If a Democratic president's father had been a member of the KKK

[Chasstev365]

what do you suppose the media would be saying about the president right now?

No one talks about Fred Trump's dark past, but if he were a Clinton, Gore, or any other Democrat, that's all they would be talking about. There would be non-stop coverage about how the Democratic was raised by a racist and how intolerable it is.

The American media bias for corporate Republicans is a far bigger threat to the nation than the Alt Right!

[dalton99a]

1. No kidding

[oasis]

2. KKK association definitely had an influence on Trump's posture towards

racial issues.

[dalton99a]

8. The KKK association gave him instant street creds among the alt-right crowd

[mythology]

3. Robert Byrd suggests otherwise

Outside of the far right, once Byrd changed, it wasn't brought up constantly.

[mucifer]

5. I agree. We have to remember some very liberal people were raised by kkk.

[volstork]

4. Just like Prescott Bush

bankrolled Hitler. How many people know that? Where was the media expose when GHW Bush and GW Bush were running for office? How did the son and grandson of a Nazi sympathizer become president?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

[procon]

6. Vice did an exhaustive investigation on Fred Trump's KKK activities.

In the run up to last year's election, Vice's expose on Fred Trump helps explain why Trump is giving white supremacists a big boost.


All the Evidence We Could Find About Fred Trump's Alleged Involvement with the KKK

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mvke38/all-the-evidence-we-could-find-about-fred-trumps-alleged-involvement-with-the-kkk

[randr]

7. The lsos is Nazi spawn

[Blue_true]

9. I am not making excuses for the media.

But I think most legitimate media organizations have over many years come to expect more from Democrats than from republicans. That is why they are shocked when a Democrat has racist relatives but not so much when a republican does.