Another Democrat Claiming To Be A Republican -

Duke? The former Chair of his parish's Republican Party, elected to the Sleaziana House as a Republican -- is "not a Republican"?

War is Peace....
Freedom is Slavery...
ah here we go: Ignorance is Strength
 
David Duke:

1) Pro states rights.

2) Christian.

3) Pro gun.

4) Anti big government.

5) Pro low taxes.

6) Pro-life.

7) Wants to end Obamacare and welfare.

8) Wants to deport all illegals.

9) Supports Muslim ban



Yep, he sure sounds like a Democrat to me!
 
Duke? The former Chair of his parish's Republican Party, elected to the Sleaziana House as a Republican -- is "not a Republican"?

"A former one-term Republican Louisiana State Representative, he was a candidate in the Democratic presidential primaries in 1988 and the Republican presidential primaries in 1992. Duke unsuccessfully ran for the Louisiana State Senate, United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, and Governor of Louisiana."

He flipped around like lots of politicians.

David Duke - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

War is Peace....
Freedom is Slavery...
ah here we go: Ignorance is Strength

What possible reference does your party's motto have to do with Party infiltrators?
 
David Duke:

1) Pro states rights.

2) Christian.

3) Pro gun.

4) Anti big government.

5) Pro low taxes.

6) Pro-life.

7) Wants to end Obamacare and welfare.

8) Wants to deport all illegals.

9) Supports Muslim ban



Yep, he sure sounds like a Democrat to me!
KKK = democrat
 
David Duke:

1) Pro states rights.

2) Christian.

3) Pro gun.

4) Anti big government.

5) Pro low taxes.

6) Pro-life.

7) Wants to end Obamacare and welfare.

8) Wants to deport all illegals.

9) Supports Muslim ban



Yep, he sure sounds like a Democrat to me!
KKK = democrat
Do you know who this is?:

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David Duke:

1) Pro states rights.

2) Christian.

3) Pro gun.

4) Anti big government.

5) Pro low taxes.

6) Pro-life.

7) Wants to end Obamacare and welfare.

8) Wants to deport all illegals.

9) Supports Muslim ban



Yep, he sure sounds like a Democrat to me!
KKK = democrat

Makes this hard to explain, huh? Not that I wouldn't enjoy seeing you try....



Batting second will be Ed Jackson, followed by Clarence Morley, Owen Brewster, George Baker, Rice Means and then we'll shift off to Jack Walton, Oscar Underwood, Stetson Kennedy and we'll wrap with LBJ.

Pretzel time.
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David Duke:

1) Pro states rights.

2) Christian.

3) Pro gun.

4) Anti big government.

5) Pro low taxes.

6) Pro-life.

7) Wants to end Obamacare and welfare.

8) Wants to deport all illegals.

9) Supports Muslim ban



Yep, he sure sounds like a Democrat to me!
KKK = democrat

Makes this hard to explain, huh? Not that I wouldn't enjoy seeing you try....



Batting second will be Ed Jackson, followed by Clarence Morley, Owen Brewster, George Baker, Rice Means and then we'll shift off to Jack Walton, Oscar Underwood, Stetson Kennedy and we'll wrap with LBJ.

Pretzel time.
emot-munch.gif
 
View attachment 82910
David Duke:

1) Pro states rights.

2) Christian.

3) Pro gun.

4) Anti big government.

5) Pro low taxes.

6) Pro-life.

7) Wants to end Obamacare and welfare.

8) Wants to deport all illegals.

9) Supports Muslim ban



Yep, he sure sounds like a Democrat to me!
KKK = democrat

Makes this hard to explain, huh? Not that I wouldn't enjoy seeing you try....



Batting second will be Ed Jackson, followed by Clarence Morley, Owen Brewster, George Baker, Rice Means and then we'll shift off to Jack Walton, Oscar Underwood, Stetson Kennedy and we'll wrap with LBJ.

