Wilson incredulously and asks what money has to do with any of it. He rises from his seat and points at Matt as he says, “All this bad publicity, just when we’re about to launch a new membership drive! They would have paid us one hundred dollars each for initiation fees! And another 25 dollars for robes and hoods! You’ve cost us thousands upon thousands of dollars, Riggs!” Matt looks at Dr. Wilson cuts Matt off and tells him that he is the one that has endangered the Klan due to the attack on the newspaper. Wilson points out, though, is that all of this is a fraud because the hate that those at the top of the organization promote merely serves as a money-making scheme.ĭr. They do all of this in order to maintain white supremacy and their belief in the superiority of their whiteness and Anglo-Saxon identity. They attack the Daily Planet and take hostages. They bomb the Unity House where kids from all of the community gather.
They kidnap Tommy Lee and leave him to drown in the river before Superman saves him. Matt and the Klan have continually attacked the Lees, trying to get them to leave the community. Lee at the Metropolis Health Department as their chief bacteriologist. Wilson, one of the men we meet early in the narrative that welcomes the Lee’s, a Chinese American family, to the neighborhood and who hires Dr. The Mogul raises his hood, and we discover it is none other than Dr. Matt tells the Mogul that the Klan is in danger and asks for him to send up, but the Mogul declines. Superman arrests them, but within hours Matt gets released and goes to see the Grand Imperial Mogul of the Klan. Matt Griggs, the Grand Scorpion of the local chapter of the Klan of the Firecy Kross, takes some members and attacks the Daily Planet. Gene Luen Yang and Gurihiru’s Superman Smashes the Klan points out the pyramid scheme of hate where those at the top benefit profusely from pitting those beneath them against one another.
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