A grand old wizard

Why do the mainstream media pretend that only Republicans can be racists?

Because of the double standard that the mainstream media has established for matters of race, politics, and racism (i.e. only white Republicans can possibly be racist and black Republicans aren’t really black), most people don’t know – or need to be constantly reminded – that the self-proclaimed historian of the Senate who is again passing negative judgment on a black candidate for federal service was indeed a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Sen. Byrd was a “Kleagle,” a recruiter who earned $10 for each new member he signed up for the sheet brigade. Although Byrd was intelligent enough to cut official ties with the Klan in 1943 (today he calls it a youthful mistake), he wrote, in a letter to the Grand Wizard in 1946, that

“The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virgina.”

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