What is the relationship between the Republican Party and the KKK? Are many Republicans, Klansmen and women?
I saw a documentary on the History Channel about the KKK and their involvement in politics. So many of their "policies" are similar to those of the GOP or those who speak for the GOP that it cannot be co-incidental.
2009-10-04T12:36:26Z
It is ironic that the party of Lincoln virtualy fought against the Civil Rights Movement. It also uses religion and the phobia of communism and socialism to project its causes - very similar to the KKK. It also seems that it is mostly the Republicans who continue to use the Confederate Flag which is an offence to blacks and other minorities.
There is absolutely no connection to the kkk from the GOP but democrat senator Robert Byrd was a member of the kkk. the GOP is the party of Lincoln and has done more for minorities than the left has ever done. The left tries to hold minorities down and make them dependent on them so they can have control while the right tries to help all Americans prosper and have opportunity.
Actually, the KKK is associated with the Democrats.
E.g., see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Byrd
In part:
Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan when he was 24 in 1942. His local chapter unanimously elected him Exalted Cyclops.
According to Byrd, a Klan official told him, "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd later recalled, "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did." Byrd held the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops.
In 1944, Byrd wrote to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo: “ I shall never fight in the armed forces with a ***** by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. ”
— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944,
I have never bothered to ask any member of the White Patriots Party that I have ran into are they a Republican or a Democrat because it does not matter. making their day miserable is the only thing I cared about.