Vigilante
Diamond Member
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- #101
Get it (pardon the expression ) right lefties. Historically the KKK was the democrat party's muscle to keep Papists and upity Blacks in line. If you could check the wallets of KKK members throughout the 20th century you would find that they were all registered democrats. FDR was the guy who appointed a "former" KKK member to the Supreme Court and he paid FDR back by writing the majority opinion that justified the FDR administration's version of Martial law when Japanese American citizens were placed in American gulags without benefit of due process. Justice Black went a bit further in 1948 when he created the "separation of Church and state" that didn't appear in the Constitution in order to punish Papists..
"Papists"???
Are you trying to say "Catholics"?
You know Catholics vote Democratic, right?
You know JFK was the first Catholic POTUS, but do you know who the first Catholic candidate was?
Al Smith, 1928. In that year and in the previous election year 1924 where Smith also was running, the Klan staged demonstrations to oppose his nomination on that basis -- being Catholic. 1924 was what they called the "Klanbake" where they camped in New Jersey across from the convention in New York City, and that protest was also opposing one Senator Oscar Underwood of Alabama, who was the most vociferous opponent of the Klan in his time.
This would be the same time they were getting governors and Senators elected in Colorado and Indiana and Maine, all Republicans, and three years after they chased a Dem governor out of Oklahoma who was trying to drive the Klan out.
Ah, pretzels.
What does any of the above TROLLING have to do with DemoRATS FOUNDED the KKK?