Repubs NAACP, Dems KKK?

[DarkFury]

The founders of the NAACP were Republicans. The founders of the KKK were Democrats. The leftards will try to split hairs to muddy the waters but they can't escape their history of racism.

Nope. They weren't. Unlikely they were even old enough to vote, being "college age", and the voting age being 21.

Link?

Since when does one have to be 21 to be a democrat?

To be a VOTER, Pinkie. The voting age wasn't lowered to 18 until the ratification of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment in 1971.

The statement NEVER said voter now did it Twat waffle? It said Republican AND democrat. You miss that idiot?

 

[S.J.]

But in the 60's, when blacks left the GOP and joined the Democrats, white conservatives fled the Democratic Party and filled the ranks of the racist GOP. And that's why the GOP is 90% white today.

That's part of it, but the shift of the black vote from Republicans to Democrats manifested in 1936, FDR's second campaign, and they've been there ever since. It did spike even more in 1964 though.

It's important to remember the sort of magnetic reversal of the political poles around the turn of the century (19th/20th). In Lincoln's day the young Republican Party was the home of Abolitionists, therefore Liberals, and also interestingly the home of doing Big Things with Government, a legacy of their other parent, the defunct Whig party (Lincoln had been a Whig). Meanwhile the DP was the home of "states rights" and opposition to Federal power, leaving powers to the several states.

By the end of the century the RP had abandoned its Liberal roots in favor of the interests of corporations and Big Business (see McKinley) while the DP had absorbed the Populist movement (see W.J. Bryan), which by definition served the interests of minorities, women, immigrants and blacks --- which coincidentally were all enemies of the second iteration of the KKK.

In 1909 when the NAACP was founded this polar shift was still in transition, so it's no surprise that its founders affiliated with the RP.

Hey shitforbrains, what is the topic in the OP? How about sticking to it?

Did you not understand his post?

Yeah I understood it, and it's not what the OP asked.

 

[Pogo]

But in the 60's, when blacks left the GOP and joined the Democrats, white conservatives fled the Democratic Party and filled the ranks of the racist GOP. And that's why the GOP is 90% white today.

That's part of it, but the shift of the black vote from Republicans to Democrats manifested in 1936, FDR's second campaign, and they've been there ever since. It did spike even more in 1964 though.

It's important to remember the sort of magnetic reversal of the political poles around the turn of the century (19th/20th). In Lincoln's day the young Republican Party was the home of Abolitionists, therefore Liberals, and also interestingly the home of doing Big Things with Government, a legacy of their other parent, the defunct Whig party (Lincoln had been a Whig). Meanwhile the DP was the home of "states rights" and opposition to Federal power, leaving powers to the several states.

By the end of the century the RP had abandoned its Liberal roots in favor of the interests of corporations and Big Business (see McKinley) while the DP had absorbed the Populist movement (see W.J. Bryan), which by definition served the interests of minorities, women, immigrants and blacks --- which coincidentally were all enemies of the second iteration of the KKK.

The South was the last entity to react to this polar shift, the idea of affiliating with the Party of Lincoln in any way, the man who had defeated and humiliated it in the War, being unthinkable for exactly 99 years after that war, with the result that Democrats in the South had less and less in common with Democrats anywhere else, because the South was effectively a one-party state until Strom Thurmond bolted in 1964, thereby making the unthinkable thinkable.

In 1909 when the NAACP was founded this polar shift was still in transition, so it's no surprise that its founders affiliated with the RP.

Hey shitforbrains, what is the topic in the OP? How about sticking to it?

Did you not understand his post?

He rarely ever does. It's because he's going all the time. I find that that's not conducive to listening. He's apparently found that out too.

And it pisses him off when I post facts and links in contrast to his empty blathering.
Tough titty.

 

[DarkFury]

This...
"
The Democrats:

• Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
• Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
• Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
• Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
• Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
• Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
• Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
• Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well-known for having been a “Kleagle” in the Ku Klux Klan.
• Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
• Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
• Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
• Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
• Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
• Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
• Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
• Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
• Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
• Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
• Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
• Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
• Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
• Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
• Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
• Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
• Democrat President Bill Clinton’s mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
• Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
• Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
• Southern Democrats opposed desegregation and integration.