Pretzel time.
emot-munch.gif



:rofl: resorting to internet meme generators as a last resort? You lose. Prepare to be annihilated, 'cause we've been down this road many many times in the cause of Mythbusting.

Roll tape.

Wiki:​

First KKK
>> The first Klan was founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six veterans of the Confederate Army.[17] The name is probably derived from the Greek word kuklos which means circle, suggesting a circle or band of brothers.[18]

Although there was little organizational structure above the local level, similar groups rose across the South and adopted the same name and methods.[19] Klan groups spread throughout the South as an insurgent movement during the Reconstruction era in the United States. As a secret vigilante group, the Klan targeted freedmen and their allies; it sought to restore white supremacy by threats and violence, including murder, against black and white Republicans.

Second KKK
... In 1915, the second Klan was founded in Atlanta, Georgia. Starting in 1921, it adopted a modern business system of recruiting (which paid most of the initiation fee and costume charges as commissions to the organizers) and grew rapidly nationwide at a time of prosperity. Reflecting the social tensions of urban industrialization and vastly increased immigration, its membership grew most rapidly in cities, and spread out of the South to the Midwest and West. The second KKK preached "One Hundred Percent Americanism" and demanded the purification of politics, calling for strict morality and better enforcement of prohibition. Its official rhetoric focused on the threat of the Catholic Church, using anti-Catholicism and nativism.[4] Its appeal was directed exclusively at white Protestants.[21]​

More?

The Present Day Ku Klux Klan Movement, Report by the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, First Session, December 11, 1967

>> The six Confederate army veterans credited with originating the Ku Klux Klan on Christmas Eve of 1865 in Pulaski, Tenn. are not memorialized in current klan literature. ... The organization to which modern klansmen pay homage was the Ku Klux Klan headed by Nathan Bedford Forrest, which officially operated in at least nine Southern states from 1867 to 1869 and unofficially for some years thereafter.

The conversion of klan purposes from amusement to terrorism had already been demonstrated by the time representatives of the local klan "dens" held a unifying convention in Nashville, Tenn., in 1867 and elected former Confederate Army General Forrest as their grand wizard. <<​

More?

Extremism in America/ADL

>> About the Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy.
... At first, the Ku Klux Klan focused its anger and violence on African-Americans, on white Americans who stood up for them, and against the federal government which supported their rights. Subsequent incarnations of the Klan, which typically emerged in times of rapid social change, added more categories to its enemies list, including Jews, Catholics (less so after the 1970s), homosexuals, and different groups of immigrants.

Founder: Confederate Civil War veterans Captain John C. Lester, Major James R. Crowe, John D. Kennedy, Calvin Jones, Richard R. Reed, Frank O. McCord <<​

More?

In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the "Ku Klux Klan." The KKK rapidly grew from a secret social fraternity to a paramilitary force bent on reversing the federal government's progressive Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially policies that elevated the rights of the local African American population.

The name of the Ku Klux Klan was derived from the Greek word kyklos, meaning "circle," and the Scottish-Gaelic word "clan," which was probably chosen for the sake of alliteration. Under a platform of philosophized white racial superiority, the group employed violence as a means of pushing back Reconstruction and its enfranchisement of African Americans. Former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was the KKK's first grand wizard; in 1869, he unsuccessfully tried to disband it after he grew critical of the Klan's excessive violence. << (source....)​

More?

>> The original Ku Klux Klan was created in an 1865 meeting in a law office by six Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee. It was, at first, a humorous social club centering on practical jokes and hazing rituals. From 1866 to 1867, various local units began breaking up black prayer meetings and invading black homes at night to steal firearms. Some of these activities may have been modeled on previous Tennessee vigilante groups such as the Yellow Jackets and Redcaps. In an 1867 convention held in Nashville, the Klan was formalized as a national organization under a Prescript written by George Gordon, a former Confederate brigadier general.

