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Mallosi:  You could check with some of the current democrat big wigs.  They should know the rigmarole.

Check out that hero of "progressivism", Woodrow Wilson!:

Speaking of the Klan, remember the great Democrat President Woodrow Wilson?
After a screening of D.W. Griffith's paean to the Ku Klux Klan, "Birth of a
Nation," Wilson, turned-movie critic, said of the film: "It is like writing
history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true."

Needless to say, the NAACP had a different outlook. After its viewing, the
civil rights organization was mortified to the point of launching a nationwide
protest in 1915 against the film. The group was equally appalled by President
Wilson's comments and it launched a public protest against him.

Before we move on, one more thing about President Wilson. He was the
president who led our nation into WWI with the ringing declaration that it was
to make the world "safe for democracy." In Woodrow's mind, though, "democracy"
applied to everyone except those annoying little dark-skinned people in America
who are always clamoring for civil rights. In 1913, Wilson introduced
segregation into the federal government.

Yes, dear readers, the man who is worshipped as the utmost "progressive"
(where and by who have you heard that term used lately?) of his time allowed
federal officials to segregate "toilets, cafeterias and work" areas of various
federal departments.

It was left to Wilson's successor, Republican Warren G. Harding to scrap the
segregation policy. And Warren G. didn't stop there. In 1922, Harding delivered
a bold speech in Birmingham, Ala., (A Democrat stronghold that was later known
by blacks as "Bombingham") in which he called for black equality. Up to then, no
U.S. president had ever spoken so forcefully about civil rights.

Harding was elected in 1920. Funny thing about the Republican Party platform
that Harding ran under. It called for federal anti-lynching legislation. Guess
which party didn't? If you said Democrat, go to the head of the line.

A few words from the Republican platform of 1912.

    "We favor such additional legislation as may be necessary more effectually to prohibit corporations from contributing funds, directly or indirectly to campaigns.... "

Times sure have changed in the last hundred years.

Why would you want to change the subject?   Oh yeh,  - I remember.