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The 1924 Klanbake at the Democrat Party National Convention; Sad
Topic Started: Dec 25 2016, 10:59 AM (765 Views)
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The democrat party has had a love relationship with racism and racist organizations for decades upon decades. In an effort to deny this fact, they have tried painting the republican of the later part of the 20th century party as the guilty party. It is true that many Southern democrats joined the republican party, but the reason was the democrat party's embrace of the ultra liberal George McGovern. A candidate that Obama and the liberals would embrace even today. Anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself, today let's review some photos and info about the Klanbake An event the democrats never talk about and the MSM won't touch with a ten foot pole.


http://armored-column.com/the-democratic-klanbake-1924/

The “Klanbake” 1924 Democratic Party National Convention
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New York, New York!Madison Square Garden, New York City, June 24-July 9, 1924


The 1924 Democratic National Convention, also called the “Klanbake”, held at the Madison Square Garden in New York City from June 24 to July 9, 1924, took a record 103 ballots to nominate a presidential candidate.

The Ku Klux Klan, founded and populated by Democratics after post-Civil War Reconstruction, was reenergized after the 1915 release of D.W. Griffith’s very popular racist & Pro-Klan motion picture The Birth of a Nation. The picture was a particular favorite of Democratic President Woodrow Wilson. As recounted by William Keylor, Professor of History & International Relations at Boston University:

While the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People publicly denounced the movie’s blatant appeals to racial prejudice, the president organized a private screening of his friend’s film in the White House for the members of his cabinet and their families. “It is like writing history with lightning,” Wilson observed, “and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”

After World War I, the popularity of the Klan surged, and it became a political power in many regions of the United States, particularly in the South. It was also popular in the border states, the Mountain States, and the West. Its local political strength gave it a major role in the 1924 Democratic Party National Convention (DNC). However, its participation was unwelcome by many DNC delegates, such as Catholics from the major cities of the Northeast and Midwest. The tension between pro- and anti-Klan delegates produced an intense and sometimes violent showdown between convention attendees from the states of Colorado and Missouri. Klan delegates opposed the nomination of New York Governor Al Smith because Smith was a Roman Catholic. Smith campaigned against William Gibbs McAdoo, who had the support of most Klan delegates.

Ku Klux Klan Platform Plank

The second dispute of the convention revolved around an attempt by non-Klan delegates, led by Forney Johnston of Alabama, to condemn the organization for its violence in the Democratic Party’s platform. Klan delegates defeated the platform plank in a series of floor debates. To celebrate, tens of thousands of hooded Klansmen rallied in a field in New Jersey, across the river from New York City. This event, known subsequently as the “Klanbake”, was also attended by hundreds of Klan delegates to the convention, who burned crosses, urged violence and intimidation against African Americans and Catholics, and attacked effigies of Smith.

The final vote was 546.15 for the Klan, 542.85 against it.

When it was OKKK to be KKK!

Newspapers called the convention a “Klanbake,” as pro-Klan and anti-Klan Democratic delegates wrangled bitterly over the party platform. The convention opened on a Monday and by Thursday night, after 61 ballots, the convention was deadlocked. The next day, July 4, some 20,000 Democratic Klan supporters wearing white hoods and robes held a “picnic” in New Jersey. One speaker denounced the “clownvention in Jew York.” They threw baseballs at an effigy of Al Smith. A cross-burning culminated the event.

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A few more tidbits, in the early '20s the KKK had between 1.5 and 5 million members, many of them at the center of political power.

The Klan controlled the governments of Indiana, Oregon, and Colorado, elected other politicians across the country, and played a major role in the Democratic convention of 1924; its members included future president Harry Truman and future Supreme Court justice Hugo Black.

