This Is Lynching

[Ray From Cleveland]

Donald Trump uses another racially insensitive word to demonstrate his inbred racism.

He compared the impeachment process to a lynching.

Trump calls impeachment inquiry a 'lynching' - CNNPolitics

Whites were lynched in history too. Or perhaps you don’t know that. Idiot.

Yes they were. Mostly for supporting civil rights for African Americans.

But this isn't a racial thing.

For a person to be lynched they need to be dead.

trump is very alive and well. So he couldn't have been lynched.

Being held accountable for crimes according to the constitution isn't lynching anyone.

Was Clinton being lynched when he was impeached?

This whole thing is ridiculous. When I see trump hung upside down by his feet. Doused with gasoline then set on fire then people shoot countless bullets into him, then you can say he was lynched.

Words do have meaning. You and trump can't change that. Here is the REAL meaning of lynching. Notice the very first sentence:

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If you go back to your source in "trending" here is what you will find:

What does lynch mean?

We define lynch as “to put to death (as by hanging) by mob action without legal approval or permission.” The word comes from the earlier lynch law (“the punishment of presumed crimes or offenses usually by death without due process of law”), which itself comes from the name of either Charles or William Lynch, both of whom were alive in the late 18th century and associated with extrajudicial execution.

What is notable about this use of lynch?

Lynch and lynching may occasionally be found used in a figurative or hyperbolic manner (describing a situation in which no one is actually put to death). It has also been used in reference to a president who is, or has been, close to impeachment.

Trend Watch: Trump: Impeachment Inquiry Is a 'Lynching' - 10/22/2019 | Merriam-Webster

 

[Pogo]

You know, since it's still in the investigative stage, it's not a lynching yet. The time for calling it a lynching won't come until the Senate starts with their trial.

Actually I believe he's calling it a lynching because of these clandestine inquiries that's being conducted by the Democrat House. When representatives are hiding something from the people that everybody should know about, you know they are up to no good which is the norm for the Democrat party, and particularly where Trump is concerned.

Trump calls it a lynching because Trump knows that term lynching is very appealing to a large part of his base.

I bet his backup phrase was gonna be "Jews will not replace me".

 

[2aguy]

Donald Trump uses another racially insensitive word to demonstrate his inbred racism.

He compared the impeachment process to a lynching.

Trump calls impeachment inquiry a 'lynching' - CNNPolitics

10 Politicians Who Used 'Lynching' the Way Trump Did, and the Left Didn't Care

1. Joe Biden


As PJ Media's Matt Margolis reported, Biden is himself guilty of the "despicable" comparison. In 1998, then-Senator Joe Biden (D-Del.) suggested the impeachment of then-President Bill Clinton was a "political lynching."



Joe Biden in 1998:

"Even if the President should be impeached, history is going to question whether or not this was just a partisan lynching..." pic.twitter.com/6p31OiShYr

— Trump War Room (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TrumpWarRoom) October 22, 2019


To be fair, Biden later apologized.

"This wasn’t the right word to use and I’m sorry about that," Biden tweeted Tuesday evening. "Trump on the other hand chose his words deliberately today in his use of the word lynching and continues to stoke racial divides in this country daily."

Was Trump's use of "lynching" an attempt to "stoke racial divides"? Or was the president merely reaching for a way to condemn what he sees as a lawless coup attempt — and echoing Biden himself?


2. Jerry Nadler


Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), now chair of the House Judiciary Committee, which would lead an impeachment against Trump, himself compared Clinton's impeachment to a lynching no less than three times. Specifically, he called House Republicans a "lynch mob."

"We shouldn’t participate in a lynch mob against the president," Nadler told Newsday on Sept. 13, 1998. Five days later, he said he saw "no evidence that the Republicans want to do anything other than organize a Lynch mob."

In October 1998, Nadler told the Associated Press that Republicans were “running a lynch mob” against Clinton.



3. David J. Leland


Unless you live in Ohio, you likely haven't heard of David J. Leland. The former chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, Leland is a political force in one of America's key swing states. He helped former Gov. Ted Strickland (D-Ohio) raise $17 million.

In 1998, Leland said, "The vast majority of Ohio Democrats want to see this President continue in office, because they know a political lynching when they see one." How "despicable!"



4. Jim McDermott


Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), now retired, also compared the Clinton impeachment to a lynching.

