permafrost wrote:
Bass, you do not seem to know what a communist is, let alone what democrats stand for.. think of anything good in our nation, then thank the Dems for creating it..
My goodness……every time I think you can’t get any more ridiculous and ignorant you surprise me with a comment like this one……..”think of anything good in our nation, then thank the Dems for creating it”
Let’s see…..there is that GOOD Ku Klux Klan organization! Check!! 👍
We mustn’t forget Margaret Sanger for creating Planned Parenthood and her belief that “black” people were less than acceptable humans and should be kept thinned out by aborting their babies……MORE good things from Democrats! Check! Check! 👍👍
And then there is President Johnson’s hateful racist quote…………“These Niggers they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they’ve got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we’ve got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference.” Everything he did was for votes and appearance, never for the good of black Americans!
And Nancy Pelosi’s latest elitist remark that she claimed Florida farmers told her not to bus the migrants to other states……they want them to stay and pick their crops! Apparently she doesn’t understand that that is seasonal work! And of course, that’s all they are capable of doing….pick vegetables and fruits! What an insulting ignorant snob! I do believe that I see a “likeness” of superiority between Sanger, Johnson, Pelosi, and the KKK! 👿
The attitude and actions of the liberals and the Democrate Party are losing the support of many of the minorities. They are realizing that Biden’s policies are harmful to them, just like they are for all Americans!
I could go on, but this is enough to make my point! You have lost your integrity, your ability to have an actual truthful intelligent conversation! Your hate and your attempt to prove that Republicans/Trump/MAGA should be destroyed has consumed you! I’m not sure if you even know the difference between what is true and what are lies.
https://www.history.com/topics/reconstruction/ku-klux-klanFounded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for Black Americans. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and Black Republican leaders. Though Congress passed legislation designed to curb Klan terrorism, the organization saw its primary goal–the reestablishment of white supremacy–fulfilled through Democratic victories in state legislatures across the South in the 1870s.
After a period of decline, white Protestant nativist groups revived the Klan in the early 20th century, burning crosses and staging rallies, parades and marches denouncing immigrants, Catholics, Jews, African Americans and organized labor. The civil rights movement of the 1960s also saw a surge of Ku Klux Klan activity, including bombings of Black schools and churches and violence against Black and white activists in the South.
Founding of the Ku Klux Klan
A group including many former Confederate veterans founded the first branch of the Ku Klux Klan as a social club in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. The first two words of the organization’s name supposedly derived from the Greek word “kyklos,” meaning circle. In the summer of 1867, local branches of the Klan met in a general organizing convention and established what they called an “Invisible Empire of the South.” Leading Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest was chosen as the first leader, or “grand wizard,” of the Klan; he presided over a hierarchy of grand dragons, grand titans and grand cyclopses.
Ku Klux Klan Violence in the South
From 1867 onward, Black participation in public life in the South became one of the most radical aspects of Reconstruction, as Black people won election to southern state governments and even to the U.S. Congress. For its part, the Ku Klux Klan dedicated itself to an underground campaign of violence against Republican leaders and voters (both Black and white) in an effort to reverse the policies of Radical Reconstruction and restore white supremacy in the South. They were joined in this struggle by similar organizations such as the Knights of the White Camelia (launched in Louisiana in 1867) and the White Brotherhood.
The Ku Klux Klan and the End of Reconstruction
Though Democratic leaders would later attribute Ku Klux Klan violence to poorer southern white people, the organization’s membership crossed class lines, from small farmers and laborers to planters, lawyers, merchants, physicians and ministers. In the regions where most Klan activity took place, local law enforcement officials either belonged to the Klan or declined to take action against it, and even those who arrested accused Klansmen found it difficult to find witnesses willing to testify against them.
Other leading white citizens in the South declined to speak out against the group’s actions, giving them tacit approval. After 1870, Republican state governments in the South turned to Congress for help, resulting in the passage of three Enforcement Acts, the strongest of which was the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.
For the first time, the Ku Klux Klan Act designated certain crimes committed by individuals as federal offenses, including conspiracies to deprive citizens of the right to hold office, serve on juries and enjoy the equal protection of the law. The act authorized the president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus and arrest accused individuals without charge, and to send federal forces to suppress Klan violence.
This expansion of federal authority–which Ulysses S. Grant promptly used in 1871 to crush Klan activity in South Carolina and other areas of the South–outraged Democrats and even alarmed many Republicans. From the early 1870s onward, white supremacy gradually reasserted its hold on the South as support for Reconstruction waned; by the end of 1876, the entire South was under Democratic control once again.