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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Every time I point that out, the answer I get from libs is that those democrats are now the republicans.
Then ask them when Senator Byrd switched parties.
All I ever hear is Ronald Reagan. When I mention Byrd, of course they had never heard that.
Umm that’s sort of true. Most of those folks switched over after the 60’s. Now the Dims are mostly communists in disguise, but they’re really not so much southern racists anymore. They love the northeastern kind of racism now.
My father's family fought for decades the one party Dem system in LA and Texas.
Simply put, and as sad as it is, the majority of Blacks elected to return to the plantation.
I disagree...the Democratic party of today still uses minorities under the guise of being ‘inclusive’ to continue to keep those minorities in line. All the government give aways are just another form of slavery to keep the recipients beholden to the master and therefor in power.
Cheers.
Article notes that Harding and Truman were accused, but, disputed by too many facts. Whereas, Robert Byrd, Hugo Black and other Supreme Court Justices were KKK.
I don’t know if Harding was actually a member, but I do know that he hosted fully-robed Klan members in the WH and seemed to be quite comfortable with it.
Darn, I thought only black people were hung. Some people deny history. I guess it doesn’t fit their agenda. The ratio is 2.66 black to 1 white hung. What is the ratio of black and white crime today.?
Remember too that at the time women had no vote and Confederate veterans were slow to get their vote back and thus they were politically disenfranchised. Thus the rise of the underground movements like the Klan which arose in areas which had suffered great amounts of looting, rape, and murder at the hands of the occupying forces. Read about the sack of Athens, Alabama which occurred during the war and then study the Athens-Pulaski axis in the formation of the Klan. The Klan that arose as a fad after the hit film BIRTH OF A NATION had its strongest numbers in the midwestern states.
The KKK was the terrorist wing of the democrat party.
Reconstruction was a tragedy for all involved and would have been conducted much differently had Lincoln lived.
I grew up in middle Tennessee where half the towns have a historical marker with the title, “FORREST’S RAID”. He was a man of great energy in addition to his great abilities. Like Cromwell he came out of a pure civilian background yet beat professional soldiers and was in Cromwell’s words “more severe than perhaps you would have it”.
An estimated 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites died at the end of KKK ropes from 1882 to 1964.
During the height of lynch law terror, in the period from 1890 to 1910, the Ku Klux Klan did not exist. The first Klan was suppressed by Federal authorities in the early 1870s, and the second Klan was not started until 1915.
"Starting with Harry Truman, Democrats began – that is, they made their first serious efforts – to fight against the barriers of race; yet … Truman's efforts were largely unsuccessful because of his own Democratic Party."
Franklin Roosevelt established the Fair Employment Practice Committee by executive order and prohibited discrimination by any Federal agency, including the military. Many of the discriminatory practices in the Federal government had been established by Woodrow Wilson in the 1910s, but were not undone in 12 years of Republican presidents (Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover), in spite of GOP majorities in both houses of Congress during their administrations. While the black vote had been overwhelmingly Republican, it shifted to the Democrat column, in part due to the efforts of big city machine politicians who set up patronage programs for African Americans in a manner similar to what they had done for European immigrants. The New Deal also offered blacks welfare programs that appealed to their pocketbooks. By 1940, black Republicanism was moribund.
Barton's documentation said the first opponents of slavery "and the chief advocates for racial equal rights were the churches (the Quakers, Presbyterians, Methodists, etc.).
True enough. However, many churchmen, such as Episcopal bishop Leonidas Polk and Presbyterian theologian R. L. Dabney, later a leader of conservative Presbyterians in the South, were strong supporters of the Confederacy. In later times, such conservative evangelicals as W. A. Criswell and Jerry Falwell defended segregation in their younger days (though both later repented for their support of segregation). Overall, the record of churches and churchmen, Protestant and Catholic, on the issues of slavery and segregation was mixed.
The article suggested a contrast with the GOP, which, when former Klansman David Duke ran for Louisiana governor in 1991 as a Republican, was "scorned" by national GOP officials.
By 1991, support for a known white supremacist was as deadly to a political career as being associated with a dead girl or a live boy, as Earl Long once put it. The record of the Republican Party with regard to the second Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s was far from admirable. Republican state administrations in states like Maine, Indiana, and Oregon were controlled by Klansmen.
Distorting history for the sake of promoting the conservative cause is no better than the PC rewriting of history performed by liberals in academia or the entertainment business.
Maybe so, but they obviously haven't been read by the people who really, REALLY need to read them. For many, this could be a new found revelation.
True, they don't physically lynch any more (for the most part). They oppress in other ways.
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