe what you want. but ill be damned if i ever let being proud to be white be equated to being a hate group. sure you got your more extreme "sects" but that rings true with every single established group that exists now and has existed. that doesn't mean we should view the extremist side as the total history of the whole group.
taking money from hate groups and saying they deserve a voice can not be equated with taking a hit after someone.
its called a metaphor. doesn't have to equate to anything.