D’Souza – Democrats The Real Racists, True Face Of Bigotry In America
Filmmaker and patriot Dinesh D’Souza joined Stuart Varney for a discussion that included the current state of race relations in the US. D’Souza comments on the suppression of a report 2,000 teachers of racist comments against white students. Varney says, “It seems to me that conservatives, Trump supporters in general, are still being branded racists by the left.”
D’Souza replied, “Yeah, it’s very clear that the face of bigotry has changed in America and the left is pretending like it hasn’t. In other words, today, white supremacy is a spent force. If the Ku Klux Klan were to organize a rally today they’d be lucky to get fifty people and the protesters would outnumber them ten to one. This is very different from the Klan, say a century ago, when they could mobilize tens of thousands of people to march in New York City, shouting racist slogans and burning crosses.”
Mr. D’Souza points out, “Now at that time, the Ku Klux Klan was in a sense the domestic terrorist arm of the Democrat Party. So when white supremacy was a real force the Democrats were doing it. Now that it’s a spent force they’re trying to blame it on the right.”
Varney comments that he feels their analysis of America is completely off the mark, with the left promoting the view that America is fundamentally a racist society, which he believes is just “flat out wrong.” D’Souza says he believes that in their hearts the left knows that it is not true, offering as proof, “If someone were to accuse someone of being racist, they expect that person to become on the defensive, to apologize, to say that they’re not, to plead innocent.”
“Now think about it,” he continues, “only a non-racist would behave like that. If someone was truly a racist and proud of it, they would go, ‘Yeah, I’m a racist, so what?’ It’s like is someone accuses me of being an Asian Indian, I would say, ‘Yeah, great, thank you very much.’ So the very fact that the left makes these accusations in the expectation that people will go on the defensive shows that they understand, deep down, that people are not racist.”
He’s asked about a possible Joe Biden run for president in 2020 and Keith Ellison’s potential to become chairman of the DNC. D’Souza says, “I think the potential Ellison appointment is a really good example of the way in which bigotry has a new face in America today. We also saw from the WikiLeaks revelations that in private, high level Democrat operatives will now make slurs against Latinos, against Catholics, against evangelical Christians, so this is the new face of bigotry in America. And I think this poses perhaps a greater threat to the country and to social cohesiveness than the old bugaboo of white supremacy.”
Varney asks, “Do you think that times have really changed. Do you think that that election, four weeks ago today, was a real turning point for America and American culture.” D’Souza replies, “It’s the biggest come-from-behind election in American history. Not only was there a terrifying array of forces against Trump but there was a revolt within his own party. It was, I think, against almost impossible odds that he pulled it off and what was at stake was nothing less than all three branches of government. So the stakes could not have been higher and this makes the victory all the more sweet.”
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Wow, they are finally figuring that out! Have been and they will stay that way, they have nothing else to run on! Except the “blame game”, which obamabitch has taught them well over the past 8 years, continuing where the Bushes left off!! Inauguration can’t come soon enough!!!
Rick, excellent article.
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Has anyone ever looked at the horrible background of the Democratic Party? I was a registered Democrat for many years. When I learned that in the past the Democrats fought for more than 60+ years to continue and promote SLAVERY! I was horrified! This went on from about 1804 until 1865. After the Civil War, the Democrats formed the beginnings of the KKK to terrify and murder Black People throughout the post-Civil War south. Even in the north, the Democrats fought to keep Blacks from registering or voting. The KKK was the “law enforcement arm” for the Democratic Party. When the NAACP was originally formed it was 100% Republican. And, the ranks of the NAACP were 50% black and 50% white. Think I am full of crap? Search out “KKK and Democrats” or “History of the Democratic Party” on the Internet. Martin Luther King, Jr. was always a Republican. Please, Black America, do not shatter his dream. If the American Nazi Party was to open its ranks to Jews just to increase membership and raise money, I sure hope no Jews would flock to them and join! This is why I cannot understand why Black People register as Democrats? The Democrats murdered thousands of Blacks for decades. Look at some of the old grainy photographs of Black People hanging dead from tree branches. Look at the laughing smiling crowd with their children standing around. That was the local Democratic Party. Even now, every KKK member is registered to register as a Democrat!! WAKE UP BLACK AMERICA! Remember your ancestors and how many of them were murdered. I know that I will get a negative response to this posing. However, before you heave stones at me, read some history!
The number of African-Americans lynched in Southern states in the 19th and 20th centuries is significantly higher than previously detailed, according to a new report examining lynching in the United States.
The report is the latest in a series of attempts to document the true number of lynching victims in this country, an effort that dates back more than a century. While it is known that thousands of black Americans were lynched, the practice of “targeted racial violence” still has not been fully addressed, according to the report released Tuesday by the Equal Justice Initiative, a non-profit based in Alabama.
“Lynching’s were violent and public acts of torture that traumatized black people throughout the country and were largely tolerated by state and federal officials,” the report’s summary states. “These lynching’s were terrorism.” They were driven by the Ku Klux Klan which until the mid-1960 was the enforcement arm of the Southern Democrat Party.
Researchers said they determined that 3,959 black people were killed in “racial terror lynching’s” in a dozen Southern states between 1877 and the 1950‘s. The new number includes 700 people who were not named in previous works seeking to comprehensively document the toll, the authors wrote. Some of those previous studies were conducted at a time when lynching was still an ongoing phenomenon.
“I don’t believe that we have confronted the legacy of our history in a meaningful way…Our interest is really in forcing the country to talk differently about this history,” Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, said Tuesday.
This latest report, titled “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror,” becomes part of a broader universe of studies and publications that have tried to quantify the scope of these brutal attacks during the decades after Reconstruction.
