(Democrat and former KKK member) Robert C. Byrd, Senate's Longest Serving Member, Dead at 92

abc ^ | 6/28/2010 | abc

[Boston Blackie]

He always wore clean sheets!

His sheets will soon be soiled with the soot of Hell.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Not going to say I'm sorry to see the old guy go. Whatever his politics, there is a time to fold it up and go home.

He overstayed his welcome by twenty years at least.

[silverleaf]

poor guy- in the end, no one must have been watching after him, imagine dying from heat and dehydration like an abandoned patient - when coal-driven electricity provides air conditioning to so many of us so who in the Byrd household was afraid to crank up the a/c and why?

:-(

RIP Mr Byrd.
Carbon taxes imposed by your political party in collaboration with greedmongers in the GOP will cause many more deaths like yours, unfortunately

[tobyhill]

I hope he accepted Jesus his Lord In Savior and is now spending eternity in heaven but as for how his earthly days are reflected in history, the fact he was a Democrat and KKK member is important to remember.

[ETL]

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."..."

"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

[SWAMPSNIPER]

Reconstruction in the South was pretty harsh, worse, for example, that what was done in defeated nations after WW2. It isn't surprising that something like the KKK would arise in response. I'm not condoning any abuses, they occurred at the hands of both sides however.

I'm old enough to remember when the South was still seen as a defeated enemy in some circles, it still is.

When EVERYONE is ready to move on from the past the future may be better. This isn't going to happen so long as the race card is in play as a political weapon.

[tobyhill]

LOL.

Not a racist bone in his body. /s

[tobyhill]

We should move on from the past but as long as the Rats continue calling Republicans racist I will always remember and point out the true history.

[behzinlea]

Rahm Emmanuel is frantic, trying to figure out a way to get the corpse over to the Senate chamber and drag Byrd’s cold gray finger across the “Aye” button before rigor mortis further complicates passage of Obamassiah’s Marxist agenda.

[ETL]

I’m surprised the Washington Post piece didn’t spin the facts as much as that NY Slimes article you linked to.

[ETL]

We should move on from the past but as long as the Rats continue calling Republicans racist I will always remember and point out the true history.

SEAN HANNITY: But Reverend Jeremiah Wright is not backing down and has not for years and in his strong stance on the teaching of black liberation theology is nothing new. He had the same things to say last spring when he appeared on "Hannity & Colmes:"

WRIGHT: If you're not going to talk about theology in context, if you're not going to talk about liberation theology that came out of the '60s, systematized black liberation theology that started with Jim Cone in 1968 and the writings of Cone and the writings of Dwight Hopkins and the writings of womynist theologians and Asian theologians and Hispanic theologians, then you can't talk about the black value system.

HANNITY: But I'm a — reverend

WRIGHT: Do you know liberation theology, sir?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,354158,00.html
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"Black theology will accept only the love of God which participates in the destruction of the white enemy. What we need is the divine love as expressed in Black Power, which is the power of black people to destroy their oppressors here and now by any means at their disposal".--James (Jim) Cone,
African American Religious Thought: An Anthology (Paperback)
by Cornel West (Editor), Eddie S. Glaude Jr. (Editor)

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Roast in Peace.

[muir_redwoods]

I hope he was terrified and in great pain. This miserable human scum stayed too long and used far too much oxygen.

Good riddance, I hope they turn the heat up for him where he now lives.

[Boston Blackie]

I suspect that Byrd will be sharing a fiery pit with Ted Kennedy.

[Oceander]

There is only one sad part to Mr. KKK’s passing - for all his warts, he was the last remaining individual who really understood the Senate’s original institutional existence as a counter-weight to the crass demogoguery of the House, an institutional existence that was otherwise totally undercut by the 17th Amendment. Now, without Mr. Byrd, the Senate will devolve into nothing more than a crass super-version of the House, staffed by demogogues, not Senators. That is the truly sad part. As for the rest, good riddance to toxic, poisonous policies (although I’ve no doubt that the fascist, I mean democrat, governor of WV will do his level best to sic another fascist, I mean democrat, on us to replace Mr. KKK).

[MichiganConservative]

Take the seat now.

[Carley]

His far left replacement is already on the way to D.C.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Riddle me this. A week ago Strom Thurmond’s son lost in his bid to win a primary for a congressional seat in South Carolina. When it was reported, the articles I read all said former Segregationist Strom Thurmond’s son etc.... Strom was never in the KKK. Now Robert Byrd dies and all of the headlines read “Longest serving member in the senate Robert Byrd etc...” Why no mention of the KKK?

[Jet Jaguar]

Bttt

[wally_bert]

To bad rubbish.