That’s what every headline would read this morning if the late Senator had been a Republican.
The longest serving member of Congress, Robert Byrd (D-WV) once said:
“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 Byrd in letter to Mississippi Senator Theodore Bilbo in 1944.
While I hope that he received absolution from his maker, I’m not sad to see him go. As my friend Justin said:
Look, I know it’s not nice to piss on someone’s grave. But, then again, burning a cross on someone’s lawn wasn’t very nice, either.
And that’s about all I have to say about that this morning.