"This feels today like we’re taking a step down the road to becoming a political lynch mob," McDermott fumed, according to The Baltimore Sun. "Find the rope, find the tree and ask a bunch of questions later."



5. Danny Davis


Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.) condemned Trump for the lynching comparison on Tuesday. "The highest officeholder should think about these words," he tweeted. "The rural south where I was born has a tarnished and painful history."

Yet in 1998, Davis called the Clinton impeachment a "lynching."



6. Gregory Meeks.


Like Davis, Rep. Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.) condemned Trump for his comparison.

"I don’t expect Trump to be sensitive to the weight of that word, or see how insulting and hurtful it is to invoke it here," he tweeted. Yet, also like Davis, Meeks had compared Clinton's impeachment to a lynching on the House floor.

Meeks defended his comments in a statement to The Washington Post, suggesting that Trump's comparison was worse because — according to Meeks — the president is a racist. "Yes, I said those words, but context matters," he said. "There is a difference when that word is used by someone of my experience and perspective, whose relatives were the targets of lynch mobs, compared to a president who has dog-whistled to white nationalists and peddled racism."

"This is the birther president, who called African nations s---holes and urban cities infested. Those he called ‘very fine people’ in Charlottesville were the kind of people who lynched those who looked like me. So, yes — there are certain words I am more at liberty to invoke than Donald J. Trump," Meeks concluded. Many of the Trump remarks Meeks referenced were not racist, and the president made clear he did not consider the white nationalists and neo-Nazis part of the "fine people" in Charlottesville.



7. Patrick Kennedy


Then-Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), nephew to former President John F. Kennedy, described the Clinton impeachment as a "political lynching."



8. Marion Berry


In 1990, Marion Barry, former Democratic mayor of Washington, D.C., accused the Department of Justice of launching a "political lynching" against him after he was indicted on felony drug charges.



9. Never Trumper Christopher Shays


In August 2016, former Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Ct.) accused Trump of egging on the lynching ... of Hillary Clinton.

"So I watched the conventions. Republicans had a very dark convention. It was almost like a lynching, you know -- guilty and lock her up," Shays told CNN. "And I thought this isn't the party of Ronald Reagan and it ain't the party that I joined."



10. Justin Fairfax


After he was accused of sexual assault, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax (D-Va.) described the accusations against him and the calls for his resignation as a lynching.

"I have heard much about anti-lynching on the floor of this very Senate, where people are not given any due process whatsoever, and we rue that," Fairfax said in February. "And yet we stand here in a rush to judgment in nothing but accusations and no facts, and we are deciding we are willing to do the same thing."

Fairf

 

[Dr Grump]

that I dont believe for a minute,,,

according to the left bill maher is now far right,, so their definitions change daily,,,so its the left thats moving away from everybody else,,,

Bill's a libertarian, so to the left some of his ideas are far right <shrug>

 

[Pogo]

trump is now calling the constitutional process of impeachment is a lynching. That democrats are lynching him.

If anyone knew what REAL lynching is you would be thoroughly disgusted with trump and his words.

trump isn't being lynched. He's legally and constitutionally being impeached.

THIS is lynching:

May 1918 lynchings - Wikipedia

After Hayes Turner was murdered, his distraught wife Mary, who was eight months pregnant, publicly denounced her husband's lynching. She denied that her husband had been involved in Smith's killing, and threatened to have members of the mob arrested. The mob turned against her, determined to "teach her a lesson".[7] Although she fled, Mary Turner was captured at noon on May 19.[1][7] The mob of several hundred took her to the bank in Brooks County near Folsom Bridge, over the Little River, which forms the border with Lowndes County.[7][2]According to investigator Walter F. White of the NAACP, Mary Turner was tied and hung upside down by the ankles, her clothes soaked with gasoline, and burned from her body. Her belly was slit open with a knife like those used "in splitting hogs."[7] Her "unborn babe" fell to the ground and gave "two feeble cries."[7] Its head was crushed by a member of the mob with his heel, and the crowd shot hundreds of bullets into Turner's body.[7][2][11] Mary Turner was cut down and buried with her child near the tree, with a whiskey bottle marking the grave.[1] The Atlanta Constitution published an article with the subheadline: "Fury of the People Is Unrestrained."[12]

It speaks volumes that anyone anywhere would click a "Funny" on this story (which is absolutely true, it's been posted before). Gotta say I'm surprised at who they are though, at least one of them.

It's disgusting.

