Posted on 12/30/2024 5:16:39 AM PST by texas booster
18 members of the Congressional Black Caucus, along with Rep. Rashida Tlaib & two other non-black members, signed a letter asking Biden to exonerate America’s first black Klansman.
The letter does not mention that Marcus Garvey had allied with the KKK, admired Hitler, told his followers to read Mein Kampf and declared, “what the Negro needs is a Hitler.”
It also does not mention that Garvey had himself in mind for the job, that the self-proclaimed “Provisional President of Africa” wore imaginary military uniforms and sent his thugs to beat up black civil rights leaders before being expelled in disgrace after defrauding his followers.
Or that the charges of mail fraud that 21 House Democrats want to exonerate Garvey from were brought at the urging of black civil rights leaders of the day who demanded federal intervention.
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After the trial, Garvey claimed that he had been convicted because of his allegiance to the KKK. In buffoonery ... , he argued that the judge (who was actually a Christian, but who Garvey falsely claimed was Jewish) believed that “I hated and was opposed to the Jews, because of my alleged membership in or connection with the Klu Klux Klan.”
The best that can be said of the House Democrat letter is that it does not claim that the Jews had come after Garvey because of his ties to the KKK. The Messenger, the key publication of the Harlem Renaissance, acidly described Garvey as “the Black Imperial Wizard Becomes Messenger Boy of the White Klu Klux Kleagle.” Garvey argued, “between the Klu Klux Klan and the NAACP group, give me the Klan” and said, “you may call me a Klansman if you will.”
21 House Democrats also chose to stand with Garvey’s choice of the KKK over the NAACP. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at frontpagemag.com ...
Wonder why the MSM did not bother to cover the story ...
(Couldn't fit the excerpt into 300 words so I edited it.)
Exonerating an aspiring black Hitler who allied with the KKK for a crime he committed against black people and a conviction carried out at the behest of black civil rights leaders would simply acknowledge that there is no more civil rights movement, and Garveyism rules the Democrats.
More exposure of Congressional buffoonery by the esteemed Daniel Greenfield. Do Democrats think that they can get a pardon for every leftist thug from history, from Biden?
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There are people to this day that will not believe you if you tell them there was a black KKK member...............
He should be held to the standards of the people he represents.
I thought the first black Klansman was clayton Bigsby
“..there was”.
Is this guy still living? The article is so strong on opinion, it misses certain basic info, at least in the first few sentences.
Wonder why the FBI didn’t help one of their own.
No he died in the 1940’s.........
Garvey was waaaay before that..............
I have seen this goofball’s videos on Youtube. Garvey is a howling, jumping-up-and-down, cherry red, jackass and a mental case.
The way he “teaches” his followers how to handle a firearm, I say, let the problem take care of itself.
1887 - 1940.
Why he is being brought up now by the Clack Democratic caucus must be election time again.
On deck? Pardoning Ira Einhorn! *SMIRK* (He’s dead.)
Earth Day co-founder killed, composted girlfriend
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna42711922
That was my question.
History is full of dopey, daffy and degenerate people.
This is more likely to happen in the present day, largely due to social media and open range Influencers.
When your goal is power, nothing else matters.
Look at all the supporters of DEI, trannys, etc.
There are also people that will not believe that there are black members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Bizarre
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