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You say in one sentence that you're not calling the guy anything, but in the last sentence you seem to criticize me for not thinking that the guy is some sort of plant.
People tend not to run for office as pure puppets in order to play some fourth dimensional chess, people run for office because they want to win public office.
Well, sorry....I do not agree with you.
Now, you can do 1 or 2 things....continue to complain about how wrong I am, and disprove me...or agree to disagree...
Opinions are just that...you have one and so do I...
So you're tired of hearing about Byrd (more likely just bothered by the truth).
Here's a change of pace for you;
Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a “Kleagle” in the Ku Klux Klan.
Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
Democrat President Bill Clinton’s mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Southern Democrats opposed desegregation and integration.
We know southern democrats were racist, anti communist, anti socialist and far right
The lily white movement enough said. The anti civil rights movement in the republican party which sought to remove blacks from leadership position in 1890s
Harry Truman Desegregated the military
You didnt mention that democrats in the south called MLK Jr a communist.
Jesse Helms, trent lott strom thurmond ex democrat, dixiecrats were welcomed into the GOP and helped shaped conservatism in the GOP
DC Stephenson a southern democrat who ran unsucessfully in indiana then turning GOP is responsible for one of the largest Klan populations in the midwest and the whole US as a republican. 1 in 4 adults in Indiana are klansmen/women
James Campbell Matthews
Matthews argued successfully against the city of Albany to force it to desegregate its schools. Matthews also lobbied for a bill to protect the rights of black teachers. Then-Gov. Grover Cleveland, the future U.S. president, signed it into law. Cleveland later nominated Matthews to succeed Frederick Douglass as the recorder of deeds in the nation’s capital.
According to the school, the nomination was rejected by GOP senators who heard news that Matthews was trying to influence Republicans to switch parties.
Clarence Joseph Morley (February 9, 1869 – November 15, 1948) was the 24th Governor of Colorado from 1925 to 1927, serving one two-year term. He was a Republican. Before becoming governor he was a judge in Denver, Colorado. He was a member of the Ku Klux Klan which was an important force in Colorado politics during the 1920s[1] and largely responsible for the division of the Republican and Democratic votes that enabled him to take office
I'm Black. I have no reason to support ANYONE who has any ties with the KKK. Someone change my mind. Give me a reason why I would support the likes of John Abarr.
I'm Black. I have no reason to support ANYONE who has any ties with the KKK. Someone change my mind. Give me a reason why I would support the likes of John Abarr.
Cause Republicans want you to. Simple enough. Politics is about messaging. The message is vote for us even though we disdain you. On both sides.
Cause Republicans want you to. Simple enough. Politics is about messaging. The message is vote for us even though we disdain you. On both sides.
I voted for a 3rd party candidate rather than vote for Trump or Biden. Neither of them were any good. "Republicans want me to vote for them" isn't enough for me. Someone needs to come up with something better. What is in it for me? What do I have to gain, as a Black man, from someone who has ties to the KKK? If the person bringing the message can't come up with anything, forget it.
I voted for a 3rd party candidate rather than vote for Trump or Biden. Neither of them were any good. "Republicans want me to vote for them" isn't enough for me. Someone needs to come up with something better. What is in it for me? What do I have to gain, as a Black man, from someone who has ties to the KKK? If the person bringing the message can't come up with anything, forget it.
Agreed. Vote for your best interests. Honestly most people don't and that goes for both sides. As far as third party goes if they have a platform besides growing weed and unicorns and rainbows i might consider it.
This thread is 10 years old. And Abarr lost the primary by an extremely overwhelming margin. So, it seems, almost no one supported the former Klan organizer for Congress. Not sure why anyone would dredge up this very old news but hey, whatever floats your boats. Regardless, he lost the primary by a landslide. That wasn't the end of his political ambitions it seems, but he still hasn't managed to go anywhere on the political stage. Apparently at some point he was "rebranding" the Klan as an all inclusive group but again, this was many years ago. Not sure how well that went for him. It's not like bringing out a new flavor of Mountain Dew. This is the freaking KKK we're talking about here. Anyway, here's a link to that story if any are interested in this "reformed Klansman's" dream for a new KKK.
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