How can anyone, especially people who claim to be pro life think what happened to Mary Turner is funny? She was lynched, her child ripped from her body then it's head stomped into the ground under someone's boot.

trump and these people believe that what is happening to him now is the same thing.

I can only conclude they must think it's "funny" when it happens to black people.

Well that's their choice isn't it. And it tells us much.

I've posted that story before, with the picture. Whenever I do that I usually get not so much "Funny"s but a lot of whining about "why are you bringing this up? Make it go away".

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Actually I believe he's calling it a lynching because of these clandestine inquiries that's being conducted by the Democrat House. When representatives are hiding something from the people that everybody should know about, you know they are up to no good which is the norm for the Democrat party, and particularly where Trump is concerned.

Trump calls it a lynching because Trump knows that term lynching is very appealing to a large part of his base.

It is? I didn't know that. So when Biden said it, it was because it was so appealing to his base too?

Of course it was appealing to his base. These are politicians. They say whatever they need to say in order for their supporters to continue to support them no matter how ridiculous or offensive their comments are.

Why is this even a topic that either side would argue about.......... (baffled)

Because the Democrat party and their extension, the MSM, made it that way. Nobody said a peep when Biden said the exact same thing. In fact, he even offered an apology for what he said over 20 years ago to justify what he's saying today.

Correct, it's not a big deal in any real way. But Democrats love to lie. They love to twist words like when Trump said there were good people on both sides, or that he was a nationalist. Innocent words that implied nothing nefarious, so Democrats changed the words around to create the lies.

I'm so sick to death how voters attack the other side while ignoring their own party's shortcomings or actions that are equal to those they are complaining about.

You asked a question and I answered honestly. Your response was to double down on your attack on the other political party.

This attitude has helped divide the country. We will soon be unable to fix the damage we are doing to each other and our country.

I think we're beyond that point now. That's why I've been taking the stance that the best thing for this country to do is divide into two countries. A north to south line right down the middle. We have a vote on which side will be the conservative side, and which side will be the liberal side. Anybody in between will just have to choose a side.

I call my idea Mom's Law. When me and my siblings were children and fought, my mother would place us into separate rooms to play for some peace and quiet. We could only be reunited to play if we all agreed to play nicely.

I didn't double down on anything. What I did was provide facts of recent events. If you wish to challenge me on those, go right ahead. I'll be glad to post evidence of my claim.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

never happened,,,or you would have a long list of KKK republicans, but all we have is KKK democrats

Today's Repubs are yesteryear's Dems. They have the same values anyway...

that I dont believe for a minute,,,

according to the left bill maher is now far right,, so their definitions change daily,,,so its the left thats moving away from everybody else,,,

The problem is they don't realize it.

They went from:

Democrats to liberals.
Liberals to progressives.
Progressives to Democrat Socialists.

They are so far left they're off the radar screen at this point. The Terrorist 3 plus AOC is clear evidence of that. They are now the anti-semitic and anti-white party.

Once again for those banned from the history book store ---

"Democrat" is a political party;
"Liberal" is a political philosophy;
"Progressive" was a social movement of roughly 1890 to 1920.
"Democrat Socialist" does not even exist.

That's FOUR DIFFERENT THINGS.

So Bernie Sanders does not even exist? How about AOC?

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Actually I believe he's calling it a lynching because of these clandestine inquiries that's being conducted by the Democrat House. When representatives are hiding something from the people that everybody should know about, you know they are up to no good which is the norm for the Democrat party, and particularly where Trump is concerned.

Trump calls it a lynching because Trump knows that term lynching is very appealing to a large part of his base.

It is? I didn't know that. So when Biden said it, it was because it was so appealing to his base too?

Of course it was appealing to his base. These are politicians. They say whatever they need to say in order for their supporters to continue to support them no matter how ridiculous or offensive their comments are.

Why is this even a topic that either side would argue about.......... (baffled)

Because the Democrat party and their extension, the MSM, made it that way. Nobody said a peep when Biden said the exact same thing. In fact, he even offered an apology for what he said over 20 years ago to justify what he's saying today.

Correct, it's not a big deal in any real way. But Democrats love to lie. They love to twist words like when Trump said there were good people on both sides, or that he was a nationalist. Innocent words that implied nothing nefarious, so Democrats changed the words around to create the lies.

Here's a post that wants to go --

"He didn't say it" ..... "Okay he said it but da debbil made him say it".

