Throwback to the time it was revealed that Clint Eastwood directed a movie based on a book written by a secret leader of the KKK. 
Asa Earl Carter “formed a paramilitary unit of about 100 men known as ‘the Original Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy” and “was arrested in 1957 in connection with a Klan shooting” link.gale.com/apps/doc/BOSYD…
In 1956, his group attacked Nat King Cole on stage in Birmingham, Alabama during a concert and castrated a random black man as a “warning to ‘uppity’ Alabama Blacks.” timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1…
Then he became the speechwriter for the segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace and wrote the line “Segregation Now! Segregation Tomorrow! Segregation Forever!” Into the Governor’s 1963 inaugural address.
After leaving Wallace, Carter renamed himself “Forrest Carter” after Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder of the KKK, and pretended to be a Cherokee cowboy until his death until 1979.
Then in 1976, he published “The Education of Little Tree” which chronicled his bogus experiences with his Cherokee Relatives. independent.co.uk/news/media/tal…
This book later rose to 1st or 2nd place on the @nytimes bestsellers list and stayed there for 14 weeks in 1991.
Then Eastwood built a friendship with Carter and turned his first book, “The Rebel Outlaw Josey Wales” into a film deemed “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” by @librarycongress and was selected for the #natfilmregistry loc.gov/programs/natio….
#clinteastwood #westerns #movies #racism #nytimes #literature #FilmTwitter #History #altright #crazy #famous #watchout #becareful #SystemicRacism #libraryofcongress
Thanks @SethCotlar for guiding me to this rabbit hole 😂
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