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Originally Posted by rubicon
ilovetv: Thank you for expanding on this issue because I anticipated that the Dems on TOTV, as their party leaders would rewrite this history too. condi rice's life experience reinforces Coulter's article.
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Try actually reading some history books rather than Ann Coulter's drivel.
http://www.faqs.org/espionage/Te-Uk/...ed-States.html
"Formed by ex-Confederate soldiers after the Civil War, the Klan was an attempt to strike back at the federal government for its imposition of martial law and military occupation in the South. However, the victims of Klan violence—recently freed slaves—were far more vulnerable than the Southern whites, no matter how disenfranchised and dispossessed as they might have seen themselves to be. The Klan, which terrorized and killed African Americans throughout the South, was outlawed by the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. In 1882, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the Klan Act unconstitutional, but by then Reconstruction was over, and the Klan had faded into the background". This is about the first KKK. There are several of them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan