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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (127219)	3/24/2012 9:00:29 AM
From: steve harris	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224744

You'd be surprised what you hear when you play it backwards...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (127219)	3/24/2012 9:22:52 AM
From: lorne	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224744

The Democrat Party and the Ku Klux Klan: Aside from the multiple Klan members who have served in elected capacity within the high ranks of the Democrat Party, the political party itself has a lengthy but often overlooked history of involvement with the Ku Klux Klan. Though it has been all but forgotten by the media, the Democrat National Convention of 1924 was host to one of the largest Klan gatherings in American history. Dubbed the "Klanbake convention" at the time, the 1924 Democrat National Convention in New York was dominated by a platform dispute surrounding the Ku Klux Klan. A minority of the delegates to the convention attempted to condemn the hate group in the party's platform, but found their proposal shot down by Klan supporters within the party. As delegates inside the convention voted in the Klan's favor, the Klan itself mobilized a celebratory rally outside. On July 4, 1924 one of the largest Klan gatherings ever occurred outside the convention on a field in nearby New Jersey. The event was marked by speakers spewing racial hatred, celebrations of their platform victory in the Democrat Convention, and ended in a cross burning.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (127219)	4/7/2012 8:37:22 AM
From: TideGlider	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224744

Really Kenneth? You can plainly hear the racial slur on the enhanced version of the audio tape. <A href="http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2012/03/22/ac-tuchman-trayvon-zimmerman.cnn#/video/us/2012/03/22/ac-tuchman-trayvon-zimmerman.cnn" target=_blank>http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2012/03/22/ac-tuchman-trayvon-zimmerman.cnn#/video/us/2012/03/22/ac-tuchman-trayvon-zimmerman.cnn[/url]