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Hank Aaron Says GOP Are Like the KKK but with ‘Neckties and Starched Shirts’ Instead of Hoods
Godfather Politics ^ | April 9, 2014 | Staff

Posted on 04/15/2014 1:32:13 PM PDT by lbryce

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To: lbryce

He needs a history lesson or two.


21 posted on 04/15/2014 2:15:45 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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22 posted on 04/15/2014 2:15:47 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: muir_redwoods

It seems that Hank Aaron suffers from the Stockholm Syndrome because he still loves the partisans of the racist KKK Party who enslaved his Black brothers, while despises those who fought and died to make them and him free.

An Open Letter to the Democratic Party (From Black Republican Woman)

Lincoln Heritage Institute ^ | 3-18-08 | Lt. Colonel Frances Rice

“We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:

Whereas in the early 1600’s 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development,

Whereas reconciliation and healing always begin with an apology and an effort to repay those who have been wronged,

Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,

Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,

Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,

Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,

Whereas from 1870 to 1930, in an effort to deny African Americans their civil rights and to keep African Americans from voting Republican, thousands of African Americans were shot, beaten, lynched, mutilated, and burned to death by Ku Klux Klan terrorists from the Democratic Party,

Whereas Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission,

Whereas the Democratic party has used racist demagoguery to deceive African Americans about the history of the Republican Party that:

(a) started as the anti-slavery party in 1854,

(b) fought to free African Americans from slavery,

(c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political power for African Americans,

(d) passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote,

(e) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting African Americans protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations,

(f) passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 granting African Americans protection from the Jim Crow laws,

(g) established Affirmative Action programs to help African Americans proper with Republican President Richard Nixon’s 1969 Philadelphia Plan that set the first goals and timetables and his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made Affirmative Action Programs the law of our nation, and

(h) never sponsored or launched a program, passed laws, or engaged in practices that resulted in the death of millions of African Americans,
Whereas Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (a 1954 decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) was a landmark civil rights case that was designed to overturn the racist practices that were established by the Democratic Party,
Whereas after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of African Americans, he banned African American newspapers from the military shortly after taking office because he was convinced the newspapers were communists,

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law, opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues.

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist,

Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was heralded in April 2004 by Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd as a senator who would have been a great leader during the Civil War,

Whereas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act came up for vote, Senator Al Gore, Sr. and the rest of the Southern Democrats voted against the bill,

Whereas in the House of Representatives only 61 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as compared to 80 percent of Republicans, and in the Senate only 69 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, compared to 82 percent of the Republicans,

Whereas Democratic President Bill Clinton sent troops to Europe to protect the citizens of Bosnia and Kosovo while allowing an estimated 800,000 black Rwandans to be massacred in Africa, vetoed the welfare reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan,

Whereas Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore created harmful racial division when he falsely claimed that the 2000 presidential election was “stolen” from him and that African Americans in Florida were disenfranchised, even though a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations confirmed that he lost the election, and a ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared that African Americans were not denied the right to vote,

Whereas the Democratic Party’s soft bigotry of low expectations and social promotions have consigned African Americans to economic bondage and created a culture of dependency on government social programs,

Whereas the Democratic Party’s use of deception and fear to block welfare reform, the faith-based initiative and school choice that would help African Americans prosper is consistent with the Democratic Party’s heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery, a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party whose racist legacy bode ill until this generation of African Americans,

Now, therefore, for the above and other documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African Americans, we demand a formal written apology and other appropriate remuneration from the leadership of the Democratic party.


23 posted on 04/15/2014 2:16:04 PM PDT by Dqban22
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To: muir_redwoods

It seems that Hank Aaron suffers from the Stockholm Syndrome because he still loves the partisans of the racist KKK Party who enslaved his Black brothers, while despises those who fought and died to make them and him free.

An Open Letter to the Democratic Party (From Black Republican Woman)

Lincoln Heritage Institute ^ | 3-18-08 | Lt. Colonel Frances Rice

“We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:

Whereas in the early 1600’s 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development,

Whereas reconciliation and healing always begin with an apology and an effort to repay those who have been wronged,

Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,

Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,

Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,

Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,

Whereas from 1870 to 1930, in an effort to deny African Americans their civil rights and to keep African Americans from voting Republican, thousands of African Americans were shot, beaten, lynched, mutilated, and burned to death by Ku Klux Klan terrorists from the Democratic Party,

Whereas Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission,

Whereas the Democratic party has used racist demagoguery to deceive African Americans about the history of the Republican Party that:

(a) started as the anti-slavery party in 1854,

(b) fought to free African Americans from slavery,

(c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political power for African Americans,

(d) passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote,

(e) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting African Americans protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations,

(f) passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 granting African Americans protection from the Jim Crow laws,

(g) established Affirmative Action programs to help African Americans proper with Republican President Richard Nixon’s 1969 Philadelphia Plan that set the first goals and timetables and his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made Affirmative Action Programs the law of our nation, and

(h) never sponsored or launched a program, passed laws, or engaged in practices that resulted in the death of millions of African Americans,
Whereas Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (a 1954 decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) was a landmark civil rights case that was designed to overturn the racist practices that were established by the Democratic Party,
Whereas after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of African Americans, he banned African American newspapers from the military shortly after taking office because he was convinced the newspapers were communists,

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law, opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues.

