Social Experiment: Is It Really All About Slavery

A Byrd in hand... He filibustered against the 1964 Civil Rights Act(wikipedia) In the early 1940s, Byrd recruited 150 of his friends and associates to create a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Sophia, West Virginia(WikiPedia) Byrd had heard that "the Klan defended the American way of life against racemixers and communists". He then wrote to Joel L. Baskin, Grand Dragon of the Realm of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Delaware, who responded that he would come and organize a chapter when Byrd had recruited 150 people. Byrd’s house couldn't fit 150 people, so he arranged to hold the ceremony at the home of C.M. “Clyde”(WikiPedia) When Baskin called for nominations for Exalted Cyclops, the highest-ranking official in the Klavern, Byrd was nominated and quickly elected by unanimous vote(WikiPedia) He was part of a heinous group of A-holes but, he is a good guy? In December 1944, Byrd wrote to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore G. Bilbo: I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side ... 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. — Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944(WikiPedia) but a good man, never the less? Byrd later called joining the KKK "the greatest mistake I ever made."[22] In 1997, he told an interviewer he would encourage young people to become involved in politics but also warned, "Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. (WikiPedia) apparently not because he opposed The Civil Rights Act, as an "Obstructionist " as noted above "...despite his early career in the KKK, Byrd was linked to such senators as John C. Stennis, J. William Fulbright and George Smathers, who based their segregationist positions on their view of states' rights in contrast to senators like James Eastland, who held a reputation as a committed racist." Byrd cast no vote on the Voting Rights Act of 1965,[38] and voted against the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court.(WikiPedia) This guy was a real gem of a human being and a total A-holez who never really let loose his beliefs on race and couldn't evolve into a decent human being. Who in the Hell could vote against one of the greatest legal minds in United States history? Maybe a racist could but, a man genuinely concerned with the application of Constitutionality in American culture? Despite an 83-day filibuster in the Senate, both parties in Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Act (Democrats 47–16, Republicans 30–2),(WikiPedia) What a bunch of dicks. By sheer numbers and percentage of their party, they couldn't bring themselves to equalize blacks as citizens of equals on the USA? Byrd was so brave and honorable he couldn't find it in his heart as a child of God, inhabiting this planet to cast a vote affirming that yes, all men are creat equal? Byrd cast no vote on the Voting Rights Act of 1965,(WikiPedia) Disgusting and his privileged membership card into humanity should have been taken from him, cut into 4 pieces so it could never be use and his membership canceled He just had to go all KKK and deny Blacks the right to vote: without qualification The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964. Pull down the symbols of this Grand Klegal of the KKK just like you have done for other so called honorable men

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