Posted on 06/29/2015 11:07:05 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
But will anybody bring this up or will they just pretend it doesn’t exist?
The KKK was formed to keep blacks from voting.
In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the “Ku Klux Klan.” The KKK rapidly grew from a secret social fraternity to a paramilitary force bent on reversing the federal government’s progressive Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially policies that elevated the rights of the local African American population.
The name of the Ku Klux Klan was derived from the Greek word kyklos, meaning “circle,” and the Scottish-Gaelic word “clan,” which was probably chosen for the sake of alliteration. Under a platform of philosophized white racial superiority, the group employed violence as a means of pushing back Reconstruction and its enfranchisement of African Americans. Former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was the KKK’s first grand wizard; in 1869, he unsuccessfully tried to disband it after he grew critical of the Klan’s excessive violence.
Oh please. And the two guys who first formed the Nazi Party were appalled by Hitler’s antisemtism.
Will they move Robert Byrd’s grave also?
He was a KKK grand wizard at one time.
It would serve them right if they ended up with an undead General Forrest on the loose. The South will rise again. BRAAAAAAAINS!
bump!!!!!!!
Today Elvis would leave Memphis to go back to Tupelo.
I’m surprised no one pinged the fellow they are trying to dig up.
Sounds fair to me, but then we get to dig up Sen. Robert Byrd.
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