I had asked Thom about these frightening events that occurred on lawns. He said, “You know, I’ve heard it goes on. But we’ve never done it. Stupid people do it. The people who do that, I don’t call them Ku Klux Klan. I call them Ku Klux Clowns.” The new Knights stepped forward and swore an oath to the leadership of the Klan. These new Knights, twenty in total, had taken a written test some days earlier to qualify them for their Knighthoods. There were sixty questions in the test, which included: Do we hate Negroes? (No. We just love white people.) Do we say the word “nigger” in public? (No.)
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