... As historian Elaine Frantz Parsons discovered [Parsons p 816]:

"Lifting the Klan mask revealed a chaotic multitude of antiblack vigilante groups, disgruntled poor white farmers, wartime guerrilla bands, displaced Democratic politicians, illegal whiskey distillers, coercive moral reformers, bored young men, sadists, rapists, white workmen fearful of black competition, employers trying to enforce labor discipline, common thieves, neighbors with decades-old grudges, and even a few freedmen and white Republicans who allied with Democratic whites or had criminal agendas of their own." << (source)​

More?

>> The Ku Klux Klan was organized—if one can use that term—in Pulaski, Tennessee on December 24th, 1866 by six former Confederate veterans. It has been suggested that originally it had been meant as simply another fraternal order, one of many being founded around that time—sort of a Southern Masonry. But if this was the intent, it failed dismally. It did not build orphanages or Old Klansman's Homes—and for that matter, even lodge halls. It did not provide its members with low cost life insurance as was becoming common with fraternal orders at that time. In fact, there is little evidence it ever did anything for its members other than provide an outlet for their racial hatreds.

Though a failure at fraternalism, it did enjoy quite a bit of success as a terrorist organization. Given the founders, there is little reason to think it was ever meant to be anything else. From the beginning, it did everything it could to conduct guerrilla warfare against the occupying Northern forces and the Republican Party. The newly freed slaves would be ruthlessly suppressed. Murder was frequently the means toward this end.

.... The Klan got its second wind when William J. Simmons attempted a reorganization in Stone Mountain, Georgia in 1915. Simmons, a member of a dozen legitimate fraternal orders, had obviously hoped to transform the Klan into something like the organizations he belonged to. He initially had little success until in 1920 he turned the day to day operation of the Klan over to a pair of professional fund raisers—and master con artists—named Elizabeth Tyler and Edward Young Clarke. Though Tyler and Clarke probably sympathized with the Klan's aims, there can be little doubt they saw it primarily as a money making opportunity. Klan organizers, now called Kleagles, had never hesitated to line their pockets with their recruits initiation fees but Tyler and Clarke took it to a whole new level. In addition to helping themselves to as much as eighty percent of the initiation fees, they also owned factories manufacturing the Klan robes and regalia. In spite of their brief reign (Tyler was forced out of the Klan in an internal power struggle in 1923 and Clarke, ousted by Simmons' successor in 1924, dropped out of sight with the law on his tail*), the Klan prospered reaching an estimated four to six million members in 1924**. Unlike the first Klan which was essentially a Southern organization, the second Klan extended to numerous northern and western states. At one time there were alleged to be forty thousand Klansmen in Detroit. (source)​

More? I got dozens more. That's what I do around here ---- bust Googly Image myths.

Now lemme hip you to a scorecard for those names:
  • Jackson (R) -- Klan governor of Indiana
  • Morley (R) - Klan governor of Colorado
  • Brewster (R) - Klan governor of Maine
  • Baker (R) -- Klan mayor of Portland Ore
  • Means (R) - Klan Senator of Colorado
  • Walton (D) - anti-Klan governor of Oklahoma, removed with Klan backing
  • Underwood (D) - Senator, leading voice denouncing Klan, POTUS candidate 1924
  • Kennedy (D) - Florida gov candidate, collaborator for "Clan of the Fiery Cross" national radio show ridiculing KKK and publishing exposé aimed at destroying it
  • LBJ (D) - first POTUS since Grant to prosecute Klan
What was that line again?

KKK = democrat

Care to tell the class why a political party would be electing members of the opposite party? Care to enlighten us on why it would be persecuting its own base -- Catholics, immigrants, Jews, blacks, labor unions, gays? Hm?

Yum. Pretzels.

 
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David Duke:

1) Pro states rights.

2) Christian.

3) Pro gun.

4) Anti big government.

5) Pro low taxes.

6) Pro-life.

7) Wants to end Obamacare and welfare.

8) Wants to deport all illegals.

9) Supports Muslim ban



Yep, he sure sounds like a Democrat to me!
KKK = democrat

Makes this hard to explain, huh? Not that I wouldn't enjoy seeing you try....



