"I shall never fight in the armed forces 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 ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." - Robert Byrd in letter to Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo in 1944.
His Democrat colleagues have elected him to more leadership positions than any senator in history. He has cast more than 18,000 votes and has a nearly 98 percent attendance record over the course of his career.
Well-respected by the Democrat Party and liberals, Byrd is often given a "pass" on his earlier affiliation with a white supremacist group. Senator Byrd served as an active member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) attaining the offices of Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops.
Byrd joined the KKK when he was 24 in 1942. His local chapter unanimously elected him the top officer of their unit.
According to Byrd, a Klan official told him, "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd later recalled, "Suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."
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"I shall never fight in the armed forces 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 ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." |
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— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944
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Now, if the Dems would only hold him to the same standard they held Trent Lott, who never said anything so explicitly racist as Byrd did.
With the passing of Senator Byrd, my investment advice is "short coal".
This article is disgraceful.
Robert Byrd served honorably and is one of the few politicians to elevate the national interest over that of the special interests to whom most politicians are beholden. He opposed both Gulf wars and is one of the few who dared to criticize the barbaric torture of detainees in the GWoT.
Your anachronistic, but politically correct criticisms are clearly out of place. Robert Byrd was no different from the majority of Americans in his political views in the 1940's. Moreover he has later renounced his participation in the Klan - a fact which you do not mention anywhere in you partisan rhetoric.
This is truly a disgraceful article.
Ha, Charles, you made me laugh. Anachronistic and PC, ha ha.
Etymology: probably from Middle Greek anachronismos, from anachronizesthai to be an anachronism, from Late Greek anachronizein to be late, from Greek ana- + chronos time
Date: 1617
1 : an error in chronology; especially : a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other
2 : a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place; especially : one from a former age that is incongruous in the present
3 : the state or condition of being chronologically out of place
Charles, how PC was Byrd in 1944 and are you saying his racism was okay because it was politically correct?! And Dems have staunchly supported him!
"There has been no war fought by or within the United States in which African Americans did not participate, including the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, the World Wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as other minor conflicts." [Wikipedia]
Charles, a better example of PC and anachronism is the American left's ridiculous adherence to last century's Marxist failures while the rest of the world is in a renewal of freedom and democracy.
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