Founded by David Duke in 1975, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan has attempted to put a “kinder, gentler” face on the Klan, courting media attention and attempting to portray itself as a modern “white civil rights” organization. But beneath that veneer lurks the same bigoted rhetoric. The group’s leaders, from Duke to current chief Thomas Robb, have been plagued by their own racist views, which inevitably shine through the smokescreen, and by the attacks of other Klan members who view their interest in mainstream media and politics as hypocritical and counterproductive.