Tea Party Racism

Tea Party/ KKK it isn't a surprised that the TP didn't surface until a black man moved into the white house. I was disapointed that racism was still so strong in the U.S.

Watched the video, saw very little racism.

I agree wholeheartedly with sscott. I would hardly call that racist.... Now xenophobic?...... Definitely!

I grew up in Levy county Fl. Went to a segregated school. For those who wonder where Levy county is, and why it's important, watch the movie Rosewood, or read about Rosewood.

There was no mass exodus to the GOP. In the 70's and 80's you could not win in Levy county unless you were a democrat.

In the 90's, the GOP finally started making inroads in that part of Florida.

As for today, I don't think any of them are that bright to figure out what party to belong to.

There is the honest truth, voted your comment up for just that statement.

It's really sad to see these fools still around.

Agreed, and they can be from either main party, or from neither.

The year after the signing of the Civil Rights Bill, our school had it's first African American. We still had the State Militia then, and there were 12 with this kid, from the time he left him, till they brought him back. Next year...75 and not one State Militia.

60's were about the worse for the state. '68 I left and hardly ever went back. Of course that's when I found out that there were people a whole lot worse than Mississippians.

the KKK was and still is a Democrat group.

No one believes that, you know:). That is, no one but desperately self-deluding rightists:).

http://www.nationalblackrepublicans.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.DYKKKKTerroristArmoftheDemocratParty&page_id=93&tp_preview=true

http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/oped/owens/02/racism.html

http://conservatismexplained.blogspot.com/2009/01/democratic-party-invented-klu-klux-klan.html

http://biggovernment.com/mzak/2010/07/16/the-ku-klux-klan-terrorist-wing-of-the-democratic-party/

http://www.americanconservativedaily.com/2010/08/kkk-and-the-democratic-party/

Right. No one believes it. Educate yourself a bit. Sorry to burst your bubble there, to shake your convictions like that, but the KKK is a Democrat invention, and the first targets were Republicans.

Wiki has a fairly good article about it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan

As a secret vigilante group, the Klan reacted against Radical Republican control of Reconstruction by attempting to restore white supremacy by threats and violence, including murder, against black and white Republicans.

Its predecessor had been an exclusively partisan Democratic organization in the South. The second Klan grew in the Midwest, where for a time, its members were courted by both Republicans and Democrats. The KKK state organizations endorsed candidates from either party that supported its goals; Prohibition in particular helped the Klan and some Republicans to make common cause in the Midwest. In the South, however, the southern Klan remained Democratic, closely allied with Democratic police, sheriffs, and other functionaries of local government. With continuing disfranchisement of most African Americans and many poor whites, the only political activity took place within the Democratic Party.

Right. No one believes it. Educate yourself a bit. Sorry to burst your bubble there, to shake your convictions like that, but the KKK is a Democrat invention, and the first targets were Republicans.

According to Wikipedia, the original KKK was formed by Democrats, but as the world turned they are now Republicans. I believe the coded message that you failed to decipher Is.......That was then, and this Is Now.

Be careful with the TEA.

but as the world turned they are now Republicans.

A non-leftist link? Wonder why wiki didn't say that? Hmmm.

Enough koolaid.

Very true Mc Spocky, in the late 60's after the ratification of the civil rights laws, may of the "southern" Democrats, the ones that believed in the KKK and segregation could no longer feel comfortable in their party because it had abandoned their earlier racist policies. They were welcomed with open arms by the GOP throughout the early 70's without regard to their racist beliefs, just to garner seats in congress. A number, like Sen. Byrd denounced their previous views and stayed in the party, but most were absorbed into what is now the "Moral Majority" faction of the GOP. This is evidenced by the Republican stronghold across the south.

Read and educate yourselves before posting such ignorance.

http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.928/article_detail.asp

There was no southern strategy, and the Republican inroads in the south has absolutely nothing to do with racism.

By the way, I've lived all over the country, and the most racism I've ever seen was in a state North of the Mason Dixon line.

So it is only a coincidence that all of the southern dems are now southern republicans. Sure it is.

So you are biased against Southerners?

Like I said, the most racist place I lived was in the North.

convictions like that, but the KKK is a Democrat invention,

To put it more accurately, it was a conservative invention.

Correct, Conservatism, by definition, is:

(Latin: conservare, "to preserve")^[1] is a political and social philosophy that promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports minimal and gradual change in society. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others oppose modernism and seek a return to "the way things were."

The last line is the most telling, it embodies the philosophy of the GOP/tea party, the way we were, even if we never were that way. Conservatisim is the antithesis of the Progressive movement, the basis for the current Democrat party.

I was always told that to mention the "Moral Majority" and the GOP in the same sentence, was a contradiction in terms.