"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.
~Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944
if thats true then they’re all DEMOCRATS
Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd, Ex-Klansman
by Michelle Malkin (March 8, 2001)
Ex-Klansman Robert Byrd, the senior senator from West Virginia, casually used the phrase "white nigger" twice on national TV this weekend. Enraged civil rights groups organized a protest campaign against Sen. Byrd and demanded that he undergo sensitivity training ... not.
The ex-Klansman, you see, is a Democrat. Democrats can join hate groups and utter the ugliest racial slurs and get away with it because they are Democrats. They belong to the party of racial tolerance and understanding. They're paragons of virtue, and the rest of us are bigoted rubes.
The ex-Klansman showed his true colors when asked by Fox News Sunday morning talk show host Tony Snow about the state of race relations in America. Sen. Byrd warned: "There are white niggers. I've seen a lot of white niggers in my time. I'm going to use that word. We just need to work together to make our country a better country, and I'd just as soon quit talking about it so much."
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=383
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
In 1942, 24-year-old Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), whose parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, he had witnessed in his childhood. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops, or leader, of his local chapter.[8]
Byrd, in his autobiography, attributed the beginnings of his political career to this incident, although he lamented that they involved the Klan. According to Byrd, a KKK official told him "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd recalls that "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[4] He participated in the KKK during World War II, holding the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops [the top officer in the local Klan unit]. He did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard, where he helped build warships.[citation needed]
Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy about racially integrating the military. Byrd, when he was 28 years old, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, vowing never to serve in such a military:
"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.[5]"
He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Participation_in_the_Ku_Klux_Klan
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YouTube - Senator Robert Byrd says "white niggers" on TV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0
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From the Washington Post:
"Byrd said in the Dec. 11, 1945, letter -- which would not become public for 42 more years with the publication of a book on blacks in the military during World War II by author Graham Smith -- that he would never fight in the armed forces "with a Negro by my side." Byrd added that, "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.."..."
"during the general election campaign, Byrd's GOP opponent uncovered a letter Byrd had handwritten to Green, the KKK Imperial Wizard, recommending a friend as a Kleagle and urging promotion of the Klan throughout the country. The letter was dated 1946 -- long after the time Byrd claimed he had lost interest in the Klan. "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia," Byrd wrote, according to newspaper accounts of that period. Byrd makes no mention of the letter in his new book."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html
It is ironic that his death features a “whitewash.”
I do believe people can repent of racist behavior. Maybe Byrd did. I hope so. But it is stupid to pretend he was never a hard core racist.
..FLEETING?...if you call being with them in your 20's AND 30's fleeting
“He was trying to get elected”
The ends justifies the means...the Progressive mantra.
So my guess is that anyone ever in the KKK was just trying to get elected? LOL!!! IDIOTS!!!
By voting against the only two black men nominated to the Supreme Court, filibustering civil rights bills right through the 60's, and stealing every penny possible from the taxpayers to fill his own pork barrel.
I knew that was the insinuation the moment that perverted bastard uttered those words.
It’s not the least bit surprising that the worst person to ever be President knows absolutely nothing about personal character, honor, and/or integrity.
Perhaps Clinton will be campaigning for David Duke soon?
Clinton worked for the segregationist Senator Fulbright, so he knows all about racism.
Clinton has a way of saying something true but awful in such a way that it could be interpreted another way so that what he said was ok. The DBM interpreted this as "making up for it" when in reality Byrd actually did spend the rest of his life lying (making it up).
Clinton has a way of saying something true but awful in such a way that it could be interpreted another way so that what he said was ok. The DBM interpreted this as "making up for it" when in reality Byrd actually did spend the rest of his life lying (making it up).
Clinton: those evil sluts made me do it!
I know many people like Byrd, they are still as racist as they ever were but they're going along to get rich and powerful.
Racism was just too great a crisis to waste!
As a native-born West Virginia, I was outraged by Clinton’s remarks. And anybody who has been elected president should be smart enough to know that West Virginia’s founding was a repudiation of slavery.
What a buffoon!