Hillary used black prison labor as first lady of Arkansas

[Muhammed]

The Democrat Party is the party of the KKK, and Hollywood/the mainstream media is its Joseph Goebbels.

The KKK has never had a political party, kkklown. I've mopped the floor with every clueless wag who has tried to float this turd and I'll mop you up too.

I don't know who the hell you think you mopped the floor with but if you seriously think you did it claiming the democrats aren't the party of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, segregation and inner city slums you're an idiot.

{goes to bat rack, selects lumber....}

Let's just go with the most recent. Just because it's handy. This was in response to one of y'all mythologists who tried to sell "every Klan member was a Democrat" --- as if every person has a political party at all

Here's your history. With details.

The Klan was founded on Christmas 1865 by Capt. John Lester, Capt. John B. Kennedy, James Crowe, Frank McCord, Richard Reed and Calvin Jones, in Jones' father's law office at 205 West Madison Street in Pulaski Tennessee. All of the six were twentysomething ex-Confederate soldiers and zero of them had any known political affiliations -- not that there was any voting going on in 1865 Tennessee anyway.

Moreover their stated purpose was a frivolous address of boredom (hence all the whimsical K-alliterations of Klan, kleagle, klavern, etc) and had nothing to do with elements that took it over from the six founders, elements made up of the "night riders" that had been already going on since the eighteenth century, before the United States existed as a country.

That Klan lasted less than a decade and would have been relegated to the historical scrapheap with literally dozens of similar vigilante groups that sprang up in the same era including Caucasian Club(s) (Louisiana 1869), Heroes of America (South Carolina), Knights of the Black Cross (Mississippi), Knights of the Rising Sun (Texas 1868), Knights of the White Camellia (Louisiana 1867-69), Knights of the White Carnation (Alabama), Native Sons of the South (Mississippi), Order of Pale Faces (Tennessee 1869 or 1867, Society of the White Rose (Mississippi) and the White League (Louisiana 1874) --- which was the organization commemorated in the "Liberty Place" monument that was recently removed by the City of New Orleans...

---------- if not for William J. "Colonel Joe" Simmons, who took a gaggle of guys who had lynched a Jew up Stone Mountain on Thanksgiving Day 1915 in a rented bus where they burned a cross and rekindled the ("Knights of the") Ku Klux Klan, which upon hiring a PR team became by far the largest and most pervasive iteration of the Klan.

Simmons was an ex-Methodist minister, salesman, huckster, drunk (ironic since his Klan was staunchly pro-Prohibition) and inveterate club-joiner who was looking to (and did) make money from membership fees. He too had no political affiliation.

Easy enough to demonstrate who the Klan was not. So who actually were they?

"Lifting the Klan mask [19th Century version] 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." --- Elaine Frantz Parsons, Ku Klux: "The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction" (UNC Press) p. 816​

As far as "every Klan member was a Democrat", already an absurd statement on its face as it ass-umes everybody in existence is even registered with a political party, I give you:

Owen Brewster -- Maine Governor, Congresscritter and Joe McCarthy apologist. Klan and Republican.
Rice Means -- Senator, Colorado. Klan, Republican.
George Baker -- Mayor Portland Oregon. Klan, Republican.
4/5 of the City Council of Anaheim (1924) --- Klan, Republican
Clarence Morley -- Governor, Colorado. Klan, Republican
Ed Jackson -- Governor, Indiana. Klan, Republican.

Speaking of Ed Jackson and Indiana -- which accomplished the dubious feat of having the largest concentration of its population in the KKK:

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Oh and also Charles Bowles, who won the 1930 mayoral election in Detroit, as a write-in. Agan, Klan, no party at all.

In Maine, Klan Republicans were opposed by anti-Klan Republicans, Maine being as overwhelmingly Republican as the "solid South" was Democrat. And in the South, Klan Democrats were opposed by anti-Klan Democrats.

The Klan supported, or opposed, Republicans, or Democrats, depending on what served its interest in that time and place. That is, when it dabbled in politics at all and wasn't going after drinkers, labor unions, blacks, Jews, Catholics, adulterers and in at least one case whipping a (white) woman for "not going to church".