Anything it takes to get off the hook, amirite?

I have no idea what that dribble even meant. But to respond, I'll just quote the greatest radio broadcaster of all time:

"Folks, Democrats have two sets of rules: one set for them, and another set for everybody else."
Rush Limbaugh

 

[Pogo]

never happened,,,or you would have a long list of KKK republicans, but all we have is KKK democrats

Today's Repubs are yesteryear's Dems. They have the same values anyway...

that I dont believe for a minute,,,

according to the left bill maher is now far right,, so their definitions change daily,,,so its the left thats moving away from everybody else,,,

The problem is they don't realize it.

They went from:

Democrats to liberals.
Liberals to progressives.
Progressives to Democrat Socialists.

They are so far left they're off the radar screen at this point. The Terrorist 3 plus AOC is clear evidence of that. They are now the anti-semitic and anti-white party.

Once again for those banned from the history book store ---

"Democrat" is a political party;
"Liberal" is a political philosophy;
"Progressive" was a social movement of roughly 1890 to 1920.
"Democrat Socialist" does not even exist.

That's FOUR DIFFERENT THINGS.

So Bernie Sanders does not even exist? How about AOC?

You wrote "Democrat Socialist".

The term is Democratic Socialist". It's an adjective modifying the noun --- not two nouns.

Your depiction was dishonest.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Today's Repubs are yesteryear's Dems. They have the same values anyway...

that I dont believe for a minute,,,

according to the left bill maher is now far right,, so their definitions change daily,,,so its the left thats moving away from everybody else,,,

The problem is they don't realize it.

They went from:

Democrats to liberals.
Liberals to progressives.
Progressives to Democrat Socialists.

They are so far left they're off the radar screen at this point. The Terrorist 3 plus AOC is clear evidence of that. They are now the anti-semitic and anti-white party.

Once again for those banned from the history book store ---

"Democrat" is a political party;
"Liberal" is a political philosophy;
"Progressive" was a social movement of roughly 1890 to 1920.
"Democrat Socialist" does not even exist.

That's FOUR DIFFERENT THINGS.

So Bernie Sanders does not even exist? How about AOC?

You wrote "Democrat Socialist".

The term is Democratic Socialist". It's an adjective modifying the noun --- not two nouns.

Your depiction was dishonest.

But I thought the commies don't like the word Democratic. They prefer Democrat.

 

[2aguy]

Today's Repubs are yesteryear's Dems. They have the same values anyway...

that I dont believe for a minute,,,

according to the left bill maher is now far right,, so their definitions change daily,,,so its the left thats moving away from everybody else,,,

The problem is they don't realize it.

They went from:

Democrats to liberals.
Liberals to progressives.
Progressives to Democrat Socialists.

They are so far left they're off the radar screen at this point. The Terrorist 3 plus AOC is clear evidence of that. They are now the anti-semitic and anti-white party.

Once again for those banned from the history book store ---

"Democrat" is a political party;
"Liberal" is a political philosophy;
"Progressive" was a social movement of roughly 1890 to 1920.
"Democrat Socialist" does not even exist.

That's FOUR DIFFERENT THINGS.

So Bernie Sanders does not even exist? How about AOC?

You wrote "Democrat Socialist".

The term is Democratic Socialist". It's an adjective modifying the noun --- not two nouns.

Your depiction was dishonest.

You are a moron and an asshat.....there ...

 

[2aguy]

that I dont believe for a minute,,,

according to the left bill maher is now far right,, so their definitions change daily,,,so its the left thats moving away from everybody else,,,

The problem is they don't realize it.

They went from:

Democrats to liberals.
Liberals to progressives.
Progressives to Democrat Socialists.

They are so far left they're off the radar screen at this point. The Terrorist 3 plus AOC is clear evidence of that. They are now the anti-semitic and anti-white party.

Once again for those banned from the history book store ---

"Democrat" is a political party;
"Liberal" is a political philosophy;
"Progressive" was a social movement of roughly 1890 to 1920.
"Democrat Socialist" does not even exist.

That's FOUR DIFFERENT THINGS.

So Bernie Sanders does not even exist? How about AOC?

You wrote "Democrat Socialist".

The term is Democratic Socialist". It's an adjective modifying the noun --- not two nouns.

Your depiction was dishonest.

But I thought the commies don't like the word Democratic. They prefer Democrat.

The democrat party is not democratic, just ask Bernie Sanders when hilary used control of the party to steal the nomination.....

