KKK's Targets Were Black and White Republicans

In honor of MLK Day this year, let's set the record straight on the democratic party and blacks.

Here is a companion post to our earlier "Why Martin Luther King Was Republican"(below).

This time, let's look at David Barton's book, "Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White," which details the hand-in-glove relationship between the KKK and the democratic party, and that the Klan's targets were republicans, both black and white.

It is well-known that the KKK and white supremacists in the south murdered northern civil rights activists who came south to help blacks with their anti-segregation struggles. These Yankees/Northerners were known as "outside agitators."

What we found surprising is that the KKK murdered so many southern blacks and whites who were republicans.

Read on:

KKK's 1st Targets Were Republicans
by Bob Unruh

The original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans, both black and white, according to a new television program and book, which describe how the Democrats started the KKK and for decades harassed the GOP with lynchings and threats.

An estimated 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites died at the end of KKK ropes from 1882 to 1964.

The documentation has been assembled by David Barton of Wallbuilders and published in his book "Setting the Record Straight: American History in Black & White," which reveals that not only did the Democrats work hand-in-glove with the Ku Klux Klan for generations, they started the KKK and endorsed its mayhem.

"Of all forms of violent intimidation, lynchings were by far the most effective," Barton said in his book. "Republicans often led the efforts to pass federal anti-lynching laws and their platforms consistently called for a ban on lynching. Democrats successfully blocked those bills and their platforms never did condemn lynchings."

Further, the first grand wizard of the KKK was honored at the 1868 Democratic National Convention, no Democrats voted for the 14th Amendment to grant citizenship to former slaves and, to this day, the party website ignores those decades of racism, he said.

"Although it is relatively unreported today, historical documents are unequivocal that the Klan was established by Democrats and that the Klan played a prominent role in the Democratic Party," Barton writes in his book. "In fact, a 13-volume set of congressional investigations from 1872 conclusively and irrefutably documents that fact.

"The Klan terrorized black Americans through murders and public floggings; relief was granted only if individuals promised not to vote for Republican tickets, and violation of this oath was punishable by death," he said. "Since the Klan targeted Republicans in general, it did not limit its violence simply to black Republicans; white Republicans were also included."

Click here to read the entire article.

Cartoon of the KKK threatening to hang/lynch carpetbaggers, in this case from Ohio.

Civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo, murdered by the KKK in 1965.

Lynching of Leo Frank, Jewish man accused of rape and murder of Mary Phagan, reportedly by the Ku Klux Klan.

Cross burnings by KKK

Founder of the Ku Klux Klan, William Joseph Simmons.


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