Trump to speak in the city that is known as the worldwide HQ of the KKK

[sboatcar]

Glendale AZ is known as the worldwide KKK HQ

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/aryan-nations-knights-of-the-ku-klux-klan-arizona-leader-david-miner-confirms-world-hq-in-metro-phoenix-13369058

He also spoke earlier this week in a city known as the Michigan HQ of the KKK.......is this just a coincidence?

[Ocelot II]

1. What city is that?

[sboatcar]

4. Glendale AZ is known as the KKK capital of the world

[Ocelot II]

5. Thanks, I didn't know that.

I always assumed it was somewhere in Alabama or Mississippi.

[FHRRK]

16. Birthplace of KKK is Noblesville, IN

Suburb of Indy.

[misanthrope]

18. Don't shortchange Pulaski, Tennessee

or Stone Mountain, Georgia for the resurgence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan

[AZSkiffyGeek]

24. It's not despite what the OP asserts

It's one asshole in an apartment selling CDs. If the story is even still current.

[former9thward]

45. And you would be right.

Glendale is not the KKK "capital". That is nonsense.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

19. As someone living in Glendale AZ about 5 miles from where their "Headquarters", this is news to me

I've NEVER seen any KKK activity here. From the article, some guy is selling CDs and propaganda out of his apartment. Doesn't seem like much of an operation. It's also two years old so maybe not that current information?
Harris spoke in Glendale two weeks ago - was she pandering to this dipshit in his apartment?

[Eliot Rosewater]

32. Is it possible the traitor and his campaign believe this is a

KKK hotspot and that’s why they’re going there, and they just didn’t bother to do any research?

You live there so you obviously know more about it than any of us.

At this point the traitor is clearly getting people together to start shooting for him.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

35. I'll grant that's possible...

I really think he's in a "crowd-size" measuring contest with Harris and that was his primary motivation.

[LeftInTX]

53. For Pete's Sake! He's going to Phoenix. Glendale is a suburb of Phoenix!

It's like me flying into O'Hare airport because of John Wayne Gacy who threw bodies in the Des Plaines River which runs along the airport.

[Renew Deal]

2. He thinks that there are more racists out there that aren't planning to vote

So he's going to the racists to sign them up. I think he's probably already maxed his share of the racists.

[brush]

3. What's the name of the city?

[haele]

10. Glendale, AZ.

The Aryan Nation used to be headquartered near Fallbrook, CA.
A lot of KKK moved West during the Depression to join those that came West to set up their frontier enclaves in the 1860's and 70's because they lost the Civil War and didn't want to have to legally treat former slaves like people.
Their remnants still linger in the hills and suburbs.

Haele

[Jerry2144]

11. That's why the red pockets

in the inland and northern parts of CA. The cancer of the Confederacy was not cured by the Civil War. It just metastasized into the KKK and then the Republiklan Party. This is the biggest reason why they oppose the DoEd and school integration. Children aren't dumb - if children are integrated and go to school together, they quickly realize skin color doesn't matter much just like shirt color doesn't. That racism has to be taught and reinforced at home.

[wnylib]

6. He's running out of cities that will let him hold rallies.

Also, he needs a location where he feels at home, with positive local support for him.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

20. That why Harris was in Glendale two weeks ago?

Is she only comfortable with support from white supremacists?
Or are you just trashing people who live in Glendale?

[tanyev]

7. Absolutely not a coincidence.

This is the man who just announced a gala to honor the insurrectionists of January 6th.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

21. So why did Harris hold one in Glendale two weeks ago?

Is she trying to honor insurrectionists also?

[Arne]

8. When I searched it showed Howell.

His bogus press conference surrounded by cops.
The town may be a sleeper cell.

[DeepWinter]

9. What?

Glendale AZ?

Never heard of that. Been there 5-6 times and always enjoyed the city..

[Ocelot II]

13. Seems to be true.

https://www.12news.com/article/news/history/kkk-arizona-history-headquarters-glendale-ku-klux-klan-phoenix/75-8f9d16fd-63f0-491a-898d-5dab9625890c

[lees1975]

12. Harris and Walz also spoke in Glendale.

It's where one of the Phoenix metro area's sports arenas is located. So it's probably a coincidence.

It's a majority minority population, only 43% white and about half the city is in Ruben Gallego's congressional district. It was actually the area of the state where Biden won the election.

[FHRRK]

17. Correct, heavily Hispanic population

Always has been, with the huge growth it has become a sprawling suburb.

