By placing the Rebel flag on Byrd's Klan Suit, you are making a false assumption, namely, that the Rebel Flag is racist, when everyone knows it is not racist.
A fair point.
Byrd will resign on a medical leave: hemorrhoids.
I'm from Southern PA and I know that!!
I'll go you one better on the whole rebel flag-Klan past of Byrd.
That stupid move on his part was over FIFTY years ago!Attack Byrd for being an out of touch liberal sycophant with a big mouth and I completely agree.But let the Klan diatribes die.He has totally repudiated that part of his past and I think its petty of conservatives to keep beating this dead horse.
Besides,the Klan today is a bunch of on-line hucksters trying to sell T-shirts and bumper stickers.They are dead as a terrorist group.
Relax. I didn't create the photo. It will piss off the misguided Libs. BTW, welcome to FR.
The Ku Klux Klan are the ones that placed the rebel flag on their logos in the first place, not versa. According to their OWN website "The Ku Klux Klan came into existence at the end of the War Between the States in a period called 'Black Reconstruction.' resulting in tremendous crime, violence, and corruption against White Southerners. At the darkest hour, the Klan arose and restored the government of the South back to the Southern people, and as Woodrow Wilson said, it saved civilization on this continent."
If you have a problem with the depiction of Byrd being photoshopped to wear an AUTHENTIC looking Klan outfit, take it up with the Klan and demand they stop using the rebel flag in that manner. I doubt their organization is about to disregard the logo since they've used it since their founding.
Want to place any bets on wether or not "Sheets" Byrd carried that flag when he was burning crosses in WV?