Subject: Ku Klux Klan

• Minuteman's Time Up

  Certain students at Columbia University are none too fond of Jim Gilchrist. Yesterday the former accountant and OC native's speech was interrupted by protesters storming the stage, where some sort of fracas broke out. Though many news accounts suggest that Gilchrist himself was attacked, he appears to have been escorted offstage with the quickness; perhaps they mean he was attacked in the ideological sense? FOLLOW THIS LINK to see eyewitness video of the protest, courtesy of the Columbia Univers

  October 5, 2006

• OCC Excommunicates the Pledge

  In a meeting on Wednesday night, Orange Coast College student trustees voted to ban the Pledge of Allegiance from their meetings, citing an incompatibility between nationwide submission to God and justice for all. Student trustee Jason Bell explained his position to Reuters: "That [under God] part is sort of offensive to me. I am an atheist and a socialist, and if you know your history, you know that 'under God' was inserted during the McCarthy era and was directly designed to destroy my ideol

  November 10, 2006

• Who is David Duke's Favorite Orange Countian?

  *Updated below . . . Why, none other than our favorite non-racist white supremacist, of course! Martin Millard has made a name for himself in extremist circles thanks to rants against the "Tan Everyman," drawn local ire due to his influence over Costa Mesa Mayor Allan Mansoor, and even garnered attention from the Southern Poverty Law Center. Millard's been on a writing tear as of late thanks to the proposed amnesty bill currently in the Senate. He's not happy with it—indeed, he calls i

  May 24, 2007

• The Acting-Loving Jack Anderson

  The county is still abuzz about the failed jewelry heist at the Shops at Mission Viejo that left an idiot in a bad wig dead and the Orange County Sheriff Department investigating its own since two deputies shot the guy. Given that Kirk Christian Knight (just one letter removed from KKK!) fired at the deputies, this latest death under OCSD watch is much more justified than, say, the John Chamberlain affair. But what's been the strangest development so far is the visibility of acting sheriff Jack

  March 11, 2008

• Orange County Founded by KKK?

  In preparing for a--shameless self-promotion alert!--coming Navel Gazing profile of Orange County hate groups, I came across a stunning--though not surprising--revelation: Orange County was officially founded by the Ku Klux Klan. This insight comes courtesy of Dr. Henry William Head, a Civil War veteran who served as a Los Angeles County Assemblymember (representing the Orange County region) from 1883-1889. Biographies on Head in the Santa Ana Library History Room and subsequent stories about h

  March 17, 2008

• On Thin-Skinned SanTana Historians

  Moxley fends off idiot Republicans; Nick Schou battles conspiracy loons; Vickie Chang gets the hipsters riled up. My petty, non-pedo-apologist fights? Local amateur historians. My post last week about SanTana's missing segregationist history in a recent Images of America book about the county seat notched a snippy remark from author Roberta A. Reed, which I include in its entirety (and my response) to set up the point of this post. Take it, Roberta! Gustavo, I am sorry that my book did not "a

  August 1, 2008

• The Curious Case of the Bowers Museum KKK Tree

  Outside the Bowers Museum (the original part, not the multimillion-dollar addition) stands a beautiful, still growing crape myrtle tree. It blooms every spring, adding a bit of genteel, colorful charm to the already-purty facility. You've seen this tree if you ever drive or walk past the Bowers on Main Street in SanTana. What you probably haven't seen, however, is the plaque right below it. It commemorates the tree's planting in 1969 to commemorate SanTana's centennial. The sponsors? The Emma S

  September 3, 2008

• A People's History Tour of Anaheim

  I've known Cynthia Ward, president of the Anaheim Historical Society, for a couple of years now, and have always found her to be someone with an open mind and a passion for what's ultimately right. Ever an Anaheim booster, she's the lady who escorted Huell Howser 'round our hometown for his Anaheim special this weekend. All the places Ward took ol' Huell to--the last remaining working orange grove in Anaheim, the Anaheim History Room, old homes and the like--are all deserving of love. In the spi

