Klansman

Again remember I am rebuilding my mind from absolute zero, almost.  Yeah still only one memory, apparently of no value though.

I have been reading through old magazines, tearing out pictures and articles of interest.  So in the Jan/Feb 2013 of The Saturday Evening Post is an article entitled, "Portrait of a Klansman".

Nice photo of a guy in a living-room, holding rifle with a Mauser style action.  A few other adults and toddlers round it out.  Brings no problem to my mind, until you remember that the article is about Klansmen.  So it seems Klansmen love guys, play with guns, show them off the guys, win guns in contests, give toy guns to children - etc.  Obviously written by someone with firearm issues, they would probably complain about knives too!  Sigh ...

But, it triggered a memory of living in South Carolina, in the "heart of the KKK country" as the 30 foot billboard announced as you drove into town.  And they were quite active with calling up integrated schools with bomb threats, stopping school buses and lighting them up, and generally terrorizing the town.  So many memories - so much unhappiness!

No, no love here for bigots in my life!  Hence, the source of many of my issues with my Family!   Prejudice should really be the family's last name of the American side!  Thank God my Plattner aunts and uncle are what I call normal!  Of course living in a small country surrounded by many nations leaves little room for prejudice.

Interestingly, God does not think much those whom think more of themselves than they should, or less of others than they deserve ...