Biden should get busy, he has a lot of racist and racism to stomp out of his party.
Quit flapping your lips.
Name those racists, Republicans are the party of the racists
Your ignorance of history is obvious, so are your hilarious replies.
KKK White supremacist group started way back in 1868, all are 100% democrat whites.
Your ignorance of history is obvious, so are your hilarious replies.
The KKK group was not originally Democrats. The KKK was initially founded by returning Confederate soldiers and had nothing to do with persecuting blacks. It was meant to protect the South from northern carpetbaggers. It wasn't until the days of the Jim Crow Laws that the KKK was taken over by the old Southern Democrats.
Racism is neither Democrat nor Republican. Both parties have long racist histories. Only Republicans try to deny their racist past and pretend racism doesn't exist. Democrats repudiated racism in the 1960's. Republicans never have, and continue to this day to promote authoritarian, white supremacist policies.
Back in the 1980's, Ronald Reagan vetoed a bill which would condemn and sanction the white ruled Apartheid regime in South Africa. Republicans couldn't condemn Aparheid, because they have been working since Reagan to ensure that the USA remains segregated.
Funny, you tell him he doesn't know history then prove you don't. Wasn't the same KKK, butter cup. The original KKK disbanded and the second group started decades later by the Democrats who have always dominated American racism. Tell people you're a black Republican and see how free you are from Democrat racism
That’s exactly what I posted. The 1868 KKK was part of neither party. It was returning Confederate soldiers fighting northern carpetbaggers. It wasn’t until the Jim Crow era that the KKK aligned itself with the Southern Democrats.
Your ignorance goes on and on, Nathan Bedford Forrest is a DEMOCRAT, early member of the KKK. The KKK members were DELEGATES to the Democrat convention of 1868.....
Wikipedia
Democratic convention 1868
Main article:
1868 Democratic National Convention
The Klan's activity infiltrated the
Democratic Party's campaign for the
presidential election of 1868.
Prominent ex-Confederates, including Forrest, the Grand Wizard of the Klan, and South Carolina's Wade Hampton, attended as delegates at the 1868 Democratic Convention, held at
Tammany Hall headquarters at 141 East 14th Street in New York City.
[162] Forrest rode to the convention on a train that stopped in a small Northern town along the way, where he faced a protester who wanted to fight the "damned butcher" of Fort Pillow.
[163] Former Governor of New York Horatio Seymour was nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate, while Forrest's friend, Frank Blair, Jr. was nominated as the Democratic vice presidential candidate, Seymour's running mate.[164] The Seymour–Blair Democratic ticket's campaign slogan was: "Our Ticket, Our Motto, This Is a White Man's Country; Let White Men Rule".
[164] The Democratic Party platform denounced the Reconstruction Acts as unconstitutional, void, and revolutionary.
[165] The party advocated termination of the Freedman's Bureau and any government policy designed to aid blacks in the South.
[165] These developments worked to the advantage of the Republicans, who focused on the Democratic Party's alleged disloyalty during and after the
Civil War.
[165]
Election of 1868 and Grant
Prominent Republican organizer George Ashburn was murdered in Georgia by the Ku Klux Klan on March 31, 1868.
During the presidential election of 1868, the Ku Klux Klan under the leadership of Forrest, along with other terrorist groups, used brutal violence and intimidation against blacks and Republican voters.
[166][167] Forrest played a prominent role in the spread of the Klan in the South, meeting with racist whites in Atlanta several times between February and March 1868. Forrest probably organized a statewide Klan network in Georgia during these visits.
[168] On March 31 the Klan struck, killing prominent Republican organizer George Ashburn in Columbus.[168]
The Republicans had nominated one of Forrest's battle adversaries, Union war hero
Ulysses S. Grant, for the Presidency at their convention held in October. Klansmen took their orders from their former Confederate officers.
[167] In Louisiana, 1,000 blacks were killed to suppress Republican voting. In Georgia, blacks and Republicans also faced a lot of violence.
The Klan's violence was primarily designed to intimidate voters, targeting black and white supporters of the Republican Party.[168] The Klan's violent tactics backfired, as Grant, whose slogan was "Let us have peace", won the election and Republicans gained a majority in Congress.
[166] Grant defeated
Horatio Seymour, the Democratic presidential candidate, by a comfortable electoral margin, 214 to 80.
[169] The popular vote was much closer: Grant received 3,013,365 (52.7%) votes, while Seymour received 2,708,744 (47.3%) votes.
[169] Grant lost Georgia and Louisiana, where the violence and intimidation against blacks was most prominent.
Klan prosecution and Congressional testimony (1871)
Many in the north, including President Grant, backed the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, that gave voting rights to Americans regardless of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude". Congress and Grant passed the
Enforcement Acts from 1870 to 1871, to protect "registration, voting, officeholding, or jury service" of African Americans. Under these laws enforced by Grant and the newly formed
Department of Justice, there were over 5,000 indictments and 1,000 convictions of Klan members across the South.
[166]
Forrest testified before the Congressional investigation of Klan activities on June 27, 1871. He denied membership, but his individual role in the KKK was beyond the scope of the investigating committee, which wrote: "Our design is not to connect General Forrest with this order (the reader may form his own conclusion upon this question)".
[170] The committee also noted, "The natural tendency of all such organizations is to violence and crime; hence it was that General Forrest and other men of influence in the state, by the exercise of their moral power, induced them to disband".
[171] George Cantor, a biographer of Confederate generals, wrote, "Forrest ducked and weaved, denying all knowledge, but admitted he knew some of the people involved. He sidestepped some questions and pleaded failure of memory on others. Afterwards, he admitted to 'gentlemanly lies'. He wanted nothing more to do with the Klan, but felt honor bound to protect former associates."
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It was the REPUBLICANS who opposed the KKK (by the 1971 act), it was the REPUBLICANS who passed the amendments to free the blacks that the democrats opposed. It was democrats who killed blacks, deny them private property ownership andopposed the black voting rights.
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