quote:Okay. First, you show me your proof that Simkins was a member of the Klan.
You deal with quotes, where are the facts.
quote:Okay. First, you show me your proof that Simkins was a member of the Klan.
You deal with quotes, where are the facts.
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I've never, ever seen somebody so content on blimping. Blue star for you klanhorn 512
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Simkins was a mask-wearing, night-riding Klansman. In his own words: “Most of our service was performed at night and on horseback and not by rail. . . . The immediate effect upon the negro was wonderful, the flitting to and fro of masked horses and faces struck terror to the race, and any belated negro on the road at night who saw us coming never stood on the order of his going.”
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You got that proof of Simkins' Klan affiliation yet? Sorry, no "quotes" accepted.
quote:You cannot be serious. You must be joking.
So now you have moved from arguing technicalities back to renouncing historical facts and saying that he had no klan affiliation? Wow!
quote:Wow. Did you just get angry there for a second, princess?
Is this some sort of "well you did it too" argument, you racist little b*tch?
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Sorry. Ted said we can't take quotes. I don't exactly know what other kinds of proof one might be inclined to accept . . . but I guess he does.
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So to meet this saturnalia of crime and insolence; to suppress this volcano on which our women and children were nightly sleeping; to meet the military feature of this Loyal League, arose the "Invisible Empire." It was demanded for our safety and essential to our peace. In its organization and operation each state acted independently, and I can only speak of its organization and operation in Florida with which I was connected. Florida was more fortunately situated than other states to facilitate the operation of the Klan. The railroad from Tallahassee to Gainesville passed through the center of the black belt where we were most needed, and the conductors, engineers, and telegraph operators, being mostly Southern young men in hearty sympathy with us, never hesitated to carry out our orders when such services were needed, either for the dispatch of orders or the transportation of men. Our particular organization policed the counties of Jefferson, Madison, Taylor, and as far east as Columbia county, which comprise the heart of the black belt in Florida. Most of our service was performed at night and on horseback and not by rail. Our plan was never to work men in the county of their residence; the masked flitters of the night were always brought from other counties that the ready alibi might always be in evidence. The dawn of day [741] was the hour to disperse and no two must be seen together after daylight. We worked, of course, upon the fears and superstitions of the negroes, performing before their cabins at night apparently supernatural stunts. The immediate effect upon the negro was wonderful, the flitting to and fro of masked horses and faces struck terror to the race, and any belated negro on the road at night who saw us coming never stood on the order of his going. The spirit of "dem Ku Kluxers," as they called us, guarded the roads at night; in a word, the night prowlers now were satisfied to remain at home.
quote:In fact, that is exactly what he said. I linked him to a textbook that states, in the plainest English, that Coke and other conservative Democrats sought to undo the Reconstruction Constitution because they were not happy about the rights that it granted to blacks. Ted's reply, after much deliberation, was, and I think I'm quoting here, "which rights?"
We never said quotes are unacceptable. We only said that your interpretation of the quotes is unacceptable.
quote:Whoa! Look at you go! I see what you did there. Word of advice: be careful. If you try to illustrate a point by anything but the most literal means available, this crowd will miss it entirely, and will break their necks jumping on the straw man.
George Washington despised Hugo Chavez and that was the basis he declared war on Japan.
There, I said it, it is now published on the internet, therefore it must be true. Right 512?
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"HOPING TO ELIMINATE ALL TRACES OF RECONSTRUCTION AND OVERTURN REPUBLICAN SUCCESSES ON BEHALF OF BLACKS, CONSERVATIVE DEMOCRATS DEMANDED A NEW CONSTITUTION AIMED AT RESTORING STATES' RIGHTS. IN 1875, COKE CALLED FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION."
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Last I checked, you still think I said Sul Ross was a Klansman.