setting 1924 picking demo nominee to face Coolidge and it comes down to a split between Al Smith and Wm MacAdoo (had Klan backing) Reference to a 1915 film "Birth of A Nation" a film laced with racial bigotry.
Klan supported prohibition-thought they should have a say in all elections
AL Smith a "Catholic "wasn't backed by Klan Klan backed MacAdoo ? treas secy under Wilson
Klan backed "prohibition"
Anti Klan plank convulses convention and > 1000 police show up to prevent the calamity of violence anti Klan plank loses by one vote 133 ballots finally an un known John Davis picked and loses by landslide to Coolidge
20,000 Klansmen amass across Hudson river in NJ burn crosses anmd effigy of Al Smith
Baltimore Sun June 29,1924
1927 Donald Trump's father arrested in Queens amid Klan riots never happened Re:Donald.
RECURRING NIGHTMARE OF THE KLAN
- PERSISTS DECADE AFTER DECADE
- Desire to leave the fringe for a permanent footing
- Prone to violence and a fascist mindset
- Goals to exert real mainstream political power
- What to expect from the Klan in the future
Charlottesville incident
- Trump defends the alt right as construed by his ellipsis statements
- "Very fine people on both sides"
- Many are innocent legal protesters registered legally
- Republican leaders distance themselves mildly condemn him
- One white house official:" The president went rogue"-stunned unplanned?
- Folding up notes putting them in his suit coat pocket
- Not to be treated ass surpise why?
KKK's long history
- real force
- not a fringe polit element
- wielding of political power + terror
- Jim Crowe era in the South
- Permanent fascistic violent racist element in Amer, hate culture
- they wax and wane
- they have never gone away
- Other Video NO NAZI SCUMBAGS ALLOWED IN US MILITARY
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