Actually, the GOP DOES need to be reminded of these things, and more so, they need to be reminded of and need to be reminding others of who did them: the Democrats.
The GOP needs to remind the nation of Robert Byrd, the Grand Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan and current top ranking Democrat in the Senate.
The GOP needs to remind the nation of Rep. Dick Gephardt, who used to be a regular speaker at a St. Louis white citizen's "rights" group in his early congressional days and once solicited an endorsement from them.
The GOP needs to remind the nation of Fritz Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat with a lengthy public vocabulary including the words "darkies," "wetbacks," and "the blackbow coalition."
The GOP needs to remind the nation of Jesse Jackson, the professional Democrat race monger who calls New York City "hymietown."
The GOP needs to remind the nation of the Democratic Party of Texas, which manuevered its way around four U.S. Supreme Court rulings against it mandating that blacks be allowed to vote in its primaries.
The GOP needs to remind the nation of the 1924 Democratic National Convention in New York, which was host to one of the largest Ku Klux Klan rallies in American history.
The GOP needs to remind the nation exactly what the Klan was celebrating when they burned crosses at the 1924 Democratic National Convention - a victory on the convention floor where the Democrat delegates, some of them klansmen, defeated an anti-Klan resolution.
The GOP needs to remind the nation of who filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act (the Democrats) and who was speaking on the floor when the Republican minority leader secured enough votes to override the filibuster (Robert Byrd).
The GOP needs to remind the nation of who tried to kill the Civil Rights Act by loading it down in rider amendments and procedural maneuvers: Albert Gore Sr.
The GOP needs to remind the nation who dispatched Arkansas guard to stop blacks from entering a Little Rock High School(Democrat Orval Faubus), who his political protege was (Bill Clinton), and who sent out troops to force the doors open to the black students (Republican Dwight Eisenhower)
The GOP needs to remind the nation about Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who unilaterally ordered the internment of Japanese American citizens during World War II.
The GOP needs to remind the nation about Hugo Black, the liberal Democrat Senator and Supreme Court Justice who was a Klansman and gained his political fame by representing the defendant in a notorious Klan murder of a Catholic priest.
The GOP needs to remind the nation of who appointed Justice Black to the Supreme Court, his good friend Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The nation needs to be reminded of these things not only because of the dangers of forgetting them. The nation needs to be reminded of these things because it has already forgotten who the perpetrators were.
Well Said!