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Garland Son-in-Law, Pushing CRT, Whitewashes Klan Role In Democratic Party

Alexander "Xan" Tanner and Merrick Garland
Alexander "Xan" Tanner and Merrick Garland

Here was the headline at Fox News:

AG Garland’s son-in-law’s company issues ‘resource’ claiming Trump supporters are White supremacists
Garland promised not to ‘politicize’ DOJ but his memo, which some say targets parents opposed to critical race theory in schools, is drawing fire

The story revealed that Attorney General Merrick Garland, infamously in the news for threatening parents who stand up to challenge CRT racist propaganda with being reported to the FBI, has a son-in-law busily spreading the self-same CRT propaganda. And in doing so he attempts to whitewash the history of the Ku Klux Klan and his father’s political party – the Democrats.

It seems that an outfit called Panorama Education, co-founded by Garland son-in-law Alexander “Xan” Tanner, held an “educational workshop using material that paints – wait for it – Trump supporters as would-be Ku Klux Klan white supremacists.

The material in question is this article that appeared originally in medium.com and was written by one Altagracia Montilla who self-describes as a “freedom-dreamer, conflict coach, and strategist committed to dismantling oppressive systems…”. Montilla wrote, and Tanner’s company spread, this:

“The rise in images of overt white supremacy in the media feeds into the confusion about white supremacy. While the Ku Klux Klan and MAGAs at half-empty Trump rallies (not that these are mutually exclusive groups) are in fact examples of white supremacy, they are not the only examples.”

Got the casual slur? The equaling of the Klan to Trump “MAGAs” -supporters of the Make America Great Again- and the laughable nonsense of “half-empty Trump rallies. (Newsflash? As the latest Trump rally in Iowa illustrated vividly, Trump rallies – and I have been to half a dozen-are filled to overflowing.)

Let’s stop right there.

While there is more to read- oh so much more- in this far left-wing racial supremacy screed, let’s stick with the fact that the sitting Attorney General of the United States has a family member who is disseminating CRT propaganda that deliberately contains false information on the KKK and Trump supporters (aka Trump himself). And in doing so oh so conveniently ignoring the long and deep history of the Ku Klux Klan with, yes indeed, Garland – and Joe Biden’s – own Democratic Party. A very long history that to this moment has not been rebuked and apologized for by either man, much less the Pelosi’s, Harris’s, Warrens and Sanders of the world.

First let’s start with Donald Trump rebuking the Klan and its putative leader David Duke all the way back in 2000 when Trump had considered a run as the then “Reform Party” presidential candidate. Trump turned down a run or identifying with the party, saying Duke was associated with it and he saw Duke as “a bigot, a racist, a problem.” In 2016 Trump appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America and MSNBC’s Morning Joe to say that Duke was a “bad person who I disavowed on numerous occasions over the years.”

But there’s more involved in this jewel of deliberate, oh-so-not-clever disinformation on the Klan, white supremacy and the Democrats that is this Montilla paper disseminated by Garland’s son-in-law. As here in this sentence, bold print for emphasis supplied:

“Historically, our world, and particularly western nations, experienced a long history of overt white supremacy in practice that continues today: the creation of race as a social and political weapon, enslavement, Jim Crow, segregation, murderous police officers.”

Notice anything missing?

That would be the role of the Democratic Party in “the creation of race as a social and political weapon, enslavement, Jim Crow, segregation.”

As actual American history – not leftist propaganda -records, the Democratic Party – the Biden/Garland party – was founded by slave-owners. Something not mentioned in this article. So what else specifically has this leftist propaganda sent out by Pandora left out? I have cataloged before and am happy to reference exactly what’s missing

