151 years ago today: Democrats founded and staffed the Ku Klux Klan

[owebo]

America used really to be a scary country, still is partially. I imagine 150 years ago if you had a darker skin you had to be afraid, really afraid.

Democrat klansmen routinely lynched blacks....and republicans.....

Christian klansmen routinely lynched blacks...and Jews

Democrat klansmen lynched many republicans.....

You just discovering this?

 

[Syriusly]

To his credit, Republican President Ronald Reagan made Dr. King’s birthday a federal holiday, ignoring how the Democrats had smeared Dr. King.

Hmmm well lets look at that shall we?

In 1964, Republicans nominated for President, Barry Goldwater- who infamously had opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Because of that Martin Luther King Jr. advised African Americans to not vote Republican

But some political choices are symbolic and more than symbolic. Following Goldwater’s vote, a young Colin Powell went out to his car and affixed a Lyndon Johnson bumper sticker. “While not himself a racist,” concluded Martin Luther King Jr., “Mr. Goldwater articulates a philosophy which gives aid and comfort to the racists.” Jackie Robinson, after attending the GOP convention in 1964, helped launch Republicans for Johnson.

And the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday? Who opposed it? Republicans

The idea of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday was promoted by labor unions in contract negotiations.[2] After King's death, U.S. Representative John Conyers (a Democrat from Michigan) and U.S. Senator Edward Brooke (a Republican from Massachusetts) introduced a bill in Congress to make King's birthday a national holiday.

Senators Jesse Helms and John Porter East (both North Carolina Republicans) led opposition to the holiday and questioned whether King was important enough to receive such an honor. Helms criticized King's opposition to the Vietnam War and accused him of espousing "action-oriented Marxism".[4] Helms led a filibuster against the bill and on October 3, 1983, submitted a 300-page document to the Senate alleging that King had associations with communists. New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan declared the document a "packet of filth", threw it on the Senate floor and stomped on it.[5

President Ronald Reagan originally opposed the holiday, citing cost concerns. When asked to comment on Helms' accusations that King was a communist, the president said "We'll know in thirty-five years, won't we?", in reference to the eventual release of FBI surveillance tapes that had previously been sealed.[7] But on November 2, 1983, Reagan signed a bill, proposed by Representative Katie Hall of Indiana, to create a federal holiday honoring King.[8][9] The bill had passed the House of Representatives by a count of 338 to 90, a veto-proof margin.[

I love how the revisionist Right wingers both want to claim credit for the 1964 Civil Rights Act- which was proposed by Democrats, passed by a majority of Democrats, and signed into law by a Democrat- and Martin Luther King Jr. Day- which was opposed by Republicans and only signed into law when President Reagan was presented with a veto proof bill.

 

[Syriusly]

America used really to be a scary country, still is partially. I imagine 150 years ago if you had a darker skin you had to be afraid, really afraid.

Democrat klansmen routinely lynched blacks....and republicans.....

Christian klansmen routinely lynched blacks...and Jews

Democrat klansmen lynched many republicans.....

You just discovering this?

Christian klansmen lynched many African Americans- and Jews.

You just discovering this?

 

[owebo]

America used really to be a scary country, still is partially. I imagine 150 years ago if you had a darker skin you had to be afraid, really afraid.

Democrat klansmen routinely lynched blacks....and republicans.....

Christian klansmen routinely lynched blacks...and Jews

Democrat klansmen lynched many republicans.....

You just discovering this?

Christian klansmen lynched many African Americans- and Jews.

You just discovering this?

That's what I said....democrats lynched many republicans....

You going for your GED? Good luck with that.....

 

[Syriusly]

Note the scumbag in the upper right-hand corner.

k
Democrats proposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
A majority of Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
A Democrat signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law.

Who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
The 1964 GOP Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
President Ronald Reagan
President George Bush

“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them, we’ll lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.”

Lyndon Johnson
2

Who pushed the 1964 Civil Rights Act through Congress- Lyndon Johnson

Who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
The 1964 GOP Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
President Ronald Reagan
President George Bush

Note how the GOP routinely nominated Presidential candidates who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act- which is explains why Martin Luther King Jr. called on African Americans to not vote for Republicans.

