Robert Byrd denounced and renounced the KKK about 40 years ago, if not longer. Which further proves my point.
Now, can you name the rep the denounced the KKK? And did the left let him live it down?
Well the answer to the 2nd one is not only no, but **** no, no way no how, no matter what he said.
But Byrd was a dem, so that makes it OK. Wonder how many lynchings he was at...
I'm still waiting for you to entertain us all with an explanation of how what some dead Democrat believed 50 years ago is in any way relevant to what some living breathing present day office holding or office seeking Democrat believes NOW.
Could you do that? Or, alternatively, admit that it isn't relevant, and anyone who tries to make it relevant, including yourself, is up to his ears in horseshit?
Thanks in advance!
Byrd died not long ago; Byrd's final hospital stay began on June 27, 2010 at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Fairfax County, Virginia.[83][84][85] Robert Byrd died at approximately 3 a.m. EDT the next day at age 92
Byrd's seniority and leadership of the Appropriations Committee enabled him to steer a great deal of federal money toward projects in West Virginia.[7] Critics derided his efforts as pork spending[8] to appeal to his own constituents. He filibustered against the 1964 Civil Rights Act and supported the Vietnam War, but later backed civil rights measures and criticized the Iraq War.
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.[10]
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."[10] Byrd held the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops.[10] When it came time to elect the "Exalted Cyclops," the top officer in the local Klan unit, Byrd won unanimously.[10]
In 1944, Byrd wrote to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo:[17]
“ 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 C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944
In 1946 or 1947 Byrd wrote a letter to a 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.".[19] However, when running for the United States House of Representatives in 1952, he announced "After about a year, I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan." He said he had joined the Klan because he felt it offered excitement and was anti-communist
Gay rights
He strongly opposed Clinton's 1993 efforts to allow gays to serve in the military and supported efforts to limit gay marriage. In 1996, before the passage of the Defense of Marriage Act, he said The drive for same-sex marriage is, in effect, an effort to make a sneak attack on society by encoding this aberrant behavior in legal form before society itself has decided it should be legal ... Let us defend the oldest institution, the institution of marriage between male and female as set forth in the Holy Bible..[59
None of this is all that long ago.
but that doesn't mean that much. You want to know why blacks shouldn't vote (D). Just look at todays Detroit. It's crushing poverty is all about the D the N and the C. and you lunkheads want that for the rest of America?