New book explains how the KKK was started in the South.

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A new book has come out that explains how the Democrats first started the KKK to harass Republicans, both white and black. They killed well over 4000 people between 1882 and 1964, plus any black person who was suspected of wanting to vote Republican was beaten or burned out of their home.
The first Grand Wizard of the KKK was honored at the Democratic Convention, and no Democrats voted for the 14th Amendment, to grant citizenship to former slaves, and this racism and hatred continued (although more hidden) well into the mid 1960's, but has been kept hidden on the Democratic Party's website.
This is not to say that all Democrats are racist, or that Republicans aren't. But traditionally, the Southern states have voted Democratic, and it was , after all, Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans who wanted to free the slaves. Just something to think about....


Here is a link to an article telling about the new book, and explaining how well-documented it is.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2309727/posts
 

If the Ku Klux Klan think white people are better, why do they dress like Muslim women?
 

I grew up in the democratic south where the closest carpetbagger (republican) was 400 miles north somewhere. I never had much use for the clan but was always on the other side of the fence. As a boy I sometimes brought food prepared by my mother to an old black man who was in failing health. His sister sometime brought him food
and a few groceries, but many days his cubbert was bare and I'd share our meal with him and play checkers with him for a couple of hours. My bent always fell with the underdog, the ones who couldn't use my white restroom or drink from my water fountain, or have a cup of coffee with me in my favorite cafe. It's no wonder when they could vote they voted democrat. Of course times have changed. Those days are gone and forgotten. We forgot who we were and the leopard changed his spots.
 
Well said Drifter, and you were an angel for being so kind. I never witnessed such prejudice in my time, coming from the Northeast and being born in the early 50s.
 
It seems that the parties were a lot different back then, than they are today also...

We decided to check whether the KKK really was spawned by the Democratic Party. We’ll post another Truth-O-Meter that examines Martin’s contention Planned Parenthood was created by Democrats.

When we asked Martin for the facts behind his KKK statement, he said he had misspoken.
"What I should have said is it was started by Democrats, not by the Democratic party," the senator said. "It wasn’t an official subdivision of the party, obviously … It was definitely founded by Democrats."

Soon after our conversation, Martin released a statement saying he "regretted the carelessness and inaccuracy" of his comments regarding the KKK, calling his statement an "impromptu" response to questions about Jackson’s comments that Planned Parenthood has been more lethal to blacks than the KKK.

PolitiFact Virginia respects when people tell us they erred, but we still feel obliged to complete our fact checks of their statements. So we asked several historians about the origins of the KKK.

Details about the hate group’s founding are murky -- including the exact year it began. Some cite 1865 as its start, others say it was 1867. Historians generally agree it was founded by a handful of Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tenn. as a social fraternity and it quickly changed into a violent group that terrorized newly empowered black and white Republicans in the South.

J. Michael Martinez, the author of a 2007 book "Carpetbaggers, Calvary and the KKK," told us many angry Southern whites during the 1860s and 1870s were Democrats and a smaller number of them joined the KKK.

So there is some historic link between Democrats and the KKK. But Martinez said it is misleading to say that the hate group was started by the Democratic Party because it was more of a grassroots creation.

There’s another point to consider.
"To say that the Ku Klux Klan was started by the Democratic Party -- it’s not the Democratic party of today," Martinez said. "(From the) 1930s until today, you think of the Democratic Party being considered the party of the disenfranchised."

Other historians had similar takes.
Carole Emberton, an associate professor of history at the University at Buffalo, wrote in an email that various "Klans" that sprung up around the South acted as a "strong arm" for many local Democratic politicians during Reconstruction. Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest -- believed to be the KKK’s first Grand Dragon -- even spoke at the 1868 Democratic National Convention, said Emberton, author of "Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence and the American South after the Civil War."

But Emberton added a major caveat:

"The party lines of the 1860s/1870s are not the party lines of today," she wrote to us. "Although the names stayed the same, the platforms of the two parties reversed each other in the mid-20th century, due in large part to white ‘Dixiecrats’ flight out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

By then, the Democratic Party had become the party of ‘reform,’ supporting a variety of ‘liberal’ causes, including civil rights, women’s rights, etc. whereas this had been the banner of the Republican Party in the nineteenth century."

