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Post by marcus on Jun 29, 2010 18:26:38 GMT -5
“I will never submit to fight beneath that banner 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."”
“The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia. It is necessary that the order be promoted immediately and in every state in the Union. Will you please inform me as to the possibilities of rebuilding the Klan realm of W. Va.”
“They call me 'The Pork King,' they don't know how much I enjoy it.”
1942: Joins the KKK; eventually rises to the rank of “Exalted Cyclops.”
– 1964: Attempts to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It wasn’t out of principled libertarian support for property rights. Cites a racist study claiming that black people’s brains are statistically smaller than white people’s.
1968: Tells the FBI that it’s time that Martin Luther King, Jr., “met his Waterloo.”
Glad you are gone Mr Robert Byrd you racist pig of a man.
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