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CliffordWalker https://www.dailykos.com/news/CliffordWalker News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Mon, 27 Jan 2020 06:45:48 +0000 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 06:45:48 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) We have been here before! https://www.dailykos.com/story/2019/2/4/1832222/-We-have-been-here-before <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Walker" target="_blank">Georgia Gov. Clifford Walker</a> said at a 1924 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" target="_blank">Ku Klux Klan</a> meeting that he'd "build a wall of steel" against immigrants. On 8 January 2019, presidential biographer <a href="http://www.jonmeacham.com/" target="_blank">Jon Meacham</a> tweeted what he described as a quote from the year 1924 made by then-Georgia Gov. Clifford Walker during a speech given at a Ku Klux Klan gathering: <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> America should “build a wall of steel, a wall as high as Heaven” against the flow of immigrants.–Georgia Gov. Clifford Walker, at a 1924 convention of the Ku Klux Klan, then a powerful force at a time of strain for the white working class. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PastIsPrologue?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">#PastIsPrologue</a> — Jon Meacham (@jmeacham) <a href="https://twitter.com/jmeacham/status/1082804235996200960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank">January 8, 2019</a> </blockquote> As a country, we have survived and prospered under worst conditions. But it wasn’t fun or easy or quick! For more information see <a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/governor-of-georgia-kkk/" target="_blank" title="">Did Clifford Walker Say at a 1924 KKK Rally That He Would Build a ‘Wall of Steel’ Against Immigrants?</a> https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/governor-of-georgia-kkk/ or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbvg2UIrLTw" title="">Jon Meacham: 2018 National Book Festival </a> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbvg2UIrLTw rss@dailykos.com (ForeignPolicy) CliffordWalker JonMeacham KuKluxKlan _1832222 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 22:50:03 +0000