 

[Pogo]

that I dont believe for a minute,,,

according to the left bill maher is now far right,, so their definitions change daily,,,so its the left thats moving away from everybody else,,,

The problem is they don't realize it.

They went from:

Democrats to liberals.
Liberals to progressives.
Progressives to Democrat Socialists.

They are so far left they're off the radar screen at this point. The Terrorist 3 plus AOC is clear evidence of that. They are now the anti-semitic and anti-white party.

Once again for those banned from the history book store ---

"Democrat" is a political party;
"Liberal" is a political philosophy;
"Progressive" was a social movement of roughly 1890 to 1920.
"Democrat Socialist" does not even exist.

That's FOUR DIFFERENT THINGS.

So Bernie Sanders does not even exist? How about AOC?

You wrote "Democrat Socialist".

The term is Democratic Socialist". It's an adjective modifying the noun --- not two nouns.

Your depiction was dishonest.

But I thought the commies don't like the word Democratic. They prefer Democrat.

The mendacity continues.

Can't wait for next week's exciting adventure in Bullshit.

 

[Dr Grump]

They love to twist words like when Trump said there were good people on both sides, or that he was a nationalist.

Are you referencing the white supremist rally?

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

The problem is they don't realize it.

They went from:

Democrats to liberals.
Liberals to progressives.
Progressives to Democrat Socialists.

They are so far left they're off the radar screen at this point. The Terrorist 3 plus AOC is clear evidence of that. They are now the anti-semitic and anti-white party.

Once again for those banned from the history book store ---

"Democrat" is a political party;
"Liberal" is a political philosophy;
"Progressive" was a social movement of roughly 1890 to 1920.
"Democrat Socialist" does not even exist.

That's FOUR DIFFERENT THINGS.

So Bernie Sanders does not even exist? How about AOC?

You wrote "Democrat Socialist".

The term is Democratic Socialist". It's an adjective modifying the noun --- not two nouns.

Your depiction was dishonest.

But I thought the commies don't like the word Democratic. They prefer Democrat.

The democrat party is not democratic, just ask Bernie Sanders when hilary used control of the party to steal the nomination.....

Actually the Democrat party hasn't been the Democrat party for some years. It's more a Socialist party now. Government run businesses, take everything from the wealthy, and give goodies to the people that will provide you support.

Cradle to Gravers is the new motto. Now Castro made a statement that women should be allowed to purchase female hygiene products tax free. His claim was that some women have to stay home and miss work because they can't afford a rag.

But this is where they are going. Depend on government for everything right down to your menstrual necessities. Dictate what kind of food your kids can be served in school, what kind of soda sizes you are allowed to have by government standards, even on what methods you can use for self-defense.

If they are not stopped, pretty soon they will be mandating what kind of toilet paper we are allowed to use. Our founders must be turning in their graves by now.

 

[gtopa1]

Almost half of the people lynched in the US between 1882-1964 were white.

Lynching Statistics by Year

That chart was bubbled up before. Even using its out-of-date stats your own link says that 73% of lynching victims were black, in a country where blacks make up 10-12% of the population. And that doesn't include several hundred more that weren't yet counted, so it's even higher.

DemoKKKrats have always hated blacks and did most of the lynchings. They also hated Jews and Catholics and especially anti-slave Republicans. Does not include murders though.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-for-civil-rights-the-klan-killed-her-for-it/

Greg

Yeah, that's complete bullshit. When you live halfway around the world it's kind of risky to run with mythologies from parts unknown. The fact is lynchings are an act of social terrorism, not an act of politics, and NO LYNCHING EVER anywhere has required a political party registration. It's simply not related, at all.

Interesting that you'd bring up Viola Liuzza (I know her name just from the picture of the car, no link needed, with or without a paywall -- I know my history, you clearly do not). As a result of that murder, LBJ became the first POTUS since Ulysses Grant to prosecute the Ku Klux Klan.

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What he's referring to about "my father fought them many long years ago in Texas" is an event where his father Sam, on the Texas state house floor in Austin, had vigorously denounced the KKK, after which the Klan threatened the family. LBJ's father and uncles sat up all night with shotguns while the boy LBJ and his siblings were sequestered in the basement. The Klan never showed up. But later in the 1950s they burned a cross on LBJ's lawn.

