You really know better than this, or am I giving you too much credit?You're repeating debunked nonsense here...
Barak Obama eulogized Byrd as well. And there's a reason Byrd came to be revered within the more progressive anti-racist wings of the Dem Party.
Byrd like many other southern Dems had a checkered history on race relations. But unlike people like Thurmond Maddox, Helms etc... Byrd publicly repurdiated and apologized for his racist past. That's why he stayed a Dem while former Dem racists like Helms and Thurmond in particular became Republicans and basically carried on with the same racist agenda they had pursued previously. Helms was basically an unapolgetic racist till his death...
Byrd was the opposite of someone like Helms, probably why Helms left to become a Pub, and Byrd changed himself and stayed a Democrat
"Byrd was not a Grand Wizard of the Klan. He was, however, a former organizer and member of the KKK. A Washington Post article reviewing Byrd’s memoir explains these years in more detail (
here )
. Byrd later renounced his membership to the organization, although his early record in Congress on race and civil rights was mixed. For example, Byrd partook in a lengthy filibuster effort against the 1964 Civil Rights Act here . A Democrat but conservative in values, Byrd also criticized President Bill Clinton’s decision to push for the legalization of gay marriage decades later ( here ).
In a 2006 CNN interview, Byrd expressed regret for the filibuster and called his time in the Klan the greatest mistake of his life ( here ). In 2005, Byrd commented on his past membership of the Klan in his memoir and in an interview with the Washington Post said, “I know now I was wrong. Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times … and I don’t mind apologizing over and over again. I can’t erase what happened.” (Read more here)
During the 2008 presidential race, Byrd endorsed Barack Obama ( here ).
At the time of his death, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a leading civil rights organization formed in 1909 for the advancement of racial equality and elimination of racial discrimination, issued a statement mourning his passing. The NAACP’s President and CEO remarked: “Senator Byrd reflects the transformative power of this nation. Senator Byrd went from being an active member of the KKK to a being a stalwart supporter of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and many other pieces of seminal legislation that advanced the civil rights and liberties of our country”. ( bit.ly/33hn5V3 )
Hillary Clinton did refer to Byrd as a friend and mentor ( here ) and former President Barack Obama did give a eulogy for Byrd at his funeral ( here ). "
Social media users have been sharing a photograph online and claiming that it shows Senator Robert Byrd as the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The photograph does not portray Byrd. Byrd was never the Grand Wizard of the KKK.
www.reuters.com
Claiming that Biden is racist doesn't fly either. He wasn't opposed to the idea of integration, he just disagreed with the concept of busing imposed by the Federal Govt. Busing was a controversial issue, that some folks on the anti-racism front opposed...
Interesting that you try and tar Biden as a racist but ignore overt racist acts from Trump like the 1970's DOJ complaint (Nixon's DOJ) which found that Trump properties engaged in excluding potential Black tenants from renting property. Of course in a precursor to what he's presently claiming in NYC that it was others breaking the law and he was unaware, Trump tried to basically throw Fred under the bus. But it's interesting to note that at roughly the same time Trump was involved with a family-owned business practicing housing discrimination, Biden was working as a lifeguard at an inner city pool where the majority of patrons were Black.