Posted on 02/11/2019 1:25:53 PM PST by detective
When Virginia Governor Ralph Northam endorsed fourth-trimester abortions last week, nobody called for his resignation. His decision 35 years ago to masquerade, either in blackface or as a Klansman — which malefaction against taste Northam engaged in seems unclear — offends modern sensibilities to such a degree that his party, his predecessor, and nearly every presidential wannabe says he should step down. This says something more about us than him.
Democrats did not always exhibit a zero-tolerance policy toward dressing up in white sheets. They once, at least in some parts of the country, demanded it from candidates.
In 1924, the Democratic National Convention rejected, by a single vote, a resolution condemning the Ku Klux Klan. The nation’s most prominent Democrat, William Jennings Bryan, used his considerable rhetorical gifts to shamefully aid the nos. “My friends,” the three-time presidential nominee told the convention, “it requires more courage to fight the Republican Party than it does to fight the Ku Klux Klan.”
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
The hoodless klan at the State Of The Union....
The KKK was a part of the Democrat Party ... The KKK was the enforcement arm of the party.
The KKK was the *military* wing of the Democrat Party. It was not just so bunch of guys who hung around with Democrats, but rather an adjunct to Party politics ‘taking care’ of uppity whites who voted Republican and blacks who didn’t know their ‘place’ through *organized* terror champaigns, burnings, beatings, and lynchings.
“There were NO REPUBLICANS in the KKK!”
That’s actually not true of the twentieth century Klan. There were some, a small percentage compared to Democrats.
There was Republican governor of Indiana who was Klan.
“There were NO REPUBLICANS in the KKK!”
The second Klan was very big in both Indiana and Oregon, where they dominated the government. Both were Republican states.
http://time.com/4990253/kkk-white-nationalists-history/
“In the early 1920s, the two states with the highest per capita Klan membership were Indiana and Oregon. Though Portland, Ore., has a reputation for liberal inclusiveness today, that was one of the cities where the KKK was most powerful. One major focus of Klan resentment in Oregon was on parochial schools, which were painted as part of the Pope’s plot to take over America. (Modern progressives may also be surprised to learn that the Klan called for a federal department of education at this time, because they wanted to be able to control curricula, Gordon points out.)”
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/flood-klan/
“In the 1920s, the Klan moved in many states to dominate local and state politics. The Klan devised a strategy called the “decade,” in which every member of the Klan was responsible for recruiting ten people to vote for Klan candidates in elections. In 1924 the Klan succeeded in engineering the elections of officials from coast to coast, including the mayors of Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon. In some states, such as Colorado and Indiana, they placed enough Klansmen in positions of power to effectively control the state government. Known as the “Invisible Empire,” the KKK’s presence was felt across the country.”
So the Klan instigated the Dept of Education.
Interesting.
DemoKKKrats
Yep. Well at least that was their plan. The Dept of Education had to wait for Jimmy Carter.
Something that those eager to link the Second Klan to the Democratic Party ignore (or more likely “don’t know”) is who the Democrat’s candidate for President was in 1928. It was Al Smith, the first Catholic to run for President. And the three main features of the second Klan were its support for Prohibition and its opposition Catholics and Jews.
You are full of CRAP! They were NOT Republicans in the KKK...geesh..
The picture in the right should be of the dems at the SOTU speech
Best line I heard was “I haven’t seen so many Democrats dressed in white since they founded the KKK”
democratic Senator Byrd was a leader of the KKK, embraced by many rat politicians including Hillary Clinton. Not a fan of northam but he’s getting run out of town for black face when they were lynching blacks back in the day with future US senator as their leader and a rat party that was against civil rights. I just love when they eat their own
Sheets Byrd.
Sorry Annie, pretend doesn’t change history no matter how much it upsets you.
Wow - what is that from?
(hello from the future)
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