Posted on 06/21/2020 8:28:20 AM PDT by rktman
Call it “omission journalism.”
On June 14th, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ran this headline: "More than 1 million sign petition to designate KKK as terrorist group."
The AJC story said, in part, this:
“More than 1 million people have signed an online petition calling for the government to designate the Ku Klux Klan as a terrorist organization.
The “Change KKK status into Terrorist Organization” campaign is one of at least three petitions that have gone viral on the change.org website since George Floyd’s death, according to Newsweek."
The heading of the next section of the story reads: “A history of terror”
Then the piece, bylined by ArLuther Lee, goes into a curious description of the Klan. It accurately discusses the Klan’s history of terrorizing black Americans.
So what do we have here? What we have is The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the newspaper of a city that is in the midst of its own racial turmoil, writing up the Ku Klux Klan - and deliberately omitting its long, deep and powerful relationship with the Democratic Party that went on for years and years, including in the paper’s very own state of Georgia.
It is a classic example of omission journalism, an attempt to re-write history as if it never existed.
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it's so small now it's embarrassing itself.
What percentage of the membership of the current KKK are actually working for the FBI?
Their membership is only supposed to be in the thousands nationwide, which is dozens per state.
It’s up to us Keyboard Warriors to get the word out. It was awesome to point out that Sleepy Joe Biden had glowing things to say about segregationists and gave a eulogy at the funeral of a leader of The KKK, Robert Byrd.
Their Programming/Propaganda arms are loosing their lockdown. INFOWARS / Alt-right, individuals online and of course FR BUMP!
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It won’t matter...just got told by law degreed niece both parties are corrupt...she won’t even listen to history from a Black guy (I sent her a video). She’s a pawn.
Minor correction - the Byrdman was a Grand Kleagle of the Klan, so a leader but not the leader. I think he was in charge of WV state recruiting for the Klan.
But remember that’s all cool!
Because he was a Rat!
Do the last two sentences really need a sarcasm tag.
We too noticed that. The “What has he done in the 4+ decades to help black folks?” was good and needs to be hammering pedo joe constantly.
Those old Democrats believed that integration would lead to the destruction of the school systems and cause cities to descend into chaos. Well, time has shown those old bigots a thing or two.
I assume that at some point conservatives will be saying “the Democrats are the real transphobes”. Owning the libs by accepting their premises on every issue.
I agree. President Trump could’ve gone on a ten minute riff on the ties of the demonicRAT party to slavery, racism, segregation, etc.
I hear that the KKK has many sympathizers inside the FBI.
Don’t know if they have as many as informants though.
Heard that there were many members of KKK in town for
the protest last week just in case. Protests went off peacefully. Proud of our citizens. No problem with peaceful protests.
Don’t forget the Democrats were also behind slavery in the south, Jim Crow, the KKK, and segregation in the South. Some blacks seem to have forgotten this. They have also forgotten all the Democratic promises made to them during campaigns and then forgotten after the election.
Six old guys in wheelchairs are a Terrorist group? Okay then.
The KKK supported the ATF in their campaign against David Koresh
The media seems to gloss over that these days
Youtube is suppressing the search results for the news footage of that.
To find some things on youtube these days you need to use a search engine to search youtube or you have to hit some magic formula.
For example, to find the video of the song “juneteenth boogie” from the 40s you have to put it all in quotes. Without the quotes you will ONLY get matches for recent juneteenth news and history clips (it is there but the 18th match whereas NONE of the other clips use “boogie” in the title or description).
“Ties”?!
The Democratic Party created them mofos.....!
“Then on Monday, two men wearing the KKK’s trademark white hoods showed up at a Black Lives Matter protest in Fallon, Nevada, carrying Donald Trump campaign flags.”
I would seriously doubt that. Klansmen still vote Democrat. As crazy as that sounds. What a dichotomy that is! I would guess that Union members are the largest percentage of Klan members.
And I hear that Klan members work and are friendly with their coworkers. As it was rumored some local Klan said “we don’t hate Blacks. We just don’t want us to mix” Which is the same thing that a lot of blacks believe also.
Ask a black woman what she thinks about a Black man dating a white woman. Around here anyway.
Oops. Friendly with their black coworkers.
The KKK supported the ATF in their campaign against David Koresh
Here some footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K6iVBeP3as
>> Klansmen still vote Democrat. As crazy as that sounds. What a dichotomy that is! I would guess that Union members are the largest percentage of Klan members.
Dinesh D’Souza interviewed contemporary Klansmen and they all support the Democrat Party. They may dislike a face but they like the agenda.
Yeah, saw the video from Fallon. You would have to be REAL STOOPID to put on the dunce cap and tote a Trump flag as if the two are somehow connected.
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