NY Times: Tea Party Identical To KKK at Pat Dollard

NY Times: Tea Party Identical To KKK

November 28th, 2011 (12) Posted By The Assassin.

(NY Times) — Imagine a political movement created in a moment of terrible anxiety, its origins shrouded in a peculiar combination of manipulation and grass-roots mobilization, its ranks dominated by Christian conservatives and self-proclaimed patriots, its agenda driven by its members’ fervent embrace of nationalism, nativism and moral regeneration, with more than a whiff of racism wafting through it.

No, not that movement. The one from the 1920s, with the sheets and the flaming crosses and the ludicrous name meant to evoke a heroic past. The Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, they called it. And for a few years it burned across the nation, a fearsome thing to behold.

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In “One Hundred Percent American,” Thomas R. Pegram, a professor of history at Loyola University Maryland, traces the Invisible Empire’s meteoric rise and equally precipitous fall. The ’20s Klan was born, he explains — or more precisely was reborn — on Thanksgiving evening 1915, when 16 Southerners trooped up Stone Mountain, in Georgia, for a bit of ritual bunkum inspired by D. W. Griffith’s incendiary film “The Birth of a Nation.” The group’s leader, a one-time Methodist minister named William Simmons, hoped to turn the men into a fraternal organization that night: sort of a Rotary for white supremacists. But he had no idea how to do it. So for five years the Klan stagnated, until Simmons handed the operation over to a couple of publicity agents, Elizabeth Tyler and Edward Young Clarke, who knew a thing or two about the dark art of marketing.

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Lee Howard

too bad they skipped over the original Klan of 1865-1874. I liked the description in wikipedia:

Historian Eric Foner observed:
In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired restoration of white supremacy. Its purposes were political, but political in the broadest sense, for it sought to affect power relations, both public and private, throughout Southern society. It aimed to reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over the South during Reconstruction: 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 (citation as footnote 40)

DC

That’s pretty funny considering wikipedia is run by liberals and socialists! I’d be willing to bet some puke libtard will come along and change the context of the discription to reflect their bullshit spin on history!
DC

That’s pretty funny considering wikipedia is run by liberals and socialists! I’d be willing to bet some puke libtard will come along and change the context of the discription to reflect their bullshit spin on history!
Anonymous

“Reconstruction” *spit* the only thing I could compare it to is if Sharia law was declared and Muslims were placed in charged of the U.S. on 9-12-01
Anonymous

“Reconstruction” *spit* the only thing I could compare it to is if Sharia law was declared and Muslims were placed in charged of the U.S. on 9-12-01
Anonymous

“Reconstruction” *spit* the only thing I could compare it to is if Sharia law was declared and Muslims were placed in charged of the U.S. on 9-12-01

Lee Howard

too bad they skipped over the original Klan of 1865-1874. I liked the description in wikipedia:

Historian Eric Foner observed:
In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired restoration of white supremacy. Its purposes were political, but political in the broadest sense, for it sought to affect power relations, both public and private, throughout Southern society. It aimed to reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over the South during Reconstruction: 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 (citation as footnote 40)
Lee Howard

too bad they skipped over the original Klan of 1865-1874. I liked the description in wikipedia:

Historian Eric Foner observed:
In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic party, the planter class, and all those who desired restoration of white supremacy. Its purposes were political, but political in the broadest sense, for it sought to affect power relations, both public and private, throughout Southern society. It aimed to reverse the interlocking changes sweeping over the South during Reconstruction: 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 (citation as footnote 40)
YERMOM

hmmm…. if the TEA Party was filled with Democrats they might be like the KKK
Anonymous

LMAO…The Klan never quaked in fear when someone pointed out they were an all White organization.
The Shadow

I had a Klan member car mechanic who worked on my old 78 280Z car when Ii moved to Florida in the early 90′s. Great dude. Straight up no frills no bullshit.

He fixed my car. He worked 12 hours a day busting his butt. I paid the guy straight up cash plus 20%.

As a real American I respected his right to join whatever club or group he wanted. That is his Constitution protected right.

The guy was never violent never cussed or said a bad word. He threw the N bomb around but very rarely.

PS I am a Yankee guy from the bastion of the cradle of liberty in New England.

So go fuck yourself Chris Matthews fake tough guy lefties

Guest

LMAO.