Confederate Group In Mississippi Proposes License Plates To Honor KKK Member

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Next time you're at Mass. Ask to pray for Satan and perhaps suggest they put a statue of him arm in arm with Jesus. You sure you don't smoke weed?

Get thee behind me, Steven!

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Get thee behind me, Steven!

Weed makes smart people dumb and dumb people smart. It's worth looking into, bro.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Weed makes smart people dumb and dumb people smart. It's worth looking into, bro.

No, it just makes people lazy and vote Democratic.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

No, it just makes people lazy and vote Democratic.

Don't stereotype potheads. They come from all political persuasions.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Don't stereotype potheads. They come from all political persuasions.

Seriously?

[Ban Hammer 13,355]

Don't stereotype potheads. They come from all political persuasions.

but in time, they all wind up in the party of "dude!"

[one...two...tree 2,762]

but in time, they all wind up in the party of "dude!"

Case in point - John Goodman's character in the Big Lebowski, toked with the Dude, and he was gun-toting freak.

Bill just doesn't get out much. He talks to little forest animals while eating wild mushrooms.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Case in point - John Goodman's character in the Big Lebowski, toked with the Dude, and he was gun-toting freak.

Bill just doesn't get out much. He talks to little forest animals while eating wild mushrooms.

That was a movie, dude! Who needs to get outside more?

[Ban Hammer 13,355]

That was a movie, dude! Who needs to get outside more?

[one...two...tree 2,762]

That was a movie, dude! Who needs to get outside more?

Duuude! Put down the funny mushrooms, stop talking to the forest creatures and get out into the real world, Bambi.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Duuude! Put down the funny mushrooms, stop talking to the forest creatures and get out into the real world, Bambi.

...and go see a movie.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Duuude! Put down the funny mushrooms, stop talking to the forest creatures and get out into the real world, Bambi.

Animals are friends, not food!

[BishopM 114]

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Animals are friends, not food!

Okay, hippie.

[Danno 1,228]

Christians recognizes repentance. At least the real ones do.

I wonder, if Byrd believed this in the 1940's.... what would he have believed and carried out in the 1870's?

In 1944, Byrd wrote to segregationist Mississippi Senator Theodore G. Bilbo:[17]

“ I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds. ”

— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944,

Byrd recruited more than a hundred members to the Klan.

Forest actually disbanded the Klan in his time.

Byrd had the motivation of politics to adjust his views on race, Forest had no such selfish motives, even so Wilki notes this about him.

In 1875, Forrest demonstrated that his personal sentiments on the issue of race now differed from that of the Klan, when he was invited to give a speech before an organization of black Southerners advocating racial reconciliation, called the Independent Order of Pole-Bearers Association. At this, his last public appearance, he made what the New York Times described as a "friendly speech"[7] during which, when offered a bouquet of flowers by a black woman, he accepted them as a token of reconciliation between the races and espoused a radically progressive (for the time) agenda of equality and harmony between black and white Americans.[44]

I suspect you give Byrd the "pass" due to the environment he was raised, why is it some are granted this "understanding" and other aren't?

In all likelihood Byrd did change his views over the years but I wonder.... had he never got into politics and instead sold Insurance back in WV, would he have changed much?

I admire people who can look across centuries of change and decide which man is worthy of having bridges and Buildings and Monuments in their name and which names should be stricken from the

historical notation on a silly thing like a license plate (which I imagine will be an optional plate for those who want it.)