Elaine Frantz Parsons, an associate professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh said that most post-Civil War southern whites were Democrats who were unhappy with Republican policies on Reconstruction while large numbers of newly-freed slaves were Republicans.

"So it is not surprising that the Reconstruction era Klan would have been very largely Democrats attacking Republicans," Parsons said in an e-mail. "But this simply does not map well at all onto the party structure we know today. Among other things, the Republicans (during Reconstruction) were condemned as the party of big government and as wanting to centralize authority on the federal level."

Our ruling
Martin said the KKK was created by the Democratic Party. He acknowledged he was wrong.
Historians say the KKK consisted of a group of Southern whites after the Civil War who were Democrats. But there’s no evidence the KKK was created by their political party.

It should also be noted that the anti-black Democratic Party of the 1860s and 1870s bears no similarity to the party of today.

Recognizing that Martin has expressed regret for his statement. We rate his claim False.

Source: http://www.politifact.com/virginia/...sen-stephen-martin-says-democratic-party-cre/
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SeaBreeze said:
Well said Drifter, and you were an angel for being so kind. I never witnessed such prejudice in my time, coming from the Northeast and being born in the early 50s.
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There was plenty of prejudice in Massachusetts during the 50-60's,especially Boston and surrounding cities.

Louis Day Hicks was one of the big ones.
 
During the 1950s and 60s it was democratic governors in the south who tried to block integration in schools and colleges. It was Republican president Dwight D. Eisenhower who sent troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to block Democrat Governor Orval Faubus from denying black students to go to Central High School.

Democrat governors in Mississippi and Alabama also tried to stop integration of schools and restaurants.
 
Ina said:
What does Ku Klux mean? I get Klan, except for the spelling.
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Supposedly it is derived from the Greek kuklos, meaning "circle", and a corruption of "clan", so you have "circle clan" or "clan of brothers" - something like that.

I've also heard a story that the name came from the sound of a rifle being cocked - "ku-klux" - but I'm not sure if that's anything but a fable.
 
I don't know what or where Ku Klux Klan was derived from but the Klan stood for intimidation of the black man. Rkunsaw is quite right, it was the South and the democratic states that promoted the klan. No political party endorsed or started the Klan. If a town in the south didn't have a Klan organization, they could call a meeting, have an invited guest explain the order of things, the purpose, etc and a Klan organization would be started. They covered themselves to avoid detection; they were not popular with all members of a community.

My wife's family had owned slaves and has the bill of sale for two of them, way back when in the South. Klan members might be eight or ten working members or more, in the community, it might include the postmaster, and or the banker, or the grocer, members of the local sheriff's office or the local police.

Men who hated the idea that blacks wanted rights, wanted to vote, wanted to own property, or that most wanted a job and to be paid for it. It was a function of the South, where slave owners could no longer buy blacks to work the farms and resented the idea.

It was a sad time in America. It has much improved but the traces of that time are alive, some of the resentments are still with us and now, not only in the south. However, if the Klan is still active or not I can't say, but their function is illegal, and banned (so far as I know).
 
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They're not that kind of tough. They liked to operate under cover of darkness and their white sheets, with guns, and ropes for hanging, against some lone black man, and when they had hanged him for some trumped reason, or merely because he was black, they liked to leave their calling card, a burning cross, a hangman's noose, or their mark, KKK. They were this kind of tough against the helpless.
 
Happyflowerlady said:
A new book has come out that explains how the Democrats first started the KKK to harass Republicans, both white and black. They killed well over 4000 people between 1882 and 1964, plus any black person who was suspected of wanting to vote Republican was beaten or burned out of their home.
The first Grand Wizard of the KKK was honored at the Democratic Convention, and no Democrats voted for the 14th Amendment, to grant citizenship to former slaves, and this racism and hatred continued (although more hidden) well into the mid 1960's, but has been kept hidden on the Democratic Party's website.
This is not to say that all Democrats are racist, or that Republicans aren't. But traditionally, the Southern states have voted Democratic, and it was , after all, Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans who wanted to free the slaves. Just something to think about....


Here is a link to an article telling about the new book, and explaining how well-documented it is.
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And now, in today's world, those kinds of Democrats from back in those days, have become Republicans.




 

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