Ku Klux Klan

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The Klan was founded as the militant terrorist arm of the Democratic party.

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the traditional militant terrorist wing of the Democrat Party.

It had three incarnations in the USA. Several prominent Democrats were members of the KKK including Democrat Robert Byrd, who was a U.S. Senator from West Virginia for more than 50 years and who had led his local KKK chapter, and Democrat Hugo Black, who was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by FDR and became the Justice most hostile to classroom prayer and Christianity in public life. Despite the Democrat-KKK connection, however, liberals (who falsely claim that the pre-1964 Democrats were a "conservative" party) similarly falsely claim the KKK to be a "right-wing" organization.

The Klan beginning in the 1860s was a violent effort by white Southern Democrats to fight Republican Reconstruction efforts and recognizing full citizenship rights of Blacks after the Civil War. Reconstruction was ended as a political compromise to resolve the exceedingly close presidential election of 1876. Owing to this, the Klan Democrats often targeted those belonging to the Republican Party with death.

The second Klan flourished nationwide for a few years in the 1920s as state and district organizers profited handsomely by signing up millions of members, selling them distinctive white-robe costumes. The Klan voiced strong support for prohibition, opposed sexual immorality and promoted racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Catholicism and immigration restriction. Dramatic scandals inside the organization and lack of organizational structure caused the Klan to collapse quickly in the late 1920s. By 1928 it was practically defunct.

The third Klan comprised unrelated hate groups that sprang up in the South in the 1960s to fight integration, but it largely fell apart with the defeat of President Jimmy Carter in 1980.[1]

Violent leftists, who founded the Klan and have been loyal Democrats since its original inception, are now appealing to groups they had previously persecuted.[2]

First KKK

A political cartoon depicting the KKK and the Democrat Party as continuations of the Confederacy

The first KKK was an movement of white Southerners who opposed Reconstruction. It was founded in 1866 by members of the Democrat Party to inflicting violence against black leaders and white Republicans.[3] One of the founders, and the first "Grand Wizard," was former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Klan was broken up by President Ulysses S. Grant and the U.S. Army using the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act). It had disappeared by 1872, although similar violent groups persisted in some localities around the South.

Second KKK: The 1920s

The second KKK was a nonviolent membership organization in the 1920s that reached hundreds of thousands—possibly millions—of men in every state. It was mostly a Ponzi scheme, whereby the organizers took all the money (for initiation fees and costumes). When they had organized an area they moved on, leaving local chapters without money or leadership. No prominent American admitted he was a member at the time, but state organizers claimed vast powers. There is a possibility that some local Klans in the deep South engaged in violence against blacks, but historians are unsure; allegations of systematic violence were common but have not been verified. In recent years historians have found enough records to show that local chapters were primarily discussion groups, often with speakers who denounced Catholics, Jews, crime and violation of the prohibition laws.

Ku Klux Klan rally, unknown location, August, 1951
Ronald Reagan starred as the crusading district attorney battling the Klan in this 1951 film.[4]

A series of scandals rocked the KKK's reputation and the group somewhat faded after the 1924 Democratic National Convention.

In 1937 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Alabama Senator Hugo Black to the Supreme Court. Black was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and built his career campaigning at Klan meetings. In Korematsu v. the United States, Black voted to uphold President Roosevelt's mass arrests and incarceration of Japanese men, women, and children based on race.

Third Klan

The third Klan currently exists and comprises a few thousand members in local chapters. There is no real organization, and the group sponsors vehement hate talk as well as occasional violent threats and actions. It is racist and aims at the suppression of African-American, Jewish, homosexual, and Catholic interests. The current Klan presents itself as a "Christian" organization, but all denominations have rejected it as inherently non-Christian.

Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd joined the Klan in the 1940s and was unanimously elected to the rank of Exalted Cyclops for his inborn leadership skills.[5][6] He repeatedly expressed his desire for the Klan to expand to its previous size and power, once remarking in a letter that "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia" and "in every state in the nation." [7]

Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy raging over the idea of racially integrating the military. In his book When Jim Crow Met John Bull, Graham Smith referred to a letter written that year by Byrd, when he was 28 years old, to fellow Klansman Sen. Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, in which Byrd vowed never to fight:

Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.
Bilbo told Meet the Press in a 1949 interview:
No man can leave the Klan. He takes an oath not to do that. Once a Ku Klux, always a Ku Klux.[8]

Democrats tried to block passage of the bi-partisan 1965 Civil Rights Act by filibustering for 75 hours, led by a 14-hour and 13-minute speech by the Exalted Cyclops Sen. Byrd. The law was intended to block Republican gains in the South followed by buying off Blacks with Great Society welfare and affirmative action programs. By the 1960s the Klan was so thoroughly infiltrated by FBI informers, the joke existed that a Klan cell of 6 members often consisted of 5 FBI informants and one klansman.

David Duke was a Democrat at the time of his official membership with the Klan and founded the National Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP). Duke quit the Klan and the Democrat party and was elected to the Louisiana state legislature. When Duke registered to run for higher office in a Republican primary, the Republican National Committee disavowed Duke and repudiated his racist views.[9]

21st Century

By the 1990s there were fewer than 10,000 members of the Klan. Many so-called "chapters" or "hate groups," as measured by the Southern Poverty Law Center's newsletter Klanwatch, consisted of a single individual. The threat emanating from the Klan was often exaggerated to serve as a fundraising tool for anti-racist watchdog organizations. Chat rooms and discussion boards were set up by anti-racist watchdog groups in the hopes of baiting in a young person to identify who may be susceptible to extremist recruiting. These chat rooms and discussion groups also served the dual purpose of making the Klan threat appear larger than it actually was for fundraising purposes.

