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Obama's Race War

Anthony187 Wrote: Jul 14, 2010 12:38 PM

Don't get too riled up...racism is nothing new, and it echoes from both side of the aisle and from all nationalities. Yes BO is racist, and yes he hates the whites, but the question is "How does he know I'm white?...By the color of my skin?...the very element of racism, "skin color", that brews hatred and violence...but be of good cheer, he will be gone in 2 and we can start anew....(bad pun). And of course the last question..."Did you really expect anything different?

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Obama's Race War

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1865 by racist whites seeking to fight against radical Republican efforts to reconstruct the South. The KKK targeted both blacks and white Republicans; they even targeted some Southern white Democrats who weren't sufficiently anti-black. The KKK's argument: Blacks, by their mere presence and attempts to participate in the political process, were destroying the dignity of the white South.

The radical Republicans in Congress fought the KKK tooth and nail; in the early 1870s, they passed the Force Acts, designed to destroy the KKK once and for all. Those acts allowed the president to use the...

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