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DEMSKKK.CON: Democrat outrage over Klan connections is a new development.
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| 02/06/2019
| Lloyd Billingsley
Posted on 02/06/2019 9:18:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Virginia governor Ralph Northam, a pediatric neurologist, had barely finished publicly touting infanticide last week when a page from his 1984 medical school yearbook suddenly went viral. The page showed a photo of a man in blackface standing beside a man in a Ku Klux Klan robe. The Virginia Democrat acknowledged he was one of the men but didnt say which. Northam then denied that he was in the photo but acknowledged he once darkened his face to look like Michael Jackson. Northam apologized for his actions and Democrats were divided about how to respond.
As CNN reported, Sens. Tim Kaine and Mark Warner refrained from calling on him to resign, but freshman Virginia Democrat Rep. Elaine Luria called for Northam to step down. Sen. Kamala Harris, a candidate for president, declare the stain of racism should have no place in the halls of government and called for Northam to step aside. So did former vice president Joe Biden, who said Northam has lost all moral authority. As the career of another prominent Democrat shows, this type of outrage is a new development.
West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, a mentor to Hillary Clinton, served in the U.S. Senate for a record 51 years, and as Senate majority leader from 1977-1981 and 1987-1989. Before election to the Senate in 1958, Byrd served six years in Congress. And before that, he served as a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
In 1942, Byrd formed a new Klan chapter in Sophia, West Virginia, and in 1944 wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, Mississippi Democrat, I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. Byrd rose to the rank of Exalted Cyclops and in 1946, wrote to the Klans Grand Wizard, The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation.
In 1952 Byrd said I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization, and in past nine years, I have never been interested in the Klan. Byrd duly gained election to Congress and went on to greater fame in the Senate.
In 1964, Senator Byrd led a filibuster against the Civil Rights Act and the next year he opposed the Voting Rights Act. Byrd also opposed the anti-poverty programs of President Lyndon Johnsons Great Society plan. We can take the people out of the slums, said Byrd during the debates, but we cannot take the slums out of the people. The West Virginia Democrat also railed against welfare cheaters, but like his Ku Klucker past, that did not impede his rise in the Democrat Party. In 1971, Byrd defeated Ted Kennedy, still in the throes of Chappaquiddick, to become Democratic whip.
The Man Who Runs the Senate, ran the headline on the September, 1975, Atlantic feature on Byrd by Sanford J. Ungar. The author bills Byrd as the next majority leader and just possibly a favorite son at the 1976 Democratic Convention. For his part, Byrd proclaims I feel that I can do any job that the American people wish to assign me and would not reject the nomination. Ungar noted that Byrd plays the fiddle and on the Senate floor protested the cancelation of Gunsmoke. Like Marshall Matt Dillon, hero of the long-running television program, Byrd was a hardliner on crime.
I say that it is better to build more prisons and hire more jailers, Byrd said, than it is to allow American cities to deteriorate further into jungles in which no one is safe. That evoked Byrds past in the Klan but in a piece of nearly 6,000 words Ungar says only that some derided Byrds membership in his youth, and his admission that joining the Klan was a 100 percent mistake. Some observers had to wonder.
In 1967, Byrd voted against the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1991, when embattled Bush nominee Clarence Thomas pushed back against the high-tech lynching of uppity blacks, Byrd dismissed it a diversionary tactic. Byrd supported Anita Hills accusations of sexual harassment and like 45 other Democrats voted against the African American Thomas.
Perhaps thats what Hillary Clinton had in mind when she called Byrd her friend and mentor after her fellow Democrat passed away in 2010 the age of 92. Hes forgotten, but not gone.
As Byrd confirmed, you can take a person out of the Klan but you cant take the Klan out of the person. Byrds leadership role in the Ku Klux Klan did not impede his rise in the Democrat Party, which now proclaims outrage over Ralph Northams blackface and Ku Klucker photo. At this writing, the infanticide promoter has yet to resign.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democrats; kkk
To: SeekAndFind
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posted on
02/06/2019 9:22:32 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
To: SeekAndFind
The reason Democrats and Socialists support abortion
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posted on
02/06/2019 9:25:14 AM PST
by
MrBambaLaMamba
(No hay dos sin tre)
To: SeekAndFind
Kind of ironic, isn’t it? Behind the scenes, most of them are saying, “Hell, that could’ve been me!”
