[sport]

....But questions continue to swirl about the West Virginia Democrat's claim, offered through his spokesman Tom Gavin, that he wasn't a racist while he was a member of the virulently anti-black terror group. ....

Horse Pucky!!

"during WWII , ex Klansman Robert Byrd, now U.S. Senator Robert Byrd vowed never to fight "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 ouurs become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds"
Cited by Walter Williams.

You be the Judge!

Folks, that sounds to me just like it sounds to you.

Color me naive, but it seems to me like he does not care for Black people in any shape or form.

[aristeides]

"during WWII , ex Klansman Robert Byrd, now U.S. Senator Robert Byrd vowed never to fight "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 ouurs become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds"

Not only did Byrd say that (in a letter he wrote in 1946, I believe,) but he in fact did not serve in the armed forces in World War Two. When Strom Thurmond (in his 40's) landed in Normandy as a paratrooper on D-Day, Byrd (in his 20's) was working comfortably at a defense plant in West Virginia.