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is not to be casually equated with reverend wright's racialized tirades about inequality, because, among other reasons, the KKK is not representative only of ideas, but, rather of actions such that today there are living breathing Americans with relatives who were killed by the KKK. There are also Americans who, in their lifetimes, have been kept from voting by those who were sympathetic to the kkk's causes or endorse policies aimed at disenfranchising large number of minority voters today.

To pretend that the two are somehow equal or even remotely similar in the damage or influence that they have and continue to cause would be just plain silly if it weren't for the fact that there are living, breathing Americans with relatives who were killed by the KKK. There are also Americans who, in their lifetimes, have been kept from voting by those who were sympathetic to the KKK's causes or endorse policies aimed at disenfranchising large number of minority voters today. It would all be almost laughable if there were not also a man running for president in 2016 on a platform that seeks to codify group suspicion, exclusion, surveillance and punishment once again.

is an organization that was a leftist terrorist organization and the military, terrorist arm of the Democratic party who killed people to further the progressive agenda.

JONES: Hold on a second. I know this man when he gets passionate about terrorism. I know how he talks about terrorism. The Klan is a terrorist organization that has killed . . . LORD: A leftist terrorist organization. JONES: You can put whatever label you want... that's your game to play. LORD: No, it's important to history. JONES: We're not going to play that game. LORD: We're going to understand history. LORD: Rev. Wright is an anti-Semite. JONES: Rev. Wright never put anybody on a post. And you guys play these word games, and it's wrong to do in America. LORD: It is wrong to understand that these are not leftist. They were -JONES: What difference does it make if you call them leftist' They kill people. They don't play games with that. LORD: You're right. You don't hide and say that's not part of the base of the Democratic Party. That has been -they were the military arm, the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, according to historians. For God's sake, read your history. JONES: Listen, I'm not, I don't know -I don't care who -LORD: This whole attitude of dividing by race is still here. And this is how Democrats do the deal. JONES: I don't care how they voted 50 years ago. I care about who they killed. LORD: I care about U.S. history. It counts. JONES: You have stood with Donald Trump. And you made a case for Donald Trump and nobody else wanted to. And you've earned the respect of an awful lot of people. But when you do not acknowledge that he did not answer that question with the passion he answered with other terrorist organizations, you do yourself a disservice. You do -LORD: He has made this point over and over and over again. This is a media thing here. Did he make a mistake' Sure. But he said this many, many times. I've gone back and looked. He's well on record, over and over on this. JONES: It's worse than that, sir. The whole thing with the Central [Park] jogger kids, he got the entire city of New York whipped up on this idea that these kids had done [something] wrong. And then it turned out they were innocent, we all make mistakes. LORD: Right. JONES: He never apologized to those kids. That's a stain on him. You can walk through, time after time, where he's done stuff like that. The stuff he said about Native Americans, being criminal organizations and mafia. He said so many -LORD: Van, but what you're doing right here, is dividing people. We're all Americans here, Van. You are dividing people. This is what liberals do. You're dividing people by race. JONES: I'm not. LORD: This is what liberalism is all about. JONES: The Klan divided it by race. LORD: You have to divide by race. JONES: The Klan kill people by race and he had the opportunity and he didn't do -LORD: And they did it -they did it to further the progressive agenda. Hello' JONES: That is, first of all, so absurd. LORD: It is not absurd.

is an organization that was, it is true, formed largely by Democrat confederate soldiers but it is equally true that these same voters and their descendants became members of the republican party when the democratic party and its establishment made the decision to become a progressive party, advancing the full social, political and economic inclusion of non-white Americans.

Let us be clear: When the group of former Confederate soldiers who founded the KKK began their bloody tirade, many if not all of them were, in fact, Democrats. They were members of a party that at that time counted among its central goals the wholesale oppression, control, disenfranchisement and exploitation of black Americans. As such, the Democratic Party at that time and for nearly 100 years more did not include black voters but was the political home of much of the most virulently and violently racist white Americans. It is also just as true that a substantial portion of these same voters and their descendants raised in homes where they were presumably exposed to the aforementioned ideas or their modern political progeny are today members of the Republican Party. They moved to the modern-day Republican Party as the Democratic Party and its establishment made the decision to become a progressive party, advancing the full social, political and economic inclusion of non-white Americans. And when the Democratic establishment did so, it caused an inter-party war and a mass departure of many, but not all, white voters, which continues to shape the nation's politics today.

is a group nobody could possibly look on with approval except the laundryman.

The only persons who could possibly look with approval on the Ku Klux Klan are the laundrymen.

is an organization whose members wear hoods because when they're done they go back to being your doctors, your lawyers, your governors, your police officers, your senators, your teachers, your judges, your co-workers, etc.

is the scientific name for the White-Hooded Redneck, a cocky but cowardly fowl that must gather in large flocks to prey upon individuals of supposedly inferior breeds.

Scientific name for the White-Hooded Redneck, a cocky but cowardly fowl that must gather in large flocks to prey upon individuals of supposedly inferior breeds.

is an organization whose official uniform is quite clearly a full-body dunce cap.

is never dead. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets cost too much.

Thurgood Marshall quote: The Ku Klux Klan never dies. They just stop wearing sheets because sheets...

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