The authors of the new report point to research conducted by the Tuskegee University as well as the work of Stewart Tolnay and E.M. Beck, the sociologists who wrote “A Festival of Violence.” In their 1995 book, Tolnay and Beck also cited two other inventories, both of which were produced amid what they called “a frenzy of lynching” in Southern states between 1882 and 1930: The Chicago Tribune’s annual list of lynching victims, published in the late 19th century and early 20th century; and the NAACP’s 1919 report finding that 3,224 people were lynched from 1889 to 1918.
Tolnay and Beck sought to tie together these earlier resources as well as contemporaneous news accounts, writing in “A Festival of Violence” that they worked with these sources to try to come up with an updated record of victims. They determined that more than 2,400 black people were killed by lynch mobs in the South between 1882 and 1930.
As part of their work, Tolnay and Beck wrote that they tried to only include incidents that fit specific criteria (they used the NAACP’s definition, which required evidence that someone was illegally killed at the hands of three or more people) and were confirmed by a newspaper account. The latter requirement is open to criticism, the two authors wrote, because it is possible newspaper reports may not have documented every possible lynching.
But Tolnay and Beck said they doubted this occurred very often, because lynching’s did not occur hidden away from the public. Rather, what actually happened was quite the opposite, as they wrote:
“To be an effective mechanism for social control, lynching’s had to be visible, with the killing being publicly known, especially to the target population.”
The new report published this week looked at a period that was slightly longer than the one studied by Tolnay and Beck and similarly focused on the Southern states it found had the most lynching’s in the country: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
(It is worth pausing here to note that while most discussions of lynching tend to focus on the South, it was by no means just a Southern phenomenon. A “significant” number of lynching’s did occur outside this region, as Michael J. Pfeifer, a history professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, wrote in the introduction to the essay collection, “Lynching Beyond Dixie: American Mob Violence Outside the South.” And when the U.S. Senate apologized in 2005 for not passing anti-lynching laws long before, admitting that the legislative body had repeatedly failed to make lynching a federal offense, the bill noted that lynching had occurred in nearly every state.)
The authors of the new report outline a series of common threads that tied together the lynching’s that occurred across states and over a period of several decades. It took little more than an allegation or a perceived insult to spark a lynching in some cases, they write, and the lynching’s themselves drew large crowds. James Cameron, who survived being lynched as a young teenager and later founded America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, said he remembered seeing 2,000 white people gathered at his lynching, some with their children.
Here is how the authors of the report describe the crowds in the report’s summary:
The lynching’s we document were acts of terrorism because these murders were carried out with impunity, sometimes in broad daylight, often “on the courthouse lawn.” These lynching’s were not “frontier justice,” because they generally took place in communities where there was a functioning criminal justice system that was deemed too good for African Americans. Terror lynching’s were horrific acts of violence whose perpetrators were never held accountable. Indeed, some “public spectacle lynching’s” were attended by the entire white community and conducted as celebratory acts of racial control and domination.
And this segment describing the spectacles seems to echo what Tolnay and Beck wrote two decades ago regarding how public these events were:
Large crowds of white people, often numbering in the thousands and including elected officials and prominent citizens, gathered to witness pre-planned, heinous killings that featured prolonged torture, mutilation, dismemberment, and/or burning of the victim. The Democratic White press justified and promoted these carnival like events, with vendors selling food, printers producing postcards featuring photographs of the lynching and corpse, and the victim’s body parts
There are three small descriptive comments toward the end of this post. FACEBOOK will not allow the photographs to be posted. They show dead Black victim’s hanging from tree branches as a large crowd stares into the camera.
collected as souvenirs
Postcard depicting the lynching of Lige Daniels, Center, Texas, USA, August 3, 1920. The smiling men and their young sons were members of the Klu Klux Klan and registered Democrats.
. Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, August 7, 1930, photography by Lawrence Beitler. The three suspects had been arrested the night before, charged with robbing and murdering a white factory worker, Claude Deeter, and raping his white girlfriend, Mary Ball, who was with him at the time. Mary Ball later testified that she had not been raped. After the lynching’s, and Mary Ball’s testimony, the charges was dropped.
Democrat (KKK) Justice.
These were the reasons used for lynching Black People by the Democratic Klu Klux Klan in the South.
• Acting suspiciously
• Gambling
• Quarreling
• Adultery
• Grave robbing
• Race hatred; Race troubles
• Aiding murderer
• Improper with white woman
• Rape
• Arguing with white man
• Incest
• Rape-murders
• Arson Inciting to riot
• Resisting mob
• Assassination
• Inciting trouble
• Robbery
• Attempted murder
• Indolence
• Running a bordello
• Banditry
• Inflammatory language
• Sedition
• Being disreputable
• Informing
• Slander
• Being obnoxious
• Injuring livestock
• Spreading disease
• Boasting about riot
• Insulting white man
• Stealing
• Burglary
• Insulting white woman
• Suing white man
• Child abuse
• Insurrection
• Swindling
• Conjuring • Kidnapping
• Terrorism
• Courting white woman
• Killing livestock
• Testifying against white man
• Criminal assault
• Living with white woman
• Throwing stones
• Cutting levee
• Looting
• Train wrecking
• Defending rapist
• Making threats
• Trying to colonize blacks
• Demanding respect
• Miscegenation
• Trying to vote
• Disorderly conduct
• Mistaken identity
• Unpopularity
• Eloping with white woman
• Molestation
• Unruly remarks
• Entered white woman’s room
• Murder
• Using obscene language
• Enticement
• Non-sexual assault
• Vagrancy
• Extortion
• Peeping Tom
• Violated quarantine
• Fraud
• Pillage
• Voodooism
• Plotting to kill
• Voting for wrong party
• Frightening white woman
• Poisoning well