Posted on 06/12/2020 12:28:01 PM PDT by TomServo
Confederate monuments are being taken down or vandalized in cities across the country in the wake of George Floyd's death in police custody -- but so far the revived push to remove symbols of slavery and segregation has largely overlooked the late Democratic senator who was a former Ku Klux Klan member yet later rejected those views.
West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd's legacy is visible throughout his home state of West Virginia, with his name on numerous buildings and roads.
Byrd was a former member of the Klu Klux Klan who later regretted that affiliation, renounced his past views supporting segregation and described it as a mistake.
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All highways, schools, bridges and post offices with Byrds name must come down.
“Sheets” Byrd.
Oh. Well. Right, then. Who doesn't regret slavery, racism, the mistreatment blacks have suffered?
Byrd was a former member of the Klu Klux Klan who later regretted that affiliation, renounced his past views supporting segregation and described it as a mistake.
Republicans don’t get do-overs from the media. Sheets Byrd should not either.
Harry Truman was also a member of the KKK tho it is hard to confirm now. He was also part of the Pendergast Gang.
Man they got major highways named after Byrd....a former member of the KKK.
Got a little story to share. Here in Delaware they put in a few new roadways near me. One of them they named “BIDEN WAY”.
So one of my doctors is on Biden Way and the lady is giving me directions and she says it’s on Route 16. I say “I thought it was on Biden way?”
She says people hate for them to call it that so they use the state route number.
I loved it because I hate and despise that they name anything off of that corrupt Biden, a road built with MY tax dollars while he was out robbing the Ukraine.
Evidently I am not alone.
Every senator who voted for a former KKK member to be the leader of the Senate must resign now!
The last vote was around the start of 1987.
Oh, and Biden was among those who voted to make a former KKK member the leader of the US Senate!
Once all the statues are gone the only remnant left of the Confederacy will the Democrat party.
Indeed. From the 1980's until his death, Byrd's skillful maneuvering of federal dollars for pork projects accounted for almost all of WV's infrastructure spending. That and he played a passable fiddle.
Indeed. From the 1980's until his death, Byrd's skillful maneuvering of federal dollars for pork projects accounted for almost all of WV's infrastructure spending. That and he played a passable fiddle.
West Virginia won’t be taking down their Civil War monuments, either.
Brother against brother in West Virginia and they don’t forget.
It looks like he is saying...”ON Your knees BOY!”
“Yassuh MASSA! Mammy!”
https://live.staticflickr.com/8437/8010382525_4493656e34_b.jpg
Byrd joined the Klan to get votes, later left when it was clear such affiliation would cost him votes. Always the opportunist always the professional politician.
I always ask the Byrd-dites here in WV when they start waxing nostalgically about all the federal money Byrd brought in, “ Name one thing he did that’s still around that doesn’t require a government subsidy (state or federal) to continue?” . So far no one can tell me of anything. I really want to know. Some of the things he did I support, for example he kept Green Bank alive & got it rebuilt after it collapsed due to metal fatigue. Now it’s at the forefront of cutting edge radio astronomy - Gravity Waves. I’ve been told by more then one senior political player here (both sides!) that Byrd and his staff didn’t care how the money was spent. They just wanted it spent. I’ll assume Green Bank was a happy acident.
Hitlery memorializing Byrd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryweuBVJMEA&list=FLzW8_HbkPUZEpQ6k0dFXFuA&index=135
1 Politicians who were active in the Klan at some time
1.1 Robert Byrd
1.2 Edward Douglass White
1.3 Hugo Black
1.4 Theodore G. Bilbo
1.5 John Brown Gordon
1.6 Joseph E. Brown
1.7 Elmer David Davies
1.8 Edward L. Jackson
1.9 Clarence Morley
1.10 Bibb Graves
1.11 Clifford Walker
1.12 George Gordon
1.13 John Tyler Morgan
1.14 Edmund Pettus
1.15 John W. Morton
1.16 William L. Saunders
1.17 John Clinton Porter
1.18 Benjamin F. Stapleton
1.19 David Duke
2 Alleged members of the Klan
2.1 Warren G. Harding
2.2 Harry S. Truman
2.3 Lyndon Johnson
Would be hard to find a bigger fan than Woodrow Wilson.
Jesus, even the actual soldiers who fought each other reconciled well before the 20th century! But yet there are some on this forum who can't pass up the opportunity to besmirch the South in their faux moral outrage and cling to the myth the war was fought over slavery. Let it go already.
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