CRUSADE VS. RICE FREEZING OUT BLACK DEMS

New York Post ^ | January 27, 2005 | Debra Orin

[sasafras]

I would love to be proven wrong but this is hogwash - blacks will continue to vote for the liberal communist scum because they are promised freebies. Most blacks (85+%) claim to be Christian but 90%+ vote for candidates who support killing innocent babies, racism, and homosexual marriage. I doubt there isnt anything the liberals could do that would stop the blacks from voting for them.

[montag813]

Very good exchange on Steve Malsberg's show this morning, with robert woodson and (NJ Congressman and black caucus guy) Donald Payne. Hilarious how Payne pretended never to have seen the racist cartoons about Condi, and said he "never heard about" the "Aunt Jemima" radio comments.

[Kaslin]

It will take a while but blacks are waking up.

[lowbuck]

Just a thought. . . Rice moves into SOS and in two years Cheney decides to step down because of his health. Rice moves to VP with strong credentials and has two years to settle into the saddle before the next election.

All too often over the last four years, I have heard that Bush plays chess while the Dems play checkers. What do you think?

[wally-balls]

When was Byrd the leader of the KKK in WV and for how long? I would like to know how many lynchings took place during his tenure as Grand Wizard and how many shootings and cross burnings. Is he not criminally responsible for these activities. How come no one ever delves into his record as a KKK member

[Kaslin]

Why are there no black nominees for the DNC position?

There are 35 million blacks in this country, none of them are qualified?

Do you really need to ask? Isn't the answer self sufficient? The DNC is racist

[Poohbah]

Another high-profile black Democrat was even more blunt, saying the attacks on Rice — featuring ex-Ku Klux Klan "kleagle" Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) — "made me sick to my stomach."

Was it Bill Kristol who described "neo-conservatives" as "liberals who had been mugged by reality?"

[sr4402]

After November 2, I think the press and the democrats are having a hard time covering up for themselves. Socialism and racism are showing.

[kcvl]

Ku Klux Klan Kleagle, Robert Byrd

The New York Times reported in 1971 on a letter Mr. Byrd wrote in 1946, after leaving the Klan. Writing to the Klan's Imperial Wizard, Mr. Byrd identified himself as a former Kleagle and recommended a person to serve as state Klan coordinator. He wrote, "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.

And in a 1947 letter, after Mr. Byrd had been elected to the state senate, he wrote that he would "never submit to fight beneath that banner (the American flag) with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."

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The original Ku Klux Klan was first established in Pulaski, Tennessee after the end of the American Civil War on December 24, 1865 by Confederate veterans. It grew to prominence after a convention held in Nashville in the summer of 1867. At this convention, General Nathan Bedford Forrest presided as the Grand Wizard.

The organization had several goals. It sought to aid Confederate widows and orphans of the war, but also to oppose the extension of voting rights to Blacks, and other measures to end segregation, that were introduced as part of Reconstruction.

The second Ku Klux Klan was established during World War I, a feat which arguably would not have been possible without President Woodrow Wilson's influence and D. W. Griffith's controversial classic film, The Birth of a Nation (endorsed by President Woodrow Wilson:

This Klan was operated as a profit-making venture by its leaders, and participated in the boom for fraternal organizations at the time. It differed from the first Klan; the first Klan was Democratic and Southern, this Klan boasted members from both the Democratic and to a lesser degree Republican parties and was influential throughout the United States, with major political influence on politicians in several states. It collapsed largely as a result of a scandal involving David Stephenson, the Grand Dragon of Indiana and fourteen other states, who was convicted of rape and murder in a sensational trial (the woman he attacked was bitten so many times one man who saw her described her condition as having been "chewed by a cannibal"). The second Klan dwindled in popularity throughout the 1930s. It was disbanded in 1944 and the name Ku Klux Klan fell into the public domain.

In the 1920s and 1930s a faction of the Klan called the Black Legion was very active in the midwestern U.S. Rather than wearing white robes, the legion wore black uniforms reminiscent of pirates. The Black Legion was the most violent and zealous faction of the Klan, and were notable for targeting and assassinating Communists and Socialists.

