HRC & Byrd

[Devout Centrist]

Byrd also said nlgger on live TV in the 2000s, LOL.  20 years after realizing the error of his ways, he voted against basic rights for Blacks in both 1964 and 1965.  Did his views change?  Yeah, so did Strom Thurmond's.  Strangely, only one is thought of even remotely fondly on this forum.

No one cares.

I don't recall Thurmond ever recanting his views. Regardless, Byrd repeatedly apologized for his racism. We shouldn't fault him for that.

We should fault him for the raging homophobia he never had any qualms about.

[Devout Centrist]

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).

Give me a break. As if you'd support Duke if he found Jesus, ran for Senate and stayed there long enough to be President Pro Tempure.

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.

And both guys suck because of it.

No sir. As early as 1952, he regretted his Klan membership and apologized for it.

I'm sorry if those whole "forgiveness" bs is weak mindedness on the part of a bleeding heart liberal.
Hell, I even forgive George Wallace because he apologized before he died in the 90's.