. KKK was started by democrats. History doesn't lie.
You have any idea how easy it is to put fake quotes and fake "facts" onto images?
Apparently not.
Once AGAIN the Klan was started by six ex-Confederate soldiers with no political affiliations and no political purpose. I can give you all their names, dates and exact address where they did it. That Klan fizzled in less than a decade, then the much larger and farther-reaching one was re-started in 1915 by an ex-minister and salesman who was looking to make money off the "Birth of a Nation" film. Again I can give you exact name, date, place and description, and he too had no political affiliation.
Furthermore nine years later that Klan was endorsing Coolidge --- the only major Pres candidate who didn't denounce them -- and getting Republican governors, Senators, mayors and local people elected from Oregon to Maine. Once again I can give you names, dates and places. And I won't need fake-ass Googly Images to make a bullshit point.
Fling bullshit on my watch and it WILL be shot down. Count on it.
No it sure doesn't. And what that history tells us is that the Klan was started by, in alpha order, (Maj) James Crowe, Calvin Jones, (Capt) John B. Kennedy, (Capt) John Lester, (Maj) Frank O. McCord and Richard Reed, Christmas 1865 at 205 West Madison Street in Pulaski Tennessee, in the law office of Jones' father Thomas, as a social club modeled after a popular college fraternity called Kuklos Adelphon.
None of those six had any political affiliations.
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Prove me wrong. Be the first.
Here are their names, embedded on a plaque placed on that very building exactly one hundred years ago by the United Daughters of the Confederacy --
- the same group that was running around putting up all those other Confederate statues and monuments in public spaces as propaganda transmitters for the Lost Cause, the same artifacts that municipalities have been removing FROM their public spaces.
Go ahead ---- prove me wrong. You've got names, complete with middle initials. You've got a date and an address.
Now the second Klan, the rekindled one that grew much bigger and spread coast to coast, was launched on Thanksgiving Day 1915 at Stone Mountain Georgia by one William J. "Colonel Joe" Simmons, who took fifteen followers up in a rented bus, laid out a sword, a bible and an American flag, and burned a cross for the first time, mimicking the movie effect. Simmons was an ex-Methodist minister, a charlatan, a salesman, an inveterate club-starter, and a drunk. Mostly he was an opportunist looking to make money off the Birth of a Nation buzz by making the Klan it pictured into a real thing and charging memberships for it. But he too had no political affiliation.
Prove that wrong too. Prove either one wrong.
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