Senator Byrd near death. Died 6/28

[MotF Bane]

Don't worry bigots, you still have a senator to represent you, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. Thomas Figures, a black Assistant U.S. Attorney, testified that Sessions said he thought the Klan was "OK until I found out they smoked pot."[8]
Or it could be Senator John McCain.

Sen. John McCain (Republican of Arizona) voted against the creation of the holiday to honor King, and later defended Arizona Republican Governor Evan Mecham's rescission of the state holiday in honor of King created by his Democratic predecessor.

He was one of yours anyways.

 

[Perknose]

What's truly amazing is the blatant media bias in reporting his death and his life. When Strom Thurmond, one-time segregationist Democrat, died every major paper and "news" station except Fox reported on the death of segregationist Republican icon Strom Thurmond.

Gee, maybe that's because good 'ol Strom ran for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES as the strict segregationist Dixiecrat standard bearer in 1948.

When the new president Harry Truman established a highly visible President's Committee on Civil Rights and ordered an end to discrimination in the military in 1948 and the Democratic National Convention in 1948 adopted the plank proposed by Hubert Humphrey calling for civil rights, 35 southerners walked out. The move was on to remove Truman's name from the ballot in the South. This required a new party -- the State's Rights Party, with its own nominee, J. Strom Thurmond.

Then, in 1964 with LBJ and his Civil Rights legislation, Strom decided the Dems just weren't n!gger hating enough for him any more and bolted to the New Covert Bigot Republican Party.

Christ, while he was still a Dem, he conducted the longest filibuster ever by a lone senator in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, nonstop.

You guys STILL don't want to acknowledge that Robert Byrd completely and utterly denounced his former, long held segregationist views, and REPEATEDLY apologized for them, over and over and over, something 'ol Strom never did, even one fucking time.

You also don't want to acknowledge, despite it's being posted more than once in this thread, that Sen. Byrd backed his conversion up WITH DEEDS, and not just words, deeds he did NOT have to perform since either way, any way, his seat was LONG safe from any serious challenge.

Here, I'll post it again for you to pretend it didn't happen:

In the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's (NAACP)[59] Congressional Report Card for the 108th Congress (spanning the 2003–2004 congressional session), Byrd was awarded with an approval rating of 100 percent for favoring the NAACP's position in all 33 bills presented to the United States Senate regarding issues of their concern. Only 16 other Senators of the same session matched this approval rating. In June 2005, Byrd[60] proposed an additional $10 million in federal funding for the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C., remarking that "With the passage of time, we have come to learn that his Dream was the American Dream, and few ever expressed it more eloquently.

Thurmond . . . had a black lover with whom he had a daughter and maintained a close relationship.

MORE dishonestly slanted BULLSHIT. Strom fucked and impregnated his maid! Lol, just like slave owners used to do with they big house help they owned.

And he NEVER admitted or acknowledged even the existence of his daughter EVER. He took that dirty little secret to his grave. And whether the money he paid for her mother's silence on the matter was cynical fucking hush money or the darling love of a devoted father we will each to decide for ourselves.

Gee, what do YOU think?

 

[nonlnear]

Wow Michigan might start getting more than just 1 tax dollar back for every 100 we've been sending to W. Virginia for the past 60 years.

I don't think Michigan has any place to complain about that for a long time now.

 

[bfdd]

I don't think Michigan has any place to complain about that for a long time now.

How about all of you start paying back California.

 

[werepossum]

Gee, maybe that's because good 'ol Strom ran for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES as the strict segregationist Dixiecrat standard bearer in 1948.
Then, in 1964 with LBJ and his Civil Rights legislation, Strom decided the Dems just weren't n!gger hating enough for him any more and bolted to the New Covert Bigot Republican Party.

Christ, while he was still a Dem, he conducted the longest filibuster ever by a lone senator in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, nonstop.

You guys STILL don't want to acknowledge that Robert Byrd completely and utterly denounced his former, long held segregationist views, and REPEATEDLY apologized for them, over and over and over, something 'ol Strom never did, even one fucking time.

You also don't want to acknowledge, despite it's being posted more than once in this thread, that Sen. Byrd backed his conversion up WITH DEEDS, and not just words, deeds he did NOT have to perform since either way, any way, his seat was LONG safe from any serious challenge.

Here, I'll post it again for you to pretend it didn't happen:



MORE dishonestly slanted BULLSHIT. Strom fucked and impregnated his maid! Lol, just like slave owners used to do with they big house help they owned.

And he NEVER admitted or acknowledged even the existence of his daughter EVER. He took that dirty little secret to his grave. And whether the money he paid for her mother's silence on the matter was cynical fucking hush money or the darling love of a devoted father we will each to decide for ourselves.

Gee, what do YOU think?

In what bizarro world does segregationist trump Klansman? Thurmond knocked up his family's maid when he was 22; Byrd joined the Klan at 24. You tell me which is worse. I suspect we will disagree.

