TOW #10 - White Nationalists Celebrate 'an Awakening' After Donald Trump's Victory

In today's society, people all around the world get their daily dosage of the news from social media applications like twitter, snapchat, and instagram. Its very upsetting that even in the twenty first century, Americans still have their own terrorist groups like the KKK and other white supremacy groups. I haven't really seen much of them before the recent election but now I can feel their presence among America. Authors Alan Rapperport and Noah Weiland of the New York Times use a warning tone to tell Americans that the terror groups of the 1960s are back. " For years, they have lurked in the web’s dark corners, masking themselves with cartoon images and writing screeds about the demise of white culture under ominous pseudonyms," the authors from the New York Times describe these white domination enthusiasts as monsters by using dark words such as "lurked, ominous, and masking." The writers purpose for writing "White Nationalist Celebrate 'an Awakening' After Donald Trump's Victory" is to make Americans (especially minorities0 aware that these groups aren't nightmares of the past. I chose to read this article because my older sister goes to the Ohio State University and during our weekly FaceTime call she told me, "The KKK was spotted in Louisville." My family just moved from Fort Knox, Kentucky which is only about thirty minuets from Louisville. When she asked me this I thought, 'of course they were, Kentucky is a southern state.' But then that got me very curious to see if there were any other kkk spotting in America. To my surprise the KKK has been spotted in Louisiana, Indiana, Texas, Connecticut, and Georgia just since Donald Trump has been chosen to be the president elect. I think that its good that these groups are starting to show themselves more because then, I won't have to guess who is plotting behind my back. I think that the authors did reach their purpose because it is bringing awareness to people across America.