Democrats opposed:

1. The Emancipation Proclamation
2. The 13th Amendment
3. The 14th Amendment
4. The 15th Amendment
5. The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6. The Civil Rights of 1866
7. The Enforcement Act of 1870
8. The Forced Act of 1871
9. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10. The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11. The Freeman Bureau
12. The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13. The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14. The United State Civil Rights Commission

Republicans gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following legislation:

1. The Civil Rights Act of 1964
2. The Voting Rights Act of 1965
3. The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
4. The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
5. Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
6. Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
7. Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
8. Civil Rights Act of 1983
9. Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

The Republicans:

• Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s, over the objection of Democrats.
• Republicans founded the HBCU’s (Historical Black College’s and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.
• Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
• Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
• Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
• Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
• Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
• Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960’s.
• Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
• Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
• Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington."

From here..
The Democrat Party VS the Republican Party: Who is the True Champion of the Ending Slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Black Community

 

[rdean]

But in the 60's, when blacks left the GOP and joined the Democrats, white conservatives fled the Democratic Party and filled the ranks of the racist GOP. And that's why the GOP is 90% white today.

That's part of it, but the shift of the black vote from Republicans to Democrats manifested in 1936, FDR's second campaign, and they've been there ever since. It did spike even more in 1964 though.

It's important to remember the sort of magnetic reversal of the political poles around the turn of the century (19th/20th). In Lincoln's day the young Republican Party was the home of Abolitionists, therefore Liberals, and also interestingly the home of doing Big Things with Government, a legacy of their other parent, the defunct Whig party (Lincoln had been a Whig). Meanwhile the DP was the home of "states rights" and opposition to Federal power, leaving powers to the several states.

By the end of the century the RP had abandoned its Liberal roots in favor of the interests of corporations and Big Business (see McKinley) while the DP had absorbed the Populist movement (see W.J. Bryan), which by definition served the interests of minorities, women, immigrants and blacks --- which coincidentally were all enemies of the second iteration of the KKK.

In 1909 when the NAACP was founded this polar shift was still in transition, so it's no surprise that its founders affiliated with the RP.

Hey shitforbrains, what is the topic in the OP? How about sticking to it?

He was sticking to it. That's the problem with your kind. Education doesn't "take". Look at the ideology and beliefs of today's Republican Party. To think that translates into "we freed the blacks" is determined ignorance beyond belief. Conservatism isn't "change". The very root of the word, "conserve" means unchanging. Keeping things the same.

Conservatism - the tendency to prefer an existing or traditional situation to change

Does that sound like people who would abolish slavery? And was Lincoln a confederate? Since most whites in the south today are.

 

[rdean]

This...
"
The Democrats:

• 
  
  
  • Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
  • Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
  • Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
  • Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
  • Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
  • Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
  • Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
  • Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well-known for having been a “Kleagle” in the Ku Klux Klan.
  • Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
  • Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
  • Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
  • Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
  • Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
  • Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
  • Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
  • Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
  • Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
  • Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
  • Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
  • Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
  • Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
  • Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
  • Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
  • Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
  • Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
  • Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
  • Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
  • Democrat President Bill Clinton’s mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
  • Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
  • Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
  • Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
  • Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
  • Southern Democrats opposed desegregation and integration.

Democrats opposed:

1. 
   
   
   • The Emancipation Proclamation
   • The 13th Amendment
   • The 14th Amendment
   • The 15th Amendment
   • The Reconstruction Act of 1867
   • The Civil Rights of 1866
   • The Enforcement Act of 1870
   • The Forced Act of 1871
   • The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
   • The Civil Rights Act of 1875
   • The Freeman Bureau
   • The Civil Rights Act of 1957
   • The Civil Rights Act of 1960
   • The United State Civil Rights Commission

Republicans gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following legislation:

1. 
   
   
   • The Civil Rights Act of 1964
   • The Voting Rights Act of 1965
   • The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
   • The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
   • Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
   • Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
   • Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
   • Civil Rights Act of 1983
   • Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

The Republicans:

• 
  
  
  • Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s, over the objection of Democrats.
  • Republicans founded the HBCU’s (Historical Black College’s and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.
  • Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
  • Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
  • Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
  • Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
  • Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
  • Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960’s.
  • Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
  • Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
  • Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington."

