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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (576641)	7/17/2010 1:27:08 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (5) of 1570465

"the reality that he was a lifetime practicing racist" Which is totally untrue. en.wikipedia.org "In 1997, Byrd told an interviewer he would encourage young people to become involved in politics but also: "Be sure you avoid the Ku Klux Klan. Don't get that albatross around your neck. Once you've made that mistake, you inhibit your operations in the political arena."[20] In his last autobiography, Byrd explained that he was a KKK member because he "was sorely afflicted with tunnel vision — a jejune and immature outlook — seeing only what I wanted to see because I thought the Klan could provide an outlet for my talents and ambitions."[21] Byrd also said, in 2005, “ I know now I was wrong. 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. ” — Robert C. Byrd, [10] At Byrd's memorial service, former President Bill Clinton excused Byrd's early association with the KKK: “ "I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollers of West Virginia, he was trying to get elected. And maybe he did something he shouldn't have done, and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that's what a good person does."[22]"

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