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It’s not uncommon for people to try and claim that the Civil War wasn’t fought over slavery. They’re wrong but that doesn’t stop them. Georgia State Rep. Tommy Benton however has taken this to a whole new level by claiming the the Klu Klux Klan wasn’t about racism.
The Klan “was not so much a racist thing but a vigilante thing to keep law and order,” he said.
“It made a lot of people straighten up,” he said. “I’m not saying what they did was right. It’s just the way things were.
In the same interview Benton called one of his colleagues, State Rep. Vincent Fort, a “fanatic” for sponsoring legislation that would prohibit Georgia from formally celebrating holidays honoring the long defunct Confederacy. Benton also compared Fort to ISIS.