  • The number of Democratic Party platforms supporting slavery. There were six from 1840 through 1860.
  • The number of Democratic presidents who owned slaves. There were seven from 1800 through 1861.
  • The number of Democratic Party platforms that either supported segregation outright or were silent on the subject? There were 20, from 1868 through 1948.
  • The reference to “Jim Crow” as in “Jim Crow laws,” conveniently leaves out the role Democrats played in creating them. These were the post-Civil War laws passed enthusiastically by Democrats local, state and the federal government under the complete control of Democrats. These laws segregated public schools, public transportation, restaurants, restrooms and public places in general (everything from water coolers to beaches). The reason Rosa Parks became famous is that she sat in the “whites only” front section of a bus, the “whites only” designation the direct result of Democrats.
  • There is no reference that the formation of the Ku Klux Klan, was, according to Columbia University historian Eric Foner, “a military force serving the interests of the Democratic Party.” Nor is there reference to University of North Carolina historian Allen Trelease’s description of the Klan as the “terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.”
  • There is no reference to the fact Democrats opposed the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the Constitution. The 13th banned slavery. The 14th effectively overturned the infamous 1857 Dred Scott decision (made by Democratic pro-slavery Supreme Court justices) by guaranteeing due process and equal protection to former slaves. The 15th gave black Americans the right to vote.
  • There is no reference to the fact that Democrats opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1866. It was passed by the Republican Congress over the veto of President Andrew Johnson, a Democrat. The law was designed to provide blacks with the right to own private property, sign contracts, sue and serve as witnesses in a legal proceeding.
  • There is no reference to the Democrats’ opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1875. It was passed by a Republican Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses Grant. The law prohibited racial discrimination in public places and public accommodations.
  • There is no reference to the Democrats’ 1904 platform, which devotes a section to “Sectional and Racial Agitation,” claiming the GOP’s protests against segregation and the denial of voting rights to blacks sought to “revive the dead and hateful race and sectional animosities in any part of our common country,” which in turn “means confusion, distraction of business, and the reopening of wounds now happily healed.”
  • There is no reference to four Democratic platforms, 1908-20, that are silent on blacks, segregation, lynching and voting rights as racial problems in the country mount. By contrast the GOP platforms of those years specifically address “Rights of the Negro” (1908), oppose lynching (in 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928) and, as the New Deal kicks in, speaks out about the dangers of making blacks “wards of the state.”
  • There is no reference to the Democratic Convention of 1924, known to history as the “Klanbake.” The 103-ballot convention was held in Madison Square Garden. Hundreds of delegates were members of the Ku Klux Klan, the Klan so powerful that a plank condemning Klan violence was defeated outright. To celebrate, the Klan staged a rally with 10,000 hooded Klansmen in a field in New Jersey directly across the Hudson from the site of the convention. Attended by hundreds of cheering convention delegates, the rally featured burning crosses and calls for violence against African-Americans and Catholics.
  • There is no reference to the fact that it was Democrats who segregated the federal government, at the direction of Democrat President Woodrow Wilson upon taking office in 1913.
  • There is no reference to the fact that Democrats created the Federal Reserve Board, passed labor and child welfare laws, and created Social Security with Wilson’s New Freedom and FDR’s New Deal – programs that were created as the result of an agreement to ignore segregation and the lynching of blacks. Neither is there a reference to the thousands of local officials, state legislators, state governors, U.S. congressmen and U.S. senators who were elected as supporters of slavery and then segregation between 1800 and 1965. Nor is there reference to the deal with the devil that left segregation and lynching as a way of life in return for election support for three post-Civil War Democratic presidents, Grover Cleveland, Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt.
  • There is no reference that three-fourths of the opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Bill in the U.S. House came from Democrats, or that 80% of the “nay” vote in the Senate came from Democrats. Certainly, there is no reference to the fact that the opposition included future Democratic Senate leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia (a former Klan member) and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Sr., father of Vice President Al Gore.
  • Last but certainly not least, there is no reference to the fact that Birmingham, Ala., Public Safety Commissioner Bull Connor, who infamously unleashed dogs and fire hoses on civil rights protestors, was in fact–yes indeed–a member of both the Democratic National Committee and the Ku Klux Klan.

To sum up?

Two big problems here. First, as the Attorney General of the United States, Merrick Garland launches the FBI on parents protesting Critical Race Theory, his son is using his business to push a pro-CRT  “resource” that has a paper saying Trump supporters are white supremacists and links them to the Ku Klux Klan.

Second? Well aside from not publishing the fact that Trump personally – decades ago – denounced the Klan’s David Duke, this Pandora
“resource” completely ignores the long and deep tie between white supremacy, slavery, segregation and the Klan to the Democratic Party. For which no Democrat leader, Joe Biden and Merrick Garland included, has, to this day, apologized for.

Imagine that.

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