Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist

[Superbadbrutha]

Fascists/Authoritarians try restructuring history to fit their way of thinking or believing. Now they want to whitewash a man who admitted his racism proudly and demand that we do not call him the racist that he was. The right opposes freedom of speech and expression unless they get to freely spew racism.

The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a “racist.”

Edits to the brochure have removed that reference to Byron De La Beckwith, according to Park Service officials, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. Other edits include eliminating the reference to Medgar Evers lying in a pool of blood after being shot.

In 1963, Beckwith shot the civil rights leader in the back on the driveway of the Evers family home in northwest Jackson. It would take 31 more years before a Mississippi jury would convict Beckwith.

Jeff Steinberg, founder of Sojourn to the Past, which regularly takes students and police officers on civil rights tours to the home, questioned the change to the Park Service material. “You can’t call Beckwith a racist?” he said. “If you opened a picture dictionary and turned to the definition for ‘racist,’ you’d probably find a picture of Byron De La Beckwith.”

The original brochures pulled from the home called Beckwith “a member of the racist and segregationist White Citizens’ Council.”

Stephanie Rolph, author of “Resisting Equality: The Citizens’ Council 1954-1989,” said the council “believed in the natural superiority of the Aryan race. They even went so far as to say that civilizations failed because of racial amalgamation.”

Beckwith also belonged to the nation’s most violent white supremacist group, the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, responsible for at least 10 killings in Mississippi.

This killer was a Klansman — but Trump admin says don't call him racist

The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a “racist.”Edits to the brochure have removed that reference to Byron De La Beckwith, according to Park Service officials...

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Struth give us your take on this Republican move.

 

[jknowgood]

Nobody, he is in the same boat with Thurmond and Helms.

Biden and Clinton praised him at his funeral.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Biden and Clinton praised him at his funeral.

Of course they did, you praised him.

 

[jknowgood]

Of course they did, you praised him.

No actually I didn't, but your leaders sure did.

 

[jknowgood]

Of course they did, you praised him.

 

[Correll]

Struth give us your take on this Republican move.

The point is to stop using history to divide us TODAY.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

The point is to stop using history to divide us TODAY.

No, the continuation of racism and discrimination is what divides us.

 

[theHawk]

Fascists/Authoritarians try restructuring history to fit their way of thinking or believing. Now they want to whitewash a man who admitted his racism proudly and demand that we do not call him the racist that he was. The right opposes freedom of speech and expression unless they get to freely spew racism.

The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a “racist.”

Edits to the brochure have removed that reference to Byron De La Beckwith, according to Park Service officials, who asked not to be named for fear of retribution. Other edits include eliminating the reference to Medgar Evers lying in a pool of blood after being shot.

In 1963, Beckwith shot the civil rights leader in the back on the driveway of the Evers family home in northwest Jackson. It would take 31 more years before a Mississippi jury would convict Beckwith.

Jeff Steinberg, founder of Sojourn to the Past, which regularly takes students and police officers on civil rights tours to the home, questioned the change to the Park Service material. “You can’t call Beckwith a racist?” he said. “If you opened a picture dictionary and turned to the definition for ‘racist,’ you’d probably find a picture of Byron De La Beckwith.”

The original brochures pulled from the home called Beckwith “a member of the racist and segregationist White Citizens’ Council.”

Stephanie Rolph, author of “Resisting Equality: The Citizens’ Council 1954-1989,” said the council “believed in the natural superiority of the Aryan race. They even went so far as to say that civilizations failed because of racial amalgamation.”

Beckwith also belonged to the nation’s most violent white supremacist group, the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, responsible for at least 10 killings in Mississippi.

This killer was a Klansman — but Trump admin says don't call him racist

The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a “racist.”Edits to the brochure have removed that reference to Byron De La Beckwith, according to Park Service officials...

www.rawstory.com

Why in the hell is their home a national park? How ridiculous. That should be defunded right away.

Sounds like all they did was make new brochures and the race hustlers are mad it didn’t have enough references to racism.

Meanwhile the actual killer was a prominent Democrat, and even tried to run for Lt Governor as a Democrat.

Amazing how you people fight to preserve the Democrat Party.

 

[hadit]

No, the continuation of racism and discrimination is what divides us.

