/——/ Byrd said and did what he had to stay in office. If Trump or Reagan had done the same you libtards would be screeching non stop,Byrd was respected by the NAACP when he died/——/ A racist democRAT never changes his stripes.Amazing how Byrd transformed from ex klansman to a respected defender of civil rights/——//——/ You forgot this part. DemocRATs filibustered the CRA and VRA led by Al Gore Sr. Republicans broke the stalemate to get them passed.
…...and who led the charge in that filibuster? Strom Thurmond, that great Republican Senator from SC.
On this day in 1964, Everett Dirksen (R-IL), the Republican Leader in the U.S. Senate, condemned the Democrats’ 57-day filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Leading the Democrats in their opposition to civil rights for African-Americans was Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV). Byrd, who got into politics as a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan, spoke against the bill for fourteen straight hours. Democrats still call Robert Byrd “the conscience of the Senate.”
In his speech, Senator Dirksen called on the Democrats to end their filibuster and accept racial equality.
When he died, he was honored by the NAACP
Republicans are still not respected