Batting second will be Ed Jackson, followed by Clarence Morley, Owen Brewster, George Baker, Rice Means and then we'll shift off to Jack Walton, Oscar Underwood, Stetson Kennedy and we'll wrap with LBJ.

Pretzel time.
emot-munch.gif


Everyone knows the history, and then that crowd left the dems for the reps, pouting over civil rights, which they were against.
 
View attachment 82910
David Duke:

1) Pro states rights.

2) Christian.

3) Pro gun.

4) Anti big government.

5) Pro low taxes.

6) Pro-life.

7) Wants to end Obamacare and welfare.

8) Wants to deport all illegals.

9) Supports Muslim ban



Yep, he sure sounds like a Democrat to me!
KKK = democrat

Makes this hard to explain, huh? Not that I wouldn't enjoy seeing you try....



Batting second will be Ed Jackson, followed by Clarence Morley, Owen Brewster, George Baker, Rice Means and then we'll shift off to Jack Walton, Oscar Underwood, Stetson Kennedy and we'll wrap with LBJ.

Pretzel time.
emot-munch.gif


Everyone knows the history, and then that crowd left the dems for the reps, pouting over civil rights, which they were against.

Yeah, the revisionist history...
 
View attachment 82910
David Duke:

1) Pro states rights.

2) Christian.

3) Pro gun.

4) Anti big government.

5) Pro low taxes.

6) Pro-life.

7) Wants to end Obamacare and welfare.

8) Wants to deport all illegals.

9) Supports Muslim ban



Yep, he sure sounds like a Democrat to me!
KKK = democrat

Makes this hard to explain, huh? Not that I wouldn't enjoy seeing you try....



Batting second will be Ed Jackson, followed by Clarence Morley, Owen Brewster, George Baker, Rice Means and then we'll shift off to Jack Walton, Oscar Underwood, Stetson Kennedy and we'll wrap with LBJ.

Pretzel time.
emot-munch.gif


Everyone knows the history, and then that crowd left the dems for the reps, pouting over civil rights, which they were against.

You stupid racist democrat...:lol:
 
View attachment 82910
David Duke:

1) Pro states rights.

2) Christian.

3) Pro gun.

4) Anti big government.

5) Pro low taxes.

6) Pro-life.

7) Wants to end Obamacare and welfare.

8) Wants to deport all illegals.

9) Supports Muslim ban



Yep, he sure sounds like a Democrat to me!
KKK = democrat

Makes this hard to explain, huh? Not that I wouldn't enjoy seeing you try....



Batting second will be Ed Jackson, followed by Clarence Morley, Owen Brewster, George Baker, Rice Means and then we'll shift off to Jack Walton, Oscar Underwood, Stetson Kennedy and we'll wrap with LBJ.

Pretzel time.
emot-munch.gif



:rofl: resorting to internet meme generators as a last resort? You lose. Prepare to be annihilated, 'cause we've been down this road many many times in the cause of Mythbusting.

Roll tape.

Wiki:​

First KKK
>> The first Klan was founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six veterans of the Confederate Army.[17] The name is probably derived from the Greek word kuklos which means circle, suggesting a circle or band of brothers.[18]

Although there was little organizational structure above the local level, similar groups rose across the South and adopted the same name and methods.[19] Klan groups spread throughout the South as an insurgent movement during the Reconstruction era in the United States. As a secret vigilante group, the Klan targeted freedmen and their allies; it sought to restore white supremacy by threats and violence, including murder, against black and white Republicans.

Second KKK
... In 1915, the second Klan was founded in Atlanta, Georgia. Starting in 1921, it adopted a modern business system of recruiting (which paid most of the initiation fee and costume charges as commissions to the organizers) and grew rapidly nationwide at a time of prosperity. Reflecting the social tensions of urban industrialization and vastly increased immigration, its membership grew most rapidly in cities, and spread out of the South to the Midwest and West. The second KKK preached "One Hundred Percent Americanism" and demanded the purification of politics, calling for strict morality and better enforcement of prohibition. Its official rhetoric focused on the threat of the Catholic Church, using anti-Catholicism and nativism.[4] Its appeal was directed exclusively at white Protestants.[21]​

More?