That Klan opposed and persecuted Jews, Catholics, Blacks, labor unions, and immigrants, ALL of which were and still are constituents of the Democratic Party. Perhaps you'd care to essplain to the class what a political party would be doing running a chapter beating up its own constituents.

Perhaps you'd care to essplain to the class why that terror division would be running Republican political candidates against its own state and local candidates -- like Rice Means. Like Ed Jackson. Like Owen Brewster. Like Ben Paulen. Like Albert Johnson. Like Clarence Morley. Like George Luis Baker. For that matter perhaps you'd like to clear up why they'd be both killing Republicans and running them for office at the same time.

Perhaps you have an answer to why the KKK endorsed the Republicans Calvin Coolidge (the only candidate that year who refused to denounce them) and Herbert Hoover the next round, while running a national smear campaign against the Democrat Al Smith. Perhaps you'd like to enlighten us on why the Klan worked to drive out the Governor of Oklahoma -- a Democrat -- after he tried to drive them out of his state.

The KKK also opposed and persecuted drunks, deadbeats, gamblers, philanderers and people who "didn't go to church". All this is social stuff, not political. The closest political party to the agenda of the Klan was the Know Nothings, who preceded them by a couple of decades. Both the original Klan (1865) and the re-start (1915) specifically and pointedly described themselves as non-political. Simmons declared his Klan to be ""the most powerful, secret, non-political organization in existence" before he was maneuvered out of power

They suffered some setbacks from publicity, notably in 1925 when the political boss of Indiana, one D.C. Stephenson, brutally raped and murdered a schoolteacher and then again in the 1940s when a writer (who also ran for Governor of Florida) published an exposé after he infiltrated the local Klan, and then worked with the radio program "Superman" on a series called "The Clan of the Fiery Cross". His name was Stetson Kennedy. Fun facts: Stephenson was a Republican, Kennedy a Democrat.

Oh and you know who caused the KKK to officially cease to exist, as of April 23, 1944? Ellis Arnall, Governor of Georgia (a Democrat) when he ordered his AG to find a way to rescind the Klan's charter, and FDR's IRS, who slapped the KKK with a bill for 2/3 of a million bucks in back taxes, effectively crippling them.


I'll tell ya what Greg. You don't sit here and tell me what my own history is, and I won't sit here and tell you Australia's. And the reason I won't do that is because I'm not qualified. Don't just sit here and parrot bullshit that mythologists shit on the floor. QUESTION EVERYTHING.

You seem a bit fragile about being the party of the KKK and the Party of Lynching; seems you have real blinkers on; denying your party History is understandable if you're a DemoKKKrat, Fredo Ocrazio!!!

Democrats Decry the KKK While Forgetting Legacy of One of Their Own - Rasmussen Reports®

You're a liar and a disgusting apologist for your Party's Past deeds of racism and murder. Get lost!!

Greg

I don't have a political party, asshole. I don't believe in that. But I *DO* know my history and I won't allow a wanker from Down Under to sit here and lie about shit he has no knowledge of. On the contrary I will correct it and I did. FUCKING DEAL WITH IT.

*EVERYTHING*, literally Everything I posted is documented and verifiable, and I have lots more, and there's not a damn thing in the world you can do about that. Whine and stomp your feet all you like, you can't just rewrite history on account of the fact that you didn't bother to learn any in the first place.

So GO FORTH AND FUCK YOURSELF.

My my; you ARE a testy little fucker!!!

The day Catholic students took on the KKK – and won | Catholic Herald

Though their stand has become a university legend, it symbolises a more lasting issue

The Ku Klux Klan seems like a bit of a joke to most people today, but in the 1920s the organisation was extremely influential. In some states, such as Indiana, it operated as a political party, dominating local government and police forces.

So when a group of 500 university students banded together to disrupt a rally planned for South Bend, the racist organisation was left with more than black eyes and bloody noses: its reputation had been dragged through the mud.

The fact that these students were Catholic, from the University of Notre Dame, added insult to injury. Lacking a large black population to harass, the Indiana branch of the KKK aimed most of its rhetoric at “Papists”.

According to Tod Tucker, author of Notre Dame Vs. The Klan, a book on the South Bend riots that took place exactly 95 years ago on May 17, 1924, this was a rare instance of civilians standing up to the Ku Klux Klan. “Especially in terms of resistance in kind. People faced off against the Klan, for sure, the military and the police did, but as far as I could find this was really a unique occurrence in American history. It was really a perfect storm in a lot of ways.”