[FHRRK]

14. Are you sure?

I grew up in Glendale, AZ.
Don’t recall it being the capital of the KKK.

Now I left in 85, and it was a place filled with ignorant RWers, but Capital? (We had a saying, where do you go for Culture in Glendale? To the grocery store yogurt aisle!)

Now Glendale, CA was a sundown town, city just north of downtown LA.

Finally, that rally Harris/Walz had in AZ, that was in Glendale.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

22. Apparently two years ago some KKK idiot lived in an apartment in Glendale and ran a mail order business from his apt

That's the "global headquarters". It's bullshit trying to paint Glendale residents as racists and ignoring that Harris held her biggest rally in the SAME FUCKING ARENA.

[Ocelot II]

25. Thanks for clearing that up.

There does seem to be some history, though. https://www.12news.com/article/news/history/kkk-arizona-history-headquarters-glendale-ku-klux-klan-phoenix/75-8f9d16fd-63f0-491a-898d-5dab9625890c

[AZSkiffyGeek]

27. I'm sure there are a lot of places that the KKK had activities in 100 years ago

This post just seems like scaremongering from people who don't know anything about Phoenix suburbs. Parts of Glendale are blood red. Other parts are blue.
I'm pretty sure the reason he chose this arena had to do with it being available and being the same place Harris went. I'm more curious about the size of his crowd (or lack thereof), and whether Cheryl Hines files for divorce after RFK endorses TSF.

[Ocelot II]

31. You're probably right. Most places have a few skeletons in their civic closets.

The Southern Poverty Law Center keeps track of hate groups and provides a handy map: https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map. They're everywhere.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

34. True. And there was plenty of segregation in the Phoenix area

Tempe is one of the more liberal towns in AZ today. It was a sundown town until the 60s. At the same time, South Phoenix was a burgeoning area for black culture - Louis Jordan lived there in the 50s and 60s. I have a friend whose mother in law went to a segregated high school here.

[FHRRK]

38. I grew up around Glendale Ave and I-17

Went to HS in late 70s

Phx was still basically a segregated city at that time. Majority of blacks lived in South Phx. Hispanics on West side. My HS was probably 75 percent white, 20 percent Hispanic, 5 percent other.

Glendale High had more Hispanics, Tempe High and Marcos De Niza in south Tempe a bit more integrated. Central Phx and Scottsdale very white.

Only thing I can recall in HS as being issues was Apollo High had to institute a no locker policy in 79 or 80 because the white kids were harassing the Mexican kids that lived in Public Housing near downtown Glendale.

Regardless, although there were some racist coaches, I can’t recall any open KKK kids or adults.

As the arena hosting the event doesn’t have any tenant after the Coyotes got booted, I expect both campaigns used it because it is the least expensive place in the Valley. Nothing more to it.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

39. I went to Greenway in the 80s

It was primarily white/Latino, I remember maybe four AA kids in school (and two were brother/sister) but it was never really racist. Nowadays Greenway is majority-minority I believe.
Agree about the arena mostly just being available, although I think in the case of Harris they probably needed the capacity as well - I belieive it is the largest indoor venue in the Phoenix area.

[FHRRK]

40. You were edge of town at the time

I went to Washington High, worked at the Gemco near you on Thunderbird and 43rd? 51st? In 78 thru 80

[AZSkiffyGeek]

41. I loved that Gemco!

I lived (well still do) at 47th and Cactus and used to bike to school through that big open field that is now ASU West. Used to stop at that Gemco on the way home and buy records.

[FHRRK]

42. LOL, forgot all about the record area right up in front of the store.

The place was a blast, tons of high school kids, some kids going to Glendale CC, and a handful of adults trying to keep us in line. And that was a Huge piece of land that was open for years. Greenway High was in our same league and I believe Glendale Union HS District. It was brand new school when I was at WHS, but it is bugging the hell out of me, can't remember the mascot. Sunnyslope Vikings, Cortez Colts, Apollo Hawks (with the live Hawk) Moon Valley Rockets, I am blanking on Glendale, (red and white) Greenway (green and gold) and Thunderbird (I believe blue and something) but it will hit me. Hell I am thinking I am missing another couple schools. I think it was St. Mary's and? I will be sitting up tonight going mile by mile North and street by street West to remember them all.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

43. Greenway Demons!

In 86 or so all the fundie parents from the local churches tried to force us to change the mascot because Satanic.

[FHRRK]

48. lol!