Thurmond filibustered a civil rights act in 1957, before Byrd reached the Senate; Byrd filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act. (Note that while the 1957 bill merely tried to remove impediments the southern states had placed to keep black men from exercising their right to vote, the 1964 bill was a total repudiation of segregation, already mostly gone in the northern states.) The ONLY Republican senator to join in the Democrat filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was John Tower of Texas. Since Thurmond switched to the Republican Party in April 1964 and the Civil Rights Act passed the senate after Robert Byrd ended his filibuster on June 10th 1964 with twenty-one Democrat and only six Republican senators voting "No", only a complete buffoon could possibly think (sorry, feel) Thurmond joined the Republicans because the Democrats weren't racist enough.
http://www.congresslink.org/print_basics_histmats_civilrights64text.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
Thurmond also hired a black staffer in '71, voted for the extension of the Voting Rights Act and for making MLK's birthday a national holiday, and founded the Strom Thurmond Scholarship Foundation which has helped many minority students afford college.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond

Neither of these men were any prize, but certainly Thurmond was no worse than Byrd.

Hardly a secret about his daughter, although neither publicly spoke about it several of his colleagues and his family had been introduced to his daughter. His daughter was not raised by her mother, she was raised by an aunt and uncle. Thurmond paid for her college, then later helped her out financially when her husband died, but at least as far as I know "hush money" was never paid to her mother. His daughter is actually quite the class act, she could have easily cashed in when Thurmond was alive. For that matter, so could her mother.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/17/60II/main589107.shtml

 

[KK]

blah blah blah

Gee, what do YOU think?

I think you're a partisan hack. Democrats could do NO wrong under your blinders. Damn pitiful I tell you.

 

[GoPackGo]

What I love is how certain people turn a discussion about Robert "Sheets" Byrd into a discussion about Strom Thurmond.

 

[Jhhnn]

From Obama's eulogy at Byrd's funeral-

"As I reflect on the full sweep of his 92 years, it seems to me that his life bent toward justice," Obama said. He "possessed that quintessential American quality, and that is a capacity to change, a capacity to learn, a capacity to listen. A capacity to be made more perfect."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/02/AR2010070203343.html

 

[FuzzyBee]

Everybody knows Byrd was just a Klansman to get the vote. Isn't that what one of our former Presidents said?

 

[JohnnyGage]

In what bizarro world does segregationist trump Klansman? Thurmond knocked up his family's maid when he was 22; Byrd joined the Klan at 24. You tell me which is worse. I suspect we will disagree.

Thurmond filibustered a civil rights act in 1957, before Byrd reached the Senate; Byrd filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act. (Note that while the 1957 bill merely tried to remove impediments the southern states had placed to keep black men from exercising their right to vote, the 1964 bill was a total repudiation of segregation, already mostly gone in the northern states.) The ONLY Republican senator to join in the Democrat filibuster of the 1964 Civil Rights Act was John Tower of Texas. Since Thurmond switched to the Republican Party in April 1964 and the Civil Rights Act passed the senate after Robert Byrd ended his filibuster on June 10th 1964 with twenty-one Democrat and only six Republican senators voting "No", only a complete buffoon could possibly think (sorry, feel) Thurmond joined the Republicans because the Democrats weren't racist enough.
http://www.congresslink.org/print_basics_histmats_civilrights64text.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
Thurmond also hired a black staffer in '71, voted for the extension of the Voting Rights Act and for making MLK's birthday a national holiday, and founded the Strom Thurmond Scholarship Foundation which has helped many minority students afford college.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strom_Thurmond

Neither of these men were any prize, but certainly Thurmond was no worse than Byrd.

Hardly a secret about his daughter, although neither publicly spoke about it several of his colleagues and his family had been introduced to his daughter. His daughter was not raised by her mother, she was raised by an aunt and uncle. Thurmond paid for her college, then later helped her out financially when her husband died, but at least as far as I know "hush money" was never paid to her mother. His daughter is actually quite the class act, she could have easily cashed in when Thurmond was alive. For that matter, so could her mother.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/17/60II/main589107.shtml

Plus you don't raise to the rank of 'Exalted Cyclops' in the KKK and recruit 150 people to your cause if you weren't a true believer. What's more, he filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights act(2nd longest behind Strom) an effort he knew he would fail at--again only a true believer would under take such an effort, regardless of it's futility. RIP Byrd.

 

[boomerang]

Everybody knows Byrd was just a Klansman to get the vote. Isn't that what one of our former Presidents said?

A little peek into the psyche of the left. Nothing is off the table if it gets you elected.

Clinton isn't bright enough to know when he's brought shame upon the Presidency and himself. Scratch that, he knows no shame.

 

[Lemon law]

Many a potentially great man or woman is born, but because they all have a distressing tendency soil their diapers, all greatness is lost. That and the fact that most infants do nothing but cry bitch and moan, tend to make all humans into less than desirable entities.

 

[GoPackGo]

Everybody knows Byrd was just a Klansman to get the vote. Isn't that what one of our former Presidents said?

And the Nazi's who exterminated the Jews just did it because they thought it would be a good career move?