I love the argument about how the Democratic Party birthed the KKK and was once filled with many Political racists, but I wonder what happened to those good ol’ days. Some will tell ya history says once LBJ signed all those Great Society and Civil Rights laws, the Southern Democrat flipped parties and helped turn the South deep red – PB/TK
“PelosiStatueSurge.Con” – For California Democrats, some statues are more unequal than others. – By Lloyd Billingsley / Aug 21 2017
“If Republicans are serious about rejecting white supremacy,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a statement last week, “I call upon Speaker Ryan to join Democrats to remove the Confederate statues from the Capitol immediately.”
The 10 statues include Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Confederate States of America president Jefferson Davis, and vice president Alexander Hamilton Stephens. As the Washington Post noted, the Robert E. Lee statue dates from 1909 and the others arrived during the following 20 years, with Jefferson Davis and Confederate colonel James George joining their fellow rebels in 1931.
Southern Democrats played a major role in placement of these statues, which never drew protests from prominent Democrats such as Sen. Robert Byrd, a former Ku Klucker who became a mentor to Hillary Clinton. Tilting at statues is a new cause for contemporary Democrats, but California got something of a head start.
In 2014, governor Jerry Brown signed legislation that outlawed the sale or display of the Confederate flag on state property. In 2015, state senator Steve Glazer, Orinda Democrat, authored a bill to remove the names of Confederate political leaders and senior military officers from public schools, buildings, parks, roads and so forth.
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