Klan

In the U.S., it just so happened that the Afro-Americans were more despised than the Jews. It was the other way around during Lemkin's boyhood. Although the Klan was openly anti-Semitic, they reserved the brunt of their terrorist activities for the minority group that was largest in number, and thus posed the biggest threat - Afro-Americans. The quote below demonstrates the extent of their extremely specific INTENT. Once again, I am reiterating Lemkin's view that if these views are made public and the nation's government does nothing about it, that governing body is as guilty as the vigilante group that is perpetrating the genocidal crimes. What Lemkin made quite clear in his statements about the matter is that he had no idea of the extent of the involvement of state and local police, and the judicial system. Yet, there were plenty of people who were trying their very best to educate him on these matters. He merely ignored them. My thoughts on his aversion to this issue are that the case of the Afro-Americans looked too much like a human rights issue and not enough like genocide to Lemkin. At that time there was a significant threat to the genocide convention being presented by those who were in favor of delaying the genocide convention for two years until the human rights convention convened. This greatly distressed Lemkin, and he fought very hard to prevent this from happening.

From "We Charge Genocide" (page 17, 18). "Typical, too, of speeches heard on many street corners in Southern cities, was that of Homer Loomis, Jr., leader of the Columbians, a racist vigilante organization chartered by the state of Georgia, on the corner of Stovall Street and Flatshoals Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia, on October 1, October 1. "We don't want anybody to join," he said, "who's not ready to get out and kill n ------ rs and Jews." Two days later at a meeting of the Columbians at 198 1/2 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Loomis said, "There is no end to what we can do through the ballot. If we want to bury all n ------ rs in the sand, if we will organize white Gentiles politically to combat the Jew and n ------ r blocs, we can pass laws enabling us to bury all n ------ rs in the sand." During the same year, Loomis told the Imperial Kloncilium of the Ku Klux Klan, East Point Klavern, Georgia, "We propose that all n ------ rs in America be shipped back to Africa with time-bombs on board the ship as an economy measure."