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Uh, oh. Looks like someone quit with the history learnin' around the 1960s!

Maybe you should head to a library...if you aren't still wanting to burn them all down.

Willful ignorance? Sparklin wallows in it.

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An MSNBC host and a liberal congressman seem to have forgotten the Democratic Party's long history with the Ku Klux Klan. WISN's Dan O'Donnell gives them a history lesson.

On Wednesday night, MSNBC host Chris Hayes ripped on Republican senators Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, and Marco Rubio—generally par for the course for Hayes, but what was conspicuous about that segment was that he used a graphic of the three senators' heads as playing cards, the kings, which spelled out on the screen KKK.

That's led to some questioning whether Hayes was actually trying to subliminally link Cruz, Paul, and Rubio's opposition to President Obama to the racism of the Ku Klux Klan.

I'd be more willing to give Hayes the benefit of the doubt and say the graphic was just a coincidence if the day before, liberal Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson of Florida didn't write a fundraising email featuring a picture of a burning cross as the "t" in the word Tea Party.

These sorts of comparisons are unfortunately as common as they are inaccurate.

The KKK was founded in Tennessee immediately after the end of the Civil War as a sort of social club for former Confederate Soldiers whose influence quickly spread through the decimated Southern states. As Columbia professor Eric Foner wrote in his A Short History of Reconstruction, in its early days, the group was loosely bound by one main principle: launching a reign of terror against Republican leaders black and white.

Racism was, of course, a guiding principle, but not quite as guiding as the hatred of the Republicans, the party of Lincoln, the Yankees who early Klansmen believed destroyed their homeland through what they termed a "war of northern aggression."

The Republican Party had been founded in a schoolhouse in Ripon, Wisconsin just 12 years earlier, and Lincoln was its first president. The Klan saw both as just as big a menace as the newly freed slaves. Less than a year after Lincoln's assassination, the Klan's anti-Republican ideology spread rapidly.

As Dr. Foner wrote:

In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy. It aimed to destroy the Republican party's infrastructure, undermine the Reconstruction state, reestablish control of the black labor force, and restore racial subordination in every aspect of Southern life.

In 1868, the Klan elected its first Grand Wizard, Nathaniel Bedford Forrest. Decades later, his grandson wrote in the September 1928 issue of the Klan's Kourier Magazine:

I have never voted for any man who was not a regular Democrat. My father … never voted for any man who was not a Democrat. My grandfather was …the head of the Ku Klux Klan in reconstruction days…. My great-grandfather was a life-long Democrat…. My great-great-grandfather was…one of the founders of the Democratic party.

Under the elder Forrest, the Klan's violence grew almost uncontrollable. PBS' American Experience reports:

In the time leading up to the 1868 presidential election, the Klan's activities picked up in speed and brutality. The election, which pitted Republican Ulysses S. Grant against Democrat Horatio Seymour, was crucial. Republicans would continue programs that prevented Southern whites from gaining political control in their states. Klan members knew that given the chance, the blacks in their communities would vote Republican.

Across the South, the Klan and other terrorist groups used brutal violence to intimidate Republican voters. In Kansas, over 2,000 murders were committed in connection with the election. In Georgia, the number of threats and beatings was even higher. And in Louisiana, 1000 blacks were killed as the election neared. In those three states, Democrats won decisive victories at the polls.

Democrats. Not Republicans, not Tea Partiers. Democrats.

Read more: http://newstalk1130.iheart....z4CgpTKF00

That was a pretty good program. Wish more pepole would watch it, doubt they will.

Note from GoNC: a portion of this post was removed for trolling.

I removed several posts that were off topic and/or trolling.

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The most interesting thing about this thread is that two liberals think that Sparklin is BATMAN posting under a new name.
Yeah, you keep believing that batman' AND...

Beeblebrox42

Beeblebrox42That's just more proof of how dumb they are about figuring out things. No way is Spark, batman.

I sure am glad the Muslim Islamic Extremist didn't hate us when they humiliated the Peanut Farmer President or when they bombed the World Trade Center or even the 9-11 bombings. Nope, they waited on the Republicans to start it. While the democrats are on their blame America first tour they should realize this hatred is not a "new" thing. Communist New Network should be ban from broadcasting. They were one of the first Anti-American socialist promoting propaganda machines to launch the destroy America campaign of the democrat party. I wouldn't watch a shuffle board game at a nursing home on CNN. Somehow they could blame America for the outcome. Or as some on here might say "POOT"

And I got it. Years and years ago, when my kids were little we lived in a Muslim country, and I get it. I think it is not the best representation of US values, but 30 years ago, I can see how it started.

It was an interesting program. Glad I saw it.

We know why they hate us: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Don't tell CNN but she voted for the war. Trump did not.

hey batfake, I think gandy just told you something... LOL, I am sure he told you something.

Yeah, you keep believing that batman? Let's see how side with ya? You harp and moan Obama done this. done that, and all those wonderful soldiers went where they were told and why they were going to sacrifice their lives...One more time FOR WHAT? We all make mistakes..But outright lies are in a class of their own,,Come on back Batman....No wonder Opie stays in hiding..Wonder how many meds it takes for the spirits of those soldiers to stay away so he can sleep? Since you re so intelligent share with us what president has ever lied that much to the people of our country and cost that many lives when he KNEW the whole time his crap was nothing but dam* LIES? And you re stupid enough to even think ANY other present or past president is in the same class

What about this one

https://goo.gl/images/vRDa6Z

Definitely not this hat:

http://iotwreport.com/wp-co...hat-pg.jpg

I saw that documentary. Decent.

And yes these donks should as well, but they are too busy hating back.

Or this hat:

http://shop.donaldjtrump.co...H-RD-2.jpg

This hat:

http://cdn.c.photoshelter.c...oha-15.jpg

Lib-Tards were for the War before they were against it.

Hey stupid... ISIS is Obummer's baby.