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Ku Klux Klan Passing out Candy

Buck Ewer said:
After 1952?
YES.
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Maybe he was a closet clan member?? Can you prove he was not a clan member post 1952?? At this point its just your opinion. Also you seem to know alot about the clan, why the interest in them? Is this a hobby?
 
Man, the grand wizard of the KKK used to live in my hometown...
 
Buck Ewer said:
Not at all. The approval Senator Byrd got from the NAACP was based on his civil rights voting record between 1952 and his death in 2010.
That is a pro-civil rights voting record that spanned six decades.
The twist is the common ignorance of so many republicons who have no inkling of history, and are quick and quite happy to demonstrate that ignorance at the drop of a hat.
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yup, you got it.. .Republicans have no inkling of history.... yaddayadda..blablabla.

you need a break too....
 
Gringo allstar said:
So you label people on here racist that you know nothing about, but the guy who was a kkk grand dragon racist by his own admission you defend? :shock:
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I give the guy who denounced racism and spent his entire career in congress voting against it for sixty years a pass.
People here only have their posts to indicate their convictions. Thus the labels.
Senator Byrd has sixty year congressional voting record to indicate his convictions. Thus the defense.
 
Gringo allstar said:
Maybe he was a closet clan member?? Can you prove he was not a clan member post 1952?? At this point its just your opinion. Also you seem to know alot about the clan, why the interest in them? Is this a hobby?
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Can you prove you aren't a secret muslim infiltrator?
 
Luftwaffe said:
Sure, but it's historically ALWAYS been a CONSERVATIVE organisation...
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" Conservative " ?

One can not be a Conservative and a hard core Democrats at the same time.

It doesn't wash ideologically.
 
Fenton said:
" Conservative " ?

One can not be a Conservative and a hard core Democrats at the same time.

It doesn't wash ideologically.
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The Klan is neither liberal nor conservative; it's basically a neo-secessionist movement based largely on xenophobia.
 
Gringo allstar said:
Maybe he was a closet clan member?? Can you prove he was not a clan member post 1952?? At this point its just your opinion. Also you seem to know alot about the clan, why the interest in them? Is this a hobby?
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A Senator's Shame

Confronting the issue, Byrd went on the radio to acknowledge that he belonged to the Klan from "mid-1942 to early 1943," according to newspaper accounts. He explained that he had joined "because it offered excitement and because it was strongly opposed to communism." He said that after about a year, he quit and dropped his membership, and never was interested in the Klan again.
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"Closet Klan member"? Where's your evidence for that? Can you prove he WAS a member post-1952?
 
Fenton said:
" Conservative " ?

One can not be a Conservative and a hard core Democrats at the same time.

It doesn't wash ideologically.
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It is a mistake to conflate Democrat with Liberal or Republican with Conservative. While that is a general trend today, it is not universally true nor has it always been this way in history.
 
Gringo allstar said:
Maybe he was a closet clan member?? Can you prove he was not a clan member post 1952??
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Yes. His congressional voting record on all civil rights legislation he saw for over sixty years.
Senator Byrd put his record on the line ...not just his word.
Gringo allstar said:
At this point its just your opinion.
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Nope It is a matter of the congressional record. My opinion has nothing to do with it.
Gringo allstar said:
Also you seem to know alot about the clan, why the interest in them? Is this a hobby?
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Unlike you, I have the common sense to read history before I comment on it.
Your hobby seems to be proving your ignorance on public forums.
 
Objective Voice said:
You mean the same Southern Conservative Democrats who are now Southern/Conservative Republicans?

I'm not saying your facts are wrong because you're correct. Historically, the KKK was heavily supported by White Southern Conservative Democrats. But over time, those same people shifted their political allegiance to the Conservative/Republican party. These new Southern Conservative Republicans of today may not be as outspoken along racial lines as their former Southern Conservative Democrats were in time's past - many might not even be racist at all - but there's no denying that the KKK was more a Southern Conservative movement than they were strictly Democratic as political affiliations go.



And the Grand Ole Party (GOP) was the Democrat party back then. But after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed and Southern Democrats vowed never to vote alongside northern Democrats again, the GOP split and Southern Democrats became Southern Republicans. After a fashion, the Republican Party licked its wounds, made amends, regrouped and now embrace the label of the GOP. But for a time, Southern Conservative Democrats did embrace the KKK. And from the looks of things it would appear that the KKK down in the South (where Conservative Republicans reign) might be trying to rise again. :lamo ... :doh
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Huh ?

The Democrats have always been and STILL are a racist party.

Whether it was from racist laws in the South like Jim Crow or racist organizations like the KKK or through insidious policies that trap and control people of color, their agenda has always centered around the control of the minority population.

Now they use false narratives and false charges of racism in addition to a perpetuating a victim mentallity to control minorities.

In the end the effect is the same. Dependance for the purpose of control and power.

Tell me, are places like the Robert Taylor Homes, Cabrini Green, South side of Chicago and Magnolia place in New Orleans the consequence of Conservative policies ?

Under decades of isolated Democrat rule in places like Detroit, are minorities better or worse off ?

In Chicago which has been run by Democrats for years are minorities safer and more independent, less impberished or are they ignored ?

Under Obama, the first black president has economic conditions for minorities improved or gotten worse ?

Sorry, but you can accuse the right wing of racism all you want, the fact is there is a long and established history of Democrat policies that are enacted exclusively to pray upon minorities and keep them poor and dependant.
 
Thrilla said:
do you need to crack open a book of euphemisms?
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eu·phe·mism
ˈyo͞ofəˌmizəm/
noun
plural noun: euphemisms
a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.
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Euphemisms? Ha!
Want to try that again?
 
Fenton said:
Huh ?

The Democrats have always been and STILL are a racist party.
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Stopped reading there. Your hyperpartisan blinders are miles thick.

I have very little use for the Democrats, but to brand them (or the GOP, for that matter) as a "racist party" is just asinine hyperpartisan twaddle.
 
Deuce said:
Liberals not being for small government doesn't mean conservatives are for small government.
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Um, yeah, Conservatives are for small government.
 
Deuce said:
A racist kkk grand dragon who changed his ways and was more or less responsible on racial issues during his time in office. If people shouting "shoot the wetbacks" later change their ways, i'll gladly give credit for that. But not before.
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Got the names of those people that said shoot the wetbacks? Or just some YT vid you seen. And even if it was true, its not hard to find a jackass in amongst 310 million people. And that goes for both sides.
 
What if a new group were to arise that just claimed white pride. They had no violent past or racist actions but only wanted to celebrate their "whiteness". Would anyone have a problem with such a group?
 
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