You must be kidding, you had a KKK big wig sitting as the longest serving Democrat senator. Good friend of Biden, Hillary, Obama and the rest of the Democrat establishment. In fact during Byrd’s memorial, they whole heartedly eulogized their good friend an ex KKK poobah as their inspiration.
Ku Klux Klan
In the early 1940s, Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the
Ku Klux Klan in
Sophia, West Virginia.
As a young boy, Byrd had witnessed his adoptive father walk in a Klan parade in
Matoaka, West Virginia.While growing up, Byrd had heard that "the Klan defended the American way of life against racemixers and communists". He then wrote to Joel L. Baskin, Grand Dragon of the Realm of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware, who responded that he would come and organize a chapter when Byrd had recruited 150 people.
It was Baskin who told Byrd, "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." Byrd became a
recruiter and leader of his chapter. When it came time to elect the top officer (
Exalted Cyclops) in the local Klan unit, Byrd won unanimously.
In December 1944, Byrd wrote to
segregationist Mississippi Senator
Theodore G. Bilbo:
In 1946, Byrd wrote a letter to
Samuel Green, the Ku Klux Klan's
Grand Wizard, stating, "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation." The same year, he was encouraged to run for the
West Virginia House of Delegates by the Klan's grand dragon; Byrd won, and took his seat in January 1947.
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