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The KKK was not the beginning of white supremacy. Slavery was based on white supremacy. White supremacy began in Europe and it started with a scientific belief in white supremacy called scientific racism."At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency, white supremacists were conducting a reign of terror throughout the South. In outright defiance of the Republican-led federal government, Southern Democrats formed organizations that violently intimidated blacks and Republicans who tried to win political power. The most prominent of these, the Ku Klux Klan, was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. Originally founded as a social club for former Confederate soldiers, the Klan evolved into a terrorist organization. It would be responsible for thousands of deaths, and would help to weaken the political power of Southern blacks and Republicans.......In this violent atmosphere, the Ku Klux Klan grew in size and strength. By 1868, the Klan had evolved into a hooded terrorist organization that its members called "The Invisible Empire of the South." The reorganized Klan's first leader, or "Grand Wizard," was Nathan Bedford Forrest, who had been a Confederate general during the Civil War."Grant, Reconstruction and the KKK | American Experience | PBS
At the time of Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency, white supremacists were conducting a reign of terror throughout the South.www.pbs.org
I don't know who you are listening to but they are revisionist historians attempting to distance the Democrat Party from the KKK.