I went over to ASU, they were taking the same heat for Sun Devils. So they put up a poll in The State Press to replace the Sparky Mascot, too make the mascot more acceptable, bad idea, many of us wrote in Lucifer! Enough to barely squeak out a win.

Don’t tell me Thunderbird, I would have never got Demons.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

49. I don't remember Thunderbird either!

On the subject of evil mascots, a friend’s dad went to Devil’s Lake High in South Dakota (I think). Their mascot - the Devil’s Lake Satans! He spoke at the public hearings about our mascot and basically said the whole thing was stupid.

[lees1975]

46. I did my student teaching at Cortez in '79.

About half the students there lived in Glendale, half in Phoenix around Metrocenter and Dunlap and 35th ave. It was about 30% Latino, 70% white then, but I understand it's about 90% Latino now.

[FHRRK]

50. Yup, Cortez, Washington and Alhambra are all majority Hispanic

Go Alice Cooper.

[Permanut]

52. klan was VERY active in Portland Oregon in the 1920's.

[magicarpet]

15. trDUMP figures that the KKK, rabid white

... supremacists, and 18 to 45 young AmeriKKan Fascist males are the only remaining reliable voting blocks who will blindly and enthusiastically vote trDUMP/Vance 2024. So in the final months of the campaign cycle he intends to make this the primary focus of his campaign stops.

Charlie Kirk tagging along will attract the younger Fascist male voters and bring them in to the fold. Dragging the Orange Menace across the finish line and trDUMP will be declared the winner of the presidential derby for re-occupancy of the White people's White House with full and immediate enactment of the Nazi Manefesto - Progect 2025.

Go Team trDUMP ! Fuck America.

[edhopper]

23. Clear signaling

Like Reagan in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

[underpants]

29. You beat me to it

Post 28

[former9thward]

47. Glendale has nothing to do with the KKK.

Which is why the OP offered no link.

[flying_wahini]

26. I figured you were talking about Waco.

Then I remembered that he was already here for the David Koresh anniversary.

[underpants]

28. Reagan's first stop after getting his 1st nomination- Philadelphia Mississippi

On August 3, 1980, presidential candidate Ronald Reagan appeared at the Neshoba County Fair in Neshoba County, Mississippi, to give a speech on states' rights. The location, which was near the site of the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner was, according to critics, evidence of racial bias.

Eulogizing on Reagan's death, Washington Post columnist William Raspberry noted of the incident:
It was bitter symbolism for black Americans (though surely not just for black Americans). Countless observers have noted that Reagan took the Republican Party from virtual irrelevance to the ascendancy it now enjoys. The essence of that transformation, we shouldn't forget, is the party's successful wooing of the race-exploiting Southern Democrats formerly known as Dixiecrats. And Reagan's Philadelphia appearance was an important bouquet in that courtship.[12]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan%27s_1980_States%27_rights_speech

[lees1975]

30. Arizona does have some political quirks that make it look politically backward.

It actually has been politically backward, but the growth in population, with large numbers of people from the Northeast and West Coast have caused a shift.

But Glendale's population is not reflective of the presence of a KKK "office" headquarters or mailbox location. It's an inner, older suburb with 250,000 mostly Latino people and its votes in 2020 helped Biden carry Maricopa County and the state. The southern half of the city lies in Ruben Gallego's congressional district that has been perpetually Democratic for quite a while now.

[brush]

33. I've always heard Pulaski, Tennessee was the kkk was founded after the Civil War by some losing reb veterans.

[kimbutgar]

36. I was in Glendale AZ in December 2020

Was in a grocery store and a man in a maga hat came up to me and said Covid was a hoax and I don’t need to wear a mask. I said, I had a sore throat, a bad cough and felt achy but ok I’ll take off my mask. As I did I started “fake coughing” and the guy turned away from me and took off. My husband and son were in a different part of the store and when he found me he laughed so loud when I told him what just happened. Back in the car we continued laughing and told my Mother in law about it who also had a good laugh !

[AKwannabe]

37. Welp. If he goes to Harrison, Arkansas next

The pattern will have established itself.
But one can probably assume already it is a dying gasp for bigot racist fuck tRump.

[LeftInTX]

51. Glendale is a suburb of Phoenix.

Trump's Phoenix rallies always attract alot of racists, but it's the 5th largest city in the US, so there is plenty of room of everything. Also many travel from rural areas to his Phoenix rallies.

[fishwax]

54. *known* by whom? It's part of the Phoenix metro and is home to the stadium where the NFL's Arizona Cardinals play

I don't think it's really known as the worldwide HQ of the KKK--certainly not widely known.