Early scholars assumed that the secret society was overwhelmingly rural, fundamentalist, and driven, in one sociologist's wordsby the "petty impotence of the small-town mind." Two waves of revisionist scholarship have destroyed those assumptions.
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Out of the KKK grew the progressive movement---

1. Progressivism had roots in the Protestant pietist tradition, and its partisans were frequently interested in reforming individuals as well as institutions. It's a quick jump from there to the moral authoritarianism described in Charles Alexander's books. Jane Addams, the Social Gospel activist who played such a big role in passing protective labor regulations and compulsory schooling laws, was also a critic of the "debased form of dramatic art, and a vulgar type of music" that a young person might find in the five-cent theaters, writing that it was "astounding that a city allows thousands of its youth to fill their impressionable minds with these absurdities." Prohibition, that Klan kause kelebre, reached its height as a cause during the Progressive Era, complete with muckraking exposés of the "whiskey ring" and culminating with the passage of the eighteenth amendment in 1919.

2. Racism also had a foothold among the progressives. It might be tempting to argue that bigots like Woodrow Wilson, who introduced Jim Crow rules to the federal government, were merely progressive in some areas and reactionary in others. But the American eugenics movement was tied closely to the progressives' drive for "scientific" reform, and its heyday covered both the Progressive Era and the '20s. Politicians offered eugenic arguments not just for laws that banned miscegenation and allowed authorities to sterilize the allegedly unfit, but for restrictions on immigration from southern and central Europe.

3. The progressives and the Klan shared an interest in mandating public education and eliminating urban political machines. The civic-activist historians tell us that the rank-and-file Klansman's interest in such reforms was frequently a sincere response to corruption and inadequate schooling, though it's clear that their urban proposals owed at least something to their fear of immigrants, and that their education proposals were transparantly anti-Catholic. If the Klan's motives were not purely nativist, then neither were the progressives' purely benign: Just as the Klansmen sometimes shared the progressives' hopes, the latter sometimes shared the Klansmen's fears.

4. In the late 1910s the Klan was a small regional organization. In the early '20s it was large and national. There's a number of reasons why it made this leap, but the biggest may be the effects of World War I. This too marked a connection with progressivism.

As the historian William Leuchtenburg and the economist Murray Rothbard have argued, Wilson's wartime policies were an outgrowth, not a negation, of Progressive Era politics. During the conflict, government planners and "enlightened" corporate leaders replaced a relatively free market with a heavily regimented economy, while intellectuals hoped, in Leuchtenburg's words, to adopt "the same sort of centralized directing now employed to kill their enemies abroad for the new purpose of reconstructing their own life at home."

The repression and nationalism of this period is well-known: Dissidents were arrested, newspapers banned, potentially seditious immigrants deported. There was also a propaganda blitz, described by Alexander in The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest: "During the war the American people had been subjected to the first systematic, nationwide propaganda campaign in the history of the Republic. From both official and unofficial sources poured a torrent of material having the objective of teaching Americans to hate—specifically to hate Germans but, more broadly, everything that did not conform to a formalized conception of '100 percent Americanism.' In the fall of 1918, just as the indoctrination process was reaching its peak, as patriotic feeling was mounting to frenzy, the war came abruptly to an end. Americans who had stored up an enormous volume of superpatriotic zeal now no longer had an official enemy on whom to concentrate this fervor."

One result was the red scare and race riots of 1919. Another, arguably, was to enlarge the number of people primed to join an organization like the Klan. The fact that the original Klan had resisted the idea of a united nation didn't matter, any more than the fact that The Birth of a Nation was overtly antiwar.

Some progressives had been antiwar as well, of course, among them the Wisconsin senator Robert LaFollette, and any argument connecting the Klan to the progressive impulse should take account of the fact that it opposed him strenuously when he ran for president on a third-party ticket in 1924. In fact, the 1924 election indicates the extent to which the Klan was entangled with the progressives. For that was the year of the Democrats' infamous "klanbake" convention, when Klansmen participated heavily as delegates and blocked a platform plank that would have condemned their order. They also entered the presidential race, mostly to oppose the candidacy of Al Smith, who as an anti-prohibitionist and a Catholic was anathema to the group, but also to back a candidate of their own. There was a southern conservative in the race, Sen. Oscar Underwood of Alabama, but he was a critic of the Klan. Instead they endorsed the Californian William McAdoo, son-in-law to the late President Wilson. The convention was deadlocked, and the Democrats wound up picking a compromise candidate, John Davis, whose other claim to fame would be to argue the segregationist side in Brown v. Board of Education three decades later.

