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So in may of 1927 a thousand klansmen and some assorted fascists marched in queens in new york city and ultimately rioted and fought with police. nobody was killed. there was a lot of news coverage of it at the time, which survives both from the "the new york times," from the brooklyn daily eagle, a few other papers. the police commissioner at the time made a point of telling the public that this was kind of a landmark moment for the klan in new york city. it's not that he didn't know that the klan was active in new york city, it's just that new york city had never before seen a thousand klans...

Survives both from the "the new york times," from the brooklyn daily eagle, a few other papers. the police commissioner at the time made a point of telling the public that this was kind of a landmark moment for the klan in new york city. it's not that he didn't know that the klan was active in new york city, it's just that new york city had never before seen a thousand klansmen turn out in the streets in robes and masks like they did in may 1927. according to news reports at the time, there were seven men arrested at that klan march in new york, one of them was fred trump, the father of donald...

Happened, never happened. never happened. the whole thing is made up. but there is contemporaneous news coverage that both describes and shows pictures of that mass klan march, including klansmen marching in new york city in hoods and robes and his father's name does show up as one of the arrestees from that march. and the sins of the father are not the sins of the son. for anybody. but that is not a reason to ignore history and pretend that everything that's happening in our lifetimes is happening for the first time. i mean we think of the klan now in terms of its role as a terrorist organiza...