We've come a long way in less than 100 years

[tinydancer]

These pictures are disturbing. But to move forward, we do have to look at history. I think we should all be able to rejoice that we've come so far in such a short period of time.

There were 50,000 marchers. Unreal.

More pictures at link with commentary.

Ku Klux Klan: Extraordinary images from a divisive era capture a day of reckoning as 50,000 white supremacists marched on Washington DC | Mail Online

 

[rdean]

And now the Republican Party is 90% white. See a connection?

Why didn't GOP question CPAC panelist's alleged white supremacist ties?

 

[whitehall]

And now the Republican Party is 90% white. See a connection?

Why didn't GOP question CPAC panelist's alleged white supremacist ties?

If the republican party is 90% white how is that a connection to the KKK? The majority of the KKK during it's high water mark were democrats? Segregationists in the South were democrats. Al Gore's father senator Gore was a democrat segregationist and don't even try to make the argument that he was a secret republican. He was a democrat. Democrat senator Robert Byrd who frequently used the "N" word was a former KKK leader. The KKK threat is gone and who knows why Black people vote for democrats today. Maybe it's the union sub-standard education system and maybe it's left-wing teachers who teach hatred instead of history. Maybe it's the plantation mentality of the democrat party which still pays poverty pimps to keep the plantation in line and maybe it's hateful racism directed at Black people like Dr. Condie Rice and Justice Thomas who escape the plantation.

 

[Ropey]

These pictures are disturbing. But to move forward, we do have to look at history. I think we should all be able to rejoice that we've come so far in such a short period of time.

There were 50,000 marchers. Unreal.

More pictures at link with commentary.

Ku Klux Klan: Extraordinary images from a divisive era capture a day of reckoning as 50,000 white supremacists marched on Washington DC | Mail Online

Great Post - Go US!

And the experiment that is "American Capitalist Democracy" continues.

 

[squeeze berry]

And now the Republican Party is 90% white. See a connection?

Why didn't GOP question CPAC panelist's alleged white supremacist ties?

the connection is that you have a problem with white people

 

[editec]

The same mentality of authoritarianism and classism and racist exists and thrives in this nation.

Its proponents merely wear different costumes, now.

 

[Truthmatters]

the republican party is the go to party of racists

 

[Truthmatters]

Its pretty amazing to look at all those Americans marching in the street to keep other Americans from voting.

Its still what the republican party does.

ID laws

Felons lists

Rigged voting machines


all the shit the republicans still cheer to keep black voters from voting

 

[Amelia]

We've come a long way in less than 100 years

Amen!

 

[Truthmatters]

why does the right want to go backwards?

 

[rightwinger]

What is amazing is not the 50,000 marchers but how many people lined the streets to cheer them

More evidence on why you can't vote for civil rights

 

[uscitizen]

Hey now that is the same bunch of bozos that were giving the Nazi salute to a cross in another pic I posted.

 

[Katzndogz]

All those democrats! The republicans won, even though they were obviously outnumbered.

 

[Big Fitz]

Its pretty amazing to look at all those Americans marching in the street to keep other Americans from voting.

Its still what the republican party does.

ID laws

Felons lists

Rigged voting machines


all the shit the republicans still cheer to keep black voters from voting

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4MTQVMatW0]RACIST GROUP INTIMIDATES VOTERS - YouTube[/ame]

Yep. Republicans all the way. And liberals never do electioneering as well.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgcdZTrGAhM&feature=related]More Obama Electioneering Caught On Tape! - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiM-6ZnW2LI&feature=related]Is This Legal? Obama Activity in Polling Place - YouTube[/ame]

Or break the Voting Rights Act.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XIGmIOq_NE&feature=related]Not Enough Ballots -- GOP Voters Being Turned Away - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Truthmatters]

GOP Memo Admits Plan Could 'Keep Black Vote Down' - Los Angeles Times


In an Aug. 13 memo the court made public Friday, Kris Wolfe, the Republican National Committee Midwest political director, wrote Lanny Griffith, the committee's Southern political director, and said of the Louisiana campaigning:

"I know this race is really important to you. I would guess that this program will eliminate at least 60-80,000 folks from the rolls. . . . If it's a close race . . . which I'm assuming it is, this could keep the black vote down considerably."

Unseals Document

She said in the memorandum that the program had been approved by Gregory Graves, deputy political director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.




The very top of the republican party

 

[Big Fitz]

the republican party is the go to party of racists

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRM00LPWVLE]KKK founding - YouTube[/ame]

Uhhhh huh.

 

[Truthmatters]

Florida Central Voter File - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


James Lee's testimony

On 17 April 2001, James Lee testified, before the McKinney panel, that the state had given DBT the directive to add to the purge list people who matched at least 90% of a last name. DBT objected, knowing that this would produce a huge number of false positives (non-felons).[7]

Lee went on saying that the state then ordered DBT to shift to an even lower threshold of 80% match, allowing also names to be reversed (thus a person named Thomas Clarence could be taken to be the same as Clarence Thomas). Besides this, middle initials were skipped, Jr. and Sr. suffixes dropped, and some nicknames and aliases were added to puff up the list.

"DBT told state officials", testified Lee, "that the rules for creating the [purge] list would mean a significant number of people who were not deceased, not registered in more than one county, or not a felon, would be included on the list. DBT made suggestions to reduce the numbers of eligible voters included on the list". According to Lee, to this suggestion the state told the company, "Forget about it".

"The people who worked on this (for DBT) are very adamant... they told them what would happen", said Lee. "The state expected the county supervisors to be the failsafe." Lee said his company will never again get involved in cleansing voting rolls. "We are not confident any of the methods used today can guarantee legal voters will not be wrongfully denied the right to vote", Lee told a group of Atlanta-area black lawmakers in March 2001.[8]

 

[paperview]

There were three iterations of the Klan. The second one - the one of which the above pictures are posted, was begun, interestingly enough, as a fraternal organization that made selling insurance and costumes as one of its goals. It was a huge money-maker fort the bigoted gullible.

Second KKK

In 1915, the second Klan was founded in Georgia. Starting in 1921, it adopted a modern business system of recruiting (which paid most of the initiation fee and costume charges to the organizers) and grew rapidly nationwide at a time of prosperity. Reflecting the social tensions of urban industrialization and vastly increased immigration, its membership grew most rapidly in cities, and spread to the Midwest and West out of the South.

The second KKK preached "One Hundred Percent Americanism" demanded the purification of politics, calling for strict morality and better enforcement of prohibition. Its official rhetoric focused on the threat of the Catholic Church, using anti-Catholicism and nativism.[18] Its appeal was directed exclusively at white Protestants.[19] Some local groups took part in attacks on private houses and carried out other violent activities. The violent episodes were generally in the South.[20]

The second Klan was a formal fraternal organization, with a national and state structure. At its peak in the mid-1920s, the organization claimed to include about 15% of the nation's eligible population, approximately 4–5 million men. Internal divisions, criminal behavior by leaders, and external opposition brought about a collapse in membership, which had dropped to about 30,000 by 1930. It finally faded away in the 1940s.[21] Klan organizers also operated in Canada, especially in Saskatchewan in 1926-28, where it attacked immigrants from Eastern Europe.[22]

 

[Truthmatters]

2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The 2002 New Hampshire Senate election phone jamming scandal involves the use of a telemarketing firm hired by that state's Republican Party (NHGOP) for election tampering. The tampering involved using a call center to jam the phone lines of a Get Out the Vote (GOTV) operation. In the end, 900 calls were made for 45 minutes of disruption to the Democratic-leaning call centers.

 

[Truthmatters]

Your party cheats to keep people from voting