No, wrong. It is the lefts attempts to sanitize their history of racism and fighting to keep slavery alive. Their history within the kkk. Their majorities voting against the most major pieces of legislation against racism of Blacks. Their fight to keep segregation alive. Their attempt during the 2000's of rewriting who was in favor of Blacks civil rights by claiming those legislative actions for themselves on the dnc site. The GOP had to call them out and they removed it. That is what is appalling.
I'll tell you how sanitizing history works, and we've seen it here:
It's when RWnuts make the argument that the Civil War wasn't about slavery.
Sadly the forum left loons believe the demoquacks championed the civil rights movement.
most of the champions of the civil rights movement were registered democrats-----like
me. ---------one cannot evaluate the donkey's grandfather by looking at its grandson----
the present day, somewhat, pixilated donkey. --------I blame drugs. I wonder if anyone
ever did a study on the use of drugs as correlated with voter registration.. I wonder if anyone
ever bothered to get a snip of Hilary's hair (for cocaine analysis)
So because a black person says something, its the truth? So why y'all ignored Obama for 8 years? Lol
I will respond to Condi the same way I respond to a white person. Confederates were hateful traitors. They don't need celebrating. Germany removed their Nazi symbols. So why can't we?
I am a registered Democrat------I do not consider ALL CONFEDERATES TO BE
HATEFUL TRAITORS----because I am not a racist pig. My country was involved
in a civil war almost 150 years ago-----lots of good people on both sides died-----
lots fought bravely. I do not hate all native americans because of Custer's death---
nor do I hate Custer. Germany still honors Richard Wagner. What he did, he did
well. The USA still honors the Nazi pig---Thomas Edison. What he did, he did
well. --------we even say nice things about Walt Disney. ----that racist bastard
Let's not forget about Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, who was a member of the KKK, and that was a HECK of a lot more recently than the Civil War! Lol.
why memorialize the nut? Was Robert E Lee a member of the KKK? What sort of harm did
Byrd do as an old man? I know little about him--------he may have just been a nutty kid when
he did "KLAN" If someone wanted to do a statue of Byrd------that person should state ---on
the monument-----his history with the "KLAN"-------or put an idiot pointy hat on the thing
He was allowed to remain a SENATOR of the US. Which is worse, having a monument or having an actual racist an acting senator?
Ku Klux Klan[edit]
In the early 1940s, Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the
Ku Klux Klan in
Sophia, West Virginia.
[10][11]
According to Byrd, a Klan official told him, "You have a talent for leadership, Bob ... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd later recalled, "Suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."
[17] Byrd became a
recruiter and leader of his chapter.
[11] When it came time to elect the top officer (
Exalted Cyclops) in the local Klan unit, Byrd won unanimously.
[11]
In December 1944, Byrd wrote to
segregationist Mississippi Senator
Theodore G. Bilbo:
I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see
Old Glorytrampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.
— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944
[11][18]
In 1946, Byrd wrote a letter to a
Grand Wizard stating, "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation."
[19] However, when running for the
United States House of Representatives in 1952, he announced "After about a year, I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan." He said he had joined the Klan because he felt it offered excitement and was
anti-communist.
[11]