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Conservative leader: Democratic Party is ‘party of the KKK’

source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/15/conservative-leader-democratic-party-is-party-of-the-kkk/

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By David Edwards
Sunday, January 15, 2012

The founder of a movement to increase racial diversity within the Republican Party told a crowd of tea party supporters on Sunday that they weren’t racists because “the Democratic Party is the party of the KKK.”

Speaking at the first ever South Carolina Tea Party Convention, Raging Elephants leader Apostle Claver explained that Republicans would need to attract black and Latino voters if they intended to win elections in the future.

“Look around,” Claver told the mostly-white crowd. “Y’all hear me? Turn around and take a look. Where’s our black brothers and sisters? Where’s our Hispanic and Latino brothers and sisters? Our Asian brothers and sisters?”

“Now here’s the good news,” he continued. “Them folks, them blacks and Hispanics, they’re just as conservative as you are. … But the point is, we’re they’re friends, not the Democrats.”

“And we need to have the courage to go into their neighborhoods and tell them the truth about the party of Jim Crow, the party of the KKK, the party of Dred Scott, the party of segregation. The Democrats are the ones who are the racists, not you! Through their policies, their liberal policies, it’s the Democratic Party that has done damage to the black community; decimated their family; miseducated their children; devoured, destroyed their economic base.”

Claver added: “They want to say your are the racist. No. No. If anybody is a racist, it’s [Texas Congresswoman] Shiela Jackson Lee! If anybody is a racist, it’s [Democratic Congressman] John Conyers! If anybody is a racist, it’s [South Carolina Congressman] James Clyburn! If anybody is a racist, it’s Jesse ‘castration’ Jackson! If anybody is a racist, it’s Al ‘shakedown’ Sharpton! They’re the racists! We’re their friends!”

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125 comments // Conservative leader: Democratic Party is ‘party of the KKK’

  • bike10
  • freecrack
  • youngdebater
    • +5
      youngdebater  

    • i smell a liar. and hes a republican (no surprise). that means i smell a republican. republicans smell like crap (well they are full of it).

    • 4 months ago
  • nardo1224
  • ReMarker
  • bike10
  • Paulian
    • -7
      Paulian [removed]  
    • bike10:

      Seriously? That's the best you've got? Opposing yet another federal day off for the already chronicly lazy federal employees? Really?

      Real racism assumes that members of a given group are inferior. Repbulicans want to do away with special privilages for people basd on their political status. Democrats want to treat certian groups as if they can't do it on their own. Which attitude is really assuming that some people are inferior?

      Why not look at the decades of treating african americans as inferiors by passing laws that at their heart assume that a man with a dark suntan can't compete fairly with a pale face? Every time you pat an african american on the back and say "don't worry, we know you can't get that job on your own. We guilty white liberals will make that mean old white guy give you the job." you demean all the hard work african americans have done to be truely equal.

      How is that attidute any differant from the slave owners who claimed that they were helping the poor black man who just couldn't keep up with what his superior white masters?

    • 4 months ago
  • dinm76
  • timelord999
  • Paulian
    • 0
      Paulian [removed]  
    • dinm76:

      In what way is it "bunk"? Racism has at it's heart the idea that one group is superior and the other is inferior. How is saying "you can't make it without our help" not outright saying that the group that needs help is inferior to the group that is giving the help? Since those group distinctions are being created based on skin color affirmative action looks very much like racism. Please explain how guilty white liberals helping what they see as the poor pitiful black man is any differant from the southern slave owner taking up Kiplings "white man's burden".

    • 4 months ago
  • Paulian
  • warman1138
  • coolplanet
    • +4
      coolplanet  

    • While it is true that Southern Democrats brought us the KKK and the Scopes Monkey Trial it is much more a problem of the South than it is of Democrats.
      The South has been fucked up since day one.

