So, how does this square with the idiotic theory that the “parties switched” if FDR, the Godfather of modern Democrat politics, chose a KKK member for the highest court in the land?
By and large, the response by the press was negative. The least severe opinions reflected the hope that a besmirched Black would be able to nonetheless move forward and approve Roosevelt’s urgent economic reforms. But the prevailing mood was that of disgust, disappointment, and skepticism. A columnist in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote, “Black stands, by his own testimony, convicted of unfitness to be a member of the Supreme Court.” A writer at the Kansas City Star declared his appointment “a tragic offense against the American people,” with another calling the speech “humiliating talk,” while a journalist at a paper in Richmond, Virginia, observed that for all of Black’s apologies, “The specter of a white hood amid the black gowns of the court will not down.”
But the outrage did not lead to resignation or impeachment, and Black continued to serve on the Supreme Court for 34 years, proving one of its most influential justices.
…Black’s record on race was spotty at best. He wrote the majority opinion upholding Japanese internment and believed the law ought to be able to punish protesters at civil rights sit-ins.
As Black himself once said, “Show me the kind of steps a man made in the sand five years ago, and I will show you the kind of steps he is likely to make in the same sand five years hence.”
West Virginia’s Democrat Senator Robert Byrd (1959 to 2010) would have
approved of FDR’s choice.
Byrd was the former Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan.
“By and large, the response by the press was negative.”
Back in the day when the press knew what it’s job was.
Back then they had the Press
Today we have a Mess
When GWB promoted Bob Mueller it was well known to conservatives that Mueller was a Stalinist – still is BTW
the “anti Communist” GOP did not care!
“My party is always right!” Stalwarts of both parties!
The party didn’t care nor did the democrat voters. Perception not reality is what’s important
KKK is a Demonrat Institution.
Why should the Demonrats object? Why would the Media? Jim Crow was a Demonrat Institution, as well. The Davis-Bacon Act was passed to keep negroes out of gov’t contract work. Woody Wilson and the “Progressive” Demonrats (Wilsonian Socialists) were virulent racists.
All this is well-known except among the “educated” of the Media, the Political Sphere, and Academia.
Lies and Hypocrisy – Hypocrisy and Lies – are the sustenance of socialism.
And socialism pervades every aspect of our political life.
The reckoning will be severe.
izlamo delenda est …