RE: Damned Depolorable Drumpfucks
September 19, 2016 at 6:02 pm
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2016 at 6:03 pm by Minimalist.)
Sen. Byrd resigned his membership in 1952.
http://www.snopes.com/clinton-byrd-photo-klan/
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http://www.snopes.com/clinton-byrd-photo-klan/
Quote:It's also true that Robert Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s and helped establish the hate group's chapter in Sophia, West Virginia. However, in 1952 Byrd avowed that "After about a year, I became disinterested [in the KKK], quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization," and throughout his long political career (he served for 57 years in the United States Congress) he repeatedly apologized for his involvement with the KKK:
Quote:"I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times ... and I don't mind apologizing over and over again. I can't erase what happened."
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Quote:In 2010, even the NAACP released a statement honoring Senator Byrd and mourning his passing:So before you get too smug get it through your thick head that Drumpf is being endorsed by modern day nazis and klansmen. Nice try but you are weak on American history.
The NAACP is saddened by the passing of United States Senator Robert Byrd. Byrd, the longest serving member of congress was first elected to the U.S. House from [West Virginia] in 1952 and was elected Senator in 1958. Byrd passed away this morning at the age of 92.
"Senator Byrd reflects the transformative power of this nation," stated NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. "Senator Byrd went from being an active member of the KKK to a being a stalwart supporter of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and many other pieces of seminal legislation that advanced the civil rights and liberties of our country.