    • 4 months ago
  • JohnA
  • coolplanet
    • +1
      coolplanet  
    • JohnA:

      You are correct. My Mother's family is all from the South. I am related to the Hatfields and John Wilkes Booth (my Grandmother was a Booth). And my small part Cherokee on my Dad's side come from the North Carolina/Tennessee mountains, where the Blue Ridge meets the Smokies.
      Nonetheless I am a damn Yankee. ;)

    • 4 months ago
  • JohnA
  • faye59
  • faye59
    • +9
      faye59  

    • I saw this idiot on MSNBC. It's sad when people distort history. Anyone should know that the dixiecrats fled to the Republican party after the Civil Rights Act was passed. Just another fool who does not know squat about American history or politics.

    • 4 months ago
  • 2warsoffbooks
  • SFirman
  • faye59
  • faye59
  • grammabet
    • +2
      grammabet  

    • Was this Cain wanna be one of the prisoners Haley Barber set free and this his way of saying "thank"you?Lock him back up for being so ignorant and embarrassing.

    • 4 months ago
  • BKsaysAction
  • EmperorThan
  • KB723
  • gypsysailor
  • lazloman
  • budsnews
  • KB723
  • Naumadd
  • KB723
  • Naumadd
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
    • -3
      PetEr_Alan_ColE  

    • The Democrat Party and the Ku Klux Klan: Aside from the multiple Klan members who have served in elected capacity within the high ranks of the Democrat Party, the political party itself has a lengthy but often overlooked history of involvement with the Ku Klux Klan. Though it has been all but forgotten by the media, the Democrat National Convention of 1924 was host to one of the largest Klan gatherings in American history. Dubbed the "Klanbake convention" at the time, the 1924 Democrat National Convention in New York was dominated by a platform dispute surrounding the Ku Klux Klan. A minority of the delegates to the convention attempted to condemn the hate group in the party's platform, but found their proposal shot down by Klan supporters within the party. As delegates inside the convention voted in the Klan's favor, the Klan itself mobilized a celebratory rally outside. On July 4, 1924 one of the largest Klan gatherings ever occurred outside the convention on a field in nearby New Jersey. The event was marked by speakers spewing racial hatred, celebrations of their platform victory in the Democrat Convention, and ended in a cross burning.

      -Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Democrat icon and orchestrator of Japanese Internment
      - Ex-House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt, former affiliate of a St. Louis area racist group
      - Ex-Senate President Pro Tempore Robert Byrd, former Ku Klux Klansman known for making bigoted slurs on national television
      - Rev. Jesse Jackson, Democrat keynote speaker and race hustler known for making anti-Semitic slurs
      - Rev. Al Sharpten, Democrat activist and perennial candidate and race hustler known inciting anti-Semitic violence in New York City
      - Sen. Ernest Hollings, leading Democrat Senator known for use of racial slurs against several minority groups
      - Lee P. Brown, former Clinton cabinet official and Democrat mayor of Houston who won reelection using racial intimidation against Hispanic voters
      - Andrew Cuomo, former Clinton cabinet official and Democrat candidate for NY Governor who made racist statements about a black opponent.
      - Dan Rather, Democrat CBS news anchor and editorialist known for using anti-black racial epithets on a national radio broadcast
      - Donna Brazile, former Gore campaign manager known for making anti-white racial attacks. Brazile has also worked for Jackson, Gephardt, and Michael Dukakis

      http://gopcapitalist.tripod.com/democratrecord.html

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • PetEr_Alan_ColE
    • -1
      PetEr_Alan_ColE  
    • KB723:

      Thanks, after watching Naumadd post I wish I hadn't posted it. I am doing the same thing as those who call me racist for not supporting Obama. I will just ignore them in the future rather than do the same thing they are. I feel like a fool and a hypocrite.