 

[Syriusly]

America used really to be a scary country, still is partially. I imagine 150 years ago if you had a darker skin you had to be afraid, really afraid.

Democrat klansmen routinely lynched blacks....and republicans.....

Christian klansmen routinely lynched blacks...and Jews

Democrat klansmen lynched many republicans.....

You just discovering this?

Christian klansmen lynched many African Americans- and Jews.

You just discovering this?

That's what I said....democrats lynched many republicans....

You going for your GED? Good luck with that.....

Christian klansmen lynched many African Americans and Jews.

White men lynched many African Americans and Jews

Southerners lynched many African Americans and Jews.

Republicans lynched many African Americans and Jews.

 

[owebo]

Note the scumbag in the upper right-hand corner.

k
Democrats proposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
A majority of Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
A Democrat signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law.

Who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
The 1964 GOP Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
President Ronald Reagan
President George Bush

“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them, we’ll lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.”

Lyndon Johnson
2

Who pushed the 1964 Civil Rights Act through Congress- Lyndon Johnson

Who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
The 1964 GOP Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
President Ronald Reagan
President George Bush

Note how the GOP routinely nominated Presidential candidates who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act- which is explains why Martin Luther King Jr. called on African Americans to not vote for Republicans.

This LBJ? No wonder you celebrate him....

 

[owebo]

Democrat klansmen routinely lynched blacks....and republicans.....

Christian klansmen routinely lynched blacks...and Jews

Democrat klansmen lynched many republicans.....

You just discovering this?

Christian klansmen lynched many African Americans- and Jews.

You just discovering this?

That's what I said....democrats lynched many republicans....

You going for your GED? Good luck with that.....

Christian klansmen lynched many African Americans and Jews.

White men lynched many African Americans and Jews

Southerners lynched many African Americans and Jews.

Republicans lynched many African Americans and Jews.

Democrat klansmen lynched many of us....never again....

 

[Syriusly]

Christian klansmen routinely lynched blacks...and Jews

Democrat klansmen lynched many republicans.....

You just discovering this?

Christian klansmen lynched many African Americans- and Jews.

You just discovering this?

That's what I said....democrats lynched many republicans....

You going for your GED? Good luck with that.....

Christian klansmen lynched many African Americans and Jews.

White men lynched many African Americans and Jews

Southerners lynched many African Americans and Jews.

Republicans lynched many African Americans and Jews.

Democrat klansmen lynched many of us....never again....

Christian Republican klansmen lynched many Americans.....clearly not any of you.

 

[owebo]

Democrat klansmen lynched many republicans.....

You just discovering this?

Christian klansmen lynched many African Americans- and Jews.

You just discovering this?

That's what I said....democrats lynched many republicans....

You going for your GED? Good luck with that.....

Christian klansmen lynched many African Americans and Jews.

White men lynched many African Americans and Jews

Southerners lynched many African Americans and Jews.

Republicans lynched many African Americans and Jews.

Democrat klansmen lynched many of us....never again....

Christian Republican klansmen lynched many Americans.....clearly not any of you.

Your fake news tell you that?

No one ever said you democrat klansmen were smart...

 

[Syriusly]

Note the scumbag in the upper right-hand corner.

k
Democrats proposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
A majority of Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
A Democrat signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law.

Who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
The 1964 GOP Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
President Ronald Reagan
President George Bush

“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them, we’ll lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.”

Lyndon Johnson
2

Who pushed the 1964 Civil Rights Act through Congress- Lyndon Johnson

Who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
The 1964 GOP Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
President Ronald Reagan
President George Bush

Note how the GOP routinely nominated Presidential candidates who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act- which is explains why Martin Luther King Jr. called on African Americans to not vote for Republicans.

This LBJ? No wonder you celebrate him....H]

Lyndon B. Johnson- you mean the President who passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Civil Rights Act.

While President Reagan opposed all three.

