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Didn't Republicans elect a KKK Grand Wizard named David Duke as a state legislator in 1990 and then nearly nominate him to be the Republican candidate for US Senate?
David Duke ran for office several times as a Democrat.
Why wasn't Robert Byrd ever pushed out by the progressive and tolerant Democrat party for his membership in the KKK. Or did his views evolve?
In the 40s, Senator Byrd said
I will concede that in 2005 he said
An apology, but I'm not sure he is fit to serve office because of his past affiliations (sort of like CEOs of web browsers).
Maybe Democrats can explain this? Thanks!
It's very simple. Former white supremacists, such as Robert Byrd, are welcome. Those who openly practice white supremacy today, such as the Fox News hosts, are not.
Sen Robert Byrd definitely brought the pork back to West Virginia. I think his name is nearly everywhere there. Answering the OP, Byrd's KKK past was well known as was Justice Black, a supreme court justice. However, Sen. Byrd unlike many unreconstructed racists from that era came to terms with his past and sought to make some amens by supporting a more liberal agenda. I am not an expert on his voting record and he definitely had his faults.
Yep follow the money trail. West Virginia receives a lot more Federal money than they pay out.
It's very simple. Former white supremacists, such as Robert Byrd, are welcome. Those who openly practice white supremacy today, such as the Fox News hosts, are not.
Really, this is a stupid question.
There was no "former white supremacist" about that racist old man.
Conservatives like to trot out ol' Byrd due to the FACT that they welcomed segregationists to the GOP who fled the Democratic Party (consider Strom Thurmond). Remember, Reagan started out in politics opposing open housing and went on to object to the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and sanctions against the South African apartheid regime. Yet, conservatives believe he was Mr. Civil Rights.
Hugo Black was in the Klan, too, but Brown v. Board of Education sure was a unanimous decision, huh?
You can't get away with these revisionist (polite word for lie) memes. Of 13 Democratic segregationist Senators, exactly one (Strom Thurmond) "fled the Democratic party." The others all remained lifelong Democrats, including Robert Byrd. //www.city-data.com/forum/polit...ationists.html
Ronald Reagan was never a racist, contrary to all your innuendo. Don't take my word for it--take it from longtime liberal journalist Mark Shields. //www.city-data.com/forum/polit...literated.html
Ronald Reagan did not kiss up to South Africa’s leaders, he was in their face.
One of his first moves was to send his close aide William Clark to tell Prime Minister Pieter Botha to his face how much my father abhorred apartheid.
Later my father appointed the first black ambassador to South Africa, Edward Perkins.
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