Alabama GOPer Posts Meme Comparing Dem Congresswomen To KKK

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo


By KRISTIN SALAKY Published MARCH 3, 2017, 12:00 PM EST

Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL) is asking that Alabama Auditor Jim Zeigler apologize for a photo he posted Wednesday night comparing the women of House Democrats wearing white to President Donald Trump's speech to a joint session on Congress to the members of the Ku Klux Klan, AL.com reported Thursday.

The meme, captured in a screenshot by WSFA, features a group photo of the congresswomen alongside a photo of members of the Klan saying that "Nancy Pelosi and the Klannettes" are appearing"without hoods." Zeigler posted the meme with the caption "Sometimes humor can make a serious point."

Link to tweet

Sewell, who appears in the photo, told AL.com that the comparison was "insulting" and pointed out that the reason the women were wearing white was to honor the suffragist movement. She called on Zeigler to apologize.

"I wore white to President Trump's Joint Session address in solidarity with my other female colleagues to honor those American women who sacrificed so that all women could have an equal voice in our democracy," she told AL.com.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/zeigler-hosue-dems-wear-white-klan-picture

[DetlefK]

1. How could the KKK possibly be something bad??? They are amongst Trump's most fervent supporters!!!

Would Republicans be mad if we call Trump the KKK-President?

[heaven05]

11. I do call him that

wherever and whenever it's appropriate, which today is everywhere.

[vlyons]

2. Trumpsters don't read history

I'm not certain that they can even read. Certainly don't read much beyond the Bible Old Testament. Wish would hurry up and get to the New Testament to learn about peace, tolerance, justice, equality, and compassion, feeding the poor and healing the sick.

[luvMIdog]

3. The republicans are now a party of Smellyanne knockoffs

They are all busy trying to project all their nuttiness onto the Dems right now

[Tiggeroshii]

4. Careful bud, you don't want to lose your constituency.

[dalton99a]

6. +1

[skypilot]

5. Sometimes humor can make a serious point.

This is a Republican thinking that he's being funny. And making a point. Fucking idiot.

[Judi Lynn]

18. No humor anywhere in it, and no point can be made. It's simple drool.

[center]

Auditor Zeigler.[/center]

[Tanuki]

7. From the Southern Poverty Law Center, re Zeigler:

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/09/21/hatewatch-exclusive-alabama-state-auditor-addresses-racist-league-south

"Jim Zeigler, the Alabama state auditor, addressed the neo-Confederate League of the South (LOS) at the group’s Wetumpka headquarters last week to discuss his efforts to return portraits of Governors George and Lurleen Wallace to the Alabama Statehouse rotunda, Hatewatch has learned.
“It’s quite unfortunate that a public official would lend legitimacy to a hate group by appearing at one of its functions. And believe me, the League of the South is about hate, not heritage,” Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen said on Monday.

The portraits were removed this March in advance of the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March, which began infamously on “Bloody Sunday” when Alabama State Troopers viciously beat peaceful civil rights marchers as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma. Since the portraits were removed, Zeigler has been pushing for their return.
.........

It is not known if Zeigler is a dues-paying member of the League of the South, nor have the details of his address last Thursday to the League been made clear. He did not return several messages left with his office seeking an explanation for why an elected official would attend a gathering of a neo-Confederate hate group – one that has worked to achieve a second secession and establish an ethnostate for white, Christian southerners. The LOS has gone farther than nostalgic Confederate daydreams, too. In recent years, its rhetoric has turned, it has built a paramilitary militia known as "the Indomitables" and LOS president Michael Hill has fantasized about a race war he and his followers believe to be on the horizon.

“Negroes are more impulsive than whites,” Hill wrote in an essay published last May. “Tenacity and organization are not the negroes [sic] strong suits. If [a race war] could be won by ferocity alone, he might have a chance. But like the adrenaline rush that sparks it, ferocity is short lived. And it can be countered by cool discipline, an historic white trait.”

Zeigler, who is also a member of a closed LOS Facebook group, didn’t mention any of that on the Facebook event page he created for his speech. Instead, he said he was excited for the chance to meet with LOSers –– just “salt-of-the-earth folks,” he said."...........

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. "the chance to meet with LOSers "

cleverly stated.

[yallerdawg]

8. You don't have to scratch deep...

to find crackpot racist, sexist politicians in Alabama!

Statewide office - this won't hurt his chances next election.

[defacto7]

12. That seems to be the truth.

It wasn’t long ago you actually did have to dig around to find them in any state. Oh, they were there but they kept themselves in check.. and I sure had no idea how pervasive racist politicians were. Now hate is vogue.

[Chicago1980]

9. There was a meme similar to this going around the night of Heir Trump's speech.

In that one, klan hats had been photoshopped on the women.

I never knew the klan was so accepting of black women.

[defacto7]

10. If your losing and can't fight the truth...

"Project"!

[dlk]

13. The Deep Pervasiveness of Sexism and Misogyny

If anyone doesn't believe that sexism and misogyny run very deeply in the U. S., then they're not paying attention. To equate women's suffrage with the KKK is beyond ignorant. However, it does explain why in 2017, equal pay for women and equal rights for women, including the right to control their own bodies and reproductive health without government interference is still an ongoing and seemingly uphill battle. Also, keeping this deep disrespect and hatred for women in mind, it makes Hillary Clinton's accomplishments all the more remarkable. We have far to go.

[IronLionZion]

14. Of course, just because they are wearing white

Proving once again the GOP is obsessed with color and too stupid to know the difference.

Perhaps the black and Latina women got lost and went to the wrong meeting?

[ananda]

15. Once again, no bar too low for Reeps

and rightwing whities.

[More_Cowbell]

17. "cool discipline, an historic white trait.

Gee, that doesn't describe Mr. Trump! Maybe the axiom is not meant to apply to orange people.