POLITICS Pro-Donald Trump Super PAC Tries To Tie Hillary Clinton To The KKK [View all]
Source: HuffPo
Byrd disavowed his KKK affiliation decades before his death, despite what the Crippled America PAC page claims. He went on to become majority leader of the Senate and the longest-serving senator.
In the 1940s, Byrd joined the KKK and recruited other members for the organization, eventually winning a leadership position. He later distanced himself from the group, although he acknowledged it would forever be an “albatross“ around his neck.
“I know now I was wrong,” he said in 2005. “Intolerance had no place in America. I apologized a thousand times ... and I don’t mind apologizing over and over again. I can’t erase what happened.”
When Byrd died in 2010, the NAACP even put out a statement praising Byrd for how far he had come from his racist youth.
“Senator Byrd reflects the transformative power of this nation,” then-NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said. “Senator Byrd went from being an active member of the KKK to a being a stalwart supporter of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act and many other pieces of seminal legislation that advanced the civil rights and liberties of our country.”
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