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•, Alexander IvIeWhirter.is a good Woking
young man, well groomed and full of
confidence. He claims to be a Toronto
businessman, but is reluctant to discuss
the exact nature of his businessaaLately, he,
has been spending much of his time
travelling through this part of South-
western Ontario, talking on radio open line
shows, and giving newspaper interv.iews to
further the cause of his group in Canada.
What is thik cause, and what group does
he represent? Mr. MeWhirter is the
Eastern Canada representative of the
Canadian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan,
and they hope to make Canada "lily-white
'racist nation" within 20 years. After a
nationalreferendum has been organized to
ihnif,,future immigration to white people
only-, bon -white Canadians will the paid to
leave this country. If this is impossible due
to the length of time that they have been
Canadians, he suggests that they be moved
hito-griFetarafeas cghttratrrfre Vest -Me -
will, go to the white Canadians, and. the
non-white people must establish their own
economy. separate and independent. It will
work as apartheid does in South Africa.
McWhirter is quoted in the London
Free Press (Sept. 24, 1980), as saying
JeWish and native people must choose
nationalism before their religious or •
cultural origins, or be guilty of treason to
' Canada.
One hesitates to even respond, to such
extreme beliefs, for fear of generating
more, publicity for this orgaization: they
seem to thrive on adverse reaction. But it is
a somewhat threatening 'fact that
McWhirter claims to have•established the
Klan in Walkerton, Clifford and_Hanover.
He opened an office in Toronto recently.
and -proposes to do the same in Kitchener
and London.
STOP ITS GROWTH
These plans may be difficult to carry
through, if Kitchener 'mayor Morley
Rosenberg, or London's Orlando
Zamprogna have their way. They are trying
to "stcip this organization's growth by the.
enforcement of municipal laws and by
public discussion. Amerie.gn president L.B
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Johnson tried to do this n 1966. by asking
the \congress to pass laws curbing the
anti-government activities of the Klan.
Obviously, these men believe the old
saying that evil prevails when good men do
nothing.
Most of the KKK organizations existing
, today would deny links with the historical
Klan of the American South. White
sheeted costumes. pointed hoods. scarlet
crosses to denote Christianity (?) are out of
fashion today, as is their Nazi- lite salute.
But there are still similarities in their goals
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and prejudices that extendf)Nay back. even
to the:aftermath of the American CiviP
War.
Formed in Tennessee in 1865, the earlier
organization used lynching. flogging and
cross burning to terrorize white
northerners who were moving into go_vern-
ment positions in the war-torn South, and
also to dissuade the black ex -slave from
using his right to vote. When stability and
order was restored in 1809, this group was
disbanded. .
In 191,5, the Klan reorganized in Atlanta.
Georgia, direaing powerful Campaigns of
hatred against the black people. Jews,
Roman Catholics, radicals, and all for-
eigners. With five million members, their
political power reached an apex, before
they lost support and dissolved the
or a
organization in 1944, owing the American
federal govenrment over $500.000 in back
taxes, During this period. flogging.
lynching ' and cross burningwas used
against those the Klan opposed,
In 1949, when the world was settling
down again after World Wet 11, repres=
sentatives from six southern states met in
Alabama ,to . form a new natienal or-
ganization of the KKK. In 1952. 60
members in North Carolina were con-
victed of assauftand conspiracy to kidnap,
Cross barning and flogging increased after
the American Supreme Court's decision to
end sftregation in the public schools. Do
.you remember the picture of the solitary.
black child heading up the walk to the
school, with armed troopers on all sides to
hold back the °mob of jeering hating
people? Or the three little girls burned to
death in the basement ,Of a Birmingham
-%—thirreli? Or Ine-three. mit righTS- w,orkeTc-
who .disappeare.d forever in Mississippi
during the 1960's? All these outbmits
caused a congressional investieat ion ,
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white
,
folloWed by President Johnson's •re-.;
commendation in ‘1966.
