by Jamelle Bouie
The Nation<\/p>\n
Writing at the New York Times, historian Kevin Boyle has created something of a stir with his review of two recent books on the Ku Klux Klan. Here is the lede of the piece, which also doubles as the offending passage:<\/p>\n
Imagine a political movement created in a moment of terrible anxiety, its origins shrouded in a peculiar combination of manipulation and grass-roots mobilization, its ranks dominated by Christian conservatives and self-proclaimed patriots, its agenda driven by its members\u2019 fervent embrace of nationalism, nativism and moral regeneration, with more than a whiff of racism wafting through it.<\/p>\n
No, not that movement.<\/p>\n