Organizationally speaking, and to the awareness of most Americans, the Ku Klux Klan and the Mainstream Media are completely different in structure and national image, but after recent events one has to search hard for any differences where it pertains to purpose and mission statement. Surely, the two cannot be that much alike seeing the civility of American society.

At one time, the KKK was set at a distance from the more intellectual clique of American elitism, those who are poised in Western academia from behind the Ivy walls of American education. And anyone could agree that the level of education does make a difference when comparing two minds. The more proper whites claimed that the KKK mind-set was one of ignorance and uncouth, and should be fed with a long handle spoon. This type thinking did not fit into the social circles of the elite and never can compare intellectually. For the elite are of a sophisticated mind above primitivism and underdeveloped thinking toward mankind.

One difference between the two is that the KKK will blatantly spew their doctrine before men while marching down the street..."We hate Blacks, Jews, and anyone not of the Euro persuasion!" It is this type doctrine the elitist desire to separate from, for it is appalling to think men still think this way. Diversity and melting pot is the ideology of the great American society. Pay those heathens no mind.

The media on the other hand, does not proclaim their doctrine that way, so openly and blatantly. Their organization is structured in such a way that the educational institutions have taught them to refrain from such blatant bigotry in public and to discipline thyself like civilized people using political correctness. Use the appropriate words when expressing yourself and never say things that would offend those in question.

The KKK, however, does not care who they offend when they begin measuring their whiteness and superiority against people of other skin colors. Neither are they ashamed of the pictures they display about Blacks, Jews, and anyone else not "white." They proudly fly their confederate flag, display their lawn jockeys, and collect their mammy memorabilia for show in their homes. Not the Media though.

There is clearly a difference of expression when the media plays the game. Unlike the KKK, the media does not march down the street yelling and displaying racist terms and pictures, no. They use the medium given to them by the power structure in the country, the FCC via television. Because pictures say a thousand words, and some words are better left unsaid, the media graduates are more subtle with their feelings toward Blacks, Jews (well not Jews), and anyone not "white." They make up alternative words besides "niggers."

They do not necessarily say that all Blacks are welfare leaches that they hate or that Blacks are thieves, crooks, and drug users, no. They show pictures that imply these things and they use words that would otherwise suggest such behavior. So yes, the media is quite different from the KKK. And don't you ever forget it.

© September 2005 by CR Hamilton