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.
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The MSM continues to do this with Senator Trent Lott (Senator Wuss).
What have you been smoking? The democrats may not be hanging blacks from trees for voting republicans anymore. That's too passe. However, blacks who vote republican aren't readily admitting it and those who do are readily slandered for doing so. Democrats publicly call black republicans horrendous racial slanders along with all the other names republicans get. Nooses are no longer used but intimidation is still a tactic the democrats use to keep blacks in their place
Get a life, guy.
You might want to consider counseling for your guilt over slavery. If you decide to become a Republican, you can feel better that your party actually fought the Democrats to end slavery. I feel pretty good about it myself.
Are still in grade school? Your posts don’t make much sense.
Now they take credit for it.
I wouldn’t expect them to make sense to someone incapable of thinking.
You got my attention son, what do you want to say.
Slavery was a terrible thing, and the Republicans should be proud that they fought against it and tried to give blacks their full civil rights shortly after the Civil War — a full century before Democrats were willing to do so.
The Democrats should be ashamed that they fought *for* slavery and blocked civil rights for blacks for a century after the Civil War.
Every time Democrats or Leftists try to demagogue the race issue and smear Republicans as racist, Republicans should remind people of these facts. Every time some Leftist yahoo demands reparations for slavery, these facts should be brought up.
That’s all. Have a nice day.
“I’m surprised this hasn’t been posted yet, but I searched FR and couldn’t find it.
The despicable history of the Democratic Party in supporting slavery and the KKK must be heralded far and wide. And so also the Republican history of fighting them.
Rusty Humphries talked extensively about this book today — and I loved every second of it. We need more of that.
I am always amazed at people who are obsessed with the history of slavery and racism yet are apparently ignorant of the fact that, for many decades, the Democrats fought tooth and nail to keep them in place while the Republicans fought to end them.
Imagine how the political landscape could change if this history were widely known.”
Well a few years ago, PBS (of all networks) had a series about the Jim Crow era, and they touched on the facts that the kkk and democrats worked with eachother.
I would bring it up and the demoncraps I’d be debating would start in with the personal attacks, and calling the PBS series “lies and propaganda” while saying that Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond proves that Republicans are the racists, and that the parties shifted after the Civil Rights Act was passed because all the racists and klansmen joined the Republicans.
“Whatever the party did previously with respect to the KKK doesn’t matter when they are firmly devoted to siding with minorities, particularly blacks as they are the loudest, on every issue from affirmative action to reparations (should the latter ever get off the ground), and will stomp the head of any ‘whitey’ who gets in the way now—just in case anyone doubts their sincerity.”
That is all a smoke screen to keep the minorities that they “support” on the so called plantation.
For 40 years the democrats have been making promises to the minorities, and giving them handouts in exchange for votes. Beyond that, the democrats have done NOTHING for the minorities except for keeping them in failed public schools, housing projects, and the welfare rolls.
“Also, I would argue that “Affirmative Action” policies of the Democrats are still racist. Deep down, they don’t believe that blacks can compete in academia or the marketplace without favoritism mandated by the government.”
Exactly! That’s why they smear and vilify Dr. Rice, Justice Thomas, and Bill Cosby because they became who they are without the government crutch, and they advocate self reliance and personal responsibility
“That’s the same Democratic Party that wants to force corporations today to “apologize” for their history of racism!”
That is another one of their smokescreens to keep the masses on the “plantation”
“I would bring it up and the demoncraps I’d be debating would start in with the personal attacks, and calling the PBS series “lies and propaganda” while saying that Trent Lott and Strom Thurmond proves that Republicans are the racists, and that the parties shifted after the Civil Rights Act was passed because all the racists and klansmen joined the Republicans.”
If I recall correctly, Michael Zak points out in his book that a greater percentage of Republicans than Democrats in Congress voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
“Exactly! That’s why they smear and vilify Dr. Rice, Justice Thomas, and Bill Cosby because they became who they are without the government crutch, and they advocate self reliance and personal responsibility”
Absolutely. I remember when they tried to claim that Clarence Thomas should support Affirmative Action because he “benefitted” from it himself. All the Leftists *assumed* that he couldn’t have made the grade on his own, without favoritism mandated by the government.
Apparently these bozos can’t fathom the notion that some blacks can make the grade on their own merit. The notion is simply beyond their mental capacity.
fanboy alert
“fanboy alert”
And just what is that supposed to mean? Because I mentioned a point from a book by Michael Zak, that makes me a “fanboy”?
Good grief, what passes for “thinking” these days.
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