You go right ahead and try to prove ANY of that erroneous. I've given you details. Go fetch.

So much for mythology. You don't sell bullshit on my watch.

Oh yeah I've got plenty more.

The KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democratic party. They targeted anyone who they suspected of being a Republican.

 

[g5000]

The Democrat Party is the party of the KKK, and Hollywood/the mainstream media is its Joseph Goebbels.

The KKK has never had a political party, kkklown. I've mopped the floor with every clueless wag who has tried to float this turd and I'll mop you up too.

I don't know who the hell you think you mopped the floor with but if you seriously think you did it claiming the democrats aren't the party of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, segregation and inner city slums you're an idiot.

You dumb shit. The KKK was a large presence in both parties. And this is because the KKK is a far right Christian conservative organization. There was a time when both parties had an equal number of conservatives and liberals.

Your propaganda masters absolutely depend on the willful ignorance of American history on the part of you tards so that you will drink their big fat fucking lies. You idiots know NOTHING about American history.

You are such a ridiculous rube. You don't even know how much you are being manipulated.

 

[g5000]

Hooded Americanism

 

[g5000]

 

[g5000]

"With the Klan operating primarily within the Republican party..."

 

[MaryL]

Hillary. White, Wealthy, entitled and self righteous.That says it all.

 

[g5000]

"With the Democrats running on a straight anti-Klan issue..."

 

[g5000]

 

[g5000]

New York. Ohio. Maine. Missouri. Colorado. Kansas. Oklahoma.

Dominated by Klan Republicans.

The Klan dominated the Republican party across the entire nation. The Klan so infected the GOP that some Republicans wanted to start an independent party.

Kind of like those of us who are sick of Trump and his Chumps who have infected the modern GOP.

I guess I should not be surprised Trump's Chumps are so profoundly ignorant of American history. Trump depends on them forgetting shit from five minutes ago, after all. And they happily oblige.

 

[g5000]

The Democrat Party is the party of the KKK, and Hollywood/the mainstream media is its Joseph Goebbels.

The KKK has never had a political party, kkklown. I've mopped the floor with every clueless wag who has tried to float this turd and I'll mop you up too.

I don't know who the hell you think you mopped the floor with but if you seriously think you did it claiming the democrats aren't the party of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, segregation and inner city slums you're an idiot.

{goes to bat rack, selects lumber....}

Let's just go with the most recent. Just because it's handy. This was in response to one of y'all mythologists who tried to sell "every Klan member was a Democrat" --- as if every person has a political party at all

Here's your history. With details.

The Klan was founded on Christmas 1865 by Capt. John Lester, Capt. John B. Kennedy, James Crowe, Frank McCord, Richard Reed and Calvin Jones, in Jones' father's law office at 205 West Madison Street in Pulaski Tennessee. All of the six were twentysomething ex-Confederate soldiers and zero of them had any known political affiliations -- not that there was any voting going on in 1865 Tennessee anyway.

Moreover their stated purpose was a frivolous address of boredom (hence all the whimsical K-alliterations of Klan, kleagle, klavern, etc) and had nothing to do with elements that took it over from the six founders, elements made up of the "night riders" that had been already going on since the eighteenth century, before the United States existed as a country.

That Klan lasted less than a decade and would have been relegated to the historical scrapheap with literally dozens of similar vigilante groups that sprang up in the same era including Caucasian Club(s) (Louisiana 1869), Heroes of America (South Carolina), Knights of the Black Cross (Mississippi), Knights of the Rising Sun (Texas 1868), Knights of the White Camellia (Louisiana 1867-69), Knights of the White Carnation (Alabama), Native Sons of the South (Mississippi), Order of Pale Faces (Tennessee 1869 or 1867, Society of the White Rose (Mississippi) and the White League (Louisiana 1874) --- which was the organization commemorated in the "Liberty Place" monument that was recently removed by the City of New Orleans...

---------- if not for William J. "Colonel Joe" Simmons, who took a gaggle of guys who had lynched a Jew up Stone Mountain on Thanksgiving Day 1915 in a rented bus where they burned a cross and rekindled the ("Knights of the") Ku Klux Klan, which upon hiring a PR team became by far the largest and most pervasive iteration of the Klan.

