Shaun Winkler, a white supremacist in Idaho running as a Republican for Bonner County sheriff, is defending his recent cross burning ceremony, after having invited members of the media to attend the event last week.
"Mainstream society looks at cross lighting as a symbol of hate, but it predates the Klan by hundreds of years," Winkler told the Bonner County Daily Bee. "We look at it more as a religious symbol."
Winkler went on to claim the ritual has Scottish roots dating back hundreds of years, but his status as a Ku Klux Klan imperial wizard and his candid admissions of racial and religious prejudice suggest that the decision to burn the cross may take inspiration from a more recent and ugly practice.
The original targets of the Ku Klux Klan were Republicans, both black and white,,
The documentation has been assembled by David Barton of Wallbu More..ilders 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.
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Still trying to push that idea that before the parties flipped and the GOP became the "southern strategy" racists, and the Democrats became the party of FDR, that it's relevant what happened party-wise back in 1868?
God, I love you guys... Just when I think you can't get stupider, you continue to amuse me...
So what conclusion should we draw from this "outrage"? There's probably several comminist sympathisers running as Dems across the country at any given time...so what?
Keep digging deeper into that bucket of insignificant outrages LJ.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
It is an incontrovertible reality that FDR was himself a racist - SOP for Democrats of the time period, and one might argue that the tradition continues forward to this day given the results of Democrat policies on black families and black citizens. FDR invited the white athletes from the 1936 Olympic Team to the White House, but not the black ones - not even Jesse Owens who won 4 gold medals at the games. FDR refused to endorse a federal anti-lynching law because it would cost him votes. FDR refused to change immigration laws to provide Jews a safe haven in the United States leading up to World War II. In 1925 FDR had this to say:
I know a great many cultivated, highly educated and delightful Japanese. They have all told me that they would feel the same repugnance and objection to have thousands of Americans settle in Japan and intermarry with the Japanese as I would feel in having large numbers of Japanese coming over here and intermarry with the American population.
Oh yes indeed - the Democrats are the party of FDR all right. Their agenda hasn't changed much at all, simply the language they use to accomplish it.
I hadn't heard that about FDR, but Eleanor Roosevelt helped keep the Tuskeegee airmen program going.
Back on topic, it is sad when symbols like cross burning, the stars & bars, and the swastica, have come to symbolize great evil even if they weren't originally.
And totally bad call by the candidate.
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