Ku Klux Klan Infiltrates NAACP … With the Blessing of the NAACP

Recently, the Ku Klux Klan pulled off one of the most astounding coups in the long catalog of racial hate and hysteria in America. It managed to maneuver its way into the veins of the NAA CP as if it were a sound never heard. But just as high blood pressure and diabetes are caused, not by the diseases themselves, but in general by the victims of those diseases, so the Klan neither laid the trap nor pulled the rope that snared that sweet herb of civil rights activism.

It all began when Jimmy Simmons, president of the Casper, Wyoming NAACP, started receiving reports of hate-based crimes against black men in the heart of Wyoming's coal country about seven years ago. Whites hurled racial slurs and attacked black men who were dating or married to white women in the northeastern city of Gillette, Wyoming.

Apparently, the Gillette Police Department did little to combat the harassment. So, in the fall of 2012, when Klan pamphlets began appearing in Gillette neighborhoods, Simmons took matters into his own hands. He contacted John Abarr, a Montana organizer for the United Klans of America, in May of this year. Subsequent communications produced an August meeting of Abarr, Simmons and three other officers of the Casper NAACP at a Casper hotel. The meeting was conducted under heavy security – to protect the blacks from the whites, I presume.

 What resulted from this friendly meeting between the Klan and the NAACP? Well, Abarr paid $30 to join the NAACP and donated another $20 out of his generous and kind spirit. What did Simmons and the NAACP receive? A stare, a smile, a handshake, some money and a KKK compliment from Abarr, “You have to be white to join the Klan.” As for Abarr and the Klan, what do they gain from Abarr’s NAACP membership?

They have created a new espionage network, the NAACP network, through which they can accumulate information to subdue or use against black America. They have an established principal agent, Abarr, inside the NAACP to lead that network. They can use Abarr to attend NAACP meetings, participate in NAACP fundraisers, frequent the churches of NAACP members and recruit a Clarence Thomas within the NAACP for a few dollars and a couple of beers.

Abarr can – through kindness, generosity, altruism, slander and intimidation – force Simmons and other NAACP leaders to give him access to confidential NAACP files, emails, bank accounts, documents, computers, mobile phone devices, databases with information on influential NAACP and non-NAACP persons, and NAACP political and social correspondences with government and private individuals and organizations. Abarr can pass such secrets to Klan and other racist groups to set up disinformation campaigns and to bomb black churches, shoot black children as they leave school and assassinate black leaders in their own neighborhoods.

Moreover, Abarr will receive national awards from Klan, neo-Nazi and other racist groups for his extraordinary espionage accomplishments and will make hundreds of thousands of dollars from speaking engagements, television appearances, book sales and training sessions on how racists can successfully infiltrate civil rights organizations and manipulate them to conquer them.

What can one imagine about this dreadful decision by Simmons and his misguided crew of NAACP misfits to allow the Klan to become a part of the NAACP? That it is based on a novel about noodles that turn into roundworms once it reaches the tongue and escapes the body through the ears and noses of their screaming victims? Or that it is the draft of a screenplay where roasted almonds mutate into zombies and coca leaves give birth to chipmunks?

 The decision certainly is foolish. Because why would you let a stranger who knocks on your front door with a butcher knife in hand and yells “Let me in so I can kill you” – why would you unlock the door so such a maniac intent on murder can come in your house, dine with you, then murder you after eating a plate of spaghetti and meatballs?

Also, based on the reason Simmons gave for meeting with Abarr and allowing him to join the NAACP – “to better understand hate language and hate crimes, we opted to go to a hater” – the reasoning undoubtedly is ridiculous. Unlike a junkie high on crack who might drink a jar of battery acid mixed with lemon juice to see whether his stomach and esophagus would boil and burn, reasonable men and women have no need to ally with the Klan to see how it thinks and feels. Lynchings, murders, assassinations, rapes, thefts and hordes of studies on the motives of the Klan and other hatemongers have already supplied enough answers to fill the universe with millions of moons.

Furthermore, because good decisions are based on prudence, comparatively speaking this bad decision clearly was rash. Of course, it is acceptable to make rashly prudent decisions if, for example, the CEO of a satellite development company needs to decide quickly whether to tell the board that the company lost millions of dollars in its current venture. It is also acceptable to make prudently rash decisions if, for example, a bystander faces the dilemma of pulling a driver from a burning car or waiting for a fire truck to arrive.

But Simmons’ decision doesn’t fit either of those circumstances. Because when he decided to initiate the contact with Abarr, he should have known it was a decision that required sacred contemplation. More than likely, he would have changed his mind and no one would have berated him for it. Instead, now that he has had months to reconsider the decision, as well as the awful decision to let Abarr join the NAACP, yet still justifies these decisions as warranted, why should prudent people compliment him for making decisions that are both sacrilegious and rash?

No one, we believe, thinks that at age 61 and after 13 years as the president of the Casper NAACP, Simmons is insane or stupid or an Uncle Tom. But we do wonder, Mr. Simmons, whether when you made that demonic decision, your reasoning was infected with a new strain of bird flu or that a brain virus only known to the CIA temporarily blinded your judgment.

“Useful Idiot” is a term oftentimes attributed to Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary and political theorist who became president of the Soviet Union in 1922. It describes a person (or organization) – for example, an American politician – who overtly represents the interest of a foreign country – for example, Israel – while living in his or her native country. For espionage purposes, the foreign country avoids secret operations with such persons or organizations, preferring to use them as bait to distract the native country’s counterintelligence agencies from the real security threat.

By accepting Abarr as a member of the NAACP, the NAACP became the Useful Idiot of the Ku Klux Klan.