GOP Claims Democrats Started the Ku Klux Klan

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A national black Republican group is running a radio ads accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan.

The ad also claims the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior was a Republican.

Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele, himself a black Republican and the party's nominee for Maryland's open Senate seat, has disavowed the ad as "insulting to Marylanders." He says his campaign has asked the Washington-based National Black Republican Association to stop running it.

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Why blacks should vote republican
Posted by Anonymous on 2006-09-29 16:54:35
White Southerners from all classes of society joined the Klan's ranks. In the name of preserving law and order in a white-dominated society, Klansmen punished newly freed blacks for a variety of reasons, including behaving in an "impudent" manner toward whites. They whipped the teachers of freedmen's schools and burnt their schoolhouses. But first and foremost, the Klan sought to do away with Republican influence in the South by terrorizing and murdering its party leaders and all those who voted for it. In the time leading up to the 1868 presidential election, the Klan's activities picked up in speed and brutality. The election, which pitted Republican Ulysses S. Grant against Democrat Horatio Seymour, was crucial. Republicans would continue programs that Across the South, the Klan and other terrorist groups used brutal violence to intimidate Republican voters. In Kansas, over 2000 murders were committed in connection with the election. In Georgia, the number of threats and beatings was even higher. And in Louisiana, 1000 blacks were killed as the election neared. In those three states, Democrats won decisive victories at the polls.prevented Southern whites from gaining political control in their states. Klan members knew that given the chance, the blacks in their communities would vote Republican. THAT IS A HISTORICAL FACT!!!!!!!!!!
 

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