jc456
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so he resolved all of his hate in one speech. goes to show who the NAACP really are!! maybe they belong to the kkk eh? I'm thinking it must be. I know of no black man who would forgive a kkk'r. just saying.Do the same for Byrd.and you can say the same about David Duke he also left the Klan but he is still rightfully condemnedWas Byrd a KKK leader when the picture was taken? No he was not. If the caption said he was a then former and apologetic local leader of a Klan chapter then it would have been accurate.
Please list all the efforts David Duke has made to show his current goals are any different than they were when he was a KKK member. Such a list for Byrd is long, yet I can find nothing that might be on Duke's list.
NAACP Praises Byrd
In the end, the political legacy of Robert Byrd went from admitting his former membership in the Ku Klux Klan to winning the accolades of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
For the 2003–2004 session of Congress, Byrd was one of only 16 Senators rated by the NAACP as being 100% in line with the group’s position on critical legislation.
In June 2005, Byrd sponsored a successful bill dedicating an additional $10,000,000 in federal funding for the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C., remarking that “With the passage of time, we have come to learn that his Dream was the American Dream, and few ever expressed it more eloquently.”
When Byrd died at age 92 on June 28, 2010, the NAACP released a statement saying that over the course of his life he “became a champion for civil rights and liberties” and “came to consistently support the NAACP civil rights agenda.”