Currious also, I think a lot of people are forgetting… in 1946, the superman radio show actually had a 16 episode plot called “the clan of the firey cross”, in which superman is protecting a Chinese american family, from a clan of evil doers in white hoods. Not only was the group an unsubtle reference to the KKK, but thanks to a mole in the KKK named Stetson Kennedy, it even used real world up to date for the time secret code words from the actual KKK.
There’s a book and podcast about Superman vs the Klan.
Klan members woke up one day to kids playing superman outside and using the Klan’s secret call signs and handshakes, etc.
turns out the writers had an insider who revealed all the Klans secret society shit and they put it on the show to make fun of the Klan.
Currious also, I think a lot of people are forgetting… in 1946, the superman radio show actually had a 16 episode plot called “the clan of the firey cross”, in which superman is protecting a Chinese american family, from a clan of evil doers in white hoods. Not only was the group an unsubtle reference to the KKK, but thanks to a mole in the KKK named Stetson Kennedy, it even used real world up to date for the time secret code words from the actual KKK.
There’s a book and podcast about Superman vs the Klan.
Klan members woke up one day to kids playing superman outside and using the Klan’s secret call signs and handshakes, etc. turns out the writers had an insider who revealed all the Klans secret society shit and they put it on the show to make fun of the Klan.