  September 12, 2008

• HERE ALREADY

  January 6, 2000

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 3, 2003

• Turkey People the New Holocausted Jews?*

  What is it about Orange County that creates fools who make ridiculous comparisons of their causes to the suffering Jews experienced during the Holocaust? A couple of years ago, it was the Minuteman mexicana, Lupe Moreno, rambling about how Mexican immigrants were the new Nazis, while American whites were the Jews. "I would wonder how was it possible that a whole nation of people, millions and millions, would let something as evil as the Holocaust happen?" Moreno wrote in 2003. "How could they be

  November 28, 2008

• 'Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay' Is a Forced Act Two

  April 24, 2008

• OC's Rich Vein of Klanniness Tapped Out?

  Call it racist gentrification (redundant, right?): The Ku Klux Klan, the white supremacist group that virtually created Orange County, can now barely be found among our county's pale-colored treasure trove of bigots. Californian politician and proud clucker Dr. Henry William Head helped engineer Orange County's secession from Los Angeles in 1889. In the 1920s, the Klan attempted to turn Anaheim into a knightly mecca by taking over the city council. But it appears that one of the remaining Klan g

  January 28, 2009

• The Ebullient Stefan Pruett of Peachcake Keeps It on the Sunny Side

  January 15, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  May 1, 2008

• The KKK Took My County Away: Meet the Klansman Who Helped to Found Orange County

  April 17, 2008

• Letters

  May 30, 2002

• !Ask a Mexican!

  Villa's stolen skull

  April 5, 2007

• Diary of Mad County

  July 20, 2006

• Diary of a Mad County

  April 27, 2006

• The French Really Like Us

  March 23, 2006

• Beauty and the Beasts

  Ballets Russes exposes the seamy underbelly of classic dance

  November 3, 2005

• Anaheim

  October 20, 2005

• Hes Too Sexy

  October 6, 2005

• Revenge of the Rednecks

  July 21, 2005

• Letters

  August 26, 2004

• Rally Round the Racist

  March 4, 2004

• Letters

  November 20, 2003

• Letters

  September 18, 2003

• Whitening Blackface

  July 24, 2003

• Diary of a Mad County

  May 1, 2003

• Emotional Car Wreck

  April 10, 2003

• White Like Me

  April 3, 2003

• Court Jousters

  June 27, 2002

• Over the Edge

  May 9, 2002

• The Good Old Days

  February 28, 2002

• Springboard for Hitler

  September 13, 2001

• The Adolescents

  September 13, 2001

• Eminems Boyfriend?

  May 10, 2001

• Letters

  May 3, 2001

• Oh, Brother

  December 28, 2000

• Fanmail 1995-1996

  September 14, 2000

• Romance!

  October 5, 2000

• This Weeks Featured Super Bowl Game: Tennessee Titans vs. St. Louis Rams

  February 3, 2000

• This weeks featured AFC and NFC championship games:

  January 27, 2000

• Fantasy Candidates

  August 5, 1999

• Letters

  November 26, 1998

• In Defense of Klanaheim

  The Los Angeles Times story published this Monday telling the world Anaheim is now majority-Latino has drawn nothing but derision from the Latino Anaheimers I know (read this musical takedown by Weekly contributor and KPFK-FM 90.7 Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman). "Oh no, they didn't put in a picture of lucha libre!" another pal cracked, referring to the Mexican wrestling matches that have been occurring every Sunday at the Anaheim Indoor Marketplace for so long that the second piece I ev

  May 15, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  August 20, 2009

• More Proof Santa Ana is Racist at its Core: Jefferson Davis Pie!

  Davis: Culinary godfather of SanTana?​My one vice in life is buying books related to Orange County, and our fair land's numerous social organizations have gathered and published their recipes over the years. The oldest cookbook in my collection is one compiled by the Ebell Society of the Santa Ana Valley located in SanTana. It dates from the 1920s and has hilarious recipes for tamale pies, jellied this, and other culinary relics.But the most telling recipe included is for Jeff Davis pie--as in

  September 10, 2009