And your boys nominated Barry Goldwater to be the GOP candidate- right after he voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

MLK was speaking about you when he said:


The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right. The “best man” at this ceremony was a senator whose voting record, philosophy, and program were anathema to all the hard-won achievements of the past decade.


It was both unfortunate and disastrous that the Republican Party nominated Barry Goldwater as its candidate for President of the United States.....On the urgent issue of civil rights, Senator Goldwater represented a philosophy that was morally indefensible and socially suicidal.

While not himself a racist, Mr. Goldwater articulated a philosophy which gave aid and comfort to the racist. His candidacy and philosophy would serve as an umbrella under which extremists of all stripes would stand. In the light of these facts and because of my love for America, I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy.

 

[Syriusly]

Christian klansmen lynched many African Americans- and Jews.

You just discovering this?

That's what I said....democrats lynched many republicans....

You going for your GED? Good luck with that.....

Christian klansmen lynched many African Americans and Jews.

White men lynched many African Americans and Jews

Southerners lynched many African Americans and Jews.

Republicans lynched many African Americans and Jews.

Democrat klansmen lynched many of us....never again....

Christian Republican klansmen lynched many Americans.....clearly not any of you.

Your fake news tell you that?

No one ever said you democrat klansmen were smart...

No one ever said you Republican klansmen were smart.

Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said


The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.

 

[owebo]

That's what I said....democrats lynched many republicans....

You going for your GED? Good luck with that.....

Christian klansmen lynched many African Americans and Jews.

White men lynched many African Americans and Jews

Southerners lynched many African Americans and Jews.

Republicans lynched many African Americans and Jews.

Democrat klansmen lynched many of us....never again....

Christian Republican klansmen lynched many Americans.....clearly not any of you.

Your fake news tell you that?

No one ever said you democrat klansmen were smart...

No one ever said you Republican klansmen were smart.

Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said


The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.

Republicans freed your slaves...

Democrats killed us for it....

You've made poor choices.....

 

[owebo]

Note the scumbag in the upper right-hand corner.

k
Democrats proposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
A majority of Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
A Democrat signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law.

Who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
The 1964 GOP Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
President Ronald Reagan
President George Bush

“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them, we’ll lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.”

Lyndon Johnson
2

Who pushed the 1964 Civil Rights Act through Congress- Lyndon Johnson

Who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
The 1964 GOP Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
President Ronald Reagan
President George Bush

Note how the GOP routinely nominated Presidential candidates who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act- which is explains why Martin Luther King Jr. called on African Americans to not vote for Republicans.

This LBJ? No wonder you celebrate him....H]

Lyndon B. Johnson- you mean the President who passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Civil Rights Act.

While President Reagan opposed all three.

And your boys nominated Barry Goldwater to be the GOP candidate- right after he voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

MLK was speaking about you when he said:


The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right. The “best man” at this ceremony was a senator whose voting record, philosophy, and program were anathema to all the hard-won achievements of the past decade.


It was both unfortunate and disastrous that the Republican Party nominated Barry Goldwater as its candidate for President of the United States.....On the urgent issue of civil rights, Senator Goldwater represented a philosophy that was morally indefensible and socially suicidal.

While not himself a racist, Mr. Goldwater articulated a philosophy which gave aid and comfort to the racist. His candidacy and philosophy would serve as an umbrella under which extremists of all stripes would stand. In the light of these facts and because of my love for America, I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy.

See....

 

[Syriusly]

Christian klansmen lynched many African Americans and Jews.

White men lynched many African Americans and Jews

Southerners lynched many African Americans and Jews.

Republicans lynched many African Americans and Jews.

Democrat klansmen lynched many of us....never again....

Christian Republican klansmen lynched many Americans.....clearly not any of you.

Your fake news tell you that?

No one ever said you democrat klansmen were smart...

No one ever said you Republican klansmen were smart.

Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said


The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.

Republicans freed your slaves...

Hmmm there haven't been any slaves in the United States in over 150 years- how delusional are you to think that I have owned slaves?

No one ever said you Republican klansmen were smart.

Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said


The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.[/QUOTE]

 

[owebo]

Democrat klansmen lynched many of us....never again....

Christian Republican klansmen lynched many Americans.....clearly not any of you.

Your fake news tell you that?

No one ever said you democrat klansmen were smart...

No one ever said you Republican klansmen were smart.

Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said


The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.

Republicans freed your slaves...

Hmmm there haven't been any slaves in the United States in over 150 years- how delusional are you to think that I have owned slaves?

No one ever said you Republican klansmen were smart.

Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said


The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.

Very poor choices...but you own them....

 

[Syriusly]

Christian Republican klansmen lynched many Americans.....clearly not any of you.

Your fake news tell you that?

No one ever said you democrat klansmen were smart...

No one ever said you Republican klansmen were smart.

Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said


The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.

Republicans freed your slaves...

Hmmm there haven't been any slaves in the United States in over 150 years- how delusional are you to think that I have owned slaves?

No one ever said you Republican klansmen were smart.

Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said


The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.

Very poor choices...but you own them....

And by 'poor choices' you mean that you have joined the party of the KKK- as Martin Luther King Jr. pointed out


The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.[/QUOTE]
Very poor choices...but you own them..

 

[owebo]

Your fake news tell you that?

No one ever said you democrat klansmen were smart...

No one ever said you Republican klansmen were smart.

Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said


The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.

Republicans freed your slaves...

Hmmm there haven't been any slaves in the United States in over 150 years- how delusional are you to think that I have owned slaves?

No one ever said you Republican klansmen were smart.

Or as Martin Luther King Jr. said


The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.

Very poor choices...but you own them....

And by 'poor choices' you mean that you have joined the party of the KKK- as Martin Luther King Jr. pointed out


The Republican Party geared its appeal and program to racism, reaction, and extremism. All people of goodwill viewed with alarm and concern the frenzied wedding at the Cow Palace of the KKK with the radical right.
Very poor choices...but you own them..

I'm not a democrat....

 

[ding]

Note the scumbag in the upper right-hand corner.

k
Democrats proposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
A majority of Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
A Democrat signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law.

Who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
The 1964 GOP Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
President Ronald Reagan
President George Bush

“These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way of stopping them, we’ll lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again.”

Lyndon Johnson
2

Who pushed the 1964 Civil Rights Act through Congress- Lyndon Johnson

Who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
The 1964 GOP Presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.
President Ronald Reagan
President George Bush

Note how the GOP routinely nominated Presidential candidates who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act- which is explains why Martin Luther King Jr. called on African Americans to not vote for Republicans.

No. That is not correct. He did not push it. He was forced into it. Republicans had been pushing it for 100 years.

Republican Senator Everett Dirksen – The Key To Modern-era Civil Rights Legislation
It was Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, who pushed through the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act. In fact, Dirksen was instrumental in the passage of civil rights legislation in 1957, 1960, 1964, 1965 and 1968. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hailed Senator Dirksen’s “able and courageous Leadership”, and "The Chicago Defender”, the largest black-owned daily at that time, praised Senator Dirksen “for the grand manner of his generalship behind the passage of the best civil rights measures that have ever been enacted into law since Reconstruction”.

The chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act were Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd, a former official in the Ku Klux Klan. None of these racist Democrats became Republicans.

Malcolm X tells us that LBJ's best friend - Richard Russell - was the one who was in charge of the filibuster.

 

[Pogo]

There are 13 Congressional Volumes which detail how the KKK was formed as the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party for the express purpose of taking back their statehouses from BLACK REPUBLICANS through force and intimidation.

Full text of "Report of the Joint select committee appointed to inquire in to the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states : so far as regards the execution of the laws, and the safety of the lives and property of the citizens of the United States and Testimony taken"

Uh -----nnnnnno, there are not.

Oh there are the Congressional documents. I've got 'em right here, seen 'em before. But they don't say what you claim here. They don't go into the formation of the Klan at all at that time. Prove me wrong. Give me a citation. Page number.

See, I've already been down this road. There's no there there. Go ahead --- find it.