Kidada Williams

People think, well, I thought this person was an ally and then they were in the raid the night before.

That's the reality of terror.

What starts to happen as the violence goes on and on and on and as it escalates, there is a greater sense of moral injury that the federal government is going to let this violence slide.

You have, you know, northern conservatives who are in the Democratic Party at this time saying this is just southern culture.

There's nothing to see here.

There's nothing going on here.

We don't need to pay attention and we certainly don't need federal troops to do anything about it.

We don't need new laws.

This is just the way the South is.

Part two, enforcement.

The 7th of March, they came to my house about two o'clock in the night, came in the house and called him.

Disguised men.

I can't tell who it was.

I don't know how many there was.

I call them Ku Klux.

Republicans in Congress recognize that their ability to continue ruling is going to be endangered if Black men are being killed and if they can't vote or if they're being assassinated.

What we know is that the political climate they create is that you don't need to be a formal member of the organization to partake in the activities.

So it can be difficult to understand who's in, who's, quote, in the organization.

You know, you move in and out of this activity.

You know, you go to church on Sunday morning and, you know, Saturday night you participated in a Klan raid.