Terri
01-16-2003, 04:31 PM
NewsMax
January 16, 2003
A Washington, D.C.-based civil rights leader said Wednesday he has uncovered documents indicating that Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.V., was a member of the notorious anti-black hate group the Ku Klux Klan for a far longer period of time than he has admitted.
"Some people say that he was only in [the Klan] for a couple of months," said Kevin Martin, head of the African-American Republican Leadership Council, in an interview on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." "But we have documentation that says he was in for almost two years," Martin revealed.
On Monday, Byrd's spokesman Tom Gavin insisted to NewsMax.com that the senator's days in the Klan, where he served as a Grand Kleagle recruiter, lasted for just "a number of months" in 1943. Gavin said Byrd came clean about his secret past in a series of private conversations the two had over the last five years.
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Oh right! *You belonged to the Klan for two years and you weren't a racist? *Sure, sell us another bridge.
I've heard firsthand stories of the Klan in the south in the first half of this century. Anybody who belonged was not only a racist but a racist who acted on their feelings in terrible ways.
January 16, 2003
A Washington, D.C.-based civil rights leader said Wednesday he has uncovered documents indicating that Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.V., was a member of the notorious anti-black hate group the Ku Klux Klan for a far longer period of time than he has admitted.
"Some people say that he was only in [the Klan] for a couple of months," said Kevin Martin, head of the African-American Republican Leadership Council, in an interview on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes." "But we have documentation that says he was in for almost two years," Martin revealed.
On Monday, Byrd's spokesman Tom Gavin insisted to NewsMax.com that the senator's days in the Klan, where he served as a Grand Kleagle recruiter, lasted for just "a number of months" in 1943. Gavin said Byrd came clean about his secret past in a series of private conversations the two had over the last five years.
Full Story (http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2 003/1/16/02349)
Oh right! *You belonged to the Klan for two years and you weren't a racist? *Sure, sell us another bridge.
I've heard firsthand stories of the Klan in the south in the first half of this century. Anybody who belonged was not only a racist but a racist who acted on their feelings in terrible ways.