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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
1. Byrd wasn't the Grand Dragon. He was the Exalted Cylops of his own local Klan group.
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So that makes it better?
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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....
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So, an apology is all that's needed? Then Robt E Lee's statue should remain. He was against slavery and made sure, in his will, that his heirs would not receive their inheritance if they owned a slave...
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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....
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Yes, that horrifies me. So why are you so quick to defend Byrd?
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then you're just another white supremacist, and that would explain your attitude toward this topic.
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Nice insult!
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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.
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WOW! Once again, you insult those you disagree with...
I'm beginning to think you're simply projecting...