NY Times tries to rewrite history of KKK and the Democrats

Stephen Green:

The NYT editorial board chose Memorial Day weekend to smear the U.S. military with the Ku Klux Klan’s “blood-drenched tradition of racial terrorism.”

Maybe when they wrote “military” they meant to use “Democrats,” because as more people ought to know, the Klan was founded to serve as the Democratic Party’s shock troops against freed blacks in the South.

Pulling zero propaganda punches, the NYT’s banner art included an image of a white bullet with eyeholes cut out to look like a Ku Klux Klan hood.

Never mind, I guess, that the military was one of the first segregated American institutions to be fully integrated, and with almost mind-blowing speed following President Harry Truman’s order to do so.

If there are any formerly segregated institutions in this country that need to be held to account for their current treatment of black America, it’s the Democratic Party. While there are serious doubts about whether President Lyndon Johnson ever claimed he’d have “n*****s voting Democrat” for 200 years, there are no doubts about the authenticity of this explicitly racist recording....

Like Johnson, Truman indulged in the personal-level racism so common at the time but he did choose to do the right thing for the U.S. military. Since then, our integrated military has also become an all-volunteer force where people of all colors can and do choose to serve with honor and pride.
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While Democrats were busy building and manning the Klan, lynching their black neighbors, and enacting Jim Crow laws, Republicans were busy with other things, as Robert Spencer reminds us:

Republicans didn’t forget about black Americans after Lincoln was shot, but actually stood up for the civil rights of black Americans consistently from the Civil War on, and there was no “Southern strategy.” It is a historical myth like so much of what is taught as American history today, designed to ensure that students will grow up to be convinced and loyal leftists. But like all propaganda initiatives, it founders on the facts.

Read the whole thing, which Spencer coincidentally published the same day as the NYT‘s smear job.

While it’s just more coincidence, the NYT‘s editorial followed closely on the heels of alleged Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden telling black radio host Charlemagne tha God, “If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”

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The Democrats have been trying to falsely accuse Republicans of racism ever since they lost the fight against civil rights in the US.  They treat blacks in this country the same way they used to treat poor whites in the South constantly telling them racist things to get their vote.