The Present Day Ku Klux Klan Movement, Report by the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, First Session, December 11, 1967

>> The six Confederate army veterans credited with originating the Ku Klux Klan on Christmas Eve of 1865 in Pulaski, Tenn. are not memorialized in current klan literature. ... The organization to which modern klansmen pay homage was the Ku Klux Klan headed by Nathan Bedford Forrest, which officially operated in at least nine Southern states from 1867 to 1869 and unofficially for some years thereafter.

The conversion of klan purposes from amusement to terrorism had already been demonstrated by the time representatives of the local klan "dens" held a unifying convention in Nashville, Tenn., in 1867 and elected former Confederate Army General Forrest as their grand wizard. <<​

More?

Extremism in America/ADL

>> About the Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy.
... At first, the Ku Klux Klan focused its anger and violence on African-Americans, on white Americans who stood up for them, and against the federal government which supported their rights. Subsequent incarnations of the Klan, which typically emerged in times of rapid social change, added more categories to its enemies list, including Jews, Catholics (less so after the 1970s), homosexuals, and different groups of immigrants.

Founder: Confederate Civil War veterans Captain John C. Lester, Major James R. Crowe, John D. Kennedy, Calvin Jones, Richard R. Reed, Frank O. McCord <<​

More?

In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the "Ku Klux Klan." The KKK rapidly grew from a secret social fraternity to a paramilitary force bent on reversing the federal government's progressive Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially policies that elevated the rights of the local African American population.

The name of the Ku Klux Klan was derived from the Greek word kyklos, meaning "circle," and the Scottish-Gaelic word "clan," which was probably chosen for the sake of alliteration. Under a platform of philosophized white racial superiority, the group employed violence as a means of pushing back Reconstruction and its enfranchisement of African Americans. Former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was the KKK's first grand wizard; in 1869, he unsuccessfully tried to disband it after he grew critical of the Klan's excessive violence. << (source....)​

More?

>> The original Ku Klux Klan was created in an 1865 meeting in a law office by six Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee. It was, at first, a humorous social club centering on practical jokes and hazing rituals. From 1866 to 1867, various local units began breaking up black prayer meetings and invading black homes at night to steal firearms. Some of these activities may have been modeled on previous Tennessee vigilante groups such as the Yellow Jackets and Redcaps. In an 1867 convention held in Nashville, the Klan was formalized as a national organization under a Prescript written by George Gordon, a former Confederate brigadier general.

... As historian Elaine Frantz Parsons discovered [Parsons p 816]:

"Lifting the Klan mask revealed a chaotic multitude of antiblack vigilante groups, disgruntled poor white farmers, wartime guerrilla bands, displaced Democratic politicians, illegal whiskey distillers, coercive moral reformers, bored young men, sadists, rapists, white workmen fearful of black competition, employers trying to enforce labor discipline, common thieves, neighbors with decades-old grudges, and even a few freedmen and white Republicans who allied with Democratic whites or had criminal agendas of their own." << (source)​

More?

>> The Ku Klux Klan was organized—if one can use that term—in Pulaski, Tennessee on December 24th, 1866 by six former Confederate veterans. It has been suggested that originally it had been meant as simply another fraternal order, one of many being founded around that time—sort of a Southern Masonry. But if this was the intent, it failed dismally. It did not build orphanages or Old Klansman's Homes—and for that matter, even lodge halls. It did not provide its members with low cost life insurance as was becoming common with fraternal orders at that time. In fact, there is little evidence it ever did anything for its members other than provide an outlet for their racial hatreds.

