[PeterPrinciple]

The reason? Simkins was not only a legal educator at UT from 1899-1929. He and his brother were members of the Ku Klux Klan during a period in which it terrorized black communities through lynchings and shootings and dozens of murders.

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Stupid people get their history from the movies. The KKK was against a lot of things......................

[r9etb]

Stupid people get their history from the movies. The KKK was against a lot of things......................

And if the guy boasted about it in print .... what then?

[wideawake]

The KKK was against a lot of things......................

They sure were. Like Jews and Catholics.

From the offered quote, this Simkins character seems like a particularly cowardly and despicable example of a Democrat.