Posted on 06/24/2020 2:56:32 AM PDT by Libloather
A private college in West Virginia said Wednesday it is removing the name of the late U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd from its health center, saying his name had caused “divisiveness and pain" without explicitly noting his complicated past on racial matters.
Byrd was a member of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s but subsequently denounced the organization. He served in the Senate for 51 years and died in 2010 at age 92.
Bethany College President Tamara Rodenberg said on the school's website that Byrd's name will be removed from the college's Robert C. Byrd Health Center “to demonstrate Bethany College’s capacity to change, to listen, and to learn.”
Bethany's statement did not specifically mention Byrd's past ties to the Klan.
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About time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_named_after_Robert_Byrd
List of places named after Robert Byrd
Huh. I’m genuinely surprised this happened. Things must be getting serious if even the Grand Kleagle of West Virginia gets victimized.
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EVERYTHING in West Virginia has that KKK Grand Kleagle’s nmae on it!!!! TEAR THEM DOWN!
Robert Byrd has managed to get his name on many things here in West Virginia. He brought a lot of “pork” to the state. Bethany College isn’t the only college to have a building named after him. Wheeling Jesuit College—a “Catholic” college also had a building named after Byrd. Yep, you got it. Why wasn’t that building named after a saint? WJU has since had so many financial problems and has downsized, and it is no longer a “Catholic” college. I have no sympathy for them. They lost their way a long time ago. They were Catholic in name only.
That is not enough. A piddley and meaningless action. OUTLAW THE DEMOCRAT PARTY of slavery, the KKK, etc. That would have meaning.
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