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Talk about hypocrites
Former West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd once led a Ku
Klux Klan chapter and worked as a klan recruiter in the 1940s
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years until his death in 2010 and was the Senate majority leader in the
1970s and '80s. Who performed the 2010 eulogy?--Barry
What a surprise!
On July 02, 2010 at Charleston West VA:
Thank you. To Mona and Marjorie and to Senator Byrd's entire family,
including those adorable great-granddaughters that I had a chance to meet,
Michelle and I offer you our deepest sympathies.
To Senator Byrd's friends, including the Speaker of the House, the majority
leader, the Republican leader, President Clinton, Vice President Biden,
Vicki Kennedy, Nick Rahall, and all the previous speakers; Senator
Rockefeller for the outstanding work that you've done for the State of West
Virginia; to his larger family, the people of West Virginia: I want you all
to know that all America shares your loss…..
Barack Obama!!
When are Byrd’s statues coming down?
See history of klan below Mark Levin’s comments! Founded 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. Two democrat Supreme Court justices associated
with the klan: Edward Douglass White and Hugo Black
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Mark Levin: Disband the Democratic Party which 'birthed the KKK'
by Dominick Mastrangelo
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June 11, 2020
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Conservative commentator Mark Levin is calling for the Democratic Party,
which he said will never be able to overcome its racist past, to disband."
Abolish the Democrat Party. If we are to purge all vestiges of slavery and
racism, it seems to me the most obvious target must be the Democrat Party.
It stood for slavery and segregation and birthed the KKK,"
Levin said in a string of tweets Thursday morning
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sporadically redeeming policies of the more recent past are of no relevance.
It’s in that party’s DNA, as they say.” Since the death of George Floyd at
the hands of police on May 25, a renewed push to address systemic racism in
the United States has sparked. A growing number of activists, politicians,
and media pundits have called for the tearing down of Confederate monuments,
the banning of the Confederate flag from sporting events, and the renaming
of military bases named after figures with complicated histories related to
race.
Any sporadically redeeming policies of the more recent past are of no
relevance. It’s in that party’s DNA, as they say.
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Mark R. Levin
✔@marklevinshow
3. Indeed, only a few decades ago, it chose a former klansman as its Senate
leader, without objection from today’s so-called resistance — most of whose
“members” are Democrats or will vote for Democrats. Their incoherence and
hypocrisy aside, purge their party.
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Levin continued, "Indeed, only a few decades ago, it chose a former
klansman as its Senate leader, without objection from today’s so-called
resistance — most of whose 'members' are Democrats or will vote for
Democrats." Levin was ostensibly making reference to former West Virginia
Sen. Robert Byrd, who once led a Ku Klux Klan chapter and worked as a
recruiter in the 1940s
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years until his death in 2010 and was the Senate majority leader in the
1970s and '80s. Levin was using a counter argument Republicans sometimes
offer in response to charges from Democrats that the GOP has engaged in
racist practices, such as voter suppression within minority communities or
the rolling back of welfare programs. Southern Democrats fought in the late
1800s to keep the slaves they owned and then oppressed the rights of black
people in the early to mid-1900s.
An Associated Press <https://apnews.com/afs:Conten
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"attracted members from both parties, as well as members affiliated with no
parties," and was not founded by the Democratic Party. --(My comments- -This
is utter nonsense. Even the history channel debunks the AP’s propaganda.
Only a handful of politicians associated with GOP ever had connections to
klan-David Duke being most recent. No republicans owned slaves at start of
the Civil War and all original members of klan were former democrat
confederate soldiers. Confederate general and white supremacist 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. Forrest had been a slave trader and plantation owner prior to the
Civil War.)
While on the campaign trail in 2016, President Trump tied present-day
Democrats to the party's segregationist past.
"The Republican Party is the party of Abraham Lincoln. Not bad," Trump said
at a rally near Seattle in August 2016
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-democrats-the-party-of-slaver
party of freedom, equality, and opportunity."
"It is the Democratic Party that is the party of slavery, the party of Jim
Crow, and the party of opposition," Trump continued, though U.S. political
parties have since changed.
Levin suggested that there is nothing today's Democrats can do to wash away
their party's past.
"Their incoherence and hypocrisy aside, purge their party," Levin said.
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How many Republicans owned slaves in 1860?
Terry Haas, M.A. from Western Illinois University (1981)
Updated Aug 14, 2018 ·
Well, if you do a little research, it was southern democrats who were
owners and supporters of slavery. It was southern democrats who supported
the KKK. In recent history, Sen. Robert Byrd (West Virginia) was a high
official in the KKK. It was Woodrow Wilson who was responsible for the
resurgence of the KKK.
Many blacks tended to support the Republican party, (because of their
anti-slavery stance.) Somehow, the modern democratic party has found a way
to turn that around. In many ways, the democratic party still maintains a
slave hold on the black/African American citizens of our country. They take
their votes for granted and give little in return. However, at this point in
our history, the Republican party seems to also ignore the will of the
people.
In the final response to your question, Republicans were not slave owners
but who can know for sure, what is in a man or woman’s heart?
A bit of an added historical note: One of the earliest slave owners was a
Free black.
