Al Gore may have referred to his belief in global warming as “an inconvenient truth,” but there is another inconvenient truth that Mr. Gore and his fellow Democrats would certainly like to keep buried. It’s an ugly truth about an ugly organization. And the Democrats were neck-deep in it.
We all have things we’d prefer to forget happened. This is true for both individuals and for nations. In fact, for individuals, learning from the past and then leaving it in the past is a mentally healthy thing to do. Constantly resurrecting painful memories can be an indicator of mental illness.
Political parties, by their nature, have plenty of sordid events in their histories, some more than others. That said there is one event in the history of the Democratic party that we can be sure current party members want buried in the past. It’s just that ugly.
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Is that Hillary father?
Yeah y’all BJ got the black people to vote for the Democrats take a quick read people especially if you wanted to black people you’ve been used and played
You do know that the KKK and every Conservative was a Democrat until the Democrat President signed the Civil Rights Act in the 60’s. The Conservatives left the Democrat Party and the Liberals left the Republican party. The President said; “I fear we have lost an entire generation of voters to the Republicans” they never switched back!!
So when the Dems pulled down the slavers statues why was it you Reps who whined?
Oh so I guess we should vote for Thera it’s Trump?
Moron
Get out of the past
And where’s your proof Johnson said that “professor”
How can I join a KKK group in Missouri. PM me plz.
Early in America there was one party, the Democrat Republicans
there was a split in the party over slavery, some were for, some against
in 1854 the anti slavery party was formed, it called itself the Republican party
the pro slavery party went on as the Democrat party
Democrats passed legislation like the Kansas/Nebraska act spreading slavery into those states
Democrats passed the fugitive slave act
a democrat supreme court rules in 1857 (Dred Scott) that blacks are property, not humans
The republicans lose 1856 election
in 1860 they run Abaraham Lincoln with a democrat vice president (Andrew Johnson)
1860 anti slavery Republican Abraham Lincoln wins election
immediately within 3 weeks democrat southern states with their plantation systems begin leaving the Union
The Democrat party opposed Emancipation even up to going to war over it (civil war)
The civil war is fought, slavery is outlawed, Lincoln writes the emancipation proclamation freeing the slaves
democrat John Wilkes booth assasinates President Lincoln
Democrat andrew Johnson assumes presidency, immediately starts dismantling Lincolns acts to outlaw slavery
andrew johnson is impeached for his gross racism (though not removed from office, he remains by one vote)
Republicans pass the 13th amendment giving Blacks their freedom
Republicans pass the 14th amendment giving blacks their citizenship
republicans pass the 15th amendment giving blacks the right to vote
in response Democrat party members form the KKK as a militant arm of the party
Democrat party members in the KKK lynched blacks and white reconstructionist republicans by the hundreds
southern Democrat governors enact jim crow laws
democrats enact poll taxes on black Americans
democrats enact litmus tests to force black voters to have to prove their intelligence before voting
democrat Margaret Sanger forms planned parenthood to target Black Americans for abortion and sterilization
The Democrat party opposed Women’s Suffrage
The Democrat party initiated syphilis experimentation on black Americans
The US congressional record clearly shows Democrats voted against every civil right act that came up for vote
The Democrat party filibustered the 64/65 Civil/voting Rights Acts led by the only KKK member to ever serve in Congress, Robert Byrd
President Johnson wanted credit so he enlisted the Republicans in congress to get them passed.
And yes, the Texas Republican party was founded by Black Americans.
On May 21, 1919, U.S. Representative James Mann (R-Ill.) re-introduced the 19th Amendment and it finally passed the House by a vote of 304-89. Ninety-one percent of Republicans voted for women compared to only 59 percent of Democrats.
On June 4, 1919, it passed the Senate 56-25. Eighty-two percent of Republicans voted in favor of the amendment while 41 percent of Democrats did. It was then sent to the states for ratification.
By March of 1920, 35 states had ratified the amendment, one shy of ratification. Many Democratic-controlled state legislatures voted against ratification – Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina and Virginia. Of the 36 states to ratify the 19th Amendment, 26 were Republican states. Tennessee became a critical battleground state. Its state legislature was deadlocked at 48-48. The deciding vote was cast by a 23-year-old Republican State Representative named Harry T. Burn. Burn voted for its passage on Aug. 18, 1920, making Tennessee the required 36th state. On August 26, 1920, U.S. Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified the 19th Amendment.
This old BS history myth just won’t go away. The KKK at its height in the 1920’s was comprised of both democrats and republicans. The klan was headquartered in Indiana, a predominantely republican state.
The klan at its peak in the 1920s included many republicans, including the GOP dominated Indiana State legislature which passed a KKK day at the State Fair in 1922. Both Indiana and Colorado had republican governors who were members of the klan and/or were politically supported by the klan.
The main policies of the klan were pro-temperance, pro-nationalists and anti-immigration. Views shared by both democrats and republicans in the early 20th century.
How old are you and who told you that dribble, I lived through that time and that is completely false!