A middle school assignment asked students to justify the actions of the KKK

I am wondering if the teacher was trying to get the students to look at both sides of the controversy instead of just one side. My uncle by marriage lived in Oklahoma in the first half of the 1900's and he absolutely hated the Klan, he was once offered a card by someone who was a Klan member and when he said "you go to hell!" the man replied "Oh sorry, heard you was a good ole boy". However my uncle did say that the Klan was trying to get white men to stop abusing their wives by coming home drunk, spending the money that should have gone to feeding and clothing the family (ragged children), and being violent to their families by riding out on horseback with torches and pulling the errant husband out of his bed and beating the crap out of them and telling them to straighten up and treat the family right. He said they either got the fear in them and straightened up or they left the area...if they left and abandoned their family then society would take care of the family.

Of course this is, its just trying to get a kid to use some critical thinking skills. "Know your enemy"

I cannot believe anyone is as stupid as to put this on facebook and make a big deal out of it. Idiots.

Having been thoroughly discredited the democrats have moved on from supporting the KKK to supporting antifa. Same concept same effect only the names and the players have changed.

I wonder what this KKK member would have thought had he come to during all this.

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Can a young person know the motivation of KKK members and argue it sound? I can't and I'm a young adult.

I have family in Columbia, SC....my little cousin better not be doing any assignment like this.

The word "justify" is not on that paper in a context that would be a problem…

Since there has been a resurgence of white supremacists there are likely still folks around with that mindset who [b]would[/b] try to justify what the KKK's supposed "purpose" was. This is part of a history that actually hasn't gone away. So instead of being scared and trying not to talk about it, it should be faced.

Teaching kids to think in different ways is edifying. I had an English teacher who was into that. But since she was PC on steroids, [i]this[/i] is not an example of a new way she'd have us think