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ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady
Now, I really like the whole clown thing. I think having some type of circus assembly at the same time could be interesting. Every time one of these idiots opened their mouth to spew more hate, an orchestra could start playing that circus song. In my mind, it shows how much of a joke they are.

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

Truman was absolutely NOT a member of the KKK. In fact, he stood up to them for a friend that was Jewish and was marked as a result.

Certainly, the KKK was active in the area that Truman "came up" in politics but Truman was never a member. I know this for a fact.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

He was at one time in his youth.

And Strom Thurmond fucked a 15 year old black girl.

Lotta the Congress is some real nasty motherfuckers, felons, thieves, child molesters and so on.

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

Members of my family knew Mr. Hinde, personally. For reasons I won't go into, Mr. Hinde had no reason what-so-ever to lie to my family members and the publicly accepted version of his account of Truman's membership in the klan is very close to the one he told, privately.

I will go a bit a further; at that time, in the South, in local politics, it was difficult for anyone to get elected who was "an enemy" of the klan so, any politician who was elected was considered to have the klan's tacit approval ("Silence lends assent" and like that). Mr. Hinde constantly advised President Truman to just not get on the klan's bad side but to never get in bed with them (Not that President Truman needed that advice. Truman despised what the klan represented, in most ways). In fact, Truman wanted to "go to war" with the klan and Mr. Hinde did advise against that.

No, president Truman was never a member because while he certainly had strong opinions about some individuals, he was far from being prejudiced enough to embrace the klan to his bossom. He was, quite possibly, one of the last non-politician politicians we'll ever see.



Peace and comfort,



Michael

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ORIGINAL: servantforuse

Wasn't democrat senator Robert Byrd also a klan member ?

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ORIGINAL: ChatteParfaitt

I don't want to push any group underground, and I support any group's right to free speech. My post was not about that, my response was that on a gut level, I'm shamed that human beings have not evolved further at this point in time.

And I don't just have shame about racial bias, war, famine, immigrants who pay to get to the US so they can be used as sex workers, all that shames me.

I understand that as a race, humans are where they are. But we are constantly changing and evolving, and I like to think for the better. And I can admit that, despite how wonderful we humans are in some ways, socially (and as a group) I wish we could evolve a bit faster.

Get me now?

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr

Members of my family knew Mr. Hinde, personally. For reasons I won't go into, Mr. Hinde had no reason what-so-ever to lie to my family members and the publicly accepted version of his account of Truman's membership in the klan is very close to the one he told, privately.

I will go a bit a further; at that time, in the South, in local politics, it was difficult for anyone to get elected who was "an enemy" of the klan so, any politician who was elected was considered to have the klan's tacit approval ("Silence lends assent" and like that). Mr. Hinde constantly advised President Truman to just not get on the klan's bad side but to never get in bed with them (Not that President Truman needed that advice. Truman despised what the klan represented, in most ways). In fact, Truman wanted to "go to war" with the klan and Mr. Hinde did advise against that.

No, President Truman was never a member because while he certainly had strong opinions about some individuals, he was far from being prejudiced enough to embrace the klan to his bossom. He was, quite possibly, one of the last non-politician politicians we'll ever see.



Peace and comfort,



Michael

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ORIGINAL: TNDommeK

In response to Owner, Daddysatyr, and Powergamez-

Thanks, didn't know the name for the organizations. Still idiotic IMO.

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KKK
Founded in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party's Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican leaders. Though Congress passed legislation designed to curb Klan terrorism, the organization saw its primary goal–the reestablishment of white supremacy–fulfilled through Democratic victories in state legislatures across the South in the 1870s. After a period of decline, white Protestant nativist groups revived the Klan in the early 20th century, burning crosses and staging rallies, parades and marches denouncing immigrants, Catholics, Jews, blacks and organized labor. The civil rights movement of the 1960s also saw a surge of Ku Klux Klan activity, including bombings of black schools and churches and violence against black and white activists in the South.

The organization of the Ku Klux Klan coincided with the beginning of the second phase of post-Civil War Reconstruction, put into place by the more radical members of the Republican Party in Congress. After rejecting President Andrew Johnson's relatively lenient Reconstruction policies, in place from 1865 to 1866, Congress passed the Reconstruction Act over the presidential veto. Under its provisions, the South was divided into five military districts, and each state was required to approve the 14th Amendment, which granted "equal protection" of the Constitution to former slaves and enacted universal male suffrage.

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Approved, April 14, 1802.
Chap. XXVIII.—An Act to establish an uniform rule of Naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.(a)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any alien, being a free white person, may be admitted to become a citizen of the United States, or any of them, on the following conditions, and not otherwise:—

First, That he shall have declared, on oath or affirmation, before the supreme, superior, district or circuit court of some one of the states, or of the territorial districts of the United States, or a circuit or district court of the United States, three years at least, before his admission, that it was, bona fide, his intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce for ever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whereof such alien may, at the time, be a citizen or subject.

Secondly, That he shall, at the time of his application to be admitted, declare on oath or affirmation, before some one of the courts aforesaid, that he will support the constitution of the United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whereof he was before a citizen or subject; which proceedings shall be recorded by the clerk of the court.

