The Klan Was the Original ‘Election Police’

They aren’t breaking new ground, but joining a long tradition of dressing up efforts to suppress and intimidate Black voters as somehow protecting the integrity of our American democracy.

This was all too predictable to anyone who knows American history, and part of the Republican Party’s anti-Democratic agenda is to ensure that much of that history is ignored or forgotten. It’s good that many Americans know about the Edmund Pettus Bridge, but more of them should know about Edmund Pettus, a white terrorist and politician from Alabama.

Pettus’ status as a Grand Dragon reveals how the Klan was never the ragtag group of powerless, disgruntled Southerners that it sometimes presented itself as, but was actually led by the elites of Southern society and those with military experience. During Reconstruction, Pettus had his own law practice in Selma and was also the Alabama delegate to the Democratic National Convention.

Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” slogan, the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and the Republican Party’s false claims of election fraud echo the Redeemers’ undemocratic, terrorist agenda.

BarrettPitner Looks like a tRump rally.

BarrettPitner You've got alot of nerve posting this same garbage 2 days in a row. It's also a lie. Claiming that The Patriot Front is an organization designed to intimidate Blacks? Also, why don't you compare anything to COMMUNISM ?

BarrettPitner Bravo to Manchin and Sinema for being on this side of history.

BarrettPitner The Democrat party & Progressives will NEVER solve poverty and Inequality because they would be putting themselves out of work . . . The work of promising these things. . . Century after century 😂 What a joke.

BarrettPitner progressives idea of voting rights is to have a free-for-all with no accountability and no identification at the polls. While they cry 'voter suppression' what they're offering is a bill to legalize cheating in elections; A, 'Voters cheating rights bill,' & Crying the opposite 😂

BarrettPitner Don’t you think Repubs are doing it for the same reason?

BarrettPitner Looks like a DNC convention.

BarrettPitner A violation of THIS 42 U. S. Code §1985(3) 42USC1985 Aka the KuKluxKlanAct KKKAct KlanAct

BarrettPitner 59 and 60 years ago, cartoon by Herblock

BarrettPitner The Dems don’t like this , don’t wear hat’s anymore but still the same goal.

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