People’s History of the Invisible Army

Philliz Navidad
7 min readJun 26, 2020

The Origins of American’s Least Humble Hate Group

Image from D.W. Griffith’s 1915 historically cinematic and masterpiece film.

Today’s Confederate “culture” is a shepherd’s pie of Pre-Civil War Antebellum pride, and remarkable Scottish culture, the latter grotesquely mutated by the former. To understand the Klan, you need to understand the man.

Americans who identify with Scottish heritage might check one of the three following boxes: Highlander…

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Philliz Navidad

Multi-passionate Queer PoC from SF. Geek. Designer. Writing.