Which Party promoted the KKK? THE DEMOCRATS!

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   Shocking how many black people vote democratic. Especially if you know US history. My family has been in the US since the 1600's. (before that for my Chrokee relatives). 

And yet... Most people have been manipulated by their poor education to believe that the democratic party was opposed to the KKK. 

Look back at which party was against the civil rights movement. 

Primarily the democrats. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

Well, after the NAACP came out and called the Tea party "racists" I figured as one of the most photographed members of the Cincinnati Tea party (I was on the front page of 4 local papers for one of our largest tea parties.)

It is time for the public to get educated about who started the resurgence of the KKK. 

"Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) has falsely accused  the Tea Party of having ties to the Ku Klux Klan.  Speaking at the NAACP convention, she said: “All those who wore sheets a long time ago lifted them off to wear Tea Party clothing.”
Now is the time to speak some Truth to Power.

It would have been far more truthful for the congresswoman to have admitted the fact that all those who wore sheets a long time ago lifted them to wear Democratic Party clothing.  Yes, the Ku Klux Klan was established by the Democratic Party.  Yes, the Ku Klux Klan murdered thousands of Republicans — African-American and white – in the years following the Civil War.  Yes, the Republican Party and a Republican President, Ulysses Grant, destroyed the KKK with their Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871.
How did the Ku Klux Klan re-emerge in the 20th century?  For that, the Democratic Party is to blame.
It was a racist Democrat President, Woodrow Wilson, who premiered Birth of a Nation in the White House.  That racist movie was based on a racist book written by one of Wilson’s racist friends from college.  In 1915, the movie spawned the modern-day Klan, with its burning crosses and white sheets.
Inspired by the movie, some Georgia Democrats revived the Klan.  Soon, the Ku Klux Klan again became a powerful force within the Democratic Party.  The KKK so dominated the 1924 Democratic Convention that Republicans, speaking truth to power, called it the Klanbake.  In the 1930s, a Democrat President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, appointed a Klansman, Senator Hugo Black (D-AL), to the U.S. Supreme Court.  In the 1950s, the Klansmen against whom the civil rights movement struggled were Democrats.  The notorious police commissioner Bull Connor, who attacked African-Americans with dogs and clubs and fire hoses, was both a Klansman and the Democratic Party’s National Committeeman for Alabama.  Starting in the 1980s, the Democratic Party elevated a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan, Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), to third-in-line for the presidency.
Speaking more Truth to Power, the Republican Party has been a resolute enemy of the Ku Klux Klan, terrorist wing of the Democratic Party."

http://biggovernment.com/mzak/2010/07/16/the-ku-klux-klan-terrorist-wing-of-the-democratic-party/

My mother was teaching kindergarden in Fayetteville NC during this time, as my father was stationed at Ft. Bragg. She had three black children in her class, and the KKK terrorized their class as they tried to leave each day. The police were useless and my mother litterally took her life into her hands by walking these three boys home each day, past the taunts and violence that they used against her for teaching these children. She recognized the voices of one of the most violent and abusive klan members who was also a democratic leader in the area.  Crosses were burned in our yard monthly by these thugs. In fact, as a teenager, in the 80's I remember crosses being burned in my front yard as we always did things to help the poor, many of which were black.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birth_of_a_Nation

So when Democrats try and spin that republicans or tea party members are KKK members. Just look at the facts. The rebirth of the KKK was started in the white house by a democrat.

"Thomas Dixon, author of the source play The Clansman, was a former classmate of President Woodrow Wilson at Johns Hopkins University. Dixon arranged a screening at the White House, for Wilson, members of his cabinet, and their families. Wilson was reported to have commented of the film that "it is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true". In Wilson: the new freedom, Arthur Link quotes Wilson's aide, Joseph Tumulty, who denied Wilson said this and also claims that "the President was entirely unaware of the nature of the play before it was presented and at no time has expressed his approbation of it."^[13] However, Woodrow Wilson's History of the American People explained the Ku Klux Klan of the late 1860s as the natural outgrowth of Reconstruction, a lawless reaction to a lawless period. Wilson noted that the Klan "began to attempt by intimidation what they were not allowed to attempt by the ballot or by any ordered course of public action."^[14] In the film, approbation for the Klan, citing Wilson's History, is directly quoted.
Relentless in publicizing the film, Dixon was apparently the source for the quotation. It has been repeated so often in print that it has taken on a separate life. Dixon went so far as to promote the film as "Federally endorsed". After controversy over the film had grown, Wilson wrote that he disapproved of the "unfortunate production."^[15] D. W. Griffith responded to the film's negative critical reception with his next film Intolerance."