"David Ragland, professor of peace and justice at Juniata College, calls Carson a “handkerchief head,” a literal reference to the fashion accessory donned by house slaves that more figuratively refers to blacks who identify as whites. On the social media, where Twittericans lack the academic pedigree to mine obscure racial insults, more familiar slurs such as “Oreo” and “token” preface Carson’s name. Hell hath no fury like a party scorned."Yes We Klan! | The American Spectator
– 10.2.15
Democrat tactics today are triply consonant with their racialist attitudes of yesteryear.
“The Democrat Party, of course, is the party of the KKK, of Jim Crow laws, and, perhaps just as bad right now, of servitude,” Dr. Ben Carson recently proclaimed on the campaign trail.
The best way to avoid saying something controversial remains to avoid saying something factual. Carson is too much the political neophyte to grasp this principle.
Neurosurgeons have a way of cutting through to the meat of the gray matter. Carson’s comment provoked thoughts. It certainly did not prick conscience.
Democrats, fearless fighters against hooded night riders now that they provoke laughter instead of terror, do not acknowledge their party’s history as the political home of the Ku Klux Klan. In a gross case of projection, they cast their political enemies instead of their political ancestors as the purveyors of state-sponsored racism.
Woodrow Wilson, who re-segregated the federal bureaucracy as president, had written gushingly as an academic about the postbellum Confederacy that “at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.” After the 1924 Democratic National Convention rejected a resolution condemning the Ku Klux Klan, party delegates donned sheets, burned crosses, and paraded around like fools at an evil outdoor costume party. Party icon Franklin Roosevelt nominated a klansman, Hugo Black, to the Supreme Court. From 1977 to 1989, Democrats in the United States Senate chose Robert Byrd, a former Exalted Cyclops in the vile secret society as their leader in that august public body.
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