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Originally Posted by Byte1
Ah yes, Alexander Stephens governor of Georgia from 1882 until his death in 1883. Also a friend of Abraham Lincoln. Not sure, did they remove his statue yet? I believe he was against succession, if I am not mistaken. He was undoubtedly a racist. In his time, his view was fairly common. Kind of makes one wonder how Senator Byrd (grand dragon of the KKK) managed to make it into the 21st century in our government. Good friends of the Clintons. Time to get rid of some more monuments that are more current.  |
1. Byrd wasn't the Grand Dragon. He was the Exalted Cylops of his own local Klan group.
2. He later publicly apologized for being a member, and warned young people in an interview to NOT join the Klan.
3. He wrote, in a note to a segregationalist senator from Mississippi, "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."
If you want to defend that, or excuse it as a reflection of the times, or think it's not nearly as bad as whatever you want to "what about" this week....
if this doesn't mortify you, and horrify you, and make you feel grateful as hell we don't live in that time now, and doesn't make you want to do whatever you can to ensure that it never happens again....
then you're just another white supremacist, and that would explain your attitude toward this topic.
Yes, it was a different time, then. We have evolved. If you don't like it, go find yourself a hole somewhere where you can pretend you're still in the slave days and put a sign on the front of your cave that says "no negros allowed."
You might as well, because that's how you feel.