24 Aug 2023 8:23 am
Not only a member, he created his own chapter. Once elected, he would also filibuster the Civil Right Acts of 1964. Perhaps he did have a change of heart later in life...I hope he did. But was once a real-life racist...not one fabricated out of thin air like W or Trump.Xavier_Onassis » 24 Aug 2023, 8:14 am » wrote: ↑ But their leader was an X member of the KKK right into this century?
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I assume that you are referring to Robert Byrd of WV, who was a member of the Klan in his youth, but left it and admitted that joining the Klan was a bad mistake. For his last two terms, he received a majority of the votes of Black West Virginians, so apparently this is not any sort of issue.
Typical Trumpling garbage from rightwing ratbags.