Kickass and the KKK

Kickass, the doorstop dog, joins the keeper in pointing to the fact that as recent as 2004, in the wake of the civil rights movement, there were at least three chapters of the Ku Klux Klan in Wisconsin; and that back in the 1920’s, the “glory” years of the Klan, there was a “KKK Honorary Junior Society” at the University of Wisconsin.

The KKK emerged powerfully in Wisconsin in the 1920’s with its intent to use violence to keep “peace” in immigrant communities, such as Madison’s “Bush,” populated largely by Italian Catholics.

The obvious question is: Does anyone really think the genetic remnants of the Wisconsin KKK have been purged from the state’s mindset?  Expand the inquiry to include southern locals, and the answer is as plain as those pointed white dunce caps against fiery, cross-burning backgrounds.

The KKK racism, white-superiority base, in Kickass’s estimation, is like an infestation of tenacious bloodsucking ticks: you can scratch at its itching, but it will be with you so long as you have blood.

Kickass, with his vast scratching experience, says that about all the keeper and his ilk can do is scratch more vigorously and with better itch targeting.