Michael Arceneaux at TheGrio had an excellent post on the Klan, yes, THAT Klan and their attempt to Un-UnAmericanize themselves by counter-protesting the Westboro Baptist Church's protests last Memorial Day. While President Obama was giving his incredible speech at Arlington Cemetary, the Westboro bunch held protest signs insinuating America is doomed and our boys died for Satan.
On the other hand, the KKK metaphorically stood across from these asshats and expounded sound American ideals including:
The Imperial Klan's leader stated, "It's the soldier that fought and died and gave them that right to free speech."
Suddenly the Klan became Republicans as opposed to their historical roots as Democrats.
It's right at this moment in the article when we're transitioning from President Obama's speech being protested by God Hate Fags to the Klan protesting when we're interrupted by a sidebar stating "The Worst Obstructionists in Black History".
Perhaps The Grio and its columists need to step back and consider the history they're presenting. Perhaps they need to consider who the worst offenders and suppressionists of individual freedom are in the United States, based on their slideshow, and their subject's political affiliations.
1. John C. Calhoun
A brilliant orator that we can arguably lay at his feet the roots of the American Civil War. He was a firm believer in States' rights, limited federal government, and free trade. On the other hand he called negro slavery a "positive good."
John Calhoun's political persuasion was Democrat.
2. Jefferson Davis
President of the Confedate States of America; Secretary of War under Democrat Franklin Pierce; Senator from Mississippi, Democrat.
3. Robert E. Lee
General Bobby Lee was never a politician; he was an officer in the Corp of Engineers and never held political office. I negate Lee's addition to Grio's list as he held no influence and testified before Congress in 1866 stating his "willingness that blacks should be educated, and ... that it would be better for the blacks and for the whites."
4. Andrew Johnson
According to TheGrio, Andrew Johnson was "A Confederate sympathizer, Johnson, who survived impeachment, pardoned all Confederates instead of punishing them in 1868."
Johnson was the interim president between the Republican Lincoln and the Republican Grant. He was a Democrat.
5. Jim Crow
The state sponsored separation of white and black peoples on a social and physical level across every aspect of personal interaction. You can find the modern corollary in mid-Eastern Islamic law and their treatment of Christians and Jews. Jim Crow laws lasted almost a century fortified by Southern Democrats.
6. The Ku Klux Klan
Every founding member, every local Klan group was founded by Democrats.
7. The Birth of a Nation
The movie. Based on Dixon's The Clansman from the early 20th Century. I now nothing about it.
8. Red Summer of 1919
They beat the shit out of Negros coming up out of the South. "Yew ain't takin' my job!" was the rallying cry from the Eastern and Southern Europeans. On the other hand, those same "white people" massacred my Stoch/Irish ancestors for doing jobs cheaper than the "whites" could.
9. Strom Thurmond
Prior to the 1964 Civil Rights Act, he was a Democrat. Then he switched parties.
The Republicans were consistantly 80+% in favor of granting equal rights to all individuals. Only 2/3rds of Democrats thought that blacks deserved equality.
He was still a Democrat during the Jim Crow years and advocated complete separation of black and white people.
10. White Citizens Council
I have no idea why they're even on the List. This is a group that was completely ineffectual in promoting their ideas. It's a fringe group comparable to the Communisty Party of the United States and had no political muscle.
11. Orval Faubus
36th Governor of Arkansas who decided little black kids can't go to school with little white kids. He decided that the State, the Government, was the only deciding force whether a person could go to school.
Democrat.
12. George Wallace
In 1963 he declared in his gubernatorial speech that:
"In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
Democrat
13. Ross Barnett
Governor of Mississippi from 1960 - 1964
Stated at the Ole Miss/U of KY game that:
"I love Mississippi! I love her people! Our customs. I love and respect our heritage."
Riots ensued when the first black person walked onto Mississippi's campus, James Meredith, Oct 1st, 1962.
Democrat
14. Bull Connor
He was the Public Safety Officer in charge of the Birmingham, AL Fire and Police force. He's forever immortalized as the fascist asshole who turned fire hoses and dogs loose on peaceful demonstrators. His defense was they're Communists.
Democrat
15. The Affirmative Action Rollback
This is about Prop 209 out of California in 1996 which in effect amended the state constitution to prohibit public institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity. For any type of quotas. Ref Grio's picture of a black woman carrying a placard stating "The Klan Supports 209" as opposed to Martin Luthor King's speech at the Lincoln Memorial in 1968 where he stated:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character."
Black folks, I can't believe you stand by a party that's stood for your subjugation for the last 180 years. Everything the Democratic Party supports is the opposite of where you wish to be.

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