Simmons was an ex-Methodist minister, salesman, huckster, drunk (ironic since his Klan was staunchly pro-Prohibition) and inveterate club-joiner who was looking to (and did) make money from membership fees. He too had no political affiliation.

Easy enough to demonstrate who the Klan was not. So who actually were they?

"Lifting the Klan mask [19th Century version] 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." --- Elaine Frantz Parsons, Ku Klux: "The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction" (UNC Press) p. 816​

As far as "every Klan member was a Democrat", already an absurd statement on its face as it ass-umes everybody in existence is even registered with a political party, I give you:

Owen Brewster -- Maine Governor, Congresscritter and Joe McCarthy apologist. Klan and Republican.
Rice Means -- Senator, Colorado. Klan, Republican.
George Baker -- Mayor Portland Oregon. Klan, Republican.
4/5 of the City Council of Anaheim (1924) --- Klan, Republican
Clarence Morley -- Governor, Colorado. Klan, Republican
Ed Jackson -- Governor, Indiana. Klan, Republican.

Speaking of Ed Jackson and Indiana -- which accomplished the dubious feat of having the largest concentration of its population in the KKK:

​

Oh and also Charles Bowles, who won the 1930 mayoral election in Detroit, as a write-in. Agan, Klan, no party at all.

In Maine, Klan Republicans were opposed by anti-Klan Republicans, Maine being as overwhelmingly Republican as the "solid South" was Democrat. And in the South, Klan Democrats were opposed by anti-Klan Democrats.

The Klan supported, or opposed, Republicans, or Democrats, depending on what served its interest in that time and place. That is, when it dabbled in politics at all and wasn't going after drinkers, labor unions, blacks, Jews, Catholics, adulterers and in at least one case whipping a (white) woman for "not going to church".

You go right ahead and try to prove ANY of that erroneous. I've given you details. Go fetch.

So much for mythology. You don't sell bullshit on my watch.

Oh yeah I've got plenty more.

The KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democratic party. They targeted anyone who they suspected of being a Republican.

You are another willfully ignorant tard who deserves to be lied to by your propagandists.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

The Democrat Party is the party of the KKK, and Hollywood/the mainstream media is its Joseph Goebbels.

The KKK has never had a political party, kkklown. I've mopped the floor with every clueless wag who has tried to float this turd and I'll mop you up too.

I don't know who the hell you think you mopped the floor with but if you seriously think you did it claiming the democrats aren't the party of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow, segregation and inner city slums you're an idiot.

You dumb shit. The KKK was a large presence in both parties. And this is because the KKK is a far right Christian conservative organization. There was a time when both parties had an equal number of conservatives and liberals.

Your propaganda masters absolutely depend on the willful ignorance of American history on the part of you tards so that you will drink their big fat fucking lies. You idiots know NOTHING about American history.

You are such a ridiculous rube. You don't even know how much you are being manipulated.

That's certainly the story the dems have been trying to sell since the republicans passed civil rights.

Doesn't make it true but that doesn't stop the spin and flat out lies.

 

[Dan Stubbs]

Old book excerpts by Hillary Clinton reveal she used black prison labor

Twitter users have reacted with surprise and fury over excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s 1996 book It Takes A Village. On June 6, Jeanette Jing, an activist with over 33,000 followers on Twitter who supports Clinton's Democratic opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders, shared two pages of the work in which Clinton reminisces about the black prisoners who worked in the Arkansas governor’s mansion she shared with her husband, Bill Clinton, who led the state from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992.

“When we moved in, I was told that using prison labor at the governor’s mansion was a longstanding tradition, which kept down costs,” Clinton writes. She adds that most of the workers were convicted murderers and she became friendly with “a few of them, African-American men in their thirties who had already served 12 to 18 years of their sentences.”

Despite her alleged friendships with these men, Clinton tells her readers: “We enforced rules strictly and sent back to prison any inmate who broke a rule.” Despite having no psychological qualifications, she later asserts that these men did not have “inferior IQs or an inability to apply moral reasoning” but instead they may have been “emotional illiterates.”

