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Due to the current state wide fire ban,
All cross burnings have been cancelled.

God, I love the "Revisionist History of Conservative Civil Rights"...I could sit and watch it for hours... rofllol rofllol

The Conservative Fantasy History of Civil Rights

The civil rights movement, once a controversial left-wing fringe, has grown deeply embedded into the fabric of our national story. This is a salutary development, but a problematic one for conservatives, who are the direct political descendants of (and, in the case of some of the older members of the movement, the exact same people as) the strident opponents of the civil rights movement. It has thus become necessary for conservatives to craft an alternative story, one that absolves their own ideology of any guilt. The right has dutifully set itself to its task, circulating its convoluted version of history, honing it to the point where it can be repeated by any defensive College Republican in his dorm room. Kevin Williamson’s cover story in National Review is the latest version of what is rapidly congealing into conservatism’s revisionist dogma.

Williamson crafts a tale in which the Republican Party is and always has been the greatest friend the civil rights cause ever had. The Republican takeover of the white South had absolutely nothing to do with civil rights, the revisionist case proclaims, except insofar as white Southerners supported Republicans because they were more pro-civil rights.

His story completely ignores the explicit revolt by conservative Southerners against the northern liberal civil rights wing, beginning with Strom Thurmond, who formed a third-party campaign in 1948 in protest against Harry Truman’s support for civil rights. Thurmond received 49 percent of the vote in Louisiana, 72 percent in South Carolina, 80 percent in Alabama, and 87 percent in Mississippi. He later, of course, switched to the Republican Party.

Williamson concedes, with inadvertently hilarious understatement, that the party “went through a long dry spell on civil-rights progress” — that would be the century that passed between Reconstruction and President Eisenhower’s minimalist response to massive resistance in 1957. But after this wee dry spell, the party resumed and maintained its natural place as civil rights champion. To the extent that Republicans replaced Democrats in the South, Williamson sees their support for civil rights as the cause. (“Republicans did begin to win some southern House seats, and in many cases segregationist Democrats were thrown out by southern voters in favor of civil-rights Republicans.”) As his one data point, Williamson cites the victory of George Bush in Texas over a Democrat who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act. He correctly cites Bush’s previous record of moderation on civil rights but neglects to mention that Bush also opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/05/co ... ights.html

And if you rearrange the letters in "GOP" and add a few more letters you get:

"Why don't you self-deport yourselves you tax-avoiding, tax-cheating, neo-nazi, teabagging, moronic, social-safety-net-cutting, selfish, xenophobic, homophobic, red-baiting, hate-mongering, retarded scum-bag jihadists, and take those other sheet-wearing, cross-burning, beer-swilling, knuckle-dragging, bible-thumpin', creation-believing, sheep-screwing, gun-fondling, flag-waving, faux-patriotic, sociopathic, raggedy-ass fascists with you."

Who knew?

Martin Ent Inc wrote: Once again, the clan was started by democrats, not only against race but against republicans.
So I am sure LJ has her nice robes hanging in the closet ready for action when she gets the call.

You know....history is interesting, but it doesn't define who we are. You know, or you should know, if you do indeed read any history, that the racist Southern Democrats are pretty much gone.....I guess they all became Republicans when the Democratic party started fighting for civil rights, women's rights, and most recently LGBT rights. I will judge people, parties, and groups by who they are today not by what they represented in a former era. What have the Republicans done lately for women, or blacks, or Hispanics, or the LGBT community? Squat.