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My Word. How Times Have Changed!

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My Word. How Times Have Changed!
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My Word. How Times Have Changed!
October 5, 2018 at 3:32 pm
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RE: My Word. How Times Have Changed!
October 5, 2018 at 5:19 pm
Indeed...

Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK and was the Tennessee delegate of the DNC.


Change is the only constant.
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RE: My Word. How Times Have Changed!
October 5, 2018 at 7:04 pm
Republicans today are just a complete disgrace to the party name.
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RE: My Word. How Times Have Changed!
October 5, 2018 at 11:14 pm
They should stop calling themselves the party of "Lincoln."

Lincoln would shit his pants if he saw what the fucks had morphed into.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29620

The Republican platform of 1860.
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RE: My Word. How Times Have Changed!
October 5, 2018 at 11:18 pm
(October 5, 2018 at 5:19 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: Indeed...

Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK and was the Tennessee delegate of the DNC.


Change is the only constant.
And how many of it's current members are Dems?
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RE: My Word. How Times Have Changed!
October 6, 2018 at 12:20 am
(October 5, 2018 at 5:19 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: Indeed...

Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK and was the Tennessee delegate of the DNC.


Change is the only constant.

To be fair, Forrest did have a change of heart near the end of his life.

Bear in mind, something like this from a current politician might seem like classic phony virtue signalling and a thinly-veiled attempt at looking less racist, but in 1875, the former Confederates fucking hated his congenial attitude towards the black community, with one editorial saying "We have infinitely more respect for Longstreet, who fraternizes with negro men on public occasions, with the pay for the treason to his race in his pocket, than with Forrest and Pillow, who equalize with the negro women, with only 'futures' in payment."
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RE: My Word. How Times Have Changed!
October 6, 2018 at 6:29 am
(October 5, 2018 at 11:14 pm)Minimalist Wrote: They should stop calling themselves the party of "Lincoln."

Lincoln would shit his pants if he saw what the fucks had morphed into.

http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29620

The Republican platform of 1860.

If Abraham Lincoln were alive today, he would be 209 years old and might well shit his pants for purely medical reasons.

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RE: My Word. How Times Have Changed!
October 6, 2018 at 10:44 am
Just found out I forgot to post the actual link to the speech where Nathan Bedford Forrest ended up becoming more progressive than many of his contemporaries:

http://tennessee-scv.org/ForrestHistSoci...peech.html

The intro may be playing up the "not racist" card a bit, but the fact remains that there's a vast difference between the Nathan Bedford Forrest of 1866 who became an early adopter of the KKK and the Nathan Bedford Forrest of 1875 who ended up giving this speech, alienating most of his former allies in the process.
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RE: My Word. How Times Have Changed!
October 6, 2018 at 10:57 am
His idea of the Klan varied from most of the other founders by a good bit, IIRC.
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