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From: "plainolamerican" <
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To: "PoliticalForum" <
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Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 02:25
Subject: Re: [Fwd: byrd and msdnc]
You can't have it both ways
though he tried and so are you
---
ah, the death wishes of democrats
On Jun 28, 2:12 am, dick thompson <
rhomp2...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> He also turned around and stated that he would never service in any
> military organization that had a Negro in it and that was way after he
> said it was amistake. Now it was either not a mistake or he lied when
> he said he would not serve with a Negro. You can't have it both ways
> though he tried and so are you.
>
>
>
> euwe wrote:
> > He said it was a mistake - I would like to read a similar retraction
> > from Helms or Thurmond.
>
> > On Jun 28, 1:01 pm, Keith In Tampa <
keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> And as I shared in a message in another thread, from a message dated
> >> May 19,
> >> 2008, here are a few by "National Treasure" Robert Byrd:
>
> >> The "National Treasure", Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, wrote in
> >> his
> >> 2005 book, "Child of the Appalachian Coalfields" that he purportedly
> >> resigned as a "Kleagle" of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1943. (A "Kleagle" is a
> >> recruiter for the KKK) Three years after Senator Byrd allegedly quit
> >> the
> >> KKK, Senator Byrd, in a letter to KKK Imperial Wizard Samuel Green in
> >> Atlanta Georgia, dated April 8, 1946, wrote:
>
> >> *"I am a former kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County.... 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 of the Union. Will you please inform me as to the
> >> possibilities of rebuilding the Klan in the Realm of W. Va .... I hope
> >> that
> >> you will find it convenient to answer my letter in regards to future
> >> possibilities."
> >> *
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR200...
>
> >>
http://www.impiousdigest.com/index00a.htm>
> >>
http://www.kkklan.com/wall.htm >
> >> In another letter written long after Senator Byrd's association (or
> >> better
> >> said, purported disenfranchisement) with the KKK, Senator Byrd wrote:
>
> >> *"I would never serve in the military 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."
>
> >> *
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002825>
> >> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 1:29 PM, euwe <
machgie...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> Yes.
> >>> --------
> >>> back that up with a link...
>
> >>> here's one of his more memorable quotes
>
> >>> "I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough
> >>> troops in the army to force the southern people to break down
> >>> segregation and admit the nigger race into our theatres into our
> >>> swimming pools into our homes and into our churches."
>
> >>> On Jun 28, 1:30 am, dick thompson <
rhomp2...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >>>> In fact Thurmond voted for seating Clarence Thomas. Byrd did
> >>>> not. Thurmond also had blacks on his staff. Byrd did not.
>
> >>>> euwe wrote:
>
> >>>>> did thurmond admit he was wrong?
>
> >>>>> On Jun 28, 1:25 am, dick thompson <
rhomp2...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> >>>>>> [ Attached Message ]From:claguerra...@aol.comTo
>
> >>> :Rhomp2...@earthlink.netDate:Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:36:23 -0400
> >>> (EDT)Local:Mon, Jun 28 2010 11:36 amSubject:byrd and msdnc
>
> >>>>>> Barnicle Can't Bring Himself To Mention Byrd's Klan Past
>
> >>>>>> By Mark Finkelstein | Mon, 06/28/2010 - 08:03
>
> >>>>>> When Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond died, the MSM was quick to
> >>>>>> stress
>
> >>> his segregationist past. The New York Times ran the headline "Strom
> >>> Thurmond, Foe of Integration, Dies at 100," leaving readers to imagine
> >>> the
> >>> South Carolinian had remained an advocate of segregation. The very
> >>> first
> >>> line of USA Today's story described Thurmond as "the nation's most
> >>> prominent
> >>> segregationist."
>
> >>>>>> Strange how the MSM can suddenly become reticent about mentioning
>
> >>> someone's segregationist past when the late politician in question is
> >>> a
> >>> Democrat. On Morning Joe today, Mark Halperin and Mike Barnicle used
> >>> elliptical language worthy of a State Department dispatch to avoid
> >>> mentioning that Byrd had been a member and leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
> >>> H/t
> >>> NB reader Ray R.
>
> >>>>>> View video here.
>
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