Post by Portiaami on Jun 11, 2020 17:26:17 GMT
Mark Levin: Disband the Democratic Party which 'birthed the KKK'
By Dominick Mastrangelo,
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mark-levin-disband-the-democratic-party-which-birthed-the-kkk
Conservative commentator Mark Levin is calling for the Democratic Party, which he said will never be able to overcome its racist past, to disband.
"Abolish the Democrat Party. If we are to purge all vestiges of slavery and racism, it seems to me the most obvious target must be the Democrat Party. It stood for slavery and segregation and birthed the KKK," Levin said in a string of tweets Thursday morning. "Any sporadically redeeming policies of the more recent past are of no relevance. It’s in that party’s DNA, as they say."
Since the death of George Floyd at the hands of police on May 25, a renewed push to address systemic racism in the United States has sparked. A growing number of activists, politicians, and media pundits have called for the tearing down of Confederate monuments, the banning of the Confederate flag from sporting events, and the renaming of military bases named after figures with complicated histories related to race.
Levin continued, "Indeed, only a few decades ago, it chose a former klansman as its Senate leader, without objection from today’s so-called resistance — most of whose 'members' are Democrats or will vote for Democrats."
Levin was ostensibly making reference to former West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, who once led a Ku Klux Klan chapter and worked as a recruiter in the 1940s. He served as a senator for 51 years until his death in 2010 and was the Senate majority leader in the 1970s and '80s.
By Dominick Mastrangelo,
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mark-levin-disband-the-democratic-party-which-birthed-the-kkk
Conservative commentator Mark Levin is calling for the Democratic Party, which he said will never be able to overcome its racist past, to disband.
"Abolish the Democrat Party. If we are to purge all vestiges of slavery and racism, it seems to me the most obvious target must be the Democrat Party. It stood for slavery and segregation and birthed the KKK," Levin said in a string of tweets Thursday morning. "Any sporadically redeeming policies of the more recent past are of no relevance. It’s in that party’s DNA, as they say."
Since the death of George Floyd at the hands of police on May 25, a renewed push to address systemic racism in the United States has sparked. A growing number of activists, politicians, and media pundits have called for the tearing down of Confederate monuments, the banning of the Confederate flag from sporting events, and the renaming of military bases named after figures with complicated histories related to race.
Levin continued, "Indeed, only a few decades ago, it chose a former klansman as its Senate leader, without objection from today’s so-called resistance — most of whose 'members' are Democrats or will vote for Democrats."
Levin was ostensibly making reference to former West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, who once led a Ku Klux Klan chapter and worked as a recruiter in the 1940s. He served as a senator for 51 years until his death in 2010 and was the Senate majority leader in the 1970s and '80s.
