W. Kamau Bell meets the KKK in United Shades of America
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W. Kamau Bell heads down south to meet with members of the Ku Klux Klan looking to rebrand their message.
In his own words: “I’m getting email from the Ku Klux Klan. It’s OK though. It’s totally my fault, because I’m the one who went and paid them a visit. I even went to a cross lighting. (They don’t call it a cross burning, like the rest of us.) And it all happened in the first episode of my CNN show “United Shades of America”. The idea behind the series is to send an African-American comedian to places that you wouldn’t expect him to go or to places where he absolutely shouldn’t go.”
Follow comedian and political gadfly W. Kamau Bell as he explores the far corners of our country and its various groups and subcultures.
0:00 “Maybe I should talk to the Ku Klux Klan”
2:07 A quick history of the Klan
3:20 Bell and his crew meet an imperial wizard
8:42 Bell gets invited to a Kentucky cross burning
11:32 Bell sits down with Klan members
17:42 Harrison, Arkansas still has an active KKK presence
18:30 Not everyone in Harrison agrees with the Klan
24:44 The man trying to rebrand the Klan
29:55 Bell meets a former neo-Nazi who’s now teaching children
38:18 Bell witnesses a cross burning
Originally broadcast in April 2016.
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