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The modern Democratic Party emerged in the late 1820s from former factions
of the Democratic-Republican Party, which had largely collapsed by 1824. It
was built by Martin Van Buren, who assembled a cadre of politicians in every
state behind war hero Andrew Jackson of Tennessee.
The Presidency of Andrew Jackson (1829–1837) is considered to be the start
of modern Democrat Party.
At its inception, the Democratic Party was the party of the "common man".
It opposed the abolition of slavery.
Nor did Jackson share reformers' humanitarian concerns. He had no sympathy
for American Indians, initiating the removal of the Cherokees along the
Trail of Tears.
On 24th December 1865, six Confederate veterans, meeting in Pulaski,
Tennessee, formed a secret society, initially a social club, that they
called the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The name combines the Greek word for circle
(kyklos) with the Gaelic word clan. In the aftermath of the Civil War, the
KKK quickly morphed from a social fraternity to a violent group that sought
to push back against key Reconstruction policies championed by Radical
Republicans in Congress — policies that for the first time enfranchised
former African-American slaves. 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 and white
supremacist 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. Forrest had been a slave trader and plantation
owner prior to the Civil War.
Founded 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.
Did you know? At its peak in the 1920s, Klan membership exceeded 4 million
people nationwide.
The organization of the Ku Klux Klan coincided with the beginning of the
second phase of post-Civil War Reconstruction, put into place by the more
radical members of the Republican Party in Congress. After rejecting
President Andrew Johnson’s relatively lenient Reconstruction policies, in
place from 1865 to 1866, Congress passed the Reconstruction Act over the
presidential veto. Under its provisions, the South was divided into five
military districts, and each state was required to approve the 14th
Amendment, which granted “equal protection” of the Constitution to former
slaves and enacted universal male suffrage.
Ku Klux Klan Violence in the South
From 1867 onward, African-American 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. At least 10 percent of the
black legislators elected during the 1867-1868 constitutional conventions
became victims of violence during Reconstruction, including seven who were
killed. White Republicans (derided as “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags”) and
black institutions such as schools and churches—symbols of black
autonomy—were also targets for Klan attacks.
By 1870, the Ku Klux Klan had branches in nearly every southern state. Even
at its height, the Klan did not boast a well-organized structure or clear
leadership. Local Klan members–often wearing masks and dressed in the
organization’s signature long white robes and hoods–usually carried out
their attacks at night, acting on their own but in support of the common
goals of defeating Radical Reconstruction and restoring white supremacy in
the South. Klan activity flourished particularly in the regions of the South
where black people were a minority or a small majority of the population,
and was relatively limited in others. Among the most notorious zones of Klan
activity was South Carolina, where in January 1871 500 masked men attacked
the Union county jail and lynched eight black prisoners.
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.
Revival of the Ku Klux Klan
In 1915, white Protestant nativists organized a revival of the Ku Klux Klan
near Atlanta, Georgia, inspired by their romantic view of the Old South as
well as Thomas Dixon’s 1905 book “The Clansman” and D.W. Griffith’s 1915
film “Birth of a Nation.” This second generation of the Klan was not only
anti-black but also took a stand against Roman Catholics, Jews, foreigners
and organized labor. It was fueled by growing hostility to the surge in
immigration that America experienced in the early 20th century along with
fears of communist revolution akin to the Bolshevik triumph in Russia in
1917. The organization took as its symbol a burning cross and held rallies,
parades and marches around the country. At its peak in the 1920s, Klan
membership exceeded 4 million people nationwide.
The Great Depression in the 1930s depleted the Klan’s membership ranks, and
the organization temporarily disbanded in 1944. The civil rights movement of
the 1960s saw a surge of local Klan activity across the South, including the
bombings, beatings and shootings of black and white activists. These
actions, carried out in secret but apparently the work of local Klansmen,
outraged the nation and helped win support for the civil rights cause. In
1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered a speech publicly condemning the
Klan and announcing the arrest of four Klansmen in connection with the
murder of a white female civil rights worker in Alabama. The cases of
Klan-related violence became more isolated in the decades to come, though
fragmented groups became aligned with neo-Nazi or other right-wing extremist
organizations from the 1970s onward. In the early 1990s, the Klan was
estimated to have between 6,000 and 10,000 active members, mostly in the
Deep South.
This is a partial list of a few notable figures in U.S. national politics
who were members of the Ku Klux Klan before taking office. Membership of the
Klan is secret. Political opponents sometimes allege that a person was a
member of the Klan, or was supported at the polls by Klan members.
Contents
1 Politicians who were active in the Klan at some time
1.1 Robert Byrd-D
1.2 Edward Douglass White-Supreme Court
1.3 Hugo Black—Supreme Court
1.4 Theodore G. Bilbo-D
1.5 John Brown Gordon-D
1.6 Joseph E. Brown-D
1.7 Elmer David Davies-D
1.8 Edward L. Jackson-R
1.9 Clarence Morley-R
1.10 Bibb Graves-D
1.11 Clifford Walker-D
1.12 George Gordon-D
1.13 John Tyler Morgan-D
1.14 Edmund Pettus-D
1.15 John W. Morton-D
1.16 William L. Saunders-D
1.17 John Clinton Porter-D
1.18 Benjamin F. Stapleton-D
1.19 David Duke-D & R
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