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What's worse? Having the KKK in your party decades ago or having the KKK in your party in 2016?
______________________________________________________________How so? Please provide a list of the current Republicans that are KKK members. I'd like to take a
look at that.
You must take me for one of your dumb counterparts. How many current KKK members do you think are voting for Hillary?
How so? Please provide a list of the current Republicans that are KKK members. I'd like to take a
look at that.
Here are 4:
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/11/02/anonymous-outs-4-republican-senators-kkk-hate-groups.html
How so? Please provide a list of the current Republicans that are KKK members. I'd like to take a
look at that.Here are 4:
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/11/02/anonymous-outs-4-republican-senators-kkk-hate-groups.html/blockquote >
Living in NC and seeing Thom Tillis up close it would not surprise me if this were true.To me it would be more interesting to see statistics on how known KKK members vote. But either way it would be very hard to get the data given the secret nature of the organization.
Hey this thread is getting interesting. I kind of forgot about the KKK after the Southern Poverty Law Center broke their piggy bank in the 90's. Wonder what they are up to these days, other than worming their way into party politics? Or hanging around websites of defunct southern rock bands and trolling.
Refresh my memory. Which candidate did David Duke endorse?
Trump?......would be my guess, And this proves what?
You pointed out how 150 years ago Democrats were bigoted and hateful. You had nothing contemporary that showed the Democrats were like that today. Duke is a white suprematist who is also an anti-semite. Do I have to explain this any further?
150 years ago, kind of. All the way back to the democratic platform of 1840, through the Democrats of the 1960s. The facts are, that in 1924, KKK involvement was more than just an 'endorsement" from one idiot. It was a convention full of delegates who were members of the KKK who almost controlled it.
That is over 120 years of bigotry and hatred being spewed from this group. Change?... You betcha!.....Now you have the likes of Al Sharpton!....Lucky you.
Since we were talking about 2016, none of that stuff from the past is relevant. It would be like me bringing up Nixon/Agnew to say that the GOP was corrupt today. It is irrelevant.
As for Sharpton, the last time I checked, he held no elected position. Now Duke is running for Senator. So you have that going for you. 😛
Since we were talking about 2016, none of that stuff from the past is relevant
Curious as to why I have "That going for me"..lol. I'm not a Trump guy. But Duke's KKK background ties in quite nicely with the History of the Democrats.
"Not relevant" Maybe not to you. But they are facts and it is the History of Hillary's party. I'll also wager that most have no F'n idea......
Is not History fascinating?
It most certainly is.
The White House Was, in Fact, Built by Slaves
Along with the Capitol and other iconic buildings in Washington, D.C.
When First Lady Michelle Obama took the stage during the first night of the Democratic National Convention, she talked about how it felt to be a black woman waking up in the White House every morning—a building constructed with slave labor. It was a powerful moment in her speech, hearkening back to the generations of African-Americans forced into bondage in this country. Up until a few decades ago, little attention was paid to looking into who actually laid the foundations and put up the walls of the White House. But what documentation exists today shows that many of Washington, D.C.’s most iconic government buildings, including the White House, were built by slaves.
In 2005, Congress put together a task force to shed light on the subject. After months of research, the commission announced that while it would never be able to tell the full story of the slaves who built these buildings, there was no doubt that they were intricately involved in the work, Alexander Lane reported for PolitiFact.
“Indifference by earlier historians, poor record keeping, and the silence of the voiceless classes have impeded our ability in the twenty-first century to understand fully the contributions and privations of those who toiled over the seven decades from the first cornerstone laying to the day of emancipation in the District of Columbia,” Senate Historian Richard Baker and Chief of the House of Representatives Office of History and Preservation Kenneth Kato wrote in a foreword to the report.
From a geographical standpoint alone, it should come as no surprise that slave laborers were used to build the nation’s capital. Washington, D.C., was built on landed ceded to the federal government by Virginia and Maryland, and at the time the Potomac region was home to almost half of the country’s 750,000 slaves, Lane reports.
While the White House Historical Association reports that the D.C. commissioners originally tried to bring cheap workers over from Europe to build the new capital, their recruitment efforts fell short. As a result, they forced local slaves to provide the labor, often renting workers from their masters for year-long periods of time.
“Slaves were likely involved in all aspects of construction, including carpentry, masonry, carting, rafting, plastering, glazing and painting, the task force reported,” Lane writes. “And slaves appear to have shouldered alone the grueling work of sawing logs and stones.”
