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  • Byrd: Why I Left the Klan

    03/11/2005 8:11:53 AM PST · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 113 replies · 2,937+ views
    NewsMax ^ | 3/11/05 | Limbacher
    Former Ku Klux Klansman Sen. Robert Byrd said Thursday that he decided to leave the anti-black terrorist group in 1946 after becoming a born-again Christian, adding that the only reason he used the "N"-word in a 2001 television interview is because he'd heard black leaders say it. Asked why he left the Klan, Byrd told Fox News Channel's Alan Colmes, "My wife and I, we're born- again Christians . . . We were baptized in the Old Church Yard at Crab Orchard Baptist Church in 1946 . . . That changed my thinking in many ways." "Time, reflection, and the...