(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Rep. Scott Perry claims the KKK is the "Military Wing" of the Democratic party [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-05-11 Yep, this is an actual thing. PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R., Pa., is facing criticism after he reportedly called the Ku Klux Klan the “military wing of the Democratic Party” in a closed-door briefing for lawmakers on antisemitism Tuesday, according to CNN. […] Asked for comment Wednesday about the leaked audio, Perry’s office released a statement: “Once again, the radical Left twists facts in order to silence conversation about its own crimes and Biden’s intentional failures to enforce laws and close or regulate our borders,” Perry said. “My point is proven yet again: when the Left loses an argument, it debases and smears instead of engaging in debate on merits.”According to the audio, Perry said, “The KKK in modern times, a lot of young people think somehow it’s a right-wing organization when it is the military wing of the Democratic Party. Decidedly, unabashedly, racist and antisemitic.” Reposted from Dark Skies on the Horizon The Klan actually has a history, and Perry doesn’t seem to know it. Originally formed by former Confederate Soldiers led by Col Nathan Bedford Forrest the Klan was created to “protect White people” from the new found freedom that had been granted to former slaves, using terrorism and tactics similar to the previous “Slave Patrols” which were used to keep slaves in line, and to capture and return run aways. Most Southerners at the time were Democrats, but more importantly - they were Conservative Democrats. But within a decade the South had established the Black Codes using Convict Leasing and Debt Peonage to place 800,000 former slaves back into bondage by convicting them of petty crimes. With the justice system bent against Black people and Jim Crow rules that prevented them voting, and Racial Covenents that restricted their ability to live in certain neighborhoods and towns — the goals of the Klan were largely met and they began to fade away by 1875. Then in 1915 with the release of “Birth of a Nation” which slander black people as violent criminals and the Klan as the “Brave Warriors” who would bring “Law and Order” the KKK found a resurgence and grew to over 1 Million members. During these years lynchings were common and both black people and white “race traitors” were targeted. By 1919 the Chicago Race riots had occurred with the Tulsa Race Massacre following in 1921. At this time the battle against them was led by the NAACP who were mostly Liberal Republicans as Lincoln had been. Most black people were Republicans. But this began to change as Brown V Board a battle that was won by NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall, and also the desegregation of the Military by Truman which split the Democratic party as many of the Conservative Southern Democrats broke off into the Dixiecrat party led by documented KKK member and racist Strom Thurmond, who ran against Truman for President in 1948 on the Dixiecrat “Segregation Forever” ticket. Thurmond was elected governor of South Carolina in 1946 and took office the following year. He proceeded to initiate several liberal reforms, including a notable expansion of the state educational system. At the Democratic National Convention of 1948, however, Thurmond led the bolt of Southern delegates angry over the civil rights plank in the party platform. The Southerners formed the States’ Rights Democratic Party—popularly known as the Dixiecrats—and nominated Thurmond as their presidential candidate. He won 39 electoral votes. In 1950 Thurmond ran for the U.S. Senate, challenging Democratic incumbent Olin D. Johnston. The campaign was especially heated—at one point, the two politicians nearly fought—and Thurmond ultimately lost in the primary. Constitutionally barred from seeking a second term as governor, he left office in 1951. Thurmond subsequently worked as an attorney. Elected by write-in vote to the U.S. Senate in 1954, Thurmond quickly established himself in the Southern conservative mold as a vigorous champion of increased military power and spending and an archfoe of civil rights legislation. He was reelected in 1960, but in 1964 he again left the Democratic Party in support of the conservative Republican presidential nominee, Barry Goldwater. Reelected as a Republican to seven consecutive terms, Thurmond continued to seek Southern conservative support for the GOP. In 1996 he became the oldest person to serve in Congress and the following year became the longest-serving U.S. senator; he held the latter distinction until 2006, when he was surpassed by Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia. In 1964 when Thurmond shifted to the Republican Party he did so because of his opposition to the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Act, which were also opposed by Republican Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater. It was at this point that support for Kennedy and Johnson led many black people to leave the Republican party and for the former Southern Democrat and Dixiecrats - including the Racist Klan members — to join the GOP. This was further accelerated