Daryl Davis Explains the Hierarchy of the KKK | Joe Rogan

First of all, let me explain the hierarchy of the clan. Okay. Okay. Today, there is no such thing as the Ku Klux Klan. All right. There used to be. Today there are many Ku Klux Klan groups, and they all are autonomous. They use the same name Ku Klux Klan. You might have the Dixie Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Confederate Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Rebel Knights, on, on, on. These are all separate Ku Klux Klan groups. They believe in the same ideology. They wear the same colors on their robes that designate their rank. They have the same secret handshake. What's the secret handshake? Just in case. I'll show it to you. Can I do it later? Yeah, we'll do it later. Oh, we can't tell people in case somebody shakes their hand, they don't even know? I can't reveal clan secrets. Oh, okay. Serious stuff. Oh yeah. Same passwords, everything. The passwords. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Hilarious. And we understand. The Klan was formed in 1865 at the end of the Civil War, and it was formed by six Confederate soldiers who were of Irish and Scottish descent. And what they did was they borrowed the rituals or similar rituals and names and mystery from the Scottish Rite, the masons. You know, ran this and all that kind of stuff. Wizards and shit? Don't they have dragons? Yep, yep, okay. So here's how the hierarchy works. All right, so like I said, over the years, Central split apart into different splinter groups of Klan. And they all are rivals with each other. If you see a couple of different Klan groups out in public, they will hold a unified front. But behind closed doors, they don't like each other. Really? Yeah. We're a real Klan. They're a wannabe Klan. Oh, that can be. A lot of competition, kind of thing, because they may have been in the same Klan at one time and something happened. Somebody embezzled some Klan dues or didn't get promoted, you know, whatever. So anyway, if you have a chapter of your particular Klan group in another state or in multiple states, you may then consider yourself or your group to be a national Klan group. Or you must have a national leader who oversees all the states in which you have a chapter of your particular group. So we call our national leader the president. In Klan terminology, that person is known as the imperial wizard. Anybody who is prefixed with the word imperial means that person is a national officer, wizard being the top. All right, so imperial wizard would be like a president and imperial Clayliff would be like a vice president. And you have secretaries, treasurers, whole nine yards. And then the next level down would be state, the head of the state, which we call the governor. That person is known as a grand dragon. Anybody grand is on the state level, state officer, dragon being the top governor. A grand Clayliff would be like a lieutenant governor and then secretary treasurer. And then within the state you have counties. The county leader is known as the great titan. They're on the great level, is on the county level. Within the county you have districts, what they call clavrons. And we would call a district leader a mayor, a councilman, a alderman. That individual is known as an exalted cyclops. So... Darrell Bock Exalted cyclops? So if you would address them, you would say, sir, exalted cyclops? Wow, that's hilarious.