KKK Byrd's Complaint Rankles Black Gulf War Vet

Newsmax ^ | 5/8/03

[LdSentinal]

Former Ku Klux Klansman Sen. Robert Byrd is angry at President Bush - not because he spent taxpayer dollars to pay a congratulatory visit to an aircraft carrier bearing the men and women who helped defeat Saddam Hussein.

But instead, says one civil rights leader, Bryd's pique was provoked because the ship in question bore the name of America's Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln.

That's the contention from Kevin Martin, spokesman for the African-American Republican Leadership Counsel, who served during the Gulf War aboard the USS Lincoln's sister ship.

"Senator Byrd has a long association with the Klan that sought to oppress minorities in America, just as Saddam Hussein’s government oppressed and killed thousands of Iraqi minorities during his reign of terror," complained Martin, in a statement issued Tuesday.

The Washington, D.C.-based civil rights activist was also incensed that Byrd had the temerity to criticize Bush's aircraft carrier speech by invoking Lincoln's Gettysburg address.

"For Senator Byrd to invoke the words of President Lincoln, given his long association to one of the nation’s oldest homegrown terrorist group and his opposition to the most basic of civil rights for minorities in America, is a slap in the face to those of us who are veterans and who stand up for real civil rights," he complained.

Another element of Bush's visit to the Lincoln which likely rankled the ex-Klansman, says Martin, is America's fully integrated military - a development that Byrd vehemently opposed, which was on full display during the president's speech.

"I believe that Senator Byrd.... who for the longest time tried to paint President Bush as a racist, was angered at the diversity of the men and women that they saw surrounding the commander-in-chief on that flight deck," Martin noted.

Years after Byrd supposedly left the Klan, he wrote a letter to the group's Imperial Grand Wizard where he invoked the ugliest of terms to describe his opposition to integrating the armed forces.

"I should die a thousand times and see old glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen of the wilds," the West Virginia Democrat said.

Byrd said through a spokesman earlier this year that, even during his Klan days, he was never a racist, but instead he joined the cross-burning, night-riding group to fight communists.

[lowbridge]

Byrd said through a spokesman earlier this year that, even during his Klan days, he was never a racist, but instead he joined the cross-burning, night-riding group to fight communists.

And then he turned around and joined them.

[demkicker]

Thank goodness Robert Byrd doesn't know when to shut up.

[jagrmeister]

Beautiful. The way Martin connected Klansman's Byrd's shameful past with his noble service makes Byrd look foolish for his critical remarks. A drooling old bigot like Byrd stood against minorities in the United States as well as those being slaughtered in Iraq. Byrd cannot accept the racially diverse military being praised for their valiant efforts on our behalf.

[Free ThinkerNY]

The old Byrd as Confederate Gen. Paul Semmes in "Gods and Generals"

[Ouachita]

Ping!

[MEG33]

Amen!

[GailA]

Way to go Kev!

What abut KKK byrd's role in that new movie about the Civil War?

[Trueblackman]

Thank you for those kind words I thought long and hard about what I wanted to say on the subject.

[Trueblackman]

The movie did so badly that most of us who took part in the protest simply are laughing.

[Agamemnon]

Way to go Kevin! Call up Sean Hannity today and see if you can't get your treatise a little bit of national exposure!

[Trueblackman]

Did that yesterday and Sean and I had a great time with it. He roped me into coming to Six Flags for the children of military members killed in Iraq(Hey I would be honored to help out).

[Agamemnon]

Kevin, I mean on Hannity and Colmes. TV time!

[Trueblackman]

We are working on that, if this thing still has legs by next week.

[NormsRevenge]

"I believe that Senator Byrd.... who for the longest time tried to paint President Bush as a racist, was angered at the diversity of the men and women that they saw surrounding the commander-in-chief on that flight deck," Martin noted.

Bingo! You nailed "sheets" to the burning cross! Thanks!

[Trueblackman]

I not only meant Byrd, but the whole Democrat Party. I needs only remember the 36 million dollar effort in 2000 by Jesse Jackson, the NAACP and other black liberal groups to paint George W. Bush a racist, they even stooped as low as to use James Byrd's daughter.

Rep Waters did not want to talk about Byrd's racist pasted on CNBC and made a blanket statement that several members in Congress(past and present)have belonged to the Klan, but could not produce one name.

If there is a Republican in our Party that has been in the klan as Rep. Waters contends then I call upon all Conservatives and Republicans to join me in getting them out of the party.

[NormsRevenge]

I agree absolutely. Today, the Shanghai'ed Party; ie., The DemRatic Obstructionist Progressive Enablers (DOPE) party is ill and needs a cure that, in this case, must of necessity and due to the massiveness of the infection kill the patient to save it (altho I doubt it is worth saving, quite frankly). It's policies continue to seek to enslave rather then to FRee us as a united nation unto itself.

Imo, it is the blackness of the hearts of the demRat partymembers and those who continue to lie, deny, spin, hypocrify and then fail to answer when questioned about their own hypocrisies, that seal its fate.

They must be outed relentlessly, they are a cancer on the soul of mankind and of the memories of all those who have fought and died here in our country and around the world for FReedom and the truth.

Brother, I salute you for your ongoing efforts and support you fully and unconditionally in all your efforts.

[AppyPappy]

Byrd said through a spokesman earlier this year that, even during his Klan days, he was never a racist, but instead he joined the cross-burning, night-riding group to fight communists.

Oh yeah. Sure. And David Duke is only interested in the preservation of European American values. Right.

[DPB101]

First I've read Byrd's "I should die a thousand times" quote. Great ammo. Have any more from the Senator?

[20yearvet]

"I should die a thousand times..."

I figer he dies each time he sees President Bush's photo in the flight suit.