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Posted on 08/19/2015 5:31:49 AM PDT by rface
I received a phone call yesterday afternoon, Aug 18. I have many family members in WV and they were telling me a strange tale. The local press does not seem to want to cover this yet.
Due to some strange chance of genetics, I have familial ties with some government officials and legal folks in WV.
The info I received that followed this story had some verifiable links and a part of a story that I didn’t have time to check yesterday evening, but I figured I would do that today…Aug 19.
Part of the email had to do with the removal of the statue of Sen. Robert C Byrd from the West Virginia capitol rotunda.
The story goes that the Local NAACP (JCWV NAACP) Chapter, along with the Southern Poverty Law Center had been on a petition drive and has collected a considerable number of signatures demanding the removal of the Senator Byrd statue from State Capitol Building. The petitions in question also include the numerous bridges and parks and other projects that are named for the late Senator and Former Influential Ku Klux Klan leader. (( Last night the following link worked and confirmed the essence of the info I received, but today the link does not work ))
http://www.jcwvnaacp.org/committees/statement-Robert-c-Byrd
The petition demands that plaques that mention Senator Robert C Byrd be removed from bridges, highways and other public work projects.
Senator Byrd is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/6/byrd-be-buried-arlington-cemetery/
and the petition further demands that the late Senator’s body be removed from that place of honor due to his historic connection to the Ku Klux Klan, an American Terrorist Organization according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2010/essay-ku-klux-klan
Numerous phone calls to Senator Mitch McConnell were placed and high ranking staffers, who wished to remain unnamed, confirmed that there were possibly actions being discussed regarding the Late Senator Byrd, but no details will be officially disclosed for now.
http://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=ContactForm
The Office of the Governor of WV, Democrat – Earl Ray Tomblin, when called, declined to comment on this development. (( contact info at bottom of page ))
http://www.governor.wv.gov/media/pressreleases/Pages/default.aspx
The petition had an area for suggestions on who might replace the Statue of Senator Byrd in the Capitol.
Malcom X seems to be the overwhelming option among those who entered a choice.
West Virginia is on edge.
If this is any hint of a drive to remove him from all recognition, then they’re gonna be renaming a buttload of stuff there in WV. That man put his name on everything.
Han, just leave it there but cloak it with a KKK robe so the cretins will be reminded that the demonrats are the true racists.
They forgot bringing him back to life, so they can draw and quarter him.
Really, no love for Byrd; but when does the kowtowing to these imbeciles stop? When all history is erased, a la Taliban? I like that, NAACP = homegrown Taliban.
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According to Find A Grave, and your link, he and his wife are buried in Columbia Gardens Cemetery, near Arlington National.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=54200704
Not sure why Mitch the b***h was consulted. He wouldn’t have anything to do with it.
LOL!
yes...you are right. That is a glaring mistake.
Funny that they had no problem with him as a Democrat once he got out of the KKK.....
“Malcom X seems to be the overwhelming option among those who entered a choice.”
Oh yeah. A modest proposal indeed.
Wonder if this will bring the good old boys out of the hollows and down off the mountains?
They aren’t a very tolerant bunch of people.
Be a real hoot if a democrat stronghold like WV was the place things turned hot first.
What connection does Malcolm X have to West Virginia? I looked up where he was born but that was Nebraska and he was assassinated in NYC.
good question. I am sure WV has plenty of Af-Am. historical figures they can pull from....maybe the poll takers weren’t educated in such matters
There are more things in West Virginia named after Byrd than there were in Iraq named after Saddam Hussein.
Gonna take a LOT of petitions.
One down. Only 10,000 more to go...
BINGO !!!
Is the NAACP trying to foment an armed revolution? Those folks from the WV mountains might get riled up and come to town to straighten out matters. Careful!!
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