Though a failure at fraternalism, it did enjoy quite a bit of success as a terrorist organization. Given the founders, there is little reason to think it was ever meant to be anything else. From the beginning, it did everything it could to conduct guerrilla warfare against the occupying Northern forces and the Republican Party. The newly freed slaves would be ruthlessly suppressed. Murder was frequently the means toward this end.

.... The Klan got its second wind when William J. Simmons attempted a reorganization in Stone Mountain, Georgia in 1915. Simmons, a member of a dozen legitimate fraternal orders, had obviously hoped to transform the Klan into something like the organizations he belonged to. He initially had little success until in 1920 he turned the day to day operation of the Klan over to a pair of professional fund raisers—and master con artists—named Elizabeth Tyler and Edward Young Clarke. Though Tyler and Clarke probably sympathized with the Klan's aims, there can be little doubt they saw it primarily as a money making opportunity. Klan organizers, now called Kleagles, had never hesitated to line their pockets with their recruits initiation fees but Tyler and Clarke took it to a whole new level. In addition to helping themselves to as much as eighty percent of the initiation fees, they also owned factories manufacturing the Klan robes and regalia. In spite of their brief reign (Tyler was forced out of the Klan in an internal power struggle in 1923 and Clarke, ousted by Simmons' successor in 1924, dropped out of sight with the law on his tail*), the Klan prospered reaching an estimated four to six million members in 1924**. Unlike the first Klan which was essentially a Southern organization, the second Klan extended to numerous northern and western states. At one time there were alleged to be forty thousand Klansmen in Detroit. (source)​

More? I got dozens more. That's what I do around here ---- bust Googly Image myths.

Now lemme hip you to a scorecard for those names:
  • Jackson (R) -- Klan governor of Indiana
  • Morley (R) - Klan governor of Colorado
  • Brewster (R) - Klan governor of Maine
  • Baker (R) -- Klan mayor of Portland Ore
  • Means (R) - Klan Senator of Colorado
  • Walton (D) - anti-Klan governor of Oklahoma, removed with Klan backing
  • Underwood (D) - Senator, leading voice denouncing Klan, POTUS candidate 1924
  • Kennedy (D) - Florida gov candidate, collaborator for "Clan of the Fiery Cross" national radio show ridiculing KKK and publishing exposé aimed at destroying it
  • LBJ (D) - first POTUS since Grant to prosecute Klan
What was that line again?

KKK = democrat

Care to tell the class why a political party would be electing members of the opposite party? Care to enlighten us on why it would be persecuting its own base -- Catholics, immigrants, Jews, blacks, labor unions, gays? Hm?

Yum. Pretzels.


Which part of the meme was wrong?

You lose....

But then you racist fucking democrats always lose....its just a shame you make blacks suffer because of your ignorance...
 
View attachment 82910
David Duke:

1) Pro states rights.

2) Christian.

3) Pro gun.

4) Anti big government.

5) Pro low taxes.

6) Pro-life.

7) Wants to end Obamacare and welfare.

8) Wants to deport all illegals.

9) Supports Muslim ban



Yep, he sure sounds like a Democrat to me!
KKK = democrat

Makes this hard to explain, huh? Not that I wouldn't enjoy seeing you try....



Batting second will be Ed Jackson, followed by Clarence Morley, Owen Brewster, George Baker, Rice Means and then we'll shift off to Jack Walton, Oscar Underwood, Stetson Kennedy and we'll wrap with LBJ.

Pretzel time.
emot-munch.gif



:rofl: resorting to internet meme generators as a last resort? You lose. Prepare to be annihilated, 'cause we've been down this road many many times in the cause of Mythbusting.

Roll tape.

Wiki:​

First KKK
>> The first Klan was founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by six veterans of the Confederate Army.[17] The name is probably derived from the Greek word kuklos which means circle, suggesting a circle or band of brothers.[18]

Although there was little organizational structure above the local level, similar groups rose across the South and adopted the same name and methods.[19] Klan groups spread throughout the South as an insurgent movement during the Reconstruction era in the United States. As a secret vigilante group, the Klan targeted freedmen and their allies; it sought to restore white supremacy by threats and violence, including murder, against black and white Republicans.

