Posted on 01/18/2017 10:55:48 AM PST by Garvin
The below picture was taken during the 1924 Democratic Convention.
It was also known as Klanbake.
In Madison Square Garden, New York City, from June 24 to July 9, a dispute during came up revolving around an attempt by non-Klan delegates, led by Forney Johnston of Alabama, to condemn the organization for its violence in the Democratic Partys platform.
But Klan delegates defeated the platform plank in a series of floor debates.
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 final vote was 546.15 for the Klan, 542.85 against it.
JUST HOW STUPID ARE DEMOCRATS?
Democrat Saint, black congressman John Lewis, was beat by democrats and had his skull cracked by democrats under the orders of a democrat assistant state Attorney General,
a democrat sheriff and a democrat governor back in 1965 on “Bloody Sunday” in Selma Alabama.
Apparently they knocked his brains out because Saint John then goes on to join the political party of his oppressors and becomes a lifelong democrat himself.
He then turns himself into a civil rights icon and builds a political career on the strength of his black skin and the injury sustained at the march.
Saint John dedicates his life to attacking, smearing and destroying members of the republican party even though it was democrats, not republicans,
who beat and whipped black civil rights advocates and cracked his skull back in Selma on Bloody Sunday.
See:
“Andrew Young Calls John Lewis A Saint”
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/16/andrew-young-donald-trump/96654624/
"The greatest trick the Democrats ever pulled was to convince the world that they are on the side of minorities."
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“In the 1860s, the Democrats used race hatred to obtain and maintain political power.”
That’s the leftard narrative.
==> The meme has been we kicked the Klan out of the democratic party, and the[y] all joined the republican party. <==
Senator Robert C. Byrd who was also Exalted Cyclops of the KKK in West Virginia was a republican?
Who knew?
The lying scoundrel passed himself off as a democrat congressman and senator for over 50 years!
Democrats must really be upset over that.
The Democrats always have been, are and probably always will be the Party of Race Hatred...... They morphed from the party of slavery to the party of enslavement.
Nice try, but the meme goes for rank and file deplorables like you and me, not Robert KKK Byrd.
If we start by agreeing that the politics and aims of the DEMOCRAT PARTY were mostly evil,vile, I think that would be a good start. Can I get an AMEN?
And the only Blacks are those who listen to Rush.
So, no, in other words I cannot get an AMEN that the KKK is bad.
The Klan was a dominant force in the Democratic Party from the late 1860s to the 1920s with a membership of 3 million in the 20s.
Fbi estimates of current 3,000 membership does not include the number of fbi agents in the mix
Centered in Indiana, it appears that it would be better named “ barbecue, beer and shooting society”.
No...U get that most assuredly !
Rush Limbaugh Newsletter Jan 2013 had points he was making on several topics- on gun control, this was his comments of how Democrats progress:
Fight begins: 1865,. Indeed, gun control is in the Democrat Party DNA, all the way back to its racist Civil War-era roots, when southern Democrats enacted “Black Codes” prohibiting emancipated slaves from owning guns or ammunition. Such blacks were only partly free; thanks to these Democrats, the core civil right of self defense was denied them.
Interesting that Slate couldn’t be bothered to mention “(D-WV)” after Senator Byrd’s name...
You know what they say, 92 years early is on time!
I mean I am a lifelong Republican. My votes for Dems have been few and far between and have always been over the issue of a corrupt Republican incumbent who needed to go when they’ve occurred.
But I know enough history to know that when Bobby Kennedy took the side of the civil rights protesters that pulled LBJ way over to that side as well because he was so afraid of RFK’s political ambitions. This created an opening for Nixon to appeal to the ANTI civil rights cadre in the south, and wherever they lived, and over the next 3 to 4 election cycles the South flipped from Solid Dem to mostly Republican, and as the Dem incumbents died off they were all replaced by Republicans.
Good read! Thanks for the link.
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