Who Is Patriot Front And Why Are Folks Calling Them The ‘New Klan?’

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If an idea is ignored and left to its own devices, it will morph into something more suitable for the times.

Patriot Front marches in Boston (MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images)

The KKK has been reincarnated and they call themselves the Patriot Front.

Everyone has heard about stories of the Klu Klux Klan and how they terrorized Black people throughout this nation.

Some tend to believe the klan is dead, but you cannot kill an idea, you can only hope to replace it with better ones. If the idea is ignored and left to its own devices, it will morph into something more suitable for the times.

White supremacists treat their racism like a pair of hand-me-down trousers. The racism looks good on their older brothers, but when it gets passed down, it doesn’t quite fit the same or look nearly as trendy.

So, like pants, they take their racism to the tailor, trim a bit from the waistline, hem an inch or two from the length, and come out looking like fresh new racists, with the same old hateful rhetoric.

The latest group to try on a fresh new pair of KKK trousers is the hate group known as the Patriot Front. 

These baby klansmen were recently in the news after dozens of Patriot Group members marched through the streets of Boston on Saturday with shields in their hands and white masks covering their faces. According to NBC Boston, the group also allegedly attacked a Black man during their rally.

Find out more about Patriot Front.

ABHM founder Dr. Cameron protested against groups like these.

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