Senator Byrd Dies

Good riddance. It’s people like him who take a long time to die. Maybe there’s something to that old saw about “being too evil to die.” The people of the State of West Virginia have much to answer for in that they inflicted this monster upon us for so long, KNOWING he was a former top-ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan and a racist bigot, apt to foment laws and regulations inimical to freedom. He is best known for the “pork” he has brought to his state and the many things he thus has named after him in that state. In W. Virginia, you can’t drive a mile without seeing something with his name on it. As a member of the Klan, there’s no telling how many people’s deaths for which he is responsible.

In 1944, he wrote to racist Senator Theodore Bilbo (D-MS) that 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.” They SAY he was no longer a racist, but I submit that “once a racist, always a racist,” though it was good for his career to hide it in his later life. Remember, he FILIBUSTERED the Equal Rights Amendment and voted AGAINST it. Though later on, he SEEMED to be moving in another direction, conveniently. It is common to “eulogize” people when they die, but some do not deserve it. Byrd was such a man. I make no apologies for “saying something bad about the dead.” (Town Hall would not publish this with the word "negro" included. I guess they're too "PC") (Fox Business)