John Abarr told the Great Falls Tribune he's ready to shed his white supremacist ways and has started a new KKK group called the Rocky Mountain Knights, which doesn't drop its KKK label but at the same time won't discriminate against race, religion or sexual orientation.
Abarr claims his opinions have changed over the years, the Great Falls Tribune reported. Last year he met with the NAACP to discuss how the two organizations can co-exist peacefully, and said he does not promote racial violence, despite the KKK's history.
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Rachel Carroll-Rivas, co-director of the Montana Human Rights Network, told ABC News that Abarr is a known white supremacist and said she doesn't believe he's really reformed. He once ran a failed race for Congress, has distributed racist flyers and even once suggested the northwest become a homeland for the white race, she said.
\"He's still using the label and engaging in the ritual of using the hoods and robes and not apologizing for the hurt he's done in Montana,\" she said. \"I don't take his message of reform seriously.\"
\"I just think it's a ridiculous publicity stunt,\" she said. \"The only thing [the KKK] has ever done is discriminate. It's the oldest domestic terrorist organization in the U.S. It's done nothing but make life miserable for minorities so this idea that Jews or minorities could join ... it's absurd.\"
\"Our main question is, why is it that white, gentile Americans cannot have a paternal organization without someone trying to tear it down? Sounds like discrimination to me. I don't see diversity there. Everyone wants the Ku Klux Klan to have diversity and tolerance, yet no one wants to have tolerance for us,\" Jenkins said.
Rachel Pendergraft, a spokesperson for The Knights Party, said the KKK has long allowed non-whites to become official supporters of the Klan, as long as they share the same beliefs. But she said it would be foolish for Abarr to allow people in interracial relationships into a group associated with the KKK.
John Abarr of Great Falls claims he is a reformed man, which is why he's started a new KKK group called the Rocky Mountain Knights. Though he won't say exactly how many members this new KKK group has, the organization will not discriminate against people because of race, religion or sexual orientation.
Though he's long been involved in white supremacy organizations growing up in Wyoming and Montana, Abarr claims his opinions have slowly evolved. Last year he met with members of the NAACP in Casper, Wyo. It has inspired him to organize a peace summit with the NAACP and other religious groups in the summer of 2015.
But officials at the Montana Human Rights Network are suspicious about Abarr's latest move. Rachel Carroll-Rivas, co-director of MHRN, said Abarr doesn't need to use the KKK to form a more inclusive organization.
Abarr said his chapter of the KKK is a fraternal organization seeking members who want to fight against a "new world order" or a one-world government, which he is afraid the federal government is trying to achieve.
Jimmy Simmons, one of the NAACP representatives who met with Abarr last year, believes he probably is trying to reform. If Abarr holds a peace summit next summer, Simmons said he would "take a strong look" at joining.
Abarr just hopes people will give him a chance. If they get to know him, he said people will see his views have changed and he's ready to form a different KKK. He claims to have members from Billings, Havre, Great Falls and parts of western Montana joining the Rocky Mountain Knights. If anyone wants to join his organization, they just need to be 18 and live in the Pacific Northwest.
Carroll-Rivas said even with Abarr adapting a more tolerant viewpoint, she's still suspicious about the 'new world order' statement, which she said has roots in anti-Semitism. MHRN was formed in the late 1980s in responses to white supremacy groups popping up in Montana. Carroll-Rivas said Abarr's name and the history of organizations he has belonged to are well-known to her organization.
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I write to request that the Community Relations Service provide assistance to the residents of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, and other affected communities responding to the actions of the Traditional American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Last week, several residents of Camp Hill called on the Traditional American Knights to institute a neighborhood watch in Camp Hill like that in Fairview Township. The leader of the organization confirmed that a neighborhood watch was under consideration for Camp Hill. Given the historical context surrounding the KKK, it is critical that communities faced with a KKK presence receive all available federal assistance in determining how best to respond to these actions.
No American should live in fear of harassment or violence on the basis of race. I request that your office maintain involvement in Fairview Township and offer advice and assistance to the community of Camp Hill in determining how to address the Traditional American Knights of the KKK and ensure that all members of the community feel safe from discrimination. Thank you for your attention to my concerns, and I look forward to your response.
I recently viewed an episode of Gangland on The History Channel. This particular show, which documents the rise of the younger members of the Imperial Klan of America (or KKK), really roused my anger. I thought, "How could people be so ignorant and foolish?" Can't they just accept that the United States has always been an ethnically, religiously, and ideologically diverse country? More specifically, how can these Klan members fail to understand and appreciate that, from its inception, the U.S. was an immigrant nation? These "nativists" themselves are sons and daughters of immigrant parents.
Diana Eck, scholar of religion at Harvard University, writes in her book A New Religious America, "Today, right here in the U.S., we have the opportunity to create a vibrant and hopeful pluralism, in a world of increasing fragmentation where there are few models for a truly pluralistic, multireligious society." With the millions of foreign-born individuals gracing our country and enriching our lives, the U.S. can indeed lead the way in this vital effort. The several recent immigrant rallies across our country demonstrate how beautiful it is when people from all walks of life unite around a single issue, immigration reform. Justice, they say, is long overdue for the children of migrants, exploited workers, and all those who face the hardships inherent in crossing borders.
But hate groups like the Klan, obsessed with the fantasy of eliminating non-white and non-Protestant peoples, represent the ugly side of our country. They seem especially to dislike Jews, Latinos/as, and blacks. Their Web site bluntly states, "The IKA hates: Muds, spics, kikes and niggers. This is our God given right! In no way do we advocate violence. We believe in educating our people to the monopolistic Jewish control of the world's banks, governments, and media." Through pamphlets, the internet, and physical recruitment, KKK members continue spreading their virulent stereotypes about the "Other." 152ee80cbc
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