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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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Strangely, I think I read the same article. The best part was when he said something like, "oh, those guys, I just joined em because all the important people in town belonged, and I only belonged for one year... from 1942-1943". And then someone dug up a letter from Byrd to the Grand Wizard from 1945 where he was like "we must stop the race mongreling in the military, I would rather move to France than serve in the military with a Negro".
I'm sure he's really, really sorry.
