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ORIGINAL: Owner59

Quite a sticky wicket we have here.....


Council of Conservative Citizens Promotes White Primacy, and G.O.P. Ties


This isn`t the only group....

There`s a good run here for any reporter or blogger who wants it.

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ORIGINAL: KenDckey

Wasn't the KKK founded by a democrat from the 10th tennessee congressional district? Oh, that is George Gordon (amongst the first 6)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Gordon_%28Civil_War_General%29

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Robert Byrd

Let’s look at Byrd first. In retrospect, it’s rather remarkable that he rose — twice — to be Senate majority leader with such a past. He not only led a KKK chapter, but he organized it and recruited 150 friends to join it. He was unanimously elected an “Exalted Cyclops.” In fact, the effort launched his entrée into politics, as an impressed Klan official told him “the country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation.”

As our former colleague Eric Pianin wrote in a 2005 article for The Washington Post titled “A Senator’s Shame,” Byrd repeatedly tried to write off his membership in the KKK as some sort of youthful indiscretion. “My only explanation for the entire episode is that I was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision — a jejune and immature outlook — seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions,” Byrd wrote in his book, “Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields.”

But Pianin noted that the book left out some key facts: “He does not acknowledge the full length of time he spent as a Klan organizer and advocate. Nor does he make any mention of a particularly incendiary letter he wrote in 1945 complaining about efforts to integrate the military.” In the letter, written to one of the Senate’s most notorious segregationists, Theodore Bilbo (D-Miss.), Byrd said he would never fight in the Army with African Americans at his side: “Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels.”

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ORIGINAL: HunterCA

Let's be realistic here. The southern Democrats who were members of the KKK were democrats just because Lincoln was a Republican. There were problems of racism because of the way the war ended and Reconstruction occurred.

That's in the past. The racism that I'm concerned about now is the kind they teach in schools. They teach a minority can't be a racist because only a white person with power can be racist. The left is institutionalizing racism now.

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

Quite a sticky wicket we have here.....


Council of Conservative Citizens Promotes White Primacy, and G.O.P. Ties


This isn`t the only group....

There`s a good run here for any reporter or blogger who wants it.

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ORIGINAL: CreativeDominant

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ORIGINAL: Owner59

Quite a sticky wicket we have here.....


Council of Conservative Citizens Promotes White Primacy, and G.O.P. Ties


This isn`t the only group....

There`s a good run here for any reporter or blogger who wants it.

You must not have read the whole article...

....The support could cross party lines: In the late 1990s, one council member boasted that 34 members of the Mississippi Legislature, mostly Democratic, were council members as well....

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ORIGINAL: HunterCA

Let's be realistic here. The southern Democrats who were members of the KKK were democrats just because Lincoln was a Republican. There were problems of racism because of the way the war ended and Reconstruction occurred.

That's in the past. The racism that I'm concerned about now is the kind they teach in schools. They teach a minority can't be a racist because only a white person with power can be racist. The left is institutionalizing racism now.

Really ? Would you not say that slavery was a form of racism ! You can piss and moan all you like, but you cant change facts. I think it more likely the Klan was against reconstruction as it was designed to give blacks political power and equality. You also overlook that the original clan had declined until the early 20th century and were revived by those against Catholics, Blacks, Jews and the Unions.

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yeah, thats some pretty kiss your sister shit there ShiteaterCA. They didnt do it simply because they were different looking bastards, and thought of as sub-human, simply thought of as slaves and treated that way (as an institution). I understand you dont have the intellect to comprehend, but I will say it anyhow.

So everyone else of any worth can laugh at you as well.

Here's an idea, look up race, racism and so on in the dictionary, see if your mom can explain it to you.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

yeah, thats some pretty kiss your sister shit there ShiteaterCA. They didnt do it simply because they were different looking bastards, and thought of as sub-human, simply thought of as slaves and treated that way (as an institution). I understand you dont have the intellect to comprehend, but I will say it anyhow.

So everyone else of any worth can laugh at you as well.

Here's an idea, look up race, racism and so on in the dictionary, see if your mom can explain it to you.

Actually the Romans did look down on the Gauls and other peoples as sub human. They called them barbarians.

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy


This is actually not a sticky wicket at all. The playbook of the GOP is to avoid anything OVERTLY RACIST while essentially adopting the overtly racist political platform minus the overtly racist stuff.

Anti-Immigration - check

Guns - Check

Anti-Government - Check

Maintaining the United States as a “Christian country,” - check

Denouncing Homosexualtiy - Check

Opposing sex education, Planned Parenthood - Check

See: Much of David Duke’s ’91 Campaign Is Now in Louisiana Mainstream

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/01/us/politics/much-of-david-dukes-91-campaign-is-now-in-louisiana-mainstream.html?_r=0

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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent

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ORIGINAL: lovmuffin

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

yeah, thats some pretty kiss your sister shit there ShiteaterCA. They didnt do it simply because they were different looking bastards, and thought of as sub-human, simply thought of as slaves and treated that way (as an institution). I understand you dont have the intellect to comprehend, but I will say it anyhow.

So everyone else of any worth can laugh at you as well.

Here's an idea, look up race, racism and so on in the dictionary, see if your mom can explain it to you.

Actually the Romans did look down on the Gauls and other peoples as sub human. They called them barbarians.

Where I come from there is a place on the coast a few miles from me known for centuries, and today, as the Barbary Coast.

It goes back to the 8th century when Vikings settled where I live but only pushed up to the boundaries of Tyneside which remained an Anglo-Saxon enclave. The Anglo-Saxons from farther up the coast termed the Viking settlement on the coast the Barbary Coast - clearly not in modern day English though!

But, really the idea of a hierarchy among races is a fairly modern invention. I think it was a Swede who came up with the idea in the late 1700s. Prior to that, both English and French colonists happily took on native women as partners.