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Originally Posted by KABubbles97
what i was saying is that KA has no association with the KKK...
i was defending my fraternity from the previous statement that our founders were in the kkk.. if they were.. there is no record of them being in it and also.. the KKK was formed in 1866.. KA in 1865...
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I appreciate that. Lots of folks were members of the KKK back in the day. Especially in the South. It is likely that many of the founders of the fraternities of the Lexington Triad were at some point affiliated with the KKK. Heck.. my great great grandfather on my mother's side was definitely a member, probably on my father's side too. It was a pretty common thing back in those days, and at least here in Oklahoma, the KKK was at its zenith back in the 1920s. I'm not proud of it, but things were what they were.
That said, no one cares. I'm always happy to give free history lessons, but I *highly* doubt our founders were big believers in racial equality. Sigma Nu's founders fought for the Confederacy, I assume yours did as well since they came out of Lexington and revere Robert E. Lee as they do.
My own organization was very publicly hostile to racial integration as recently as the late 1960s. In fact, it was against our highest law to initiate blacks. That was 50 years ago though. Times change, organizations change. And I'm quite sure both Kappa Alpha Order and Sigma Nu have changed.
Bottom line -- just stop advertising that you don't have members who are currently active in the damn KKK. Everyone *should* assume this since it is hopefully not your practice to initiate white trash skinhead white supremacists. If people don't assume right off the bat that you are KKK-free, then you're doing something seriously wrong.
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