From here..
The Democrat Party VS the Republican Party: Who is the True Champion of the Ending Slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Black Community

Wow, nice cutting and pasting. And not a single thought anywhere.

 

[Pogo]

Saw this on twitter, and must admit, I had no clue. Is it true?

most liberals aren't aware that Republicans founded the #NAACP, while Democrats founded the #KKK

Not really, no.

Many if not most of the founders of the NAACP were Republicans, that's true. In 1909 that's how black people were voting and looking to for their interests but that would shift radically a quarter-century later.

The founders of the KKK were young ex-Confederate soldiers bored on Christmas Day 1865 and founded it as a lark. That's why it has all the K-alliterations of "Klaverns" and "Kleagles" and so forth. None of them had any known political affiliation, and were probably too young to vote anyway.

The second iteration, the revival in 1915 (the version that was by far the largest), was founded by a Georgia doctor named William Simmons, and he had no political affiliation either. He insisted it was a "social club".

But neither was founded by a political party.

My understanding is the KKK was initiated by Nathan Bedford Forrest after the Civil War. Yes, it was a social drinking club initially with nothing to do with negroes. It became popular and then started to target blacks. Forrest was alarmed at this and tried to disband it, even with help of Ulysses S. Grant.

Forrest didn't start it -- he was recruited later to try to give it "legitimacy".

In the time just after the war there were numerous local and regional vigilante groups such as the Red Caps, White League, Knights of the White Camellia and several others, bent on driving out "interlopers" and essentially continuing the war. They would also persecute the newly-freed blacks for transgressions like daring to walk into town or expecting to get paid for their work -- you know, radical stuff -- including beatings, rape, hanging, even skinning. These were the elements that infiltrated this goof outfit called the KKK, and they weren't taken by the populace at large as angels, so in April 1867 they recruited Forrest who had been a war general highly respected on both sides, to be its figurehead.

By January of 1869 Forrest decided the group and its vigilantism was just too out of control even for him, a former slave trader, and issued a proclamation disbanding it, even denying in later years that he had ever been part of it. The Klanners themselves ignored this dissolution and continued ad hoc, as they had already done before.

Grant and the Congress (without the help of Forrest) did manage to extinguish the Klan by 1880, and had it not been for William Simmons reviving it 35 years later, the Klan would be a historical footnote along with the Red Caps and Knights of the White Camellia. Simmons' version got much bigger.

 

[koshergrl]

It's true...Republicans use to be quite different.

Not that I like the Naacp! Just that on a lot of other stuff they made a shit ton of sense in the 40's, 50's and 60's.

Yes, our elected officials have swung so far left they're no longer recognizable. And the party shall fracture because of it. Then we'll have corrupt Republican dems...and the party of freedom and equality. Not sure what they'll call it yet.

 

[Pogo]

The founders of the NAACP were Republicans. The founders of the KKK were Democrats. The leftards will try to split hairs to muddy the waters but they can't escape their history of racism.

Nope. They weren't. Unlikely they were even old enough to vote, being "college age", and the voting age being 21.

Link?

Since when does one have to be 21 to be a democrat?

To be a VOTER, Pinkie. The voting age wasn't lowered to 18 until the ratification of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment in 1971.

The statement NEVER said voter now did it Twat waffle? It said Republican AND democrat. You miss that idiot?

My my, how the Ignoramigentsia sputter the expletives when they're in the dark...

Got yer statement right here Pinky:

The founders of the KKK were young ex-Confederate soldiers bored on Christmas Day 1865 and founded it as a lark. That's why it has all the K-alliterations of "Klaverns" and "Kleagles" and so forth. None of them had any known political affiliation, and were probably too young to vote anyway.

