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Obama's Race War

Caprock16 Wrote: Jul 14, 2010 11:09 AM

I suggest folks, by what appears to be so many of you, even here on TH, willing to play along with this being a "black vs. cracker" thingy, you are in fact playing right into the strategy of the neo-commie Democraps, who are working daily to segregate, thus destroy this nation. Wake up America....This is a libturd Democrap Party thing vs. real American conservatives.

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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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