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posted on
02/06/2019 9:30:07 AM PST
by
ManHunter
(You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
To: SeekAndFind
The Sons of Nathan Bedford Forrest will defend Richmond!
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posted on
02/06/2019 9:37:30 AM PST
by
Thrownatbirth
(.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
To: SeekAndFind
I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side.” Although this probably sounds like a statement based on a principle, vile as it is, I’m of the opinion that Byrd, like so many other democrats who could have joined - Clinton, Obama, Biden - refused to join out of simple cowardice. Like the others.
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posted on
02/06/2019 9:38:42 AM PST
by
DPMD
To: SeekAndFind
The hoodies are not far off.
The suffragettes would NOT allow black women to join them. In fact, they did everything they could to make sure that black women NEVER got the right to vote.
To: Red Badger
Here's what is more noticeable...that the women are not intermingled with the men.
These newbies will all be one termers.
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To: SeekAndFind
“Perhaps thats what Hillary Clinton had in mind when she called Byrd her friend and mentor after her fellow Democrat passed away in 2010 the age of 92. Hes forgotten, but not gone.”
Let’s not forget how Republican Trent Lott was run out of town for bestowing faint praise on Byrd at his memorial.
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posted on
02/06/2019 9:52:51 AM PST
by
bk1000
(I stand with Trump)
To: Sacajaweau
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posted on
02/06/2019 10:03:50 AM PST
by
Salamander
(Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
To: Red Badger
Brilliant satire! Those women looked so stupid in their white outfits, most of which looked like they’d been dragged out of the Good Will bag. They only clapped when cued by Nancy Pelosi — like a bunch of lemmings.
To: SeekAndFind
Article doesn’t match the title. Where’s the outrage?
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posted on
02/06/2019 11:00:05 AM PST
by
subterfuge
(RIP T.P.)
To: SeekAndFind
Angry, evil, totally SELF ABSORBED (it's all about me, me, me) petulant children; who hate America and whose hands, feet and bodies are COVERED IN THE BLOOD of UNTOLD MILLIONS of MURDERED BABIES dressed all in white, like wolves in sheep's clothing, or the KKK, in their vein attempts to hide who and what they really are from the American people.
Fortunately, their united, bitter, angry, hatefilled, self centered rejection and overwhelming lack of support for ANYTHING OR ANY POLICIES that President Trump so eloquently presented designed to PROTECT America and American citizens, protect little gils from becoming victims of the sex trade, protect our youth from death by drugs, to preserve the country, and the sovereignty of our nation, to prolong and expand upon its greatness, to protect and preserve our freedom and to support freedom for others, to firmly reject the scourge of SOCIALISM/COMMUNISM, along with a host of other, goals he innumeratedid for the common good WERE ALL SOUNDLY REJECTED BY THEM AS THEY SAT ON THEIR HANDS, SAT IN THEIR SEATS RAILED AND GLOWERED IN ANGRY INDIGNATION AGAINST AMERICA FOR ALL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO SEE.
The "optics" of their REACTIONS and WHOLESALE REJECTION, of ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING that was RIGHT and GOOD, coupled with their perverse, lunatic, "look at me, m e, ME", narcissistic, self absorbed "celibration" that THEY had obtained P O W E R, SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THEIR SEX spoke volumes about who and what they really are and the unbridled THREAT they pose to the NATION and its CITIZENS.
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posted on
02/06/2019 12:02:21 PM PST
by
Jmouse007
(Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
02/06/2019 12:06:02 PM PST
by
Para-Ord.45
(Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
To: bk1000
He praised Strom Thurmond who was a racist Democrat before switching to the Republican party. Hated by Democrats for switching parties and subsequently vilified for being a racist.
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posted on
02/06/2019 12:10:35 PM PST
by
webheart
(Grammar police on the scene.)
To: webheart
You are correct. I thought it was Byrd.
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posted on
02/06/2019 12:31:44 PM PST
by
bk1000
(I stand with Trump)
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