by Nixon’s Southern Strategy to push “negro-phobe” whites into the GOP. This shift is why the South went from being mostly Democratic to Republican. They may have changed parties, but they didn’t change their position which was largely the same since the formation of the KKK 100 years previously. Studies have indicated that the involvement of the Klan in the south during the Civil Rights movements had a direct impact on Southerners moving into the GOP. When former KKK Grand wizard David Duke ran for President in 1988, he started out as a Democrat. But he was largely blocked by the party from participating in primary debates. He switched to the Populist Party and then eventually became a Republican later running for Louisiana House and the US Senate in 1990, 1996 and 2016. As Duke rose to power the Klan continued to splinter into various groups. Anti-Government Militias, Racist Skinheads, Neo-Nazis, the League of the South and Sovereign Citizens which gradually led to the III Percenters, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Boogaloo Bois, and Patriot Front who had been Identity Evropa. Not all of these groups were expressly racist, but nearly all of them have great fear of the “Great Replacement” which Perry also expressed. Perry also appeared to defend the so-called great replacement theory — the racist, white nationalist belief that white people are being purposely replaced by minorities and immigrants in the United States and Europe, CNN reported. Perry added that migrants entering the country “have no interest in being Americans.” […] “Replacement theory is real,” Perry said, according to CNN. “They added white to it to stop everybody from talking about it.” While Perry said during the briefing he is happy to accept people “that are here legally,” pointing to his ancestors who migrated to the United States, he has an issue with migrants who are “un-American,” according to the audio recording. “What is happening now is we’re importing people into the country that want to be in America … but have no interest in being Americans, and that’s very different and to disparage the comments is to chill the conversation so that we can continue to bring in more people that we never met that are un-American,” Perry said, according to the recording. So while Perry is projecting racism onto Democrats — he’s also embarrassing the logic and ideology of those exact same racists. In the 1990’s, White Separatist Timothy McVeigh staged a massive attack on the Oklahoma City federal building based on a similar attack from the Racist novel “The Turner Diaries” (where the FBI building was destroyed). The book documents a racist white uprising against the “mongrel races” and the government which ends with a “Day of the Rope” where all minorities and “race traitors” are strung up and hung from lamposts all over the nation. Dylan Roof committed his mass murders after being influenced by racist dogma about “Rampant Black Crime” being propagated by the Council of Conservative Citizens. The Christchurch Massacre, the Tree of Life Mass Murder, the El Paso Walmart Massacre and the Buffalo Top’s shootings were all directly inspired by “Great Replacement” rhetoric. Then you had the Allen Texas mall shooting which was committed by yet another Neo-Nazi. The man who killed eight people at a Dallas-area mall wore extremist insignia, posted racist and misogynistic screeds and praised Nazis online. Here’s what you need to know about the shooter and his ties to ongoing right-wing mass violence. On Tuesday, the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed that Mauricio Garcia, who was killed by police during Saturday’s attack at Allen Premium Outlets, had neo-Nazi tattoos and beliefs. Garcia also wore a patch during the killing spree that said "RWDS" — an acronym for "right wing death squad" — and while police have yet to announce a motive for the attack, journalists have uncovered a trove of social media posts in which the gunman fantasized about violence and glorified the Third Reich. “Right-Wing Death Squad.” Not Left-wing, RIGHT WING. If you just barely scratch the surface, there is practically no difference between the ideology of the Klan and the ideology of America’s Right Wing. The KKK is a Christian Organization who believe in Christian Nationlism. Who believe that “white people are oppressed.” Who oppose “Diversity” and “Inclusion” and of course, believe that the nation is being “overrun” by foreigners. All you have to do is look at the polls. 74% of Republicans say that Racial Discrimination does NOT exist. 80% of Democrats say that it does. The majority of every racial group - except whites - say that it does. If you don’t believe that discrimination exists, you’re more likely to be believe the “reverse” discrimination against White people is a thing. You would oppose efforts to increase diversity, because you would see that as “taking from White people.” You would oppose DEI, you would oppose CRT — which teaches how racial bias functions systematically — you would oppose teaching America’s racial history because that would “make white kids feel bad.” That would be the Republican agenda. You would be a Republican. Certainly not a Democrat. 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