The Official OpKKK HoodsOff 2015 Data Release is linked in the article.The hackivist collective Anonymous released a much-anticipated list of people it claims are members or supporters of the Ku Klux Klan on Thursday night.
The group targeted the KKK in the wake of Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, Missouri.
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Hackers spent 11 months gathering information on the alleged members, the group said, going to great lengths to confirm the identities as best as possible. They used public data and academic records as well as interviews with both experts and some of the KKK members themselves.
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"We hope Operation KKK will, in part, spark a bit of constructive dialogue about race, racism, racial terror and freedom of expression, across group lines," the group said. "The reality is that racism usually does NOT wear a hood but it does permeate our culture on every level. Part of the reason we have taken the hoods off of these individuals is not because of their identities, but because of what their hoods symbolize to us in our broader society."
Huffington Post
The following video clip of Muhammad Ali answering the meme "all white people aren't racists" is currently circulating widely. (Click the picture to get there.)
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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