The rally was organized for a Saturday morning, with Klansmen coming in from several points of the State. The students’ response was more spontaneous. “It seemed to happen organically, it wasn’t planned. The students started disrupting the Klan’s activities, the parade, all they had going on. It was all kind of low-level violence and disruption”.

According to an article on the University website, as Klan members arrived many were greeted by smiling young men who offered to lead them to the rally but took them instead down back alleys, where they were beaten and had their robes and hoods stolen.

The remaining KKK were chased to their local headquarters, where the students delighted themselves by pelting a large “flaming cross” of red light-bulbs, using potatoes from a nearby grocery store.

“The students carried the day. They completely upset the Klan’s plans”, says Tucker.

A couple of days later, the students rallied again to go in aid of a colleague who had supposedly been caught by Klansmen and was being beaten. They rushed into an ambush laid by the KKK with the help of the local police.

“This time the Klan was waiting for them, and it was a much more violent affair, with broken bones, swinging clubs, gunshots fired. Nobody was killed, but there was potential for real violence.”

Only the personal intervention of the University president, Father Walsh, kept the students from seeking their revenge. Broken bones aside, though, it was the KKK that suffered most lasting damage. A second parade was planned but never materialised. Its reputation irreparably damaged, the Klan never managed to control South Bend.

Among students, it was the initial success that became school legend. “I went to university in Notre Dame and the story was part of the folklore around the place”, Tucker explains. At the time, however, the board were unimpressed by their students’ victory.

“They were horrified! The Irish Catholic organisations in America, especially, were constantly fighting this notion that the Irish were an uncivilised violent mob, so to have the students of Notre Dame involved in a riot was the worst possible scenario.” There was a dressing down of those involved but no students were disciplined.

A native of Indiana himself, Todd Tucker explains that the incident would come to symbolise a more lasting issue. “It is emblematic of a painful divide between Notre Dame and the locals, the people of the area, which both parties have worked hard to try and fix. So it’s not something the university brags about, because it represents something that has been an ongoing problem in the university’s history.”

Interestingly, in 1927, only three years after the incident, the same Father Walsh permitted the university American Football Team to use the nickname “The Fighting Irish”.

Go put your scrote in a blender, weinersukkking asshole!!!

Greg

 

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Almost half of the people lynched in the US between 1882-1964 were white.

Lynching Statistics by Year

That chart was bubbled up before. Even using its out-of-date stats your own link says that 73% of lynching victims were black, in a country where blacks make up 10-12% of the population. And that doesn't include several hundred more that weren't yet counted, so it's even higher.

DemoKKKrats have always hated blacks and did most of the lynchings. They also hated Jews and Catholics and especially anti-slave Republicans. Does not include murders though.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-for-civil-rights-the-klan-killed-her-for-it/

Greg

Yeah, that's complete bullshit. When you live halfway around the world it's kind of risky to run with mythologies from parts unknown. The fact is lynchings are an act of social terrorism, not an act of politics, and NO LYNCHING EVER anywhere has required a political party registration. It's simply not related, at all.

Interesting that you'd bring up Viola Liuzza (I know her name just from the picture of the car, no link needed, with or without a paywall -- I know my history, you clearly do not). As a result of that murder, LBJ became the first POTUS since Ulysses Grant to prosecute the Ku Klux Klan.

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What he's referring to about "my father fought them many long years ago in Texas" is an event where his father Sam, on the Texas state house floor in Austin, had vigorously denounced the KKK, after which the Klan threatened the family. LBJ's father and uncles sat up all night with shotguns while the boy LBJ and his siblings were sequestered in the basement. The Klan never showed up. But later in the 1950s they burned a cross on LBJ's lawn.

That Klan opposed and persecuted Jews, Catholics, Blacks, labor unions, and immigrants, ALL of which were and still are constituents of the Democratic Party. Perhaps you'd care to essplain to the class what a political party would be doing running a chapter beating up its own constituents.

Perhaps you'd care to essplain to the class why that terror division would be running Republican political candidates against its own state and local candidates -- like Rice Means. Like Ed Jackson. Like Owen Brewster. Like Ben Paulen. Like Albert Johnson. Like Clarence Morley. Like George Luis Baker. For that matter perhaps you'd like to clear up why they'd be both killing Republicans and running them for office at the same time.

