So says Snopes. He was still in the KKK in his 20’s and 30’s. He was a recruiter and rose to become a Kleagle and an Exalted Cyclops. That’s not dabbling in the KKK. That’s taking an active part in the KKK. You don’t just “find” yourself “dabbling” in the Klan. You are born into that ideology by listening to the adults in your life.
From Wikipedia- Robert Byrd
Robert C. Byrd, was a recruiter for the Klan while in his 20s and 30s, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter. After leaving the group, Byrd spoke in favor of the Klan during his early political career. Though he claimed to have left the organization in 1943, Byrd, wrote a letter in 1946 to the group’s Imperial Wizard stating “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.” Byrd attempted to explain or defend his former membership in the Klan in his 1958 U.S. Senate campaign when he was 41 years old.[1] Byrd, a Democrat, eventually became his party leader in the Senate. Byrd later said joining the Klan was his “greatest mistake.”[2] However, in a 2001 incident Byrd repeatedly used the phrase “white niggers” on a national television broadcast.[3]
Don’t be like the left and even come close to defending anything regarding that POS, fake pic or not.
Petey
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I heard him talking about wiggers that time in ‘01. He was just saying that using the N-word behavior wasn’t something limited to blacks. It seemed like a reasonable thing to say but he was pushing the envelope by using the n-word in any context as a White Man. He got away with it because he was a cRat but took quite a bit of heat for it. He’s received more heat posthumously for it I think.