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • Ambill94
  • KB723
  • lazloman
  • jeffissleeping
  • KB723
  • jimstoner
    • +11
      jimstoner  

    • I was watching a news report earlier about the Tea Party and the Republican primaries. They were talking about the intense dislike the Tea Party has for Mitt Romney. One of the Tea Party members being interviewed said, and I paraphrase, as much as we dislike Romney, we will have to get behind whoever the Republican candidate is in order to get Obama out of the White House. And it occurred to me, that not once over the last two years have I heard any Republicans, Tea Party or otherwise, say that they wanted to get the Democrats out of the White House. It has always been "we want to get Obama out of the White House". I wonder if that means anything?

    • 4 months ago
  • cmc101
  • KB723
  • Leen61
    • +10
      Leen61  
    • jimstoner:

      "It has always been "we want to get Obama out of the White House". I wonder if that means anything?"

      To paraphrase Santorum...."He's one of those blaa people."

    • 4 months ago
  • jimstoner
  • rerushg
    • +8
      rerushg  
    • jimstoner:

      LOL. Look , jim. I've lived in SC most of my life. I forget sometimes that people elsewhere aren't sure what they're seeing or how to talk about it.
      These are racists. Older white people in SC... ex-Dems, states-righters deserted by the national party in the 60's and switched to GOP. There are no blacks. There are no younger people. They are quite comfortable in their righteousness. Birthers.
      Can't blame Mr. Claver at all. He's totally immersed in the BS. If the rich white guys want to pay him big bucks to travel around and tell them they're not racist. Hey, why not?
      So yeah, they hate Obama because he's black. Period. He is out of his place.
      They're no more a problem for us than they've always been, though. This is just the GOP throwing a bone to the base. Long term they will die out. The far greater problem is younger righties going to Ron Paul out of disgust for the whole process.

    • 4 months ago
  • ThirdSection
  • Paulian
  • cmc101
  • jimstoner
    • +3
      jimstoner  
    • Paulian:

      Full of shit. All I did was make an observation. I did say I wonder if that means anything. Your just insulting enough to make me assume your a Republican Conservative.

    • 4 months ago
  • 2warsoffbooks
  • Paulian
    • 0
      Paulian [removed]  
    • jimstoner:

      Yes, you made an obesrvation. One based on your biases and your lack of information. I too made an observation. That observation was that you are full of shit.

      BTW, you're and your are two totaly differant concepts. "You're" is a contraction of "you are" and "your" is a possesive pronoun. Try not to mix them up.

    • 4 months ago
  • jimstoner
    • +1
      jimstoner  
    • Paulian:

      Not biased. Just an observation. I did say I wonder if that means anything. That's what makes the difference. Differant isn't even a word. Try not to get mixed up. You could have simply said " no, they did the same thing to Clinton", but you had to mention that he was considered the first black President. I wonder if that means anything? Oh, and you are just rude enough to to be a Republican Conservative. Poor, or proper grammar . BTW, you seem quite angry that someone would even point it out. I wonder if that means anything?

    • 4 months ago
  • Leen61
    • +8
      Leen61  

    • This Claver is a real asshole! I was waiting for him to say that MLK was a racist! Wow. If this guy's strategy is to convince black and hispanic voters that it's the Dems that are the rascists and the party of the KKK, then good luck with that. For starters, the Southern Dixiecrats just changed uniforms after 1948 and became Reps. when the Dem party introduced desegregation as part of the party platform. This is just more right wing revisionist history being spouted by this fool. Do you really think this white, right wing audience is going to go into black neighborhoods and do the converting? Doubt it.

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • cmc101
  • Leen61
  • dinm76
    • +2
      dinm76  

    • I'm making this comment here only because it is the top of tonights list. This dose not concern the topic above but I would like to share the following....
      CNN has just broadcast a short report about Anonymous which was fairly accurate, surprisingly, and at the end report they said that they could not get the police to send any officer to speak with them because of fear that Anonymous would publish the name, etc of the officer.
      Anonymous is showing us the way.
      "People should not be afraid of their goverment, Goverment should be afraid of their people."
      AND THEY ARE!
      The Revolution is happening people!

