Elias Hill claims that, “then they hit me with their fists…struck me again with their fists…they said I had no honor, and hit me again”. The KKK believed that in order to deal with them was to terrorize them. This seemed like the right thing to do for the whites because the blacks were basically surpassing them in power. They went on assaulting blacks, raiding and destroying homes, schools, and churches to prove who actually had authority. This notion that whites are superior to the blacks was seen through all the violence and criminal acts performed on them. Whites not only did this to put a halt to the uprising power of the blacks but to maintain their power. They believed their race was superior to everybody else; “Don’t you pray against Ku-Klux, but pray that God may forgive Ku-Klux”. This shows that this organization believed it was doing the right thing by killing the blacks and eliminating
Elias Hill claims that, “then they hit me with their fists…struck me again with their fists…they said I had no honor, and hit me again”. The KKK believed that in order to deal with them was to terrorize them. This seemed like the right thing to do for the whites because the blacks were basically surpassing them in power. They went on assaulting blacks, raiding and destroying homes, schools, and churches to prove who actually had authority. This notion that whites are superior to the blacks was seen through all the violence and criminal acts performed on them. Whites not only did this to put a halt to the uprising power of the blacks but to maintain their power. They believed their race was superior to everybody else; “Don’t you pray against Ku-Klux, but pray that God may forgive Ku-Klux”. This shows that this organization believed it was doing the right thing by killing the blacks and eliminating