Posted on 01/11/2010 9:45:54 AM PST by tobyhill
In the early 1940s, a politically ambitious butcher from West Virginia named Bob Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to form a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. After Byrd had collected the $10 joining fee and $3 charge for a robe and hood from every applicant, the "Grand Dragon" for the mid-Atlantic states came down to tiny Crab Orchard, W.Va., to officially organize the chapter.
As Byrd recalls now, the Klan official, Joel L. Baskin of Arlington, Va., was so impressed with the young Byrd's organizational skills that he urged him to go into politics. "The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation," Baskin said.
The young Klan leader went on to become one of the most powerful and enduring figures in modern Senate history. Throughout a half-century on Capitol Hill, Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) has twice held the premier leadership post in the Senate, helped win ratification of the Panama Canal treaty, squeezed billions from federal coffers to aid his home state, and won praise from liberals for his opposition to the war in Iraq and his defense of minority party rights in the Senate.
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But if a White Republican said that which Chairman Steele said, they would be severely castigated by the Rats and the Media and most probably Lynched!...:-(
AMEN! This should be the Front and Center Quotation for the RNC Battle Cry!
The role of being a victim is too. It’s ironic the people that were abused are still electing their abusers into office.
this is my favorite negro dialect ever...
Stop me before I pander again! (audio clip of Hillary Clinton’s Selma speech)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaDQ1vIuvZI
Exactly. Stockholm syndrome on a giant scale.
Rush just played that clip...
it’s simply AWFUL. Not even a good rendition of a “negro dialect”.
But if you could interview any of those killed by Byrd's actions, they might just tell you it was worth it..
Man I hate this tit for tat pc crap. Divide and conquer.
in the same category as "not pretty" or not "tall"....
discrimination goes on all the time....
its sad and unfortunate because millions of good people are automatically dismissed because of such superficial attributes...looks, lightness of skin, etc....
as far as Reid goes......we all know the truth there as well......Rats get away with anything....
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