I hate to doubt the word of any Hebraic author, but this story is at great variance with mainstream history. Yes, here I am citing the mainstream, but you've got to throw a hell of a lot of stuff out to buy Goldstein's version. For those interested in the details, there's a discussion of the claim here:
More crucial, I would argue, is the larger context of the claim itself, of which few are aware and which I will describe here. That is, the KKK was dead and buried within a decade of it's founding. And it remained buried for forty years.
Here I would interject the hypothesis that the "KKK" was reanimated as a social engineering operation, which it remains to this day. As to the founding of the "Second Klan", anyone involved in the first version would have been an old man or dead.
You'll find that this new KKK (which dropped all reference the original, surprise) was kicked off by promotion in the movie, "The Birth of a Nation". In turn, you find that movie was financed by Jewish merchants from Boston. Are we getting the picture?
So maybe it's not such a mysterious coincidence after all that this legend is being promoted by a Jewish author.
I hate to doubt the word of any Hebraic author, but this story is at great variance with mainstream history. Yes, here I am citing the mainstream, but you've got to throw a hell of a lot of stuff out to buy Goldstein's version. For those interested in the details, there's a discussion of the claim here:
Was Albert Pike a founder of the KKK? (r/AskHistorians 8/22/2017)
More crucial, I would argue, is the larger context of the claim itself, of which few are aware and which I will describe here. That is, the KKK was dead and buried within a decade of it's founding. And it remained buried for forty years.
Here I would interject the hypothesis that the "KKK" was reanimated as a social engineering operation, which it remains to this day. As to the founding of the "Second Klan", anyone involved in the first version would have been an old man or dead.
You'll find that this new KKK (which dropped all reference the original, surprise) was kicked off by promotion in the movie, "The Birth of a Nation". In turn, you find that movie was financed by Jewish merchants from Boston. Are we getting the picture?
So maybe it's not such a mysterious coincidence after all that this legend is being promoted by a Jewish author.