 

[DarkFury]

This...
"
The Democrats:

• 
  
  
  • Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
  • Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
  • Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
  • Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
  • Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
  • Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
  • Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
  • Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well-known for having been a “Kleagle” in the Ku Klux Klan.
  • Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
  • Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
  • Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
  • Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
  • Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
  • Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
  • Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
  • Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
  • Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
  • Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
  • Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
  • Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
  • Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
  • Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
  • Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
  • Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
  • Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
  • Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
  • Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
  • Democrat President Bill Clinton’s mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
  • Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
  • Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
  • Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
  • Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
  • Southern Democrats opposed desegregation and integration.

Democrats opposed:

1. 
   
   
   • The Emancipation Proclamation
   • The 13th Amendment
   • The 14th Amendment
   • The 15th Amendment
   • The Reconstruction Act of 1867
   • The Civil Rights of 1866
   • The Enforcement Act of 1870
   • The Forced Act of 1871
   • The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
   • The Civil Rights Act of 1875
   • The Freeman Bureau
   • The Civil Rights Act of 1957
   • The Civil Rights Act of 1960
   • The United State Civil Rights Commission

Republicans gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following legislation:

1. 
   
   
   • The Civil Rights Act of 1964
   • The Voting Rights Act of 1965
   • The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
   • The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
   • Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
   • Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
   • Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
   • Civil Rights Act of 1983
   • Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

The Republicans:

• 
  
  
  • Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s, over the objection of Democrats.
  • Republicans founded the HBCU’s (Historical Black College’s and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.
  • Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
  • Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
  • Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
  • Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
  • Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
  • Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960’s.
  • Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
  • Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
  • Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington."

From here..
The Democrat Party VS the Republican Party: Who is the True Champion of the Ending Slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Black Community

Wow, nice cutting and pasting. And not a single thought anywhere.

The list of truth is a LONG one but you can DENY it as it was written by a Negro. Because YOU are a racist.

 

[DarkFury]

The founders of the NAACP were Republicans. The founders of the KKK were Democrats. The leftards will try to split hairs to muddy the waters but they can't escape their history of racism.

Nope. They weren't. Unlikely they were even old enough to vote, being "college age", and the voting age being 21.

Link?

Since when does one have to be 21 to be a democrat?

To be a VOTER, Pinkie. The voting age wasn't lowered to 18 until the ratification of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment in 1971.

The statement NEVER said voter now did it Twat waffle? It said Republican AND democrat. You miss that idiot?

My my, how the Ignoramigentsia sputter the expletives when they're in the dark...

Got yer statement right here Pinky:

The founders of the KKK were young ex-Confederate soldiers bored on Christmas Day 1865 and founded it as a lark. That's why it has all the K-alliterations of "Klaverns" and "Kleagles" and so forth. None of them had any known political affiliation, and were probably too young to vote anyway.

From YOUR comment number 21 this thread "Nope. They weren't. Unlikely they were even old enough to vote, being "college age", and the voting age being 21."

YOU brought up age NOT me. Try again LIAR.

 

[Pogo]

But in the 60's, when blacks left the GOP and joined the Democrats, white conservatives fled the Democratic Party and filled the ranks of the racist GOP. And that's why the GOP is 90% white today.

That's part of it, but the shift of the black vote from Republicans to Democrats manifested in 1936, FDR's second campaign, and they've been there ever since. It did spike even more in 1964 though.

It's important to remember the sort of magnetic reversal of the political poles around the turn of the century (19th/20th). In Lincoln's day the young Republican Party was the home of Abolitionists, therefore Liberals, and also interestingly the home of doing Big Things with Government, a legacy of their other parent, the defunct Whig party (Lincoln had been a Whig). Meanwhile the DP was the home of "states rights" and opposition to Federal power, leaving powers to the several states.

By the end of the century the RP had abandoned its Liberal roots in favor of the interests of corporations and Big Business (see McKinley) while the DP had absorbed the Populist movement (see W.J. Bryan), which by definition served the interests of minorities, women, immigrants and blacks --- which coincidentally were all enemies of the second iteration of the KKK.

In 1909 when the NAACP was founded this polar shift was still in transition, so it's no surprise that its founders affiliated with the RP.

Hey shitforbrains, what is the topic in the OP? How about sticking to it?

Did you not understand his post?

Yeah I understood it, and it's not what the OP asked.

That's not addressing the OP. It's refining a point made in a prior post.