Thirdly, That the court admitting such alien shall be satisfied that he has resided within the United States five years at least, and within the state or territory where such court is at the time held, one year at

(<7.) See notes to act of March 20, 1790, chap. 13,vol. i.page 103.

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least; and it shall further appear to their satisfaction, that during that time, he has behaved as a man of a good moral character, attached to the principles of the constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same : Provided, that the oath of the applicant shall, in no case, be allowed to prove his residence.

Fourthly, That in case the alien, applying to be admitted to citizenship, shall have borne any hereditary title, or been of any of the orders of nobility in the kingdom or state from which he came, he shall, in addition to the above requisites, make an express renunciation of his title or order of nobility in the court to which his application shall be made, which renunciation shall be recorded in the said court: Provided, that no alien who shall be a native citizen, denizen or subject of any country, state or sovereign, with whom the United States shall be at war, at the time of his application, shall be then admitted to be a citizen of the United States: Provided also, that any alien who was residing within the limits, and under the jurisdiction of the United States, before the twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, may be admitted to become a citizen, on due proof made to some one of the courts aforesaid, that he has resided two years, at least, within and under the jurisdiction of the United States, and one year, at least, immediately preceding his application, within the state or territory where such court is at the time held; and on his declaring on oath or affirmation, that he will support the constitution of the United States, and that be doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, whereof he was before a citizen or subject: and moreover, on its appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that during the said term of two years, he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same; and where the alien, applying for admission to citizenship, shall have borne any hereditary title, or been of any of the orders of nobility in the kingdom or state from which he came, on his moreover making in the court an express renunciation of his title or order of nobility, before he shall be entitled to such admission : all of which proceedings, required in this proviso to be performed in the court, shall be recorded by the clerk thereof: and provided also, that any alien who was residing within the limits, and under the jurisdiction of the United States at any time between the said twenty-ninth day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five, and the eighteenth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, may, within two years after the passing of this act, be admitted to become a citizen, without a compliance with the first condition above specified.

Sec. 2. Provided also, and he it further enacted, That in addition to the directions aforesaid, all free white persons, being aliens, who may arrive in the United States after the passing of this act, shall, in order to become citizens of the United States, make registry, and obtain certificates, in the following manner, to wit: every person desirous of being naturalized shall, if of the age of twenty-one years, make report of himself; or if under the age of twenty-one years, or held in service, shall be reported by his parent, guardian, master or mistress, to the clerk of the district court of the district where such alien or aliens shall arrive, or to some other conrt of record of the United States, or of either of the territorial districts of the same, or of a particular state ; and such report shall ascertain the name, birthplace, age, nation and allegiance of each alien, together with the country whence he or she migrated, and the place of his or her intended settlement: and it shall be the duty of such clerk, on receiving such report, to record the same in his office, and to grant to the person making such report, and to each individual


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concerned therein, whenever he shall be required, a certificate under his hand and seal of office of such report and registry; and for receiving and registering each report of an individual or family, he shall receive fifty cents; and for each certificate granted pursuant to this act, to an individual or family, fifty cents ; and such certificate shall be exhibited to the court by every alien who may arrive in the United States, after the passing of this act, on his application to be naturalized, as evidence of the time of his arrival within the United States.

Sec. 3. And whereas, doubts have arisen whether certain courts of record in some of the slates, are included within the description of district or circuit courts : Be it further enacted,.that every court of record in any individual state, having common law jurisdiction, and a seal and clerk or prothonotary, shall be considered as a district court within the meaning of this act; and every alien who may have been naturalized in any such court, shall enjoy, from and after the passing of the act, the same rights and privileges, as if he had been naturalized in a district or circuit court of the United States.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the children of persons duly naturalized under any of the laws of the United States, or who, previous to the passing of any law on that subject, by the government of the United States, may have become citizens of any one of the said states, under the laws thereof, being under the age of twenty-one years, at the time of their parents being so naturalized or admitted to the rights of citizenship, shall, if dwelling in the United States, be considered as citizens of the United States, and the children of persons who now are, or have been citizens of the United States, shall, though born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, be considered as citizens of the United States: Provided, that the right of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers have never resided within the United States : Provided also, that no person heretofore proscribed by any state, or who has been legally convicted of having joined the army of Great Britain, during the late war, shall be admitted a citizen, as aforesaid, without the consent of the legislature of the state in which such person was proscribed.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all acts heretofore passed respecting naturalization, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved, April 14, 1802.
Chap. XXX.—An Act in addition to an act, intituled “ An act, in addition to an act regulating ike grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the society of the United Brethren, for propagating the gospel among the Heathen."

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passing of this act, and until the first day of January next, it shall be lawful for the holders or proprietors of warrants heretofore granted in consideration of military services, or register’s certificates of fifty acres, or more, granted, or hereafter to be granted agreeable to the third section of an act intituled “An act in addition to an act, intituled An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services; and for the society of the United Brethren for propagating the gospel among the Heathen,” approved the first day of March one thousand eight hundred, to register and locate the same, in the same manner, and under the same restrictions, as might have been done before the first day of January last: Provided, that persons holding register’s certificates for a less quantity than one hundred acres, may locate the same on such parts of fractional townships, as shall, for that purpose, be divided by the Secretary of the Treasury into lots of fifty acres each.


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