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Why Did the Ku Klux Klan Burn Crosses?
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The Ku Klux Klan burnt crosses because they just wanted to intimidate the minority, who were not a part of them. The cross burning was also part of their rituals to identify themselves as the superior and pure race, and to slate the other organizations as fake and not authentic, e.g. The Catholics.
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The Klu Klux Klan burn crosses as a symbol of their faith and belief. They do this a symbol of terrorizing their victims. They were originally found in 1866.
The Klu Klux Klan, in early twentieth century, burnt crosses on hillsides or near the homes of those people that they wished to intimidate. Members of the Klan say that burning of the cross is a symbol of the Klan members' faith.
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The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866. The ritual of burning a cross was to rally troops to battle and used as a symbol of defiance against their rivals.
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They will tell you it is not a cross. I know a cross when I see one. It is because that brother Jesus Christ was a North African brother.
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The KKK burned crosses to show that they were true Christian White Men, and thus the Chosen Few who they claim were told by Jesus to hate Jews, Blacks, Women, any one with a High
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In Scotland the "fiery cross", known as the Crann Tara,
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