Posted on 08/16/2017 10:04:13 AM PDT by Sontagged
The 1924 Democrat National Convention, also called the Klanbake, was held at the Madison Square Garden in New York City from June 24 to July 9, 1924. Maybe this was where Democrat and former KKK member Robert Byrd got his start.
This seems too crazy, even for liberals, to be true, but you can Google ‘Klanbake” and discover the authenticity of how involved the Democrat party has been involved with the KKK.
Liberals Aren’t Liking This Newly-Discovered Photo Of The 1924 Democrat Convention…
The Ku Klux Klan was resurrected after the 1915 release of D.W. Griffith’s very popular motion picture The Birth of a Nation.
After World War I, the popularity of the Klan surged due to connections of its public relations leadership to those who had promoted the successful Prohibition Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, becoming a political power throughout many regions of the United States, not just in the South. Its local political strength throughout the country gave it a major role in the 1924 Democratic Party National Convention (DNC).
The 20th Century Ku Klux Klan was notoriously anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic, in addition to being anti-black. The Klan advocates opposed those supporting Catholics from the major cities of the Northeast and Midwest. The tension between pro- and anti-Klan delegates produced an intense and sometimes violent showdown between convention attendees from the states of Colorado and Missouri.
Klan delegates opposed the nomination of New York Governor Al Smith because Smith was a Roman Catholic. Smith campaigned against William Gibbs McAdoo, who had the support of most Klan delegates.
The second dispute of the convention revolved around an attempt by non-Klan delegates, led by Forney Johnston of Alabama, to condemn the organization for its violence in the Democratic Party’s platform. Klan delegates defeated the platform plank in a series of floor debates.
The final vote on condemning the Klan was 542.85 in favor, 546.15 against, so the plank was not included in the platform. To celebrate, tens of thousands of hooded Klansmen rallied in a field in New Jersey, across the river from New York City.
This event, known subsequently as the “Klanbake”, was also attended by hundreds of Klan delegates to the convention, who burned crosses, urged violence and intimidation against African-Americans and Catholics, and attacked effigies of Smith.
The notoriety of the “Klanbake” convention and the violence it produced cast a lasting shadow over the Democratic Party’s prospects in the 1924 election and contributed to their defeat by incumbent Republican President Calvin Coolidge.
Democrats love trying to pin racism on Conservatives…maybe to try and hide their real past. The Democratic Party has always been the party of racism and slavery! They were behind the Jim Crow laws. Maybe they need to look in the mirror before they cast stones at us.
Since its founding in the late 1820s, the Democratic Party has defended slavery, started the Civil War, and opposed Reconstruction. The Democratic Party imposed segregation. Its members engaged in the lynchings of blacks and opposed the civil rights acts of the 1950s and ’60s.
During Reconstruction, hundreds of black men were elected to Southern state legislatures as Republicans, and 22 black Republicans served in the U.S. Congress by 1900.
A few decades later, the only serious congressional opposition to the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 came from Democrats.
Eighty percent of Republicans in the House of Representatives supported the bill. Less than 70 percent of Democrats did.
The Democratic Party did not elect a black man to Congress until 1935. That is the history of the Democrat party folks.
But the difference is in the two perspectives. The Democrat mentality is to blame and cry in front of hurdles. The Republican perspective is to use those hurdles to become strong. In my lifetime, had Jesse Jackson and All Sharpton had a message of ‘grab your bootstraps’ and make the best of life, instead of cry and blame, we would be in a very different world.
The Democrat party has been and will always be the true racists in America
Read more: https://ihavethetruth.com/2017/07/28/liberals-photo-1924-democrat-convention/#ixzz4pwEtTBmc
I dare Fox News to show this picture
that is hilariousness. hypocrites!!!
And his name should be removed from all public places across the USA.
Never forget!
Spread it far and wide and shove it down the liberal’s throats!
I find it interesting that the KKK (Originally the militant arm of the Democrat party) joined with the so-called Nazis are now called far right.
Early 20th Century: KKK is the armed terrorist wing of the Democrat party.
Early 21st Century: Antifa is the armed terrorist wing of the Democrat party.
Nothing changes except the outfits; white hoods out, black balaclavas in.
Can I steal what you said for my FB? I’m going to post above pic with your statements to try and educate some people
I told my Nephew recently that Democrats have morphed from the party of slavery to the party of enslavement. He didn’t like that (or understand it).
...but the parties “switched” dontcha know?
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This is always the answer from dems.
Rachel Maddow had a long piece about the Klan and the 1924 Democratic Convention on her show on Tuesday night.
Right here is likely as far as it will go.
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You mean Rachel Maddow saw these posts about the 1924 DNC Klanbake all over social media and she was forced to try to give a mea culpa about it on her show?
Here’s a great answer to that nonsense:
Why Did the Democratic South Become Republican?
https://youtu.be/UiprVX4os2Y
Carol Swain, professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University, for Prager University.
Transcript here:
https://www.prageru.com/courses/history/why-did-democratic-south-become-republican
many other articles: https://query.nytimes.com/search/sitesearch/#/convention/from19240624to19240709/allresults/27/
I dare the NYT to talk about it.
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