Ku Klux Klan not founded by the Democratic Party

AProudLefty said:

Ku Klux Klan not founded by the Democratic Party​


CLAIM: The Ku Klux Klan was formed by the Democratic Party.

AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The Ku Klux Klan was not formed by the Democratic Party.

THE FACTS: The Klan first emerged after the Civil War in an effort to intimidate Southern blacks to stay out of politics and to exploit their labor. It was created in Pulaski, Tennessee, by Confederate veterans: Frank McCord, Richard Reed, John Lester, John Kennedy, J. Calvin Jones and James Crowe. Mark Pitcavage, senior fellow at the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, told The Associated Press that it was originally designed “purely for entertainment, with no political motivations.”
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Correct the Democrat party did not found the KKK. The KKK was founded by Democrats. Republicans that tried to register freed Blacks to vote were lynched right along the side of Blacks. Virtually everyone in the KKK was a Democrat. Lincoln was a Republican so virtually everyone who still disagreed with emancipation , the KKK, were Democrats.
 
But after Reconstruction ended, when the federal troops went home, Democrats roared back into power in the South. They quickly reestablished white supremacy across the region with measures like black codes – laws that restricted the ability of blacks to own property and run businesses. And they imposed poll taxes and literacy tests, used to subvert the black citizen’s right to vote.And how was all of this enforced? By terror -- much of it instigated by the Ku Klux Klan,founded by a Democrat, Nathan Bedford Forrest. As historian Eric Foner - himself a Democrat - notes:“In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.” President Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, shared many views with the Klan. He re-segregated many federal agencies, and even screened the first movie ever played at the White House -the racist film “The Birth of a Nation,” originally entitled “The Clansman.”

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FastLane said:
Correct the Democrat party did not found the KKK. The KKK was founded by Democrats. Republicans that tried to register freed Blacks to vote were lynched right along the side of Blacks. Virtually everyone in the KKK was a Democrat. Lincoln was a Republican so virtually everyone who still disagreed with emancipation , the KKK, were Democrats.
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They know this - they just think they can rewrite history. They want to blame their sins on their victims.

From the trail of tears, slavery, the Klan, Jim Crow, to BLM, the democrats have been behind virtually all racism in America.

democrats, democrats never change.
 
FastLane said:
“In effect, the Klan was a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.” As historian Eric Foner - himself a Democrat - notes:
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The Klan was the terrorist wing of the democrat party.

Just as the modern Klan - BLM - is the terrorist wing of the party now.

democrats, democrats never change.
 
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