They haven’t changed

As a ’60s teenager, my proud Klan father told me the people not allowed in the KKK were, of course, Black folks, Jews, Catholics and Republicans. Democrats only … period!

Columnist John Brummett and other liberals would have us believe that after a couple hundred years of having a grand ol’ time slave-owning, civil-warring, Jim Crowing and lynching, that the Democrat Party somehow convinced Republicans to swap positions with them on race issues.

Really? If you believe that, I’ve got some sweet Arkansas beachfront property for you.

Well, my old man certainly never got that memo. He moved to Arkansas in the ’70s and started hanging with the Clintons, roasting hogs for important Democrats and never changed his views on race, dying a few years ago a happy yellow dog Democrat with a bright yellow dog statue in his front yard.

For the plantation owners of the 1800s to control their Black slaves and produce their product, cotton, they kept them housed and fed and undereducated. For major city mayors, now in 2021, to control their Black citizens and produce their product, votes, they keep them housed and fed and undereducated.

I figure this urban control was what my father was referring to in the ’60s when he said the KKK was changing its tactics since the FBI was infiltrating it and putting too many folks in prison.

President Biden, a major figure in the Democrat Party for half a century, proudly claimed that one of his mentors was former KKK member Sen. Robert Byrd.

Rest assured that neither my father nor Byrd nor Biden ever changed the way they felt about Black folks, and

Biden will die a proud yellow dog Democrat one of these days, just like my father and Byrd did. EDWARD CHEVALLIER Horseshoe Bend