Later Ku Klux Klans

After World War II, several organizations using the name Ku Klux Klan were established to counter the Civil rights movement of the 1960s. These are the Klans that are still seen today, though as American society has become more racially inclusive the Klan has once more shrunk dramatically and fractured. The major factions currently include the Imperial Klans of America, the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and Knights of the White Camelia.

The second Ku Klux Klan rose to great prominence and spread from the South into the Midwest and Northern states and even into Canada. At its peak, most of the membership resided in midwestern states. The KKK controlled the government of Indiana, Oklahoma, and Oregon in addition to those of the Southern states. It even claimed to have inducted President Warren Harding at the White House. At its peak in the 1920s, its membership exceeded 4,000,000 and counted many politicians among its members. Even the 33rd President (Harry Truman) was on the verge of becoming a member of the Klan, though he soon changed his mind because of their anti-Catholicism. In Saskatchewan, Canada the KKK was seen as having a dramatic effect on the provincial election of 1929, which defeated the James G. Gardiner Liberal government and installed the 1929-1934 Conservative government of James T.M. Anderson. Another former Klansman to rise to national prominence was the Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black, who repudiated the racist views of the Klan. West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd is also a former Klansman, although he has renounced the Klan on several occasions and calls joining the group his "greatest mistake". Former Louisiana state senator David Duke has also been a Klansman.

Much of the original leadership of the Klan were Scottish Rite Masons with the degree of "Knight Templar." Titles such as "Grand Wizard", "Exalted Cyclops", and "Kleagle" are used to indicate status.

Although Confederate symbols are sometimes mistakenly associated with the KKK, this usage occurred only in the 1950s and later, and is historically inappropriate.

In a 2002 report on "Extremism in America" the Jewish Anti-Defamation League wrote "Today, there is no such thing as the Ku Klux Klan. Fragmentation, decentralization and decline have continued unabated."

[ops33]

There was an item on Fox News last night that more or less said that its the older blacks that support the Dems, those that came of age during the Civil Rights movement of the 60's and 70's. Younger, more educated and affluent Blacks tend to be independent and conservative. They don't automatically identify with one party or another. My take was this is the start of a trend of at least some blacks, those that tend to vote, away from the Dems and towards a party that considers their interest.

When did you retire?

[Eva]

What the Black Democrats miss or are ignoring is the fact that the attacts on Rice are aimed to keep her down on the plantation to diminish her potential as a Presidential candidate against Hillary. The Democrats are scared to death of the possiblility because they would lose control of the Black voters.

[kcvl]

for every new KKK member, which the fee would be $10.00, $4.00 went to the Kleagle (an official in the KKK), $1 went to the King Kleagle (state leader of the Klan)

// "I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County and the adjoining counties of the state .... The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia .... It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va .... I hope that you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future possibilities." — Robert Byrd in letter to Klan Imperial Wizard Samuel Green of Atlanta, April 8, 1946.

Kleagle, or Klan recruiting officer and organizer

[Reagan is King]

There's a great montage pic on Rush's site:

I hope they make some ads using this smear campaign in the next election. The Democrats are showing their true colors again.

[RetiredArmy]

I retired March 1, 1992 at Fort Benning, Georgia.

[ml1954]

It might help peel off a few more percent next presidential election. Bush raised his percentage among blacks from 9 in 2000 to 11 in 2004. It would be great to get it up to 15 or so.

One can always hope.

[mhking]

The Dem attack on Rice was "very foolish" and "potentially costly" because it could backfire among blacks

Unfortunately, it won't backfire...at least not among the vast majority of black America.

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[SpinyNorman]

1952: During the Democratic primary campaign, H. D. Ragland, his principal opponent, revealed that Byrd had been a kleagle, or organizer, for the Ku Klux Klan in 1942 and 1943. Taking the offensive, Byrd bought radio and television time to acknowledge his brief membership in the Klan as a "mistake of youth."

Byrd (after he claims he left the Klan) in a letter to Mississippi Sen. Theodore Bilbo: "I should die a thousand times and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen of the wilds."

