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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
Coincidetally, yesterday I saw an article that Byrd wrote in his autobiography that joining the KKK was "an extraordinarily foolish mistake" that "has emerged throughout my life to haunt and embarass me, and has taught me in a very graphic way what one major mistake can do to one's life, career, and reputation."
Not the best mea culpa, but a whole lot better than Jesse Helms' abiding conviction that he was right to continue supporting segregation (see my post several days ago -- the one club responded to by saying that Helms must have learned this from Byrd)
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I am not attempting to mitigate the injustice of segretation, but regardless of Helm's level of contrition, or lack thereof, there is a fairly affective cure. OTOH, you can apologize to the victims of lynching from now until we uncover the WMDs, I don't think it really does a lot for them.