      My apoligizies for interrupting KB723.
      Back to our regular scheduled program...

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
    • +1
      KB723  
    • dinm76:

      Perhaps you should learn to Post so you would not have to Interrupt???? I can Help if you need it... =)

      *edit* This would be a Great Post BTW... =)

    • 4 months ago
  • Anonmaly
  • ThirdSection
  • KB723
  • Naumadd
  • Paulian
  • AreOh
    • +2
      AreOh  

    • Obvious desperate ploys by those desperate for any kind of attention. Shameful and ridiculous to the point of comedy... well, poor comedy.

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • alanb4130_
    • +6
      alanb4130_  

    • Well I know that the white supremacists that live up in North Idaho arent Democrats. So this guy is another example of a Republican ignoramus.

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • Paulian
    • -3
      Paulian [removed]  
    • alanb4130_:

      So because you can find a few open racist in the ranks of Republicans there are no closet racists in the ranks of Democrats? That doesn't add up. The point he is making is the policies of the Democrats have been more racist and more damaging to the ability of minorities to achieve greatness than the actions of the individual racists who may vote Republican.

      One idiot who sits on his survivalist compound in Frog Balls Montana does nothing to hurt the opportunities of this generation of African American youths. The collective actions of all the idiots in the Democratic Party who pass laws that treat african americans as inferiors who need help to acheive success are what do true damage to equality.

    • 4 months ago
  • dinm76
    • +2
      dinm76  
    • Paulian:

      "Democrats have been more racist and more damaging to the ability of minorities to achieve greatness than the actions of the individual racist who may vote Republican"
      For the love of god man!, You republicans ( and that goes double for RP supporters) wouldn't even let them drink a cup of coffee at a Woolworth store!

    • 4 months ago
  • Paulian
    • 0
      Paulian [removed]  
    • dinm76:

      Seriously? You think that's the problem? That over 50 years ago there were places an african american couldn't drink coffee at is what has destroyed african american families in the inner cities of today? An african amrican father leaves his children today because his grandpa couldn't get a cup of coffee at Woolworths sixty years ago? Somehow I don't think the two are related.

    • 4 months ago
  • alanb4130_
  • jimstoner
  • KB723
  • ThirdSection
  • jimstoner
  • cmc101
  • ThirdSection
    • +9
      ThirdSection  

    • Actually the Dems were the party of the KKK until about 44 years ago when the KKK left the Democrats and were actively wooed by the GOP in what was called the "Southern Strategy".

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • ThirdSection
  • KB723
  • cherry5000
  • KB723
  • ThirdSection
  • jimstoner
    • +5
      jimstoner  

    • These people had better be careful. I doubt the members of the KKK are going to take to kindly to being called Liberals and Obama supporters. Does Apostle Claver plan to give this speech at a Klan rally?

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • jimstoner
    • +4
      jimstoner  
    • KB723:

      I don't know either. But I'm sure they will know how to find him as soon as they hear about what he had to say. He could probably find them too. If he put his mind to it.

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • jimstoner
  • KB723
  • ThirdSection
  • jimstoner
    • +3
      jimstoner  
    • ThirdSection:

      That might be one of the strangest things I have ever seen. Gay Black Jewish Klansmen. With an apparent penchant for Sponge Bob. Look. It says meetings in Tyler's moms basement every Wednesday at 7:30PM. Thanks for the laugh ThirdSection.

    • 4 months ago
  • unimatrix0
    • +10
      unimatrix0  

    • Everybody knows all the racists bailed on the Democrats in the 60's during the civil rights movement and became Republicans.

      Currently many hardcore racists are Ron Paul supporters, and hide under the banner of state's rights.

    • 4 months ago
  • KB723
  • MSII
    • +1
      MSII  
    • unimatrix0:

      I've personally never understood the fascination with "states rights" as if the states operate so wonderfully, and are just being held back so by them-thar-federils!

    • 4 months ago
  • timelord999
  • cmc101
  • KB723
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