In addition to constructing the buildings, slaves also worked the quarries where the stones for the government buildings came from. Ironically, the Statue of Freedom that sits atop the Capitol dome was made with the help of Philip Reid, a man enslaved by sculptor Thomas Crawford, who was commissioned to build the statue. According to the Architect of the Capitol, Reid was paid $1.25 a day by the federal government for his contributions.
“There is no telling how many stories that have been lost because, as a country, we didn’t value these stories,” historian and reporter Jesse J. Holland tells Smithsonian.com. “We’re always learning more about the presidents as we go forward and we’ll also learn more about the people who cooked their meals and dressed them.”
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/white-house-was-fact-built-slaves-180959916/?no-ist
Nobody wants to talk about the Southern Strategy? Nixon's plan to make Southern Dixiecrats come to the GOP? Lee Atwater's famous comments on the matter? Willie Horton ad? RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman's apology tour for it in 2005? No? Oh well.
What's worse? Having the KKK in your party decades ago or having the KKK in your party in 2016?
______________________________________________________________How so? Please provide a list of the current Republicans that are KKK members. I'd like to take a
look at that.You must take me for one of your dumb counterparts. How many current KKK members do you think are voting for Hillary?
168?
How so? Please provide a list of the current Republicans that are KKK members. I'd like to take a
look at that.Here are 4:
Four? I guess that makes all Republicans racists.
You win.
What's worse? Having the KKK in your party decades ago or having the KKK in your party in 2016?
"The 1924 Democratic convention is quite often referred to as the “Klanbake” because one of the front-runners, lawyer and former Wilson Cabinet member William G. McAdoo, was supported by the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan was a major source of power within the party, and McAdoo did not repudiate its endorsement."
" Klan delegates opposed the nomination of New York Governor Al Smith because Smith was a Roman Catholic. Smith campaigned against William Gibbs McAdoo, who had the support of most Klan delegates."
"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."
These are from sources easily located and deal directly with "Having the KKK in your party decades ago" ..... examples that amount to quite a bit more than "In your party" ....
"Klan Delegates"
Can you provide any info on the Klan's involvement in the 2016 Republican Convention?
My point is, nobody in today's KKK is going to vote for Hillary, obviously. 100% of them will vote for Trump, which is a much more damning fact since it's 2016, and not the 1920's. In other words, the Democratic party evolved to the point where the KKK abandoned them (thank God), and Republicans have socially regressed to the point where they've now attracted the likes of these scum. Republicans are not racists, but just about all racists are Republicans, IMO.
[Edited on 8/3/2016 by BoytonBrother]
This is a weird thread. The klan is not a factor in politics today, and haven't been for a long time. Seems kinda pointless to argue over politics from the 1920s, but I guess nothing is off limits in this day and age. :-/
My point is, nobody in today's KKK is going to vote for Hillary, obviously. 100% of them will vote for Trump, which is a much more damning fact since it's 2016, and not the 1920's. In other words, the Democratic party evolved to the point where the KKK abandoned them (thank God), and Republicans have socially regressed to the point where they've now attracted the likes of these scum. Republicans are not racists, but just about all racists are Republicans, IMO.
[Edited on 8/3/2016 by BoytonBrother]
Apparently you are under the assumption that racism is exclusive only to WASP's. I think you
know better.
Exactly - when it comes to racism, it is best to admit it. I've known plenty of "liberals" who unknowingly say or do racist things. If you think you are above racism, then you are worse than someone who knows the signs, and can make sure they don't act racist.
Have you ever thought, "man, I'm glad I was white in that situation?" Like after a shakedown, or some sort of trouble? Or, better put it this way: would you rather be black or white in this day and age? The answer to that should let you know if racism is still alive and well. Or sick.
[Edited on 7/30/2020 by BrerRabbit]
I've known plenty of "liberals" who unknowingly say or do racist things.
Many conservatives think that liberal social policies make minorities and the poor dependant on government programs and therefore are racist.
That holds some water, however it is a class issue, not a race issue. A race conflict deflects attention away from class conflict, which is much more difficult to manage when folks become aware of it.
I meant more like a liberal who thinks he isn't racist, but the minute something goes wrong downtown he assumes a black person did it.
Understood. I think there is a bit of that in most of us whether we are willing to admit it or not.
So, Muleman1994, since you are back, how about answering the question you never answered?
Do you think the Jewish Holocaust was Fake News?
ABBGMTBB feel free to answer if Muleman1994 is still hiding under his rock.
Dang. I forgot all about Mule. Maybe it took him a while to finally realize that President Obama got Bin Laden. He's probably still stewing that Mexico isn't paying for the wall. The U.S. military got saddled with that bill.
It's like the good old daze when deano would come sulking back with a new username and eventually melt down after he was found out.
