KKK popularity on the decline – for now?

We’ve had guests staying with us for about a week, and luckily weather conditions allowed for a prawn and crab fête on the patio last night, with our little daughter, my two sons, my brother in law and our American niece, who’s spent summer over here. I felt like quite the pater familias, actually, even if it’s way beside my point. Besides, nobody bothered to kiss my hand anyway. Truth be told, I suck at being a pater f.

Regardless, we had a jolly good time, laughing and enjoying les fruits de la mer, when, for some reason, the Ku Klux Klan came up. Honestly, I don’t remember why. Their funny attire, perhaps, but as our niece isn’t just American, but a southern belle from good ol’ Bamalama at that, someone asked the inevitable question, whenever the Klan is up for discussion: If they really exist at all these days — to which she gave an affirmative answer, but, as she put it:

They’re not as popular as they used to be,

hurling yours truly into a poorly concealed fit of laughter, for which I’m truly sorry. I can be such a child at times – hopelessly politically incorrect, too, but you have to admit that it has a ring of je ne sais quoi, coming from a through and through southern girl. Still, I can’t help but feeling sorry for the little thing. She speaks Norwegian practically like a native, at least a whole lot better than my English, which isn’t to say that a definition or two won’t get lost in translation — which, in this case it did.

But I like the sound of it. Not as popular as they used to be. Then again, God only knows the implications of an Obama victory. And honestly… I’m not so sure that it’s all so amusing after all.