Kappa Alpha Order

[KABubbles97]

Originally Posted by Kevin

Every southern fraternity has skeletons in its closet.

So now it's 2010, we should care about what's going on right now.

That said, bragging about not having any members in the KKK? I hope this isn't a recent accomplishment.

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...

[Kevin]

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...

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.

[DSTRen13]

The impression that I got from his post was that at his school, there ARE fraternity members who are active in the KKK, just none in his chapter. The KKK has the "white trash skinhead" style members you mention (although these types do seem more likely to join neo-Nazi groups than the KKK), and it also has the (far more dangerous, IMO) college-educated, more "average Joe" style members. So in an area where this is the image of KKK members, and members are known to join fraternities, I can see why he would state it as selling point for his chapter on his campus.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by KABubbles97

i was defending my fraternity from the previous statement that our founders were in the kkk..

And if this had been a currently active thread, or if you had at least mentioned (or quoted) the 9-year-old post you were responding to, we might have caught that's what you were doing. But it looked like you just bumped a really old thread just to announce that you don't have members in the KKK.