Tribal ideology divides. It's much bigger than racism.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Why in the hell is their home a national park? How ridiculous. That should be defunded right away.

Why are Confederates who were racist traitors homes and monuments national parks?

Sounds like all they did was make new brochures and the race hustlers are mad it didn’t have enough references to racism.

Was Delay a racist klan member?

Meanwhile the actual killer was a prominent Democrat, and even tried to run for Lt Governor as a Democrat.

The actual killer was Delay, who was white, a racist and a klan member.

Amazing how you people fight to preserve the Democrat Party.

It's the Republican party that fights to keep up statues and monuments of racist Confederates.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Tribal ideology divides. It's much bigger than racism.

Not for black folks it's not.

 

[gtopa1]

When he went to trial the first time, the all-white jury let him get away with murder. Because whites could kill blacks back then, and it was not considered a crime. Actually, that hasn't stopped. But we are the violent criminals. According the thAt punk ***** Captain Creeper, we had it better when whites could kill us, and it was not considered a crime. That's what the MAGATs want.

Marathon Mike will be here soon.

DemoKKKrats were politically powerful back then, yet you vote for them today. That's just DUMB, bru!!!

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

What it appears like is a Republican in 2026 trying to lie about the current state of his party. Whites like you should really stop ussing the term plantation when that is what you guys want to send us back to. It's like this trailer park, you guys tell us how nobody white today is responsible for slavery, but you try blaming today's Democrats for slavery in the past. Now, like I say to the other MAGAT morons, the Republican Party promised us reparations and never paid them. So if you want to take credit for being the same party, then tell your lawmakers to pay us the reparations that your party promised when Democrats owned the slaves. Because Lincoln did pay white slaveowners reparations for their "lost property". He paid 900 per slave, which is the equivalent today of 23,000 dollars per slave.

Republicans offered 40 acres and a mule, Today that is equal to 16 million dollars per person. That is what Republicans promised. So like I said, if you want to talk that Democrats were the party of slavery and why do you blacks support them instead of the Republican party that freed the slaves bullshit, it's time for your party to make good on that promise Republicans made while Democrats owned slaves.

If you can't do that, shut your mouth about what Democrats did in the 1860's.

Where are MY reparations for YOUR slavers back during the Ottoman Empire and their North African slaver buddies!!

Greg

 

[theHawk]

The actual killer was Delay, who was white, a racist and a klan member.

..and a Democrat.

 

[theHawk]

Why are Confederates who were racist traitors homes and monuments national parks?

Because Confederates are a part of American history. They were also all pardoned after the war, so they were all Americans.

And spare us the phony outrage over “racism”. Nearly all the black slaves chose to remain in the US instead of returning to Africa because they knew white America is far superior anything in Africa.

You choose to remain in America because you know it’s a superior life to anything you could find in Africa or Haiti. You prove the supremacy of white culture, because you choose to live in it.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

..and a Democrat.

He would be a republican today.

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Because Confederates are a part of American history. They were also all pardoned after the war, so they were all Americans.

They are white, so that makes them alright.

[Quoye]And spare us the phony outrage over “racism”. Nearly all the black slaves chose to remain in the US instead of returning to Africa because they knew white America is far superior anything in Africa.

[/QUOTE]
2 things. We should they leave, when they played a huge role in building this and some had land until it was stolen.

Where were they going to go back to? Sonce they were basterdized from their native countries.

You choose to remain in America because you know it’s a superior life to anything you could find in Africa or Haiti. You prove the supremacy of white culture, because you choose to live in it.

I don't know that and neither do you? How is it white culture when many inventions and discoveries were black. We didn't originate from Haiti.

 

[Hollie]

No, the continuation of racism and discrimination is what divides us.

No kidding soupysloppybro. The racism and false sense of entitlement displayed by blacks is divisive.,

 

[Superbadbrutha]

No kidding soupysloppybro. The racism and false sense of entitlement displayed by blacks is divisive.,

SYBAU Hussie.

 

[theHawk]

He would be a republican today.

Republicans don’t push for segregation today.

In fact it’s the Democrats who support racial discrimination and segregation. Didn’t your hero Michael Obama recently say she’d rather do business with black owned businesses only?