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Posted on 03/15/2024 11:03:43 AM PDT by DallasBiff
“John Euless, namesake of Fresno City College’s Euless Park… a 1922 newspaper article identified (Euless) as a leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Fresno,” Warszawski wrote in the editorial. “Reading that, my eyeballs nearly popped out of their sockets. Fresno City’s baseball facility, and former home to minor-league baseball from the early 1940s to the late 1980s, is named for a KKK leader?”
Warszawski continued that he found a newspaper from 1922 that included a list of Klansmen’s names—including Euless—which was “seized by police during a raid… and released to the media by authority of the Fresno County district attorney.”
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Sen. Byrd was not a KKK Grand Wizard. And that photo of him is obviously faked.
There is no need for any exaggeration when it comes to Byrd’s Klan history. Byrd was an Exalted Cyclops. So he was not just a local Klan leader. He was THE local Klan leader. And he said many filthy, racist things about black people.
Yet as you noted, Byrd has many buildings and roads named after him. And since he’s a Democrat no one cares about his past.
That only shows how hypocritical the rat party truly is.
A Racist Ballpark?
What, they don’t let coloreds in?
There’s a ballpark named after a racist? Good thing our government has better sense.
Why there could actually be a Federal Courthouse named after a Racist.
Oh, wait....
https://courtsweb.gsa.gov/courthouse/robert-c-byrd-united-states-courthouse-and-irs-complex
More. Much more.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Robert_Byrd
A step in right direction to BAN the entire Democrat Party for their ties to Slavery and Racism.
This reminds of the classic Twilight Zone episode,
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/06/robert-byrd-was-an-exalted-cyclops-in-the-ku-klux-klan-what-does-that-mean.html
That ”Grand Giant” title would have impressed Byrd’s racist pal Mr. Biden even more.
They should name it after a drug dealer like Floyd
A suburb of Dallas, Texas is named “Euless”.
Racism and Slavery are Bad.
So bad that, after 150 years we can’t have statues of Confederates or have anything named for Confederates. Doesn’t matter what they did later in life, there can be NO pardon, no commutation, for ANY Racist person place, or thing. EVER. This is the Standard of the modern Liberal, and may never be disregarded or ignored. EVER.
Why then, does the Party of Slavery, Segregation, Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, and Lynching (not rhetorical lynching of today but the actual murder committed by Racists), the party that fillibustered the Voting Rights Act for two days get a Pass? Why is the Democrat Party allowed to exist? What special mitigating circumstances cleanse the hundreds of years of Slavery, Segregation, and Terrorism perpetrated by the Democrat Party? Or, is all of this just Political Posturing by the Victims of Democrat Policies who, with a wink and a nod, are bought off by their former masters? You are just as much a Slave as your ancestors were, and to the same people.
Take all Democrats’ names off every public entity.
“Byrd has many buildings and roads named after him.”
Clearly you favor the understatement. Why not just call the state West Byrdinia?
That’s “Useless.”
He was also a recruiter for the Klan.
“Mods pull if too controversial.”
LOL! My first thought too...but it’s still here some 5 HOURS later.
“the Party of Slavery”
Good to know that the founding of the Democratic Party by Van Buren and Jackson in 1828 made them responsible for slavery.
Some people think that George Washington and other pre-Democrat Presidents had a lot of slaves long before that but what do they know.
Some Dallas-Fort Worth residents probably do consider Euless to be useless.
Yep. There used to be a Barbeque place there 20 years ago that was worthy. Not sure what there is there now.
Interesting:
‘Texas in my heart’: Aging Tongans still call Euless home
“We never put anyone in a nursing home or senior home,” says Penilotu “Peni” Asaeli, among the South Pacific islanders who have settled in Euless. Instead, the tightknit families keep their elders close.
[Caption] Penilotu Asaeli and his wife, Losa, live with their daughter in Euless, where over 3,00 people from Tonga, a South Pacific island chain, have settled. (Lawrence Jenkins / Special Contributor)
By Harriet L. Blake
Special Contributor
The Dallas Morning News
June 6, 2019
The first thing you need to know about the Tongan people is that no matter how far they are from their South Pacific home, they stay together.
Euless happens to be home to more than 3,000 Tongans, many of whom settled here in the mid-’70s. They came for a better life for their families and jobs with the airlines and at DFW International Airport.
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