Funny how they completely forget Senator Byrd, a democrat and member of the KKK, RIP. How many years was he a senator? How many years did the democrats keep voting him in?
I do think our young need to know how to work, and I'm talking about all of them. Somehow the current generation didn't inherit the genes for hard work that we and our parents had....
I didn't forget him, at that time he was a conservative and was trying to appeal to his conservative base. As times changed and people changed, he became more Liberal in his views and actions.
""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 (most conservatives are "anti-communist")"
"Byrd also said, in 2005, "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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Byrd also opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 but voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1968. In 2005, Byrd told The Washington Post that his membership in the Baptist church led to a change in his views. In the opinion of one reviewer, Byrd, like other Southern and border-state Democrats, came to realize that he would have to temper "his blatantly segregationist views
" and move to the Democratic Party mainstream if he wanted to play a role nationally"
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