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| Topic Started: Nov 17 2013, 08:06 PM (543 Views) | |
| Whozthatgurl | Nov 17 2013, 08:06 PM Post #1 |
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And some of you want to say that only the Democrats were in the KKK??? YEAH RIGHT!!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._C._StephensonRead who this woman was. What a horrible experience she had.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madge_Oberholtzer |
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| Archaicwisdom | Nov 17 2013, 08:32 PM Post #2 |
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They weren't Republicans. |
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| Archaicwisdom | Nov 17 2013, 08:41 PM Post #3 |
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"Stephenson was born in Houston, Texas, and moved as a child with his family to Maysville, Oklahoma. After some public schooling, he started work as a printer's apprentice and was active in the Socialist Party." "In 1920 at the age of 29, he moved to Evansville, Indiana, where he worked for a retail coal company. He joined the Democratic Party and in 1922, ran unsuccessfully for a Democratic Congressional nomination.[2] He was said to have already "married and abandoned two wives" before settling in Evansville.[1]" |
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| Whozthatgurl | Nov 17 2013, 08:43 PM Post #4 |
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You better keep on reading..... D.C. Stephenson was a republican right after he left the Democrat party. And some of the politicians that took bribes from him were republicans. |
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| Whozthatgurl | Nov 17 2013, 08:45 PM Post #5 |
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Encouraged by his success, in September 1923, Stephenson severed his ties with the existing national organization of the KKK, and formed a rival KKK made up of the chapters he led. That year Stephenson changed his affiliation from the Democratic to the Republican Party, which predominated in Indiana and much of the Midwest. He notably supported Republican Edward L. Jackson, a Klan member, when he ran (successfully) for governor in 1924. Stephenson was noted for having claimed, "I am the law in Indiana."[5] Edited by Whozthatgurl, Nov 17 2013, 08:47 PM.
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| Archaicwisdom | Nov 17 2013, 08:47 PM Post #6 |
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Both Stephenson and Edward Jackson did join the Republican party but they are not products of the Republican party. The wiki I read on Edward Jackson indicates that the Republicans were reluctant to grant association because of his ties to the Klan, and by doing so he had to embrace their stance on "full civil and religious liberty for Jews, Catholics, and blacks." |
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| Whozthatgurl | Nov 17 2013, 08:49 PM Post #7 |
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I don't give a shit, they were republicans. And one could say that THEY STARTED THE RACIST TREND, that is now associated with the republican party. |
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| Archaicwisdom | Nov 17 2013, 08:57 PM Post #8 |
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at least give a shit that you aren't making sense? A few batshit former Democrats, much like the few Dixiecrats after and during the civil rights movement, who became Republicans do not diminish the Republican's historical record of being the leaders of equality. Republicans are deemed racist because they believe we are all equal under the law and therefore do not discuss race issues. Most are definitely insensitive to race issues but not racist. |
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| Whozthatgurl | Nov 17 2013, 09:20 PM Post #9 |
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So what's the damn difference? The republican politicians of today pander to the very same people who come from generations of racist democrats and who NOW call themselves republicans. . You want to hang on to the positive achievments of the republicans party of the past, but you don't want to admit that the republicans have taken on the racist tendancies of the Democrat party of the past. |
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| Archaicwisdom | Nov 17 2013, 10:47 PM Post #10 |
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prove it...in policy. |
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