Ku Klux Klan provoked into attack on black settlement – exclusive statement from Imperial Wizard
Dateline - Birmingham, Alabama 1921By Star reporter Hiram Jones
The Alabama Star can exclusively reveal today the real reasons for the violence that erupted between Negroes and white residents in Birmingham Tuesday last.
State troopers were called in to quell the disturbances, which led to the hospitalisation of several white men for minor injuries.
Hundreds of homes were also destroyed in the small Negro enclave of Back Beach and two lynchings of suspected ring leaders took place. Now for the first time, and in a Star exclusive!, Klan Imperial Wizard Hiram Jones has issued a communiqué to explain the incident that sparked the righteous vengeance of whites.
Hiram Jones - Imperial Wizard
As is well known – every year, and dressed in our traditional garb of white Christian penitents, the Aryan brethren assert their right to walk the free highways of our wonderful country. A country that was dragged from its prime evil state by the blood sweat and tears of the White Man. The Great God on High entrusted this sacred role to us whites and we glory in this honour. Shirk it we shan't.
Now in the annual sacrosanct training of some of our younger Klansmen in cross burning, speechifying and disciplined marching, we observed a group of Negro youths near Back Beach who failed to stop walking and pay us our rightful respects as we marched by. It gets worse my good people of Alabama. When one of our most honoured female sisters in Christ re-monstrated, these said niggers began stone throwing and had the audacity to cross the road ahead of our march. Now everybody in Alabama is aware that, in accordance with State law, none of our pro-cessions may be mo-lested in this way so a decision was taken to remind those niggers in Back Beach of the natural order of things in our country. This is also a warning to all the Communists, Anarchists, Jews, Roman Catholics and general rapers of our womanfolk out there who are being allowed to infest our country to sneak back to their rat holes before our righteous retribution falls upon them. To this e-fect, we, the Grand Wizards of the Klan, have agreed an annual monster march, A Grand Tour of the South, that will have the purpose of galvanising a new Crusade against the h-infidels and putrefied ranks of the Anti-Christ.
God Bless America
End of communiqué
Meanwhile, in a hastily convened press conference, Birmingham County Sherriff Calum Knox pronounced himself pleased with the assembled reporters and national press for having reported the truth of what happened at Back Beach. That there was fault on both sides and it was irresponsible to apportion blame. We just need to get the economy moving and get back to normality as God fearing good people, he said.
However, the general understanding and empathy amongst the gentlemen of the Press in this delicate situation was soured slightly when a New York reporter who was obviously of Jewish extraction - bespectacled with tight curly hair and eyes too close together – began to heckle the Sherriff and insisted on asking a question. Let’s hang him by his own words good readers:
“Has there ever been an occasion where black people have ritually dressed in paramilitary uniforms, assembled in military formations and attacked a white area with bombs and cudgels in order to assert their supremacy? And if not, how can the violence at Back Beach be attributed to both sides?"
Before the sheriff could raise his revolver, this alleged reporter (who is obviously nothing of the sort but rather a communistic infiltrator) was bundled from the press conference by deputies (sworn in post facto) who took him away for questioning.
HJ – Alabama Star
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