It won't be too long, of course, before the words "Uncle Tom", "Oreo Cookie", and "Sellout" start cascading from the lips of the Usual Suspects.
The most important thing Perry has done is to have identified the Klan as an instrument of State Terror. During Jim Crow, the Democratic Party ran the South with an iron hand. Election Day was the Democratic Primary. Only whites could vote. Blacks, like Condi Rice's father, John, were registered, if at all, in the Republican Party. Literacy tests abounded. The entire edifice, of course, came apart when Johnson decided to go after black voters by pushing for the Civil Rights Act.
But he has highlighted the Klan's role as an instrument of political terror, and that is all to the good.
Be Seeing You,
Chris