Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

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The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (abbreviated LWK) is a Ku Klux Klan organization based in North Carolina. A Fifth Era klan founded in the early 2000s,[1] the Loyal White Knights have been particularly active since 2011.[2] It is led by Imperial Wizard Chris Barker.

Beliefs and membership

The Loyal White Knights is a law-abiding White Christian organization which upholds the principles of 100% Americanism. LWK seeks to restore the United States as a homeland for the White race, and promotes an originalist understanding of the Constitution. LWK teaches that all races have a homeland and one cannot be a Klansman with hate in his heart. Membership is open to men and women (Ladies of the Invisible Empire, L.O.T.I.E.) age 13 and up. Following a Probate period of about six months, approved applicants are naturalized (initiated) as full citizens of the Invisible Empire, and don their robes. LWK Klansmen and Klanswomen need attend at least one rally a year to remain active, and participate in a weekly Klan Klass, a group phone-in with members across the US.[3]

Activities

Loyal White Knights boasts of having never watered down its image or ideals,[3] and has become among the best known traditionalist klans.[3]

Following the Memphis City Council's 9-0 vote to rename Nathan Bedford Forrest Park, Confederate Park, and Jefferson Davis Park with less "offensive" titles, the Loyal White Knights decried the City Council's vote to "erase all that our Anglo-Saxon race has to be proud of," and James Moore, Grand Dragon for the Realm of Virginia, described the act as part of “con­tin­u­ing cul­tural geno­cide [against] white Amer­i­cans.” On March 30 LWK held a Memphis rally in protest against the renaming, and together with the National Socialist Movement, Aryan Nations, Northern Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and Inter­na­tional Key­stone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan drew about 75 supporters. The event was followed by a cross lighting on private land. NSM National Director Jeff Schoep was deeply impressed by the organization and remarked that they "really fired things up."[4][5]

The LWK's tactic of "Knight Riding," i.e. distribution of flyers and other recruitment material under the cover of night,[3] has gained the group some notoriety. In 2013 and 2014 LWK distributed bags of candy along with interracial crime statistics in several locales in North and South Carolina, as well as Springfield, Florida, and Marshall and Harleton, Texas, continuing a Klan tradition of mixing activism with charity and goodwill.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Page copyright 2003.
  2. ↑ Loyal White Knights YouTube account signed up December 5, 2011.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Loyal White Knights FAQ's
  4. ↑ Jeff Schoep. Memphis Rally - Solidarity National Socialist Movement. March 30, 2013. Accessed July 20, 2014.
  5. ↑ White Supremacists To Stage Protest Over Memphis Parks ✡ Template:Com. ADL. March 28, 2013. Accessed July 20, 2014.
  6. ↑ Matthew Zuras. The KKK’s Candy Campaign Is Only Its Latest Food Stunt Template:Com. Vice Munchies. July 18, 2014. Accessed July 20, 2014.


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