Don Lemon Interviews KKK Member, Gets the Exact Crazy Racist Responses You’d Imagine

CNN’s Don Lemon brought a KKK member on his show Wednesday night, and you can kind of guess how that went.

The interview was done via Skype with James Moore, an “imperial kludd” of the Loyal White Knights of the KKK who was dressed in the traditional garb, wearing sunglasses in a dark, obfuscated room. He took a completely different view on the fallout from the University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity’s racist chant that got two students expelled and the chapter shut down.

Moore claimed there is a double standard on who can join certain race- or ethnicity-exclusive fraternities or sororities and he touted “freedom of association” as a God-given right. At one point, he took an inaudible shot at Lemon’s race.

Moore said what drew him to the KKK was “people like yourself [Don Lemon] who discriminate against me who said I couldn’t stand up for my people.”

In the next segment, CNN political commentator Ben Ferguson joked, “notice neither of us are broadcasting from our mom’s basement.” Lemon also said in that segment that Moore was originally set to appear on the show from a studio, but that studio “had an issue with who he was and what organization he belonged to, so they would not allow him in,” so they had to resort to Skype.

Watch the video below, via CNN:

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