"The Republican Party - the Terrorist Wing of the KKK"

[El Pinko]

I don't know if I'm stepping on toes by posting this, as it does reference another thread. I don't have a problem with said thread,

because what it says is accurate. But the headline of that thread makes an association between the democratic party and the KKK,

without mentioning that the times when such an alliance existed were a hundred years ago. The KKK's alignment started drifting toward

the GOP as early as FDR, who with his wife made some contributions to civil rights progress, and by the time Nixon's southern strategy

was in place, the transition of KKK sympathies from the democrats to the GOP was complete. So I want to counterbalance that thread with this one,

where we can list a few of the many connections between the GOP and a myriad of white supremacist groups, because as we all know, David Duke is

just the tip of the iceberg.







http://www.clubs.psu.edu/clubs/sayar/repub/rrp.htm

Racism in the Republican Party

The Republican Party has come full circle from the days of Abraham Lincoln and so disproportionately represents the interests of white people that it ought to be renamed the White People's Party. The most recent chairman of the Republican National Committee, Haley Barbour, associates himself with the most despicable kinds of white racists -- those who have money and power. Haley Barbour recently appeared side-by-side with the Council of Concerned Citizens (aka the CCC, the Coo Clucks Clan, and the Uptown KKK), a white racist hate group which is almost exclusively male and which is off-limits to blacks, jews, and other minorities.

Haley Barbour's friends in the all-white CCC wave confederate flags, espouse deporting blacks to Africa, claim the Holocaust was a hoax, oppose immigration of Asians, Latinos, and other minorities, have ties to the French neo-fascist Le Pen, and oppose the mixing of races which they call miscegenation.

Haley Barbour's CCC friends support the neo-fascist, nazi-revivalist, prison inmate Eric Zundel, the son of a German Nazi, in his fight against the Zionist "New World Order."

Haley Barbour's CCC friends oppose black voting rights and say "...negroes should not even be labeled as being in the same "nation" as Whites, much less should they be given any voting rights..." CCC writer George Crane (http://www.cofcc.org/articles.htm).

[El Pinko]

1. Am I the only one annoyed...

That a thread called "KKK, the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party" is bouncing up and down the board?

It's so easily misconstrued.


If we are going to talk about racism in political parties, I'd personally rather talk about today, not 100 years ago.

[Thothmes]

2. Between 1932 and 1941

What civil rights programs or progress did FDR oversee?

[El Pinko]

3. Although he was hemmed in by the Dixiecrats, he did achieve a few things...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt's_record_on_civil_rights

Roosevelt...did move Blacks into important advisory roles, brought them as delegates to the Democratic National Convention for the first time, abolished the two-thirds rule that gave the South veto power over presidential nominations, added a civil rights plank for the first time ever to the 1940 party platform, and included Blacks in the draft with the same rights and pay scales as whites.
In June 1941 Roosevelt issued Executive Order 8802, which created the Fair Employment Practices Committee (FEPC). It was the most important federal move in support of the rights of African Americans between Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The President's order stated that the federal government would not hire any person based on their race, color, creed, or national origin. The FEPC enforced the order to ban discriminatory hiring within the federal government and in corporations that received federal contracts. Millions of blacks and women achieved better jobs and better pay as a result. The war brought the race issue to the forefront. The Army and Navy had been segregated since the Civil War. But by 1940 the African-American vote had largely shifted from Republican to Democrat, and African-American leaders like Walter White of the NAACP and T. Arnold Hill of the Urban League had become recognized as part of the Roosevelt coalition. In June 1941, at the urging of A. Philip Randolph, the leading African-American trade unionist, Roosevelt signed an executive order establishing the Fair Employment Practice Commission and prohibiting discrimination by any government agency, including the armed forces. In practice the services, particularly the Navy and the Marines, found ways to evade this order — the Marine Corps remained all-white until 1943. In September 1942, at Eleanor's instigation, Roosevelt met with a delegation of African-American leaders, who demanded full integration into the forces, including the right to serve in combat roles and in the Navy, the Marine Corps and the United States Army Air Forces. Roosevelt, with his usual desire to please everyone, agreed, but then did nothing to implement his promise. It was left to his successor, Harry S. Truman, to fully desegregate the armed forces.


A mixed bag, but it represented progress at the time, and blacks were heavily represented at FDR's funeral, which seems to indicate that blacks understood that there were limits to what FDR could be expected to do at the time.