Clinton makes no mention of whether the men received any money for working for her and her husband. A 2016 article from Mother Jones notes that when it comes to prison labor, “some state states, including Texas, Arkansas, and Georgia, do not pay inmates at all.” On Twitter, Jing wrote that “Hillary Clinton was a direct participant in what @samswey correctly described as modern slavery.”

Jing, who also refers to a June 5 Twitter conversation about the Clintons’ use of prison labor from Samuel Sinyangwe, an activist, data scientist and policy analyst. In a string of tweets, Sinyangwe talks about his experience of visiting the Louisiana state legislature and finding black prisoners serving white lawmakers for free. Sinyangwe adds that the state has the world’s highest incarceration rate, with black people making up 66 percent of the prison population. By comparison, black people make up 32 percent of Louisiana’s total population.

In her book, Clinton tried to soften the reality of unpaid black men serving a wealthy white woman. But, 1996, the year her book came out, was also the year she made a speech in New Hampshire in support of her husband’s controversial 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act.

Of the legislation, which critics say ramped up mass incarceration and disproportionately affected African-Americans, Clinton said: “We also have to have an organized effort against gangs. They are often the kinds of kids that are called superpredators—no conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first, we have to bring them to heel.” (Clinton has since apologized for using the term and admitted parts of the 1994 bill were a mistake.)

The resurfacing of her book’s extract has dragged Clinton’s record on racial equality into the spotlight. Despite her reaching out to the black community during her 2008 and 2016 bids for the presidency, she actively supported and lobbied for her husband while more and more black people were sent to prison. Though Toni Morrison named Bill Clinton the country’s “first black president,” under his watch there was an 100:1 gram-to-gram sentencing disparity between people imprisoned for powdered cocaine possession and those imprisoned for crack cocaine...

Makes sense. After all, this was Bill Clinton's mentor:

J. William Fulbright - Wikipedia

James William Fulbright (April 9, 1905 – February 9, 1995) was a United States Senator representing Arkansas from January 1945 until his resignation in December 1974. Fulbright is the longest serving chairman in the history of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A Southern Democrat and a staunch multilateralist who supported the creation of the United Nations, he was also a segregationist who signed the Southern Manifesto. Fulbright opposed McCarthyism and the House Un-American Activities Committee..

The Democrat Party is the party of the KKK, and Hollywood/the mainstream media is its Joseph Goebbels.

Clinton uses anyone and everyone who will stand for it. Most of them tend to die off early.

 

[Pogo]

Hooded Americanism

This would be New York, one of many may examples coast to coast literally from Maine to southern California.

In Indiana it was estimated that one-third of the entire adult male population was in the Klan.

The Klan was both polarizing and active in the electoral process especially at this peak in the mid-1920s. Here in a NYT article from 1924 black spokespersons are calling for a clear denunciation of the Klan from the White House, much as Dumball Rump was asked to denounce David Duke:

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Then never got that denunciation. In 1924 blacks as a bloc were still voting Republican, hence the threat to bolt.

In the same year the Klan tried to disrupt the Democratic convention as well, camping out in New Jersey across the river from the convention in NYC (the infamous "Klanbake"), actively opposing the nomination of either Al Smith or Oscar Underwood, Senator of Alabama, who was the leading voice unafraid of denouncing the KKK, declaring the country and the Klan could not coexist and "between the two, I choose my country". Smith and Underwood called for a plank denouncing the Klan, opposed by other factions including candidate William Gibbs McAdoo, who didn't actively seek Klan support but benefited from it. The two sides bickered bitterly into the longest political convention in history (over 100 ballots without a nominee) before finally settling on a lackluster inoffensive-to-everybody candidate, Gov. Davis of West Virginia....

.... who accepted the nomination and then immediately denounced the Klan.

In the end the Klan endorsed Coolidge. And four years later it again opposed Al Smith, on the basis that he was a Catholic. They were unsuccessful and Smith became the 1928 nominee.

 

[Pogo]

"With the Democrats running on a straight anti-Klan issue..."

I was aware of Brewster but didn't know Coolidge's running mate was up there shilling for him too. Very interesting.

Maine was as solidly Republican as the South was Democratic, so it was a no-brainer for the Maine Democrats to actively take an anti-Klan stance. The Klan effectively split the dominant state Republican Party into pro- and anti-Klan factions, Republican Senate candidate Arthur Gould was denounced by the state Governor of his own party (Brewster) for running a staunch anti-Klan campaign in 1926. That only strengthened Gould, who won the seat.

