A Kinder, Gentler KKK

Paul R. Hollrah
A Kinder, Gentler KKK
August 4, 2008
In her July 25, 2008 column in the London Daily Mail, titled,“Princess Obama,” columnist Melanie Phillips speculates that, on Barack Obama’s first foreign trip as the presumptive Democratic nominee,“he achieved the feat of upsetting one of his country’s key allies, the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel.”
Apparently Chancellor Merkel took a dim view of Obama’s plan to hold a political rally at the Brandenburg Gate, in Berlin, where John F. Kennedy made his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech and where Ronald Reagan threw down the gauntlet to the Soviet Union, saying,“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Because Obama changed his mind and moved his rock concert and campaign rally to Berlin’s Victory Column, Ms. Phillips saw that as evidence of Obama’s ignorance of history, pointing out that the Victory Column was moved to its present location by Adolf Hitler “as a symbol of Germany’s superiority and its victories against Denmark, Austria and France.”
She points out that, for nearly twenty years, Obama attended a church where his pastor preached black power racism against white people, and that he disavowed Jeremiah Wright “only when his extreme views could no longer be ignored...” She asks,“What if John McCain’s pastor and mentor had expressed support for the Ku Klux Klan and his church was found to be sympathetic to its philosophy?” She suggests that McCain’s candidacy would have been immediately “defenestrated.”
Never missing an opportunity to correct someone who might imply, however remotely, that it’s fitting to mention the Ku Klux Klan and a conservative or a Republican in the same sentence...as if conservatives, Republicans, and Klansmen were cut from different parts of the same bolt of cloth...I sent Ms. Phillips an e-mail.
I explained that Europeans could be forgiven if they were unaware that the KKK was founded in 1866 as a paramilitary arm of the Democratic Party. A Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, had freed the slaves and Republicans had sponsored the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, outlawing slavery and giving blacks citizenship and the right to vote. Hence, the purpose of the Klan was to intimidate, oppress, and control black people through extra-legal means since they could no longer be intimidated and oppressed through legal means.
In the old days, Democrats would show up on the front porch with a gun and a rope. In more recent times they’ve shown up on the front porch with a welfare check, food stamps, and an absentee ballot.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. It’s just a kinder, gentler KKK.

it doesnt matter the end of the world is near

Ok? someone is full of hate, did your dad not love you enough or something?

I see ignorance is bliss in Amarillo too.

The KKK has never been for anything except what was right...

They have been against White scalawags as well as Black...

See the True History of the KKK at

http://www.kkklan.com/