Ku Klux Klan and the Democratic Party:The Close and Shameful Links

Michael Zak in Big Government has a fascinating article on the close links between the Democratic Party and the Ku Klux Klan. The author conclusively proves the hypothesis that the KKK was the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party. Indeed he might also have mentioned that it was a Republican Party President, Abraham Lincoln who freed the slaves. This is something of which most African- Americans are blissfully unaware. The author might also have mentioned the following: The Republican Party did not oppose Teddy Roosevelt’s anti-lynching legislation. It did not in any way oppose more than a dozen other anti-lynching provisions during the 20th century.
Republicans didn’t implement school segregation, or establish poll taxes and literacy tests to keep non-whites from voting. Such avowed racists as Bull Connor, George Wallace, Lester Maddox, and Orval Faubus were Democrats.
Indeed prominent Democrat Robert Byrd in the 1940s recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan.
Here is an excerpt from Michael Zaks article:

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) has falsely accused the Tea Party of having ties to the Ku Klux Klan. Speaking at the NAACP convention, she said: “All those who wore sheets a long time ago lifted them off to wear Tea Party clothing.”
Now is the time to speak some Truth to Power.

It would have been far more truthful for the congresswoman to have admitted the fact that all those who wore sheets a long time ago lifted them to wear Democratic Party clothing. Yes, the Ku Klux Klan was established by the Democratic Party. Yes, the Ku Klux Klan murdered thousands of Republicans — African-American and white – in the years following the Civil War. Yes, the Republican Party and a Republican President, Ulysses Grant, destroyed the KKK with their Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.

How did the Ku Klux Klan re-emerge in the 20th century? For that, the Democratic Party is to blame.

It was a racist Democrat President, Woodrow Wilson, who premiered Birth of a Nation in the White House. That racist movie was based on a racist book written by one of Wilson’s racist friends from college. In 1915, the movie spawned the modern-day Klan, with its burning crosses and white sheets.....(Read on here)