Posted on 10/25/2007 11:42:36 PM PDT by RussP
The original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans, both black and white, according to a new television program and book, which describe how the Democrats started the KKK and for decades harassed the GOP with lynchings and threats.
An estimated 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites died at the end of KKK ropes from 1882 to 1964.
The documentation has been assembled by David Barton of Wallbuilders and published in his book "Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White," which reveals that not only did the Democrats work hand-in-glove with the Ku Klux Klan for generations, they started the KKK and endorsed its mayhem.
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Since you disagree with the “facts” in this article and seem to have knowledge that contradicts, perhaps you should contact Wallbuilders and share with them what you know. I agree if the facts are wrong it does no good either to the conservative or the Christian cause to present them as true. Wallbuilders can be contacted here:
http://www.wallbuilders.com/default.asp
Thank you for the recommendation, although it appears to me that WorldNetDaily should be addressed as well, since these are not the words of David Barton, but of their reporter Bob Unruh, who was commenting on Barton’s work.
I know of this history. Many Freepers know of this history. Yet, Ken Mehlman, a few months before the 2006 election, gives a speech where he “admits” that Republicans have practiced racism against blacks and have a sordid history of same. So, the question now is how do you fight against idiots in your own party?
“Thank you for the recommendation, although it appears to me that WorldNetDaily should be addressed as well, since these are not the words of David Barton, but of their reporter Bob Unruh, who was commenting on Barton’s work.”
There’s a reason many of us ignore the World Nut Daily.
“......many Northern States were run by Republican affiliated Klan members. I have a picture of Warren G. Harding holding a Klan meeting in the White House....”.
Let the South hating posters chew on this for awhile. These idiots still don’t get it. The South was solidly Democrat because of the opression and other excesses of the Radical Republican “Reconstruction”. Ex Confederates were totally disenfranchised and were not allowed to vote and their property was taken by corrupt Carpetbagger (and Scalawag) tax collectors. The Democratic Party was our refuge In those days, the Republicans were our mortal enemies.
It took 100 years and Barry Goldwater to begin the conversion of the Southern Democrats over to the Republican Party and now ironically, the South is the most solidly Republican region in the Country. Also ironically, the once solidly Republican Northeast is the most solidly Democrat. The political world has flipped.
Nothing like keeping racism at the forefront, eh?
Tell me about it... It used to be, "As Maine goes, so goes the nation." and now it's watch what ever Maine's doing and do the opposite.
Good post. General Polk took one for the team at Kennesaw Mtn. Down a little path, there is a memorial where he was killed
“Baton lives in the past. He digs up all kinds of history and represents it as new information.”
That’s what historians do. Are you suggesting that we should forget the past? If so, then you’d make a good Leftist.
“Nothing like keeping racism at the forefront, eh?”
That remark has to take the cake for ignorance. The Democrats and Left are the ones who are always bringing race to the forefront. Since they are obsessed with it, why not rub their noses in a bit of their own doo-doo?
To let this go would be the height of political folly. When the truth is on your side, why not use it?
We must always remind people that the reason that the Democrat Party was founded was to distribute the political spoils system and to extend slavery into the 19th century US territories, and that the GOP was founded to OPPOSE slavery. The 13th amendment forbids the RATS from physically enslaving us, so contempory RATS tax us to death and chip away at our legitimate constitutional liberties as incrementally as they can, while providing a bulwark and safe haven for Cultural Marxists.
I am a black man who regularly engages in discourse with people in my community as to why the DemocRAT Party is the worst political, social, cultural and historical disaster EVER to befall the black community ouside slavery itself. Even after I get them to acknowledge this essential truth, they remain committed to voting RAT.
The staggering level of political cognitive dissonance amongst my people is frightning.
I can’t top that.
The statement that those lynching numbers are all attributable to the KKK may have come from the author of the article on the book rather than the actual author of the book itself.
In any case, I am not as interested in exact numbers as I am in the big picture. Too many people (myself included, until fairly recently) have the impression that the Republican opposition to slavery is a historical footnote. Not so. For well over a *century*, the Republicans were clearly on the side of African Americans while the Democrats were clearly against them.
Shortly after the Civil War, the Republicans tried to give blacks the rights they finally got nearly a century later, but they were routinely stymied by Democrats.
Had Lincoln not been shot and replaced by Andrew Johnson, the history of race relations in this country would be very different. By the way, if I am not mistaken, Johnson was actually a Democrat (or former Democrat) who Lincoln chose as a sort of compromise to attract some of the Democrat vote. How’s that for a colossal blunder?
How many know that the so-called “Radical Republicans” back in the days of the Civil War were called “radical” because they wanted to give blacks full citizenship and full civil rights? Yes, that was a “radical” idea back then.
“I dislike both the title and tenor of this article. It somehow implies that now the KKK and Republican interests coincided at some point and the last time I looked that is as far from the truth now as it was then.”
Apparently I missed that part. Are you sure you didn’t just imagine it?
“Every time I point that out, the answer I get from libs is that those democrats are now the republicans.”
And I’ll bet those libs also think that opposition to Affirmative Action is equivalent to “racism.”
What is it about these folks that they cannot comprehend the simple fact that “reverse” racism is still racism?
Martin Luther King’s dream of a color-blind society apparently sailed right over their heads.
“Distorting history for the sake of promoting the conservative cause is no better than the PC rewriting of history performed by liberals in academia or the entertainment business.”
In your estimation, what percentage of support for the KKK came from Democrats and what percentage came from Republicans? Given what I know, I suspect the Democratic support dwarfed the Republican support. I haven’t studied the matter in any detail, however, and I could be wrong.
“A person wrote this because they felt the need to point out that the KKK used to go after Republicans at the behest of Democrats. By process of elimination that means that today they go after Democrats at the urgings of Republicans.”
I probably shouldn’t even reply to such obvious baloney, but here I go. If I say that a man used to beat his wife, does that mean by “process of elimination” that today his wife beats him?
I’m just going to have to operate on the idea that you didn’t actually read the article you posted.
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