[Texas Eagle]

Byrd was a former member of the Klu Klux Klan who later regretted that affiliation,

Oh. Well. Right, then. Who doesn't regret slavery, racism, the mistreatment blacks have suffered?

[a fool in paradise]

Byrd was a former member of the Klu Klux Klan who later regretted that affiliation,

He was a former Klan RECRUITER and was defiant in his continued use of the n-word at the end of the 20th century by proclaiming that it was ok because there were white n-s too.

He didn't turn his life around.