I read the story on C. P. Ellis. I found it interesting learning the reasoning behind the Klan’s hate. The narrator, Ellis; told his whole life story. His father was a Klansman, he earned a low income salary. When Ellis’s father died, Ellis was forced to leave school and start supporting his family. He got turned down by many employers but he noticed that blacks and other minorities were getting jobs. This is where he developed his hatred for minorities. “I had to hate somebody. Hatin’ America is hard to do because you can’t see it to hate it. You gotta have somethin’ to look at to hate” (Terkel 64). I agreed with this statement, people always want to blame someone else for their problems. Ellis joined the KKK. Later he began to realize that the problem wasn’t the blacks, it was business owners. Ellis believed that these CIO’s were purposely keeping racial barriers intact in order to keep the low income black and whites hating and fighting each other. Over time, he was able accept black people and work with them in order to make a better life for all. This was like Labor Unions forming to make better working conditions for laborers. Overall it was and interesting story, Ellis was the KKK member I’ve heard of that was able to overcome the racial norms of the time.