Stop ducking, pussy. This isn't just about the founding of the Klan, stupid fuck. It's about the history of racism in the Democratic Party. I don't blame you for trying to divert attention from that first paragraph, it shows how full of shit you are. Be a man and own up to your party's racist roots you coward.I like how you post a bunch of nothing and claim victory. You've proven nothing, not one damn thing. But you might want to try this one, gas bag.You've schooled nobody ever, and saying so does not make it a reality. You split hairs. The Democratic Party did not officially create the KKK, I didn't say they did. I said Democrats did. Their purpose was to intimidate Republicans (you know, the ones who ended slavery). Did you think they were Republicans?The Republican Party did not support slavery - Dem Party did.
The Republican Party did not pass Jim Crow laws - Dem Party did.
The Republican Party did not create the KKK - Dems did.
The Republican Party broke the Dem filibuster and passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
It's easier to stay on the plantation if you let them convince you that someone else is to blame for your failures.
Once AGAIN --- nobody with a political party ever created either KKK. Would you like me to cut and paste where I schooled your sorry ass on this same mythology only last week, or would you prefer I cut and paste where I schooled your sorry ass on this same myth three, four, five years ago -- yet here you come with the same discredited spiel expecting different results?
The rest of your blanket statement fallacies are in tatters. No political party 'supported slavery' -- it was a contentious and divisive issue within and without every party that existed when it did. No party passed Jim Crow laws --- local politics did that. And the CRA filibuster was broken by Humphrey and Mansfield with support from Dirksen and LBJ --- again, not a "party" thing but a regional thing.
I know it makes the world easier in the intellectually-arrested mind of a six-year-old to paint everything in a nice simplistic false dichotomy of two colors but this planet simply does not work that way. Never has and never will. So you might as well grow up out of this goofy shit because nobody but nobody is buying it.
Ku Klux Klan - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com
Once again tailfin-boi splunks around in the swamp of his own ignorance, the Magic Land of Dichotomy where every living being is either a "Democrat" or a "Republican".
Once again, Fin-Boi --- this has gotta be a dozen-and-a-half times now:
--- the six young soldiers who originally founded the Klan in 1865. Go find me a political affiliation for ANY of them. In a time and place where political parties didn't even exist.
- James Crowe
- Calvin Jones
- John B. Kennedy
- John Lester
- Frank O. McCord
- Richard Reed
Or does that make your Magic Dichotomy Fantasyland cry? Tennessee was not part of the United States in 1865; it was most recently part of the CSA ... which had no political parties. But go ahead ---- show me where any of these six twentysomething war vets ventured out to the US to join a political party.
Give up? How 'bout you try this one:
--- the con artist / salesman / defrocked minister who conjured up a reiteration of the Klan in 1915, four-plus decades after the original one dried up, in order to make money off memberships by making the Klan pictured in "Birth of a Nation" into a real thing.
You know, the Klan that spread coast-to-coast into millions of memberships, got a Democratic governor removed in Oklahoma, got Republican governors elected in Colorado, Indiana, Kansas and Maine, plus a Republican Senator in Colorado....? Oh and by the way your own state as well -- not just the city council of Anaheim but the Republican governor elected in 1922.....
You know, the Klan that endorsed Calvin Coolidge because he was the only major candidate who didn't denounce them? And then not only endorsed Hoover but ran a vicious national smear campaign against the Democrat Al Smith because he was a Catholic?
You know, the Klan that opposed and railed against Catholics, blacks, Mexicans, Jews, immigrants in general and labor unions, all of which were and are Democratic Party constituent groups?
Now why would a "Democratic Party operation" be opposing its own candidates?
Huh Fin-boi?
Got a political party affiliation for Colonel Joe? No I can't find one either.
You remember Colonel Joe? The Klan founder who pointedly described it as a benevolent, patriotic, non-political organization so he could go tax-free in his state charter? The charter that was revoked by Governor Ellis Arnall --- a Democrat?
Watcha got, Finny?
Have a seat when your butt stops hurtin'. I did warn ya.
Nathan Bedford Forrest - Wikipedia
Or this one.
1868 Democratic National Convention - Wikipedia The first paragraph says it all, shitwad. Go ahead, deny the KKK did not represent the interests of the Democratic Party.
Neither Forrest, nor a political convention of 1868 or any other year, had jack cheese to do with founding the Klan. I need no primer on Forrest. He was elected in absentia to be its CEO in an attempt to clean up its image, already tarnished by violence. Citing exactly that dynamic his first (and only) order in that position was to disband the organization and order its effects and paraphernalia destroyed. Your second link mentions nothing about the Klan at all.
Meanwhile you were, again, in keeping with the tradition of the last six years, completely unable to find any trace of political affiliation for any of the actual Klan founders, Crowe, Jones, Kennedy, Lester, McCord, Reed or Simmons. Which we all knew you would fail to do since you've had six years to do it and have come up with absolute bupkis.