We sure did get a Passel o' Stupid in reply to our piece suggesting that Memphis should get rid of its big Nathan Bedford Forrest statue (the public one, not the crazy-ass Nashville abominationabove, which is on private land), seeing as how the guy was a vicious racist and war criminal.
I have always found it interesting that when conservative, GOPers bring up the fact that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson (a Democrat) was a racist, that they are also remarkably silent on the matter of Wilson's Secretary of State --- the anti-evolution fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan of the 1925 Scopes Trial fame --- was himself a defender of the Klu Klux Klan who opposed a highly controversial resolution at the 1924 Democratic convention, condemning the Ku Klux Klan.
Actually, the second era of the Klu Klux Klan, particularly, the Indiana Klan, veered sharply into the Republican camp during the 1920s under D.C. Stephenson --- Indiana's Klan organization reached its peak of power in the following years, when it had 250,000 members, an estimated 30% of native-born white men across the state. By 1925 over half the elected members of the Indiana General Assembly, the Governor of Indiana, and many other high-ranking officials in local and state government were members of the Klan --- and Republican.
Oh, and the Ku Klux Klan (both the Indiana klans and their southern cousins) successfully recruited many Protestant pastors by offering these "men of God" free membership into the Klu Klux Klan..
How the Republicans and Democrats switched sides is a complex tale too long to tell here. But basically, up till the New Deal, Federal and local policy were separate realms. You could be an economic progressive and social reactionary, like William Jennings Bryan. But as Federal policy increasingly impinged on local policies, progressives migrated to the Democratic Party. So yes, it's perfectly true that Democrats were the party of the KKK. It's as relevant to today's politics as refusing to shop IKEA because the Vikings raped your great-times-forty grandmother. The real question is, if we were to try to restore Jim Crow, who'd back it?
Truth to tell, you may have gotten out a step or two ahead or me but Herr Luther is only a touch less disillusioning, when you come right down to it. Don't get me started about Calvin.
There is a lot of good music, both Romish and Protestant, but I don't worship music. I just enjoy it.
Stop trying to make me like Arianna Huffington.
Comme ça?
A Wonki!
Or much of an IQ.
I have always found it interesting that when conservative, GOPers bring up the fact that U.S. President Woodrow Wilson (a Democrat) was a racist, that they are also remarkably silent on the matter of Wilson's Secretary of State --- the anti-evolution fundamentalist William Jennings Bryan of the 1925 Scopes Trial fame --- was himself a defender of the Klu Klux Klan who opposed a highly controversial resolution at the 1924 Democratic convention, condemning the Ku Klux Klan.
Actually, the second era of the Klu Klux Klan, particularly, the Indiana Klan, veered sharply into the Republican camp during the 1920s under D.C. Stephenson --- Indiana's Klan organization reached its peak of power in the following years, when it had 250,000 members, an estimated 30% of native-born white men across the state. By 1925 over half the elected members of the Indiana General Assembly, the Governor of Indiana, and many other high-ranking officials in local and state government were members of the Klan --- and Republican.
Oh, and the Ku Klux Klan (both the Indiana klans and their southern cousins) successfully recruited many Protestant pastors by offering these "men of God" free membership into the Klu Klux Klan..
lol
How the Republicans and Democrats switched sides is a complex tale too long to tell here. But basically, up till the New Deal, Federal and local policy were separate realms. You could be an economic progressive and social reactionary, like William Jennings Bryan. But as Federal policy increasingly impinged on local policies, progressives migrated to the Democratic Party. So yes, it's perfectly true that Democrats were the party of the KKK. It's as relevant to today's politics as refusing to shop IKEA because the Vikings raped your great-times-forty grandmother. The real question is, if we were to try to restore Jim Crow, who'd back it?
And 200 other guys.
Someone compared that statue in your picture to pouring molten metal over the Burger King King. I would SO buy tickets to see that.
Truth to tell, you may have gotten out a step or two ahead or me but Herr Luther is only a touch less disillusioning, when you come right down to it. Don't get me started about Calvin.
There is a lot of good music, both Romish and Protestant, but I don't worship music. I just enjoy it.
Absolutely not a single thing. Heh, heh, heh, says the addict.
Simon Templar? As in the British fictional character called 'The Saint', who drove a Volvo?"
What idiot would call himself that and not capitalize the 'T' in Templar?
Ben Wa is good to go either way...
try refreshing- I've seen Discus revert to a cached version, then the newer page comes back after reloading
Ben al-Overthemap, then?
sounds Muslin