Second KKK
... In 1915, the second Klan was founded in Atlanta, Georgia. Starting in 1921, it adopted a modern business system of recruiting (which paid most of the initiation fee and costume charges as commissions to the organizers) and grew rapidly nationwide at a time of prosperity. Reflecting the social tensions of urban industrialization and vastly increased immigration, its membership grew most rapidly in cities, and spread out of the South to the Midwest and West. The second KKK preached "One Hundred Percent Americanism" and demanded the purification of politics, calling for strict morality and better enforcement of prohibition. Its official rhetoric focused on the threat of the Catholic Church, using anti-Catholicism and nativism.[4] Its appeal was directed exclusively at white Protestants.[21]​

More?

The Present Day Ku Klux Klan Movement, Report by the Committee on Un-American Activities, House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, First Session, December 11, 1967

>> The six Confederate army veterans credited with originating the Ku Klux Klan on Christmas Eve of 1865 in Pulaski, Tenn. are not memorialized in current klan literature. ... The organization to which modern klansmen pay homage was the Ku Klux Klan headed by Nathan Bedford Forrest, which officially operated in at least nine Southern states from 1867 to 1869 and unofficially for some years thereafter.

The conversion of klan purposes from amusement to terrorism had already been demonstrated by the time representatives of the local klan "dens" held a unifying convention in Nashville, Tenn., in 1867 and elected former Confederate Army General Forrest as their grand wizard. <<​

More?

Extremism in America/ADL

>> About the Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy.
... At first, the Ku Klux Klan focused its anger and violence on African-Americans, on white Americans who stood up for them, and against the federal government which supported their rights. Subsequent incarnations of the Klan, which typically emerged in times of rapid social change, added more categories to its enemies list, including Jews, Catholics (less so after the 1970s), homosexuals, and different groups of immigrants.

Founder: Confederate Civil War veterans Captain John C. Lester, Major James R. Crowe, John D. Kennedy, Calvin Jones, Richard R. Reed, Frank O. McCord <<​

More?

In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the "Ku Klux Klan." The KKK rapidly grew from a secret social fraternity to a paramilitary force bent on reversing the federal government's progressive Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially policies that elevated the rights of the local African American population.

The name of the Ku Klux Klan was derived from the Greek word kyklos, meaning "circle," and the Scottish-Gaelic word "clan," which was probably chosen for the sake of alliteration. Under a platform of philosophized white racial superiority, the group employed violence as a means of pushing back Reconstruction and its enfranchisement of African Americans. Former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest was the KKK's first grand wizard; in 1869, he unsuccessfully tried to disband it after he grew critical of the Klan's excessive violence. << (source....)​

More?

>> The original Ku Klux Klan was created in an 1865 meeting in a law office by six Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee. It was, at first, a humorous social club centering on practical jokes and hazing rituals. From 1866 to 1867, various local units began breaking up black prayer meetings and invading black homes at night to steal firearms. Some of these activities may have been modeled on previous Tennessee vigilante groups such as the Yellow Jackets and Redcaps. In an 1867 convention held in Nashville, the Klan was formalized as a national organization under a Prescript written by George Gordon, a former Confederate brigadier general.

... As historian Elaine Frantz Parsons discovered [Parsons p 816]:

"Lifting the Klan mask revealed a chaotic multitude of antiblack vigilante groups, disgruntled poor white farmers, wartime guerrilla bands, displaced Democratic politicians, illegal whiskey distillers, coercive moral reformers, bored young men, sadists, rapists, white workmen fearful of black competition, employers trying to enforce labor discipline, common thieves, neighbors with decades-old grudges, and even a few freedmen and white Republicans who allied with Democratic whites or had criminal agendas of their own." << (source)​

More?