During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the KKK (along with former Klansman David Duke), in possible collusion with the Democrat Party, pretended to "support" Donald Trump for President as part of a strategy to discredit Trump and make sure he would lose the election by making a false connection between the KKK and the Republicans (as the Democrats have done since 1964[10]). However, because the Republicans have always opposed the KKK and despise what it stands for,[11] and because the Democrat-KKK connection is public knowledge despite the efforts of Democrats and liberals (particularly in the mainstream media) to bury and deny this historic fact,[12] the KKK scheme to try to discredit Trump by publicly pretending to endorse him backfired as he rejected the "endorsement" and the public saw through the KKK's ruse, leading KKK Grand Dragon Will Quigg, who formerly pretended to support Trump, to show his and his organization's true colors, and those of the Democrats, by now publicly supporting Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton.[13] Hillary, who has her own history of racism and whose mentor, late Democrat senator Robert Byrd, was himself a longtime KKK member,[14] did not reject the KKK's campaign endorsement of her, which was one of the contributing factors toward her downfall in the election as Trump won the presidency, ultimately making the Democrat-KKK scheme against him fruitless. In multiple George Soros funded protests against Trump, many liberals dressed themselves in KKK robes and pretended to "support" Trump, holding signs that said "KKK wants Trump" and "Make America White Again" while the DNC created an attack ad claiming that the KKK is "actively supporting" Trump.[15]

Bibliography

  • Newton, Michael, and Judy Ann Newton. The Ku Klux Klan: An Encyclopedia. (1991).
  • Alexander, Charles. “Kleagles and Cash.” . The Business History Review. (1965) Vol. 39, No. 3, pp. 348–367
  • Chalmers, David. Hooded Americanism. (1987), an older survey
  • Dray, Philip. At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, (2002).
  • Feldman, Glenn. Politics, Society, and the Klan in Alabama, 1915-1949. (1999).
  • Fryer, Jr. Roland G. and Steven D. Levitt. "Hatred and Profits: Getting under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan," National Bureau of Economic Research, September 2007, abstract; full text online
  • George, John, and Laird Wilcox. American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists & Others (1996) 443 pgs. online edition
  • Glaeser, Edward L. “The Political Economy of Hatred.” Quarterly Journal of Economics. 2005. Vol. 120, No. 1, pp. 45–86. abstract, goes well beyond the KKK
  • Goldberg, Robert Alan. Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado. (1981).
  • Horn, Stanley F. Invisible Empire: The Story of the Ku Klux Klan, 1866-1871, (1939)
Horn, born in 1889, was a Southern historian who was sympathetic to the first Klan, which, in a 1976 oral interview,[16] he was careful to distinguish from the later "spurious Ku Klux organization which was in ill-repute—and, of course, had no connection whatsoever with the Klan of Reconstruction days."
  • Jackson, Kenneth T. The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930. (1992)
  • MacLean, Nancy. Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan. (1994)
  • McVeigh, Rory. “Power Devaluation, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Democratic National Convention of 1924.” Sociological Forum 2001. 16(1):1-30.
  • Moore, Leonard J. Citizen Klansmen: The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1921-1928 (1991). online edition
  • Parsons, Elaine Frantz, "Midnight Rangers: Costume and Performance in the Reconstruction-Era Ku Klux Klan." The Journal of American History 92.3 (2005): 811-36. in History Cooperative
  • Pegram, Thomas R. "Hoodwinked: The Anti-Saloon League and the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Prohibition Enforcement." Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive era 7.1 (2008): online.
  • Rhodes, James Ford. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the McKinley-Bryan Campaign of 1896. Volume: 7. (1920)
  • Trelease, Allen W. White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction (1995).
  • Wade, Wyn Craig. The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America. (1987); a highly negative account of all three Klans, based on extensive research but not familiar with recent scholarship.

References

  1. http://www.fumento.com/arson/wsjfire.html
  2. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2828425/The-Ku-Klux-Klan-opens-door-Jews-black-people-homosexuals-new-recruits-wear-white-robes-hats.html
  3. http://www.history.com/topics/ku-klux-klan
  4. See analysis of film
  5. Pianin, Eric. A Senator's Shame: Byrd, in His New Book, Again Confronts Early Ties to KKK. Washington Post, 2005-06-19, pp. A01
  6. https://allthatsinteresting.com/famous-kkk-members
  7. King, Colbert I. Sen. Byrd: The view from Darrell's barbershop, Washington Post, March 2, 2002
  8. Robert L. Fleegler, "Theodore G. Bilbo and the Decline of Public Racism, 1938–1947",The Journal of Mississippi History, Spring 2006. [1]
  9. RNC Condemns Ex-Klansman Duke, Washington Post, February 25, 1989. [Dead link]
  10. The Democrat Race Lie at Black & Right
  11. The Ugly History of Democratic Suppression of Blacks at WND
  12. The Ku Klux Klan was the Terrorist Arm of the Democrat Party
  13. Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Will Quigg Endorses Hillary Clinton for President at U.S. News & World Report
  14. Pianin, Eric. A Senator's Shame: Byrd, in His New Book, Again Confronts Early Ties to KKK. Washington Post, 2005-06-19, pp. A01
  15. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bQOYADCDSyY
  16. http://www.lib.duke.edu/forest/Research/ohisrch.html

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