This Is Not Normal: A&E Announces New Series “Generation KKK”
On your cable box there’s a way to filter out channels you don’t want to see, and I’ve done that with A&E and their cavalcade of freak shows. But his goes a step beyond that, this is one of those times where people need to band together and make sure there aren’t any advertisers for this show.
Those aren’t sexy topics, of course. I know that. So the likelihood of a producer making such a series and selling it to a broadcast or cable network is close to nil.
Instead, starting Tuesday, Jan. 10, we’ll get a weekly look inside the lives of several families headed by members of the Ku Klux Klan called “Generation KKK.” Giving racism a platform, even under the guise of increasing the public’s awareness of its existence, is all the rage now.
Granted, that’s not the purpose of “Generation KKK.” In a Sunday New York Times article, A&E’s brass and the “Generation KKK” producer explained that the show has been in the works for more than a year and a half. That’s basically right around the time that Donald Trump’s presidential campaign began capitalizing on the sublimated bigotry and racial tension that’s been coming to the fore of our national dialogue.
The show would have made it to air regardless of the election’s outcome, understand. Between the Klan’s rebranding of its intentions — it’s just about white pride now, never mind that inconvenient history of domestic terror and murder — and openly leaving literature on doorsteps in communities around the nation, the white supremacy organization has been steadily mounting its own campaign of normalizing hatred.
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