The REAL Robert Byrd
It is an instructive lesson in deciphering the musings of those in the left-leaning American press that have taken a miserable, old white supremacist and committed yet another apotheosis, of a truly and utterly worthless man.
The longest serving American Senator, Robert Byrd (Democrat-West Virginia), died this week.
Byrd, who was the former “exalted cyclops” and “Klegal” of the murderous domestic terrorist group, the Ku Klux Klan, is actually lying in state. CNN has dedicated hours of (wasted) time to this insane menace of a man; this sick, bigoted tyrant. CBS, typical of them, is providing you a forum to ‘see BS’ and MSNBC have celebrated the “great accomplishments” of the Senator from the hills of the burning crosses and the valleys of the lynched ‘niggers’.
Only Fox News has bothered to provide some truth.
Yet, the President of the United States, a half white, half black man, who identifies (his own words) as black, referred to Byrd as ” a voice of reason” and “a public servant of the ages.”
Really Barry?
Byrd wanted to hang yo Daddy. Byrd’s group advocated for the raping of white bitches, er, excuse me, women (like yo Momma) who would even dare to lie down with a black man and voluntarily, as the Klan likes to say, “take it.”
Byrd was a voice of reason, Barry, you self-defeating twit?
In a 2005 memoir, Byrd wrote that the KKK were “a fraternal assembly of upstanding citizens.” Need I go further? And the fact the Democrats kept him on or that West Virginians returned the maggot time and again, tells you a little about what’s really, really wrong with America.
And, of course, not a word of outrage from the exemplars of black virtue, Jesse Jackson or Al Shapton–because Byrd was a Democrat.
If there is a hell for racist swine…’nough said…
“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.” — Former Klansman and current US Senator Robert Byrd, in a letter written in 1944, after he quit the KKK.
‘nough ‘nough said.
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Yes, I saw this when I was researching my post, I just ran out of time. But thx so much for putting it up here. The man was a piece of crap. How does someone come back from advocating the burning of blacks to be referred to glowingly by America’s first black President?! I’m not sure what I find more alarming, that Byrd was such a waste of cell life or that Obama, notwithstanding his Harvard degrees, is so unbelievably STUPID!
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Amazing and disgusting, isn’t it? Truly the worst side of US politics, how the most reprehensible Senators retain their seats, seemingly for life…
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It is truly astounding. I can’t believe the insanity.
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Hi Alex, the name Byrd was familiar, before I got interested in US politics and silly me, considering his background I was under the impression he was a Republican. Surprise, surprise.
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No! A staunch racist who morphed into Dixie-crat! and then a miserable old fool.
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In case readers didn’t pick it up, Byrd wasn’t just a member of the Klan, he was the leader of his local chapter. Imagine the media treatment he would have gotten had he been a Republican.
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Now there’s a TERRIFIC perspective. If he were a Republican, he would have been run out of office DECADES ago, by a rabid, doctrinaire media. Great comment! Many thx for stopping by!
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Alan says:
July 2, 2010 at 2:03 PM
Amazing and disgusting, isn’t it? Truly the worst side of US politics, how the most reprehensible Senators retain their seats, seemingly for life…
It’s not just US politics, it’s politics and politicians in general. They’re all cut of the same cloth no matter where you go. As my mother-in-law would say, “Whole world like this”.
Keep in mind that the voters of West Virginia kept re-electing him for decades and percentages being what they are these days that had to include a lot of black voters. George Wallace, an avowed segregationist was elected and re-elected as Governor of Alabama several times and each time with a large percentage of black voters
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Great perspective Bob, but you will know that both Wallace, and in particular, Byrd, LAVISHED all the counties and districts in their home states with millions upon millions. THAT’S how they got elected time and again: they used the people’s money to bribe their way back. While the MSM slept…or did they just turn the other cheek? Remember the ilk of Katie Couric is considered serious journalism…
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Precisely, Alex. That was my point to Alan. Byrd, Wallace, et al = Trudeau, Chretien, Obama, et al. Pork-barreling at it’s best.
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Of course, that’s the rallying cry of the left! MONEY!
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I understand what you write and am mostly doubtful that people make 180 degree changes in direction, but it is possible.
In 2005, Byrd wasn’t in denial over his early days, he claimed to feel regret. The WAPO quotes him: “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.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html
I am uncomfortable with denying people a right to evolve and become different. I hope I’ve achieved that in ways that are important to me. Again, maybe the guy only spoke what was politically correct throughout his career. Maybe, being PC is his only principle. Maybe, he has changed as he claims.
I often remind myself that it is wrong to apply today’s standards to history. Do an Internet image search with the term “white man’s burden” and browse some of the old examples of political cartoons and see drawings that shock readers today. May of those came from polite journals that were products of their time.
My family didn’t teach us to claim superiority over others but I do recall racist words being used casually, without thought. Unknown people might be japs, chinks, ragheads and DP’s (for anyone they couldn’t otherwise categorize.) Which is kind of funny considering some of the country hillbillies, potato famine survivors and poor folks I found in doing genealogical research. My parents saw nothing wrong with the kid’s book Little Black Sambo or the Disney movie Song of the South but I chose not to expose my kids to either.
I remember the casual pejoratives used in childhood toward (excuse me) fags, retards, wops, etc. At some point, given proper influences, we learn the error of those words and the beauty of civility I don’t want to tag my adult self with words I used as a 10-year-old and I don’t want to think of my mother or old British grandmother as racist because, were they living today, their thinking and expressions would be completely different.
Maybe Byrd kept evil thoughts throughout his life. I don’t know. Maybe, at least in respect of race, he sincerely found a better path. I’d rather judge a man for what he is than for what he was.
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Norm:
You know how much I respect you and your pithy comments, but I cannot accept the fence sitting of saying that Byrd may have come back from being an avowed racist when in a recent enough memoir he refers to the KKK as a society of “gentlemen.” Go to their website and read their FILTH.
How you and I have evolved is much different from how someone that deeply felt the word NIGGER behaved and lived. I do not know how someone comes back from that. Sure, we’ve all said horrible things and used epithets under our breath that may have been intolerable pish. But Byrd asked for forgiveness for a sin he kept breaking. I cannot excuse that.
If you are going to judge Byrd for the man he”is” then you should simply say he was a sick, perverse, racist asshole, who would have never received such a soft glove in death, if he were a Republican.
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The alleged “transformation” of Byrd mirrors that of his party, from the party of slavery and Jim Crow to the party that calls anyone who disagrees with them a “racist”.
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You said it!
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