Perhaps you have an answer to why the KKK endorsed the Republicans Calvin Coolidge (the only candidate that year who refused to denounce them) and Herbert Hoover the next round, while running a national smear campaign against the Democrat Al Smith. Perhaps you'd like to enlighten us on why the Klan worked to drive out the Governor of Oklahoma -- a Democrat -- after he tried to drive them out of his state.

The KKK also opposed and persecuted drunks, deadbeats, gamblers, philanderers and people who "didn't go to church". All this is social stuff, not political. The closest political party to the agenda of the Klan was the Know Nothings, who preceded them by a couple of decades. Both the original Klan (1865) and the re-start (1915) specifically and pointedly described themselves as non-political. Simmons declared his Klan to be ""the most powerful, secret, non-political organization in existence" before he was maneuvered out of power

They suffered some setbacks from publicity, notably in 1925 when the political boss of Indiana, one D.C. Stephenson, brutally raped and murdered a schoolteacher and then again in the 1940s when a writer (who also ran for Governor of Florida) published an exposé after he infiltrated the local Klan, and then worked with the radio program "Superman" on a series called "The Clan of the Fiery Cross". His name was Stetson Kennedy. Fun facts: Stephenson was a Republican, Kennedy a Democrat.

Oh and you know who caused the KKK to officially cease to exist, as of April 23, 1944? Ellis Arnall, Governor of Georgia (a Democrat) when he ordered his AG to find a way to rescind the Klan's charter, and FDR's IRS, who slapped the KKK with a bill for 2/3 of a million bucks in back taxes, effectively crippling them.


I'll tell ya what Greg. You don't sit here and tell me what my own history is, and I won't sit here and tell you Australia's. And the reason I won't do that is because I'm not qualified. Don't just sit here and parrot bullshit that mythologists shit on the floor. QUESTION EVERYTHING.

You seem a bit fragile about being the party of the KKK and the Party of Lynching; seems you have real blinkers on; denying your party History is understandable if you're a DemoKKKrat, Fredo Ocrazio!!!

Democrats Decry the KKK While Forgetting Legacy of One of Their Own - Rasmussen Reports®

You're a liar and a disgusting apologist for your Party's Past deeds of racism and murder. Get lost!!

Greg

I don't have a political party, asshole. I don't believe in that. But I *DO* know my history and I won't allow a wanker from Down Under to sit here and lie about shit he has no knowledge of. On the contrary I will correct it and I did. FUCKING DEAL WITH IT.

*EVERYTHING*, literally Everything I posted is documented and verifiable, and I have lots more, and there's not a damn thing in the world you can do about that. Whine and stomp your feet all you like, you can't just rewrite history on account of the fact that you didn't bother to learn any in the first place.

So GO FORTH AND FUCK YOURSELF.

You really are a pathetic little shitweasel, cumbucket!!!

Greg

 

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never happened,,,or you would have a long list of KKK republicans, but all we have is KKK democrats

Today's Repubs are yesteryear's Dems. They have the same values anyway...

What values are those? Slavery?? KKK?? lol

Idiotic pakeha!!!

Greg

 

[IM2]

Donald Trump uses another racially insensitive word to demonstrate his inbred racism.

He compared the impeachment process to a lynching.

Trump calls impeachment inquiry a 'lynching' - CNNPolitics

Whites were lynched in history too. Or perhaps you don’t know that. Idiot.

Yes they were. Mostly for supporting civil rights for African Americans.

But this isn't a racial thing.

For a person to be lynched they need to be dead.

trump is very alive and well. So he couldn't have been lynched.

Being held accountable for crimes according to the constitution isn't lynching anyone.

Was Clinton being lynched when he was impeached?

This whole thing is ridiculous. When I see trump hung upside down by his feet. Doused with gasoline then set on fire then people shoot countless bullets into him, then you can say he was lynched.

Words do have meaning. You and trump can't change that. Here is the REAL meaning of lynching. Notice the very first sentence:

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Wait, you thought he was being literal?!! Christ almighty! You have got to be the dumbest person at USMB.

He was being literal. Stop trying to make shit up to justify this fucked up punk.

 

[IM2]

never happened,,,or you would have a long list of KKK republicans, but all we have is KKK democrats

Today's Repubs are yesteryear's Dems. They have the same values anyway...

What values are those? Slavery?? KKK?? lol

Idiotic pakeha!!!

Greg

Yep. Todays republicans are white supremacists who would gladly support slavery.