Put this to rest, please. It's a desperate and sad knee-jerk defense when Trump's campaign was lasered to death in today's speech.
http://www.snopes.com/clinton-byrd-photo-klan/
"It's also true that Robert Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s and helped establish the hate group's chapter in Sophia, West Virginia. However, in 1952 Byrd avowed that "After about a year, I became disinterested [in the KKK], quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization," and throughout his long political career (he served for 57 years in the United States Congress) he repeatedly apologized for his involvement with the KKK."
Byrd's story is a story of someone who woke up and reached for redemption rather than some old washed up KKK member still defending and believing in white nationalism/supremacy to the grave (what Duke aims to do).
I'll tell you this much, as a Republican, I wouldn't.
Astroturf it all you want, but Clinton's "mentor" was a racist KKK member. She has no moral authority to lambast anyone -- including a good man like Trump -- on race.
David Duke: National leader of the KKK in the 1980s
Byrd: Leader of the KKK in a town with a hundred people in the 1950s.
