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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4545787" data-attributes="member: 18222">I read that earlier today ... stupid as s<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2&nbsp; &nbsp; :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />t! Playing with words.The KKK was formed by Democrats whether or not it was sanctioned by the Democrat Party. Only total dumbf<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2&nbsp; &nbsp; :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" />ks believed the <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/2012/bsbullf.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":bsbullf:" title="Bsbullf&nbsp; &nbsp; :bsbullf:" data-shortname=":bsbullf:" /> in that bit of disinformation.Democrat <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/nathan-bedford-forrest" target="_blank">Nathan Bedford Forrest</a> was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK.A group including many former Confederate veterans founded the first branch of the Ku Klux Klan as a social club in Pulaski, <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/tennessee" target="_blank">Tennessee</a>, in 1865. The first two words of the organization’s name supposedly derived from the Greek word “kyklos,” meaning circle. In the summer of 1867, local branches of the Klan met in a general organizing convention and established what they called an “Invisible Empire of the South.” Leading Confederate general <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/nathan-bedford-forrest" target="_blank">Nathan Bedford Forrest</a> was chosen as the first leader, or “grand wizard,” of the Klan; he presided over a hierarchy of grand dragons, grand titans and grand cyclopses.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 4545787, member: 18222"] I read that earlier today ... stupid as s:censored:t! Playing with words. The KKK was formed by Democrats whether or not it was sanctioned by the Democrat Party. Only total dumbf:censored:ks believed the :bsbullf: in that bit of disinformation. Democrat [URL='https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/nathan-bedford-forrest']Nathan Bedford Forrest[/URL] was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK. A group including many former Confederate veterans founded the first branch of the Ku Klux Klan as a social club in Pulaski, [URL='https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/tennessee']Tennessee[/URL], in 1865. The first two words of the organization’s name supposedly derived from the Greek word “kyklos,” meaning circle. In the summer of 1867, local branches of the Klan met in a general organizing convention and established what they called an “Invisible Empire of the South.” Leading Confederate general [URL='https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/nathan-bedford-forrest']Nathan Bedford Forrest[/URL] was chosen as the first leader, or “grand wizard,” of the Klan; he presided over a hierarchy of grand dragons, grand titans and grand cyclopses. [/QUOTE]

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