 

[Pogo]

Nope. They weren't. Unlikely they were even old enough to vote, being "college age", and the voting age being 21.

Link?

Since when does one have to be 21 to be a democrat?

To be a VOTER, Pinkie. The voting age wasn't lowered to 18 until the ratification of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment in 1971.

The statement NEVER said voter now did it Twat waffle? It said Republican AND democrat. You miss that idiot?

My my, how the Ignoramigentsia sputter the expletives when they're in the dark...

Got yer statement right here Pinky:

The founders of the KKK were young ex-Confederate soldiers bored on Christmas Day 1865 and founded it as a lark. That's why it has all the K-alliterations of "Klaverns" and "Kleagles" and so forth. None of them had any known political affiliation, and were probably too young to vote anyway.

From YOUR comment number 21 this thread "Nope. They weren't. Unlikely they were even old enough to vote, being "college age", and the voting age being 21."

YOU brought up age NOT me. Try again LIAR.

Mixing meds again Pinko?

Correct, I brought up age. I don't know their exact ages of these six young men but at the time they founded the Klan (1865) they're described as being "college age" which would be roughly 18 to 21. And the voting age was 21, even though there wasn't a whole lot of votin' goin' on during a war. So it's unlikely that any of them had ever voted or registered at all. Voting during a war was neither a priority nor a capability.

Perhaps that's why history is dead silent on the question of their political affiliations -- they didn't exist.
As S.J.'s lack of links confirms -- I have no doubt he's been Googling his eyes out looking for them.

I know it's popular for armchair YouLube wags like Bill Whittle to try revising history with powerpoint presentations and a friendly smile, but history already knows.

Anything else?

 

[S.J.]

From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The Klan's goals included political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern blacks after the Civil War (1861-65). They were more successful in achieving their political goals than they were with their social goals during the Reconstruction era.

Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction Era

 

[rdean]

This...
"
The Democrats:

• 
  
  
  • Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
  • Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
  • Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
  • Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
  • Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
  • Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
  • Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
  • Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well-known for having been a “Kleagle” in the Ku Klux Klan.
  • Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
  • Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
  • Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
  • Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
  • Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
  • Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
  • Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
  • Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
  • Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
  • Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
  • Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
  • Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
  • Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
  • Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
  • Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
  • Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
  • Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
  • Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
  • Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
  • Democrat President Bill Clinton’s mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
  • Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
  • Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
  • Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
  • Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
  • Southern Democrats opposed desegregation and integration.

Democrats opposed:

1. 
   
   
   • The Emancipation Proclamation
   • The 13th Amendment
   • The 14th Amendment
   • The 15th Amendment
   • The Reconstruction Act of 1867
   • The Civil Rights of 1866
   • The Enforcement Act of 1870
   • The Forced Act of 1871
   • The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
   • The Civil Rights Act of 1875
   • The Freeman Bureau
   • The Civil Rights Act of 1957
   • The Civil Rights Act of 1960
   • The United State Civil Rights Commission

Republicans gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following legislation:

1. 
   
   
   • The Civil Rights Act of 1964
   • The Voting Rights Act of 1965
   • The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
   • The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
   • Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
   • Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
   • Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
   • Civil Rights Act of 1983
   • Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

The Republicans:

• 
  
  
  • Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s, over the objection of Democrats.
  • Republicans founded the HBCU’s (Historical Black College’s and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.
  • Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
  • Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
  • Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
  • Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
  • Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
  • Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960’s.
  • Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
  • Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
  • Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington."

From here..
The Democrat Party VS the Republican Party: Who is the True Champion of the Ending Slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Black Community

Wow, nice cutting and pasting. And not a single thought anywhere.

The list of truth is a LONG one but you can DENY it as it was written by a Negro. Because YOU are a racist.

I'm a racist in denial because I know the conservatives were white and confederate and pro slavery?

 

[Pogo]

it was written by a Negro. Because YOU are a racist.

 

[DarkFury]

This...
"
The Democrats:

• 
  
  
  • Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
  • Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
  • Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
  • Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
  • Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
  • Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
  • Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
  • Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well-known for having been a “Kleagle” in the Ku Klux Klan.
  • Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
  • Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
  • Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
  • Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
  • Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
  • Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
  • Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
  • Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
  • Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
  • Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
  • Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
  • Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
  • Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
  • Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
  • Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
  • Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
  • Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
  • Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
  • Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
  • Democrat President Bill Clinton’s mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
  • Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
  • Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
  • Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
  • Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
  • Southern Democrats opposed desegregation and integration.

