Robert Byrd Is Dead
So, Democrat ex-KKK “Kleagle” US Senator Robert Byrd, the longest-serving member of Congress in history and walking advert for term-limits, has died aged 92.
Because he was a Democrat, Obama groupie and all round lefty, he was by default a cheerful cheeky chappie of the type so beloved of the BBC and oh-so-tolerant Guardian readers:
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.
Considering he’s just died of course we’d expect people to be respectful and light a candle cross but that doesn’t merit reducing a whole dimension of his bigoty and intolerance to just one single sentence on the BBC….
The BBC says:
As a young man, Mr Byrd was for a brief period a member of the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan and also joined Southern Democrats in an unsuccessful filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Just a second, haven’t I read that somewhere else?
As a young man, we was a member of the Ku Klux Klan for a brief period, and he joined Southern Democrats in an unsuccessful filibuster against the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Which goes to show that you can get to be 92 and infirm but the full BBC research team won’t write your obituary; they’ll just use copy from elsewhere.
Hopefully they’ll bury him face down so he can see where he’s going.
It was a moment of madness, a youthful indiscretion, maybe he had taken too much sun, look – ANYONE can be a Klan member…right?
True, but it’s a bugger to get the robes dry-cleaned.
I actually did a post on this on B-BBC but changed my mind and deleted it because I couldn’t get enough BBC relevance in it. Hence this one here instead. Then you go and say exactly what I failed to say over there. I remain the blogging padawan to your mastery 🙂
It freaks people out to delve too deeply into the Ku Klux Klan, its reason for being and its members. There is so much pain, misery and hatred attached to the terrorism caused by these fuckers — Americans still can’t face it.
Post-racial? Ha Ha Ha.
Interesting too that the driving force behind so much of Segregation and the associated laws came from the Democrat side of the aisle. Something you’d not guess if you just swallow media talking points.