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist,

Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was heralded in April 2004 by Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd as a senator who would have been a great leader during the Civil War,

Whereas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act came up for vote, Senator Al Gore, Sr. and the rest of the Southern Democrats voted against the bill,

Whereas in the House of Representatives only 61 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as compared to 80 percent of Republicans, and in the Senate only 69 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, compared to 82 percent of the Republicans,

Whereas Democratic President Bill Clinton sent troops to Europe to protect the citizens of Bosnia and Kosovo while allowing an estimated 800,000 black Rwandans to be massacred in Africa, vetoed the welfare reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan,

Whereas Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore created harmful racial division when he falsely claimed that the 2000 presidential election was “stolen” from him and that African Americans in Florida were disenfranchised, even though a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations confirmed that he lost the election, and a ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared that African Americans were not denied the right to vote,

Whereas the Democratic Party’s soft bigotry of low expectations and social promotions have consigned African Americans to economic bondage and created a culture of dependency on government social programs,

Whereas the Democratic Party’s use of deception and fear to block welfare reform, the faith-based initiative and school choice that would help African Americans prosper is consistent with the Democratic Party’s heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery, a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party whose racist legacy bode ill until this generation of African Americans,

Now, therefore, for the above and other documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African Americans, we demand a formal written apology and other appropriate remuneration from the leadership of the Democratic party.


24 posted on 04/15/2014 2:16:04 PM PDT by Dqban22
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To: lbryce

I would say sit Hank down and tell him the KKK was is and always will be DEMOCRAT DEMOCRAT DEMOCRAT and it should be the DDD, except that at his advanced age the news might kill him, poor old fool that he is.


25 posted on 04/15/2014 2:18:14 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: lbryce

Judge people by the color of their skin? Not above it after all hugh Hank?


26 posted on 04/15/2014 2:18:22 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: lbryce

Well when we allow anyone to start with the premise that only white people can be racist, this is the garbage which follows.

He was a great ball player apparently he’s also a great big racist.


27 posted on 04/15/2014 2:28:25 PM PDT by Williams (No Obama)
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To: broken_arrow1

Give it up, Hank. The bitter aging black racist schtick has been owned by Harry Belafonte for decades now. Julian Bond is ahead of you in line. And don’t even try to cut in front of Danny Glover. It’s a crowded field with lots of competition.


28 posted on 04/15/2014 2:30:48 PM PDT by elcid1970
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To: lbryce

Hank, I was a fan of yours and I didn’t care if you were black, white, green or purple with pink stripes. Now as a white, I have to say that you are an unhappy person who think that whites hates Obama because of his skin color. No, Whites, and Asians and blacks who are conservative, hate Obama because he is a Marxist.


29 posted on 04/15/2014 2:41:44 PM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: lbryce

I can almost guarantee that Hank is not living in some neighborhood with his brothers ,but instead , in some tidy, mostly “white” racist neighborhood,by choice.


30 posted on 04/15/2014 2:42:25 PM PDT by peteyd (A dog may bite you in the ass,but it will never stab you in the back.)
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To: lbryce

Ask him if he ever shook hands with the Democrat Grand Kleagle Senator from West Virginia —


31 posted on 04/15/2014 3:18:43 PM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: lbryce

he’s had the N-word pummeling down on him far too many times.

Yes, and the vast majority of those times it has been by Dims!
The KKK were Dims. Nazis also left wing; National Socialist.... Dims supported slavery. They supported Jim Crow laws. They opposed civil rights for blacks as well as voting rights.

But oh, the GOP are the racists. Why, by another NAZI tactic; If you tell a lie loudly enough, often enough and with enough conviction it becomes truth.

This is why we cannot allow their lies to go unchallenged.


32 posted on 04/15/2014 3:18:49 PM PDT by logic101.net (How many more children must die on the altar of gun control?)
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To: lbryce

No, Hank, that’s the Democrat Party.


33 posted on 04/15/2014 3:25:11 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: lbryce

And Aaron strikes out!


34 posted on 04/15/2014 3:25:33 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: lbryce

It’s a shame to see such a talented ball player fall into a mental state where this sounds right. Until this point, I thought a lot of the man. I guess I still do. I hope I don’t get feeble-minded with age.


35 posted on 04/15/2014 3:27:30 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: lbryce
Like Harry Belafonte, Hank Aaron apparently can't stand being accepted for his gifts by the vast majority of white people. What has the GOP ever done to him? Nothing. Just proves, being a great athlete doesn't mean you don't have your head up your a&&.
36 posted on 04/15/2014 3:32:28 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: lbryce

A person who can’t distinguish between lynching and conservatism cannot distinguish between theft and liberalism.


37 posted on 04/15/2014 3:33:00 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: SunkenCiv
Thanks, sunkenciv;
It's almost embarrassing to have posted this article when there's been as many similar stories already posted as you've thoughtfully pointed out. Nevertheless, that nothing else comes up when searching with the words in the title,does offer some consolation.
38 posted on 04/15/2014 3:36:36 PM PDT by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: Dqban22

Let me guess: the response from the DNC was essentially - go pound sand, *igger.

It just a guess, but accurate.


39 posted on 04/15/2014 3:39:14 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: lbryce
I always thought Aaron always had a chip on his shoulder.

Think of all the "Republicans" who have cheered Aaron on, all the while he was quietly hating them.

40 posted on 04/15/2014 3:52:46 PM PDT by FreeReign
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