Democrats opposed:

1. 
   
   
   • The Emancipation Proclamation
   • The 13th Amendment
   • The 14th Amendment
   • The 15th Amendment
   • The Reconstruction Act of 1867
   • The Civil Rights of 1866
   • The Enforcement Act of 1870
   • The Forced Act of 1871
   • The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
   • The Civil Rights Act of 1875
   • The Freeman Bureau
   • The Civil Rights Act of 1957
   • The Civil Rights Act of 1960
   • The United State Civil Rights Commission

Republicans gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following legislation:

1. 
   
   
   • The Civil Rights Act of 1964
   • The Voting Rights Act of 1965
   • The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
   • The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
   • Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
   • Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
   • Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
   • Civil Rights Act of 1983
   • Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988

The Republicans:

• 
  
  
  • Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s, over the objection of Democrats.
  • Republicans founded the HBCU’s (Historical Black College’s and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.
  • Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
  • Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
  • Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
  • Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
  • Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
  • Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960’s.
  • Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
  • Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
  • Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington."

From here..
The Democrat Party VS the Republican Party: Who is the True Champion of the Ending Slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Black Community

Wow, nice cutting and pasting. And not a single thought anywhere.

The list of truth is a LONG one but you can DENY it as it was written by a Negro. Because YOU are a racist.

I'm a racist in denial because I know the conservatives were white and confederate and pro slavery?

You belong to and defend a racist party namely democrats.

 

[S.J.]

From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The Klan's goals included political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern blacks after the Civil War (1861-65). They were more successful in achieving their political goals than they were with their social goals during the Reconstruction era.

Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction Era

Crickets from Pogo.

 

[Pogo]

From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The Klan's goals included political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern blacks after the Civil War (1861-65). They were more successful in achieving their political goals than they were with their social goals during the Reconstruction era.

Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction Era

Crickets from Pogo.

Is there a question in the back?

I'm looking at your link. It's a nice addition to my library but it reconfirms what I just said about the Klan's origins:

>> Origins

The KKK was formed as a social group in Tennessee in 1866. The name probably came from the Greek word kuklos, meaning "circle."

The Ku Klux Klan was a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists during the Reconstruction, whose goals included political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern blacks after the Civil War.

Klan was an alliterative version of "clan," thus Ku Klux Klan suggested a circle, or band, of brothers. With the passage of the Military Reconstruction Acts in March 1867, and the prospect of freedmen voting in the South, the Klan became a political organization. Former Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest probably served as the Grand Wizard, or overall leader, of the Klan and certainly played a significant role in its organized spread in early 1868. <<
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I don't see anything taking issue with what I've already posted. Was there something else?

 

[S.J.]

From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The Klan's goals included political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern blacks after the Civil War (1861-65). They were more successful in achieving their political goals than they were with their social goals during the Reconstruction era.

Ku Klux Klan in the Reconstruction Era

Crickets from Pogo.

Is there a question in the back?

I'm looking at your link. It's a nice addition to my library but it reconfirms what I just said about the Klan's origins:

>> Origins

The KKK was formed as a social group in Tennessee in 1866. The name probably came from the Greek word kuklos, meaning "circle."

The Ku Klux Klan was a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists during the Reconstruction, whose goals included political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance of absolute white supremacy in response to newly gained civil and political rights by southern blacks after the Civil War.

Klan was an alliterative version of "clan," thus Ku Klux Klan suggested a circle, or band, of brothers. With the passage of the Military Reconstruction Acts in March 1867, and the prospect of freedmen voting in the South, the Klan became a political organization. Former Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest probably served as the Grand Wizard, or overall leader, of the Klan and certainly played a significant role in its organized spread in early 1868. <<
​

I don't see anything taking issue with what I've already posted. Was there something else?

If it wasn't started by Democrats (which was the question in the OP), why would their goal be to "defeat the Republican Party"?