Cross Burnings Quotes

“While Jim kept pitching God, Race and Nation, Velma showed me snapshots of her grandchildren. She talked about her crafts shop, the macramé she'd made for Christmas, and an upcoming cross-burning she hoped to attend. Before going, Velma had to pass an exam that would qualify her for full citizenship in the Realm. "It's like a driver's test where they try and foul you up," she said. "I need to know the whole book of knowledge. Like if someone asks, 'Why do we hate Jews?' I didn't know before, but I found out. It was Jews that put Christ on the cross."

If she passed the exam--and avoided Klan infractions, such as committing a felony or sleeping with a black man--Velma would don a satin hood and robe for the cross-burning, which marked her full "naturalization" into the Klan.”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War