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jimmy
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jimmy asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 5 years ago

Since the only high KKK official elevated by his Party was Robert KKK Byrd, is it not chutzpah to call US racists?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    It is chutzpah to say we don't still suffer from racism now and in the past.

    on Robert Byrd

    when running for the United States House of Representatives in 1952, he announced "After about a year, I became disinterested, quit paying my dues, and dropped my membership in the organization. During the nine years that have followed, I have never been interested in the Klan." He said he had joined the Klan because he felt it offered excitement and was anti-communist.[13]

    In 1997, Byrd told an interviewer he would encourage young people to become involved in politics but also warned, "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."[22] 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."[23] 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."[13]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd#Ku_Klux_...

    Just like Byrd changed the Republican party has, but in the opposite direction, now they are the raciest ones.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    chutpah is a Jewword. Real Americans speak English.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Trump

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