It is very hard to understand tha:Klan's
claim to be acting in the name ;A' 'God,
preserving the white Christian society.'
defending morality and family life, when
they also claim that Adolf Hitler was
misrepresented and misinterpreted. As for
the extermination of six million Jews
during, the holocaust, Krali" representative
. in Ontario Doug O'Hare states -that it just
didn't happen (London Free Press.• Sept.
20780). This young man also states that he
will fight if provoked. heink a legally
licensed hunter With a rifle.
There are threatening implications here.
• The World of Churches. responding to
racism in the 1980'S, recdntly held a
consultation attended by nearly,. 300
member churches from more than 100 ,
countries. They condemned racism -*
----deliredas using a person's.racial origins, ro
determine the person's value. In
recognizing their -responsibility to fight
• against this evil, they only regretted that
Junkeroo sale more than a bargain
When Chalk Street residents promise a
"super garage sale," they aren't kidding.
On Saturday morning, residents 'of the
south end of the street set up 14' booths
offering everything from antique picture
frames to crafts to garden produce for sale.
Frank Phillips, who organized the com-
munity sale, said not only was it successful
from a selling point of view, but it was also
"real fun."
Buyers were lured into -the area by signs
promising "arts - crafts - junkeroo." In
• addition, Seaforth Co-op Nursery mother's
coffeeein
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• hot dogs • and were so successful they sold
out three times, Mr. Phillips •said.
While the mothers were re -filling the
coffeemaker, their children entertained
themselves playing in one of Mr. Phillip's
unique cars. •
Mr. Philips said as the morning sale
came to an end, people at the , different
booths traded gods and the sale ended
with an auction of anything still left on
. tables.
With the successful Chalk Street sale
behind him. Frank Phillips suggests maybe
the town could consider combininga
garage sale' with the Farmer's Market. -
next -time it's held in Victoria Park.,
The secret of the sale, according to its
organizer - to bargain, totaggle, to forget
about dollars and have ffan making a deal.
THE CHALK STREET. MARKET The residents of the south end of
Chalk Street turned their neighbourhood into a giant garage sale on
Saturday morning. There were 14 booths offering 'everything from fresh
baking tdantiqueures, crafts, and coffee and hot dogs. (Photo by
Gibb)
THE mirioN EXPOSITOR F 0000ER 2; 190
this united! stand /Aa(1, not been taken
earlier.
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Are these _views compatible with the
ideal of Christianity that the Mao dal.m.ttet
represent? No, they are'directly. opposite.
'MIEN TIMES ag gmak
When times are hard, as *they are in
Canada today, with unemployment,
uncertain econoinic conditions. and
galloping inflation.eonfronting us at every
turn, people lOolc for $ ornething to blame.
It is especially easy, with many new
immigrants living in our midst, to say that
they are taking all the jobs. and being
subsidized by our butclensome taxation.
We forget that threugh „their needs for
goods and services, immigrants are
actually improving our domestic market.
Each time the Ku Klux Klanlias been
rejuvenated in the USA. it has been in a
period of tough times, with Many new-
comers moving into areas or soldiers
returning from wat4-t-Vsw-elf the labour
force. Flow much influence does a small
group propagating a doctrine of dis-
criminati.on haed havg tOdaY?
PROJAEMS FrE103,...
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Problems with'ilcisin 040t in-coad4
today. We have the assimilitiOn of tile boat
people, the dissatisfaction of the native \41
Indian and Inuit,- the problemCaribbean
. people .in'TorOnto have with-jobk, housing
'and police. Strong feelings were aroused
by the self-determination issue in Quebec,
apd right nowa storm seems to be brewing
in Alberta. But we will deal with these
problemin a constructive fashion, without
resorting to the hatred and discriminatory
violence of fascism,. apartheid or the Ku
• Kiwi Klan.
So, Mr. McWhirter, you may return to
your business in Toronto. I doubt if you will
find your dream of a “lily-white reacist
*Canada" here. While we still have a few
iiroblems to overcome, Canadians on the
whole just don't have that much, hatred to
expend on such a Cause. ' - --
And please don't burn a" cross on my
lawn if I tell you I'm glad of your.
disappointment.
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