But the important thing is McAdoo, the man the Klan actively campaigned for both before and during the convention. What were the man's most notable accomplishments? He had been one of the architects of Wilson's war collectivism, helping create the Council of National Defense and serving as head of the Railroad Administration. And as secretary of the treasury, he had been instrumental in creating one of the Progressive Era's most substantial new interventions in the economy: the Federal Reserve system.

Today the Federal Reserve is more likely to be the object of a Klan conspiracy theory than the source of its favored candidate for president. Today, for that matter, when a movie inspires people to create odd organizations and dress up in costume, they're more likely to end up at a convention devoted to Star Trek than a convention devoted to nominating a presidential candidate. A lot can change in 90 years.
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Yep, in 1627 The KKK was as firmly entrenched in the Democratic camp as they are now entrenched in the Republican camp. Question. Are the Republicans as proud to have gained that support and alignment as the Democrats are to have severed it?
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What makes you think the Democrats severed it, Lowell? With Byrd an integral part of the Klan and Bill Clinton supporting his membership in the Klan and Hillary praising Byrd I don't see where it has been severed.
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Trump: Everyone Likes Me, Even The Klan-

Donald Trump received the endorsement of a former presidential candidate today. Unfortunately that man is David Duke, who also is a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Trump was recently asked about this. "Former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke recently praised Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump for his tough stance on undocumented immigrants, which Duke called the “greatest immediate threat to the American people...”

. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBXrMvcS69M

“And I think he realizes that his path to popularity toward power in the Republican Party is talking about the immigration issue,” the radio host continued. “And he has really said some incredibly great things recently. So whatever his motivation, I don’t give a damn. I really like the fact that he’s speaking out on this greatest immediate threat to the American people.”
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David Duke Did Not Endorse Trump, But Will Vote For Him-

. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3-EP-sPXxE

Watch and then tell me that is NOT an endorsement
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National Fraternal Order of Police endorses Donald Trump-

. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJm7frqW914&t=33s

Yes, the most corrupt and sadistic people in the world endorsed this guy. Very telling. Now they will be unbound, un-stop-able
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Cops Call Trump Protesters N-Word Over Radio-

After the chaos of the Donald Trump rally in Chicago, officers were heard on a police scanner using racial slurs over the radio. "Racial tensions have been brewing in Chicago since the death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. But now things have gotten messier, with the release of an audio recording from The Chicago Police Department, in which a perceived white cop is referring to his perceived black colleagues as “typical f---ing n------.”

. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlV4rl76Fxs

The clip was reportedly pulled from a police scanner by a local radio station, which was then first unearthed by The Daily Beast. At 30 seconds in, you hear an officer flirting with a female dispatcher, asking her: “How many boyfriends do you have?” She responding with saying, “Why you all in my Kool-Aid?”

Then in about 10 seconds later, another cop says, “typical ing ni**ers.”

Later on, we hear another cop whose voice alludes to him being stressed tell the dispatcher, “Find out what radio that comment came from.” She then responds, “We don’t get radio numbers but I’m already hollering for my supervisor.” Lastly, a voice jumps in saying, “All black lives matter, man. ing ni**er.”
Edited by icy-woman, Dec 25 2016, 09:24 PM.
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Just a little research, Jim.
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Beginning in the 1970s, Byrd explicitly renounced his earlier views favoring racial segregation.[58][59] Byrd said that he regretted filibustering and voting against the Civil Rights Act of 1964[60] and would change it if he had the opportunity. He said joining the KKK was "the greatest mistake I ever made."


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd
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And you believed that?
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Severed?
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It's Christmas but does anyone think for a second the Dems would not take KKK money if offered? LOL Especially Clinton?
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