Byrd, 1946: "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia"

Byrd, 2001: "There are white n*ggers. I've seen a lot of white n*ggers in my time"

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Chris Dodd, after the Trent Lott/Strom Thurmond debacle (From Roll Call):

"Chris Dodd's Lott Moment?"

It looks like Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) got a little carried away with a tribute speech last week upon the occasion of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) casting his 17,000th vote in the chamber.

In words that Republicans believe sound awfully similar to the comments that knocked Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) out of the GOP leadership, Dodd said, “It has often been said that the man and the moment come together. I do not think it is an exaggeration at all to say to my friend from West Virginia that he would have been a great Senator at any moment. Some were right for the time. Robert C. Byrd, in my view, would have been right at any time.”

Despite the charges of racial insensitivity that have been lobbed at Byrd over the years, Dodd added that his colleague “would have been right during the great conflict of Civil War in this nation” and at other key times. “I cannot think of a single moment in this nation’s 220-plus-year history where he would not have been a valuable asset to this country,” said Dodd. “Certainly today that is not any less true.”

While Byrd was not yet serving in the Senate during the Civil War, he has admitted that he was on the wrong side of history 100 years later when he voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Byrd has also apologized for the fact that he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan long before he became a Senator, and he was roundly criticized in 2001 for using the N-word during an interview on the Fox News Channel.

Democrats contend that Dodd’s comments are not as jarring as Lott’s claim at Strom Thurmond’s (R-S.C.) 100th birthday party that if the now-deceased Senator had been elected president as the segregationist candidate in 1948, “We wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years.”

But Robert Traynham, the highest-ranking black Republican staffer on Capitol Hill and communications director for Senate Republican Conference Chairman Rick Santorum (Pa.), on Tuesday challenged Democrats to condemn Dodd’s comments.

“As a result of the Conference’s outreach to African-American leaders, I have heard from a number of folks that we work with who are outraged with the comments that Senator Dodd made suggesting that Senator Byrd would have been a great leader for the country, and am deeply perplexed by the silence we hear from the very same people who express outrage when they hear Republicans make comments they believe embody discriminatory sentiments,” Traynham told HOH.

Other black conservatives like commentator Armstrong Williams are also lodging charges of hypocrisy against Dodd, who told CNN during the Lott flap, “If Tom Daschle or another Democratic leader were to have made similar statements, the reaction would have been very swift. I don’t think several hours would have gone by without there being an almost unanimous call for the leader to step aside.”

Williams, who was highly critical of Lott in 2002, told HOH on Tuesday: “What [Dodd] said was worse than what Trent Lott said. It’s raw racism. The fact that the Democrats have said nothing about his racist, bigoted comments shows that when Republicans say something they get tossed out of office — but Democrats get away with it.”

Dodd spokesman Marvin Fast gave HOH an official statement noting that several of the Senator’s colleagues, including Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) and Appropriations Chairman Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), delivered speeches praising Byrd. “Like Senator Frist, who called Senator Byrd a ‘legend of the Senate,’ Senator Dodd’s remarks addressed the totality of Senator Byrd’s career and not specific votes. The inference that Senator Dodd’s remarks somehow indicate support for Senator Byrd’s past actions related to civil rights is patently silly and absurdly off the mark.”

Fast added: “Senator Byrd has stated repeatedly that he regrets his vote on the 1964 civil rights bill and has called his past affiliation with the KKK the ‘most egregious mistake’ he ever made. Despite those mistakes, Senator Dodd continues to believe that Senator Byrd’s career should be measured in its totality, and that his love of our country and Constitution would make him a remarkable Senator whenever he served.”

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Democrats have an almost legendary talent for applying rules and standards to their opponents that they do not feel apply to them.

Similarly, this whole anti-Rice farce clearly demonstrates just how deep in their back pocket the left thinks that blacks are.

[expatpat]

I think Black women, in particular, are angry about this.

[eskimo]

The Dem attack on Rice was "very foolish" and "potentially costly" because it could backfire among blacks, said Democratic pollster Ron Lester, an expert on the African-American vote.

I can't wait until the Dems start labeling Rice as just another anti-American, CFR flunkie. They are so stupid that they won't even realize that most of their political heros are also.

[youngtory]

Any black person who voted for Robert Byrd is an idiot.