Why did the cross become the symbol of racism by setting it a flame?

Question

Why did the cross become the symbol of racism by setting it a flame?

Answer 1

Hm..Very confusing actually.

The KKK burn the Cross, but they say they want to show the light of Jesus. Ah, White supremecists, strange creatures..

Answer 2

it was started by the Klu Klux Klan who is accually a christian based racist group. its pretty interesting. check out there site.

Answer 3

The Klan adopted a number of symbols and activities that had the air of mystery and tradition. Sir Walter Scott was particularly useful in this regard. In fact, Mark Twain blamed Scott for the civil war--because Scott's novels fired the imaginations of southerners to think that there was something noble and beautiful about feudalism and chivalry, rather than the reality, which was that it was horrible and cruel. So it's not surprising that because Scott wrote nostalgically about the Scottish Clans using the burning cross as a symbol to unite the clans to attack a common enemy, the KKK would adopt the same symbol for what they saw as the same purpose. That's why they called themselves a "klan" after all.

Answer 4

As a Christian, this enfuriates me! I love the South, and I know people in the South take offense by it, but Neil Young was right when he said, "don't forget what your Good Book said."

Answer 5

Because the Ku Klux Klan burned large crosses at public marches/meetings and on the lawns of blacks in the American South as part of the broader KKK agenda to threaten and intimidate them, to pressure them to be silent and/or submissive or to make them want to move away.

Answer 6

Intimidation an a declaration of War against.

Answer 7

Being from the south, I just want you to be aware that they would do that to whites also.  Anyone that was abusing their wives or children.  You realize that there wasn't many police 100 years ago and it was a citizen police force. What they did is hard to understand today but many actions of the past are that way.  I was reading an article from a 1935 newspaper and it said that lynching needs to stop because so many white people were being hanged also!!!!

Answer 8

because they wanted to show that they think god will make them burn in h**l im not a racist but thats just my view

Answer 9

its not a sign of racism really....

Answer 10

never thought about that, good question you get my star!

Answer 11

Don't know the answer to your question. The Cross to me refers to Jesus Christ died for your/my sins.