{"id":18405,"date":"2010-04-06T09:08:35","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T14:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=18405"},"modified":"2010-04-06T09:08:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T14:08:35","slug":"potok-disproves-his-own-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18405","title":{"rendered":"Potok disproves his own report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been hearing for years from Mark Potok and the Southern Poverty Law Center about the rise of &#8220;hate groups&#8221; in the country. So in his &#8220;Hate Watch&#8221; column today we find Potok asking the question &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/05\/what-if-they-gave-a-klan-rally-and-nobody-came\/\">What if They Gave a Klan Rally and Nobody Came?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This Saturday, the Church of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan \u2014 a once-powerful organization that in 1960 coordinated more than 1,000 simultaneous cross burnings in a frightening display of Southern resistance to desegregation \u2014 held a rally in Gloverdale, S.C. It was attended by a single Klansman: state leader Tim Bradley.<\/p>\n<p>Not making an appearance were the 1,000 people from four states that a confederate of Bradley\u2019s had predicted. A promised speech never materialized, only endless rounds of Bradley giving interviews to local reporters while some 100 curiosity-seekers looked on. And the 30 or so Klansmen who Bradley said were headed to the rally that day? Well, they got lost on the way from North Carolina. Bradley kept telling reporters his comrades were about to arrive. But they never did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, if Potok&#8217;s predictions of racist groups multiplying and gaining strength, and, oh, the connections between hate groups, Tea Party activists and militias were true, wouldn&#8217;t the Klan meeting be well-attended? I guess Potok doesn&#8217;t recognize irony when it sits on his stupid face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been hearing for years from Mark Potok and the Southern Poverty Law Center about the &hellip; <a title=\"Potok disproves his own report\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=18405\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Potok disproves his own report<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-splc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}