>> The Ku Klux Klan was organized—if one can use that term—in Pulaski, Tennessee on December 24th, 1866 by six former Confederate veterans. It has been suggested that originally it had been meant as simply another fraternal order, one of many being founded around that time—sort of a Southern Masonry. But if this was the intent, it failed dismally. It did not build orphanages or Old Klansman's Homes—and for that matter, even lodge halls. It did not provide its members with low cost life insurance as was becoming common with fraternal orders at that time. In fact, there is little evidence it ever did anything for its members other than provide an outlet for their racial hatreds.

Though a failure at fraternalism, it did enjoy quite a bit of success as a terrorist organization. Given the founders, there is little reason to think it was ever meant to be anything else. From the beginning, it did everything it could to conduct guerrilla warfare against the occupying Northern forces and the Republican Party. The newly freed slaves would be ruthlessly suppressed. Murder was frequently the means toward this end.

.... The Klan got its second wind when William J. Simmons attempted a reorganization in Stone Mountain, Georgia in 1915. Simmons, a member of a dozen legitimate fraternal orders, had obviously hoped to transform the Klan into something like the organizations he belonged to. He initially had little success until in 1920 he turned the day to day operation of the Klan over to a pair of professional fund raisers—and master con artists—named Elizabeth Tyler and Edward Young Clarke. Though Tyler and Clarke probably sympathized with the Klan's aims, there can be little doubt they saw it primarily as a money making opportunity. Klan organizers, now called Kleagles, had never hesitated to line their pockets with their recruits initiation fees but Tyler and Clarke took it to a whole new level. In addition to helping themselves to as much as eighty percent of the initiation fees, they also owned factories manufacturing the Klan robes and regalia. In spite of their brief reign (Tyler was forced out of the Klan in an internal power struggle in 1923 and Clarke, ousted by Simmons' successor in 1924, dropped out of sight with the law on his tail*), the Klan prospered reaching an estimated four to six million members in 1924**. Unlike the first Klan which was essentially a Southern organization, the second Klan extended to numerous northern and western states. At one time there were alleged to be forty thousand Klansmen in Detroit. (source)​

More? I got dozens more. That's what I do around here ---- bust Googly Image myths.

Now lemme hip you to a scorecard for those names:
  • Jackson (R) -- Klan governor of Indiana
  • Morley (R) - Klan governor of Colorado
  • Brewster (R) - Klan governor of Maine
  • Baker (R) -- Klan mayor of Portland Ore
  • Means (R) - Klan Senator of Colorado
  • Walton (D) - anti-Klan governor of Oklahoma, removed with Klan backing
  • Underwood (D) - Senator, leading voice denouncing Klan, POTUS candidate 1924
  • Kennedy (D) - Florida gov candidate, collaborator for "Clan of the Fiery Cross" national radio show ridiculing KKK and publishing exposé aimed at destroying it
  • LBJ (D) - first POTUS since Grant to prosecute Klan
What was that line again?

KKK = democrat

Care to tell the class why a political party would be electing members of the opposite party? Care to enlighten us on why it would be persecuting its own base -- Catholics, immigrants, Jews, blacks, labor unions, gays? Hm?

Yum. Pretzels.


Which part of the meme was wrong?

You lose....

But then you racist fucking democrats always lose....its just a shame you make blacks suffer because of your ignorance...


I'm not a "Democrat" -- I'm a historian. And I won't tolerate mythmaking especially when I already know it to be bullshit.

I gave you the names of all seven founders of both Klans. Confederate vet soldiers, aspiring lawyers, bored young men, and a con artist opportunist out to milk xenophobia.

Go find me evidence that any were "Democrats".

Rotsa ruck.
 
Think it about it. The retards wave the Confederate flag about and say they do it because they are proud of their heritage.

And then the dumb fucks amazingly start topics about those old Confederates being racists!

I mean...how many pounds of brain damage do you have to have to celebrate the Confederates and then sound like you are actually BRAGGING about them owning slaves and being racists!

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA!

These pitiful dumb fucks are seriously confused.
 

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