[rockrr]

They say that like it’s a bad thing.

[bootless]

Why is it that the author from Politico, who sports a Master’s from Columbia, seems to be willfully ignorant of the real reason the Three-Fifths Clause existed? To deny further power to the slave-owning states.

[ETL]

Dems actually made this racist SOB, former Klansman,
their SENATE MAJORITY LEADER!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

In 1942, 24-year-old Byrd joined the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), whose parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, he had witnessed in his childhood. He was unanimously elected Exalted Cyclops, or leader, of his local chapter.[8]

Byrd, in his autobiography, attributed the beginnings of his political career to this incident, although he lamented that they involved the Klan. According to Byrd, a KKK official told him "You have a talent for leadership, Bob... The country needs young men like you in the leadership of the nation." Byrd recalls that "suddenly lights flashed in my mind! Someone important had recognized my abilities! I was only 23 or 24 years old, and the thought of a political career had never really hit me. But strike me that night, it did."[4] He participated in the KKK during World War II, holding the titles Kleagle (recruiter) and Exalted Cyclops [the top officer in the local Klan unit]. He did not serve in the military during the war, working instead as a welder in a Baltimore, Maryland shipyard, where he helped build warships.[citation needed]

Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy about racially integrating the military. Byrd, when he was 28 years old, wrote to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo, of Mississippi, vowing never to serve in such a military:

"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.[5]"

He had earlier written "I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side".[6][7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Participation_in_the_Ku_Klux_Klan
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From the Washington Post:

"Byrd said in the Dec. 11, 1945, letter -- which would not become public for 42 more years with the publication of a book on blacks in the military during World War II by author Graham Smith -- that he would never fight in the armed forces "with a Negro by my side." Byrd added that, "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.."..."

"during the general election campaign, Byrd's GOP opponent uncovered a letter Byrd had handwritten to Green, the KKK Imperial Wizard, recommending a friend as a Kleagle and urging promotion of the Klan throughout the country. The letter was dated 1946 -- long after the time Byrd claimed he had lost interest in the Klan. "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia," Byrd wrote, according to newspaper accounts of that period. Byrd makes no mention of the letter in his new book."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/18/AR2005061801105_pf.html

[Drango]

For the worst pedophiles you would just have to visit newsrooms and the DNC.

[himno hero]

The worst racists are the recent black immigrants from Africa.
Genocides occur there frequently due to racism. They understand them. An, dats black on black... he aint dark enuff/ he too light! WTF.
Africans are still too close to the earth and still too backwards. Our home grown? Want to shuck off the cloaks of civilization, the things that made America great.

Our home grown black still identify with their tribal roots.
The white guys? Hardly as embittered.

[hadaclueonce]

Sorry, the worst racists are the ones that are making a living out of it.

[Jim from C-Town]

Go to any predominantly black neighborhood and racism is palpable from the residents.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Just see gentrified Seattle. And there you have ‘em

[dila813]

Why don’t they kick those racists in Seattle and Portland out of the United States.

We have it all wrong, we need to deport these racists and give their homes to the illegals.

[Tupelo]

If The Southern Poverty Law Center is against them, I guess I will probably be for them.

[sauropod]

They referenced the SPLC.

Again.

*sigh*

[Rebelbase]

Washington State: Black or African American: 3.6%

Oregon: Black or African American: 1.7%

What the hell are these people complaining about?

[Third Person]

Oregon was founded on white supremacist principles.

[Terry L Smith]

The fool from the politico, all smug in his NYC office, does not know, that one of the most traveled trails westward across the land, ends in Oregon City, near Portland.

The fool from politico does not know, that most of the ‘drivers’ among the wagon trains of settlers, were former Confederate soldiers, who themselves later settled within the Oregon territory. A remnant is actual Southern American cuisine.

So, if there be racism, it is not from a modern day organization, but from the heritage of families of many years before the turn of the last century. I was not witness to any such thing, in my years as a resident in Portland.

[trebb]

For folks that supposedly don’t like racism, the Left is really obsessed with inciting it at the drop of a hat - for them, everyday is graduation day at a large college and lots of hats hit the floor....

[NorthMountain]

The entire article is a lie.

You’ll find the America’s worst racists in places like Washington DC, and Chicago, and St. Louis ...

AMERICA’S WORST RACISTS ARE NOT “WHITE”!!!

[thirst4truth]

I live in Oregon, lived in Washington too, this is a hit piece. The democrats run both states and have for decades, why don’t they clean the place up?
BTW, I sell real estate in Oregon and I have seen in some neighborhood C,C and R’s, (conditions, covenants and restrictions) “no Negroes allowed in this neighborhood”!