Brewster's Democratic opponent in 1924 was William Robinson Pattangall, who had been part of the 1924 Democratic convention faction pushing for an anti-Klan plank, and ran his campaign on the issue, vigorously denouncing it. Brewster though won easily and went on to the House of Reps and the Senate until 1952, and was a close confidant of Joe McCarthy.

 

[Pogo]

"With the Democrats running on a straight anti-Klan issue..."

Say --- how do you convert these book page-views into a postable image? This could be most useful.

 

[Bush92]

Old book excerpts by Hillary Clinton reveal she used black prison labor

Twitter users have reacted with surprise and fury over excerpts from Hillary Clinton’s 1996 book It Takes A Village. On June 6, Jeanette Jing, an activist with over 33,000 followers on Twitter who supports Clinton's Democratic opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders, shared two pages of the work in which Clinton reminisces about the black prisoners who worked in the Arkansas governor’s mansion she shared with her husband, Bill Clinton, who led the state from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992.

“When we moved in, I was told that using prison labor at the governor’s mansion was a longstanding tradition, which kept down costs,” Clinton writes. She adds that most of the workers were convicted murderers and she became friendly with “a few of them, African-American men in their thirties who had already served 12 to 18 years of their sentences.”

Despite her alleged friendships with these men, Clinton tells her readers: “We enforced rules strictly and sent back to prison any inmate who broke a rule.” Despite having no psychological qualifications, she later asserts that these men did not have “inferior IQs or an inability to apply moral reasoning” but instead they may have been “emotional illiterates.”

Clinton makes no mention of whether the men received any money for working for her and her husband. A 2016 article from Mother Jones notes that when it comes to prison labor, “some state states, including Texas, Arkansas, and Georgia, do not pay inmates at all.” On Twitter, Jing wrote that “Hillary Clinton was a direct participant in what @samswey correctly described as modern slavery.”

Jing, who also refers to a June 5 Twitter conversation about the Clintons’ use of prison labor from Samuel Sinyangwe, an activist, data scientist and policy analyst. In a string of tweets, Sinyangwe talks about his experience of visiting the Louisiana state legislature and finding black prisoners serving white lawmakers for free. Sinyangwe adds that the state has the world’s highest incarceration rate, with black people making up 66 percent of the prison population. By comparison, black people make up 32 percent of Louisiana’s total population.

In her book, Clinton tried to soften the reality of unpaid black men serving a wealthy white woman. But, 1996, the year her book came out, was also the year she made a speech in New Hampshire in support of her husband’s controversial 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act.

Of the legislation, which critics say ramped up mass incarceration and disproportionately affected African-Americans, Clinton said: “We also have to have an organized effort against gangs. They are often the kinds of kids that are called superpredators—no conscience, no empathy. We can talk about why they ended up that way, but first, we have to bring them to heel.” (Clinton has since apologized for using the term and admitted parts of the 1994 bill were a mistake.)

The resurfacing of her book’s extract has dragged Clinton’s record on racial equality into the spotlight. Despite her reaching out to the black community during her 2008 and 2016 bids for the presidency, she actively supported and lobbied for her husband while more and more black people were sent to prison. Though Toni Morrison named Bill Clinton the country’s “first black president,” under his watch there was an 100:1 gram-to-gram sentencing disparity between people imprisoned for powdered cocaine possession and those imprisoned for crack cocaine...

Makes sense. After all, this was Bill Clinton's mentor:

J. William Fulbright - Wikipedia

James William Fulbright (April 9, 1905 – February 9, 1995) was a United States Senator representing Arkansas from January 1945 until his resignation in December 1974. Fulbright is the longest serving chairman in the history of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A Southern Democrat and a staunch multilateralist who supported the creation of the United Nations, he was also a segregationist who signed the Southern Manifesto. Fulbright opposed McCarthyism and the House Un-American Activities Committee..

The Democrat Party is the party of the KKK, and Hollywood/the mainstream media is its Joseph Goebbels.

She wanted to be close to her fellow Democrats.