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Part Two: The Grifters Who Resurrected the KKK

Behind the Bastards

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Cross-Burnings - The Most Racist Thing You Can Do

Unlike the first and latter types of cross-burnings that we're familiar with today, these were not primarily hateful spectacles. They would compete to see who could build the biggest, like, cross-em which were like 50 feet tall - too big to even burn. But when you're out in the wild, much more. It was usually... We will be talking about the violence and stuff. The clan did describe themselves as the army of the cross.

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