Robert Byrd

He didn't like it, he got out, and then went on to become president.

Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who was the last oldest living senator, uh, he was in the Klan in the 1940s.

He was a, a grand kleagle, which means a state recruiter, bring in new members.

All right? Uh, he later on went on, he, he left the Klan, he, he di- disavowed it, and went on to do great things for civil rights.

And that Constitution Day kind of morphed into Citizenship Day, where we celebrate naturalized citizens in this country.

That was added, the original Constitution Day established in 1956, Robert Byrd, the great senator, bipartisan senator, he added a provision later on, many years later, to make it also Citizenship Day.

Now that has a special place in my heart.

This was a country that accepted my people.

Charlie Kirk was famous and wealthy because his job was normalizing white supremacy for college students and white people in their 20s.

The, the, the only racist our conservative friends have ever been groomed to be offended by is Senator Robert Byrd, who was in the Klan, and then of course renounced racism, became a liberal, devoted his life to civil rights, voted against the Iraq War, voted for Obamacare, and was honored in death by the NAACP.

That's the one racist you'll hear right-wing people going after.

Mm-hmm.

The, the one who stopped being racist.

I've never heard them criticize a single other person, just a famous Democrat who had been a racist.

But Robert Byrd grew beyond it, and the tragedy of Charlie Kirk is that he's never gonna get to do it.

I think I said this on your show a year ago when he died.

The council held a private executive session to evaluate the applications.

The commissioners last month appointed six board members, Robert Byrd, Larry Owen, Barry Kunkel, Michael Messman, Brian Minich, and Gary Moore.

Among those appointees, the Northeast and West Central Districts were not represented.

The council can appoint only one each member for this district.

Let me ask you, whatever happened to the notion of the ideal, the idea that we would be a colorblind society? Well, that's right.

Joe Biden partnered with the former Klansman, Robert Byrd, to stop the integration of public schools.

There's a phenomenon happening in our economy that I want to point out that we've been way ahead of the curve of.

And I've been reading all these articles about the next generation of millionaires are going to be tradespeople.

Because, seriously, nobody feels for, I mean, Strom Thurmond had no problem being seen in a wheelchair.

Bob Byrd did his job right up to the very end.

But somehow or another, Well, Moscow Mitch is different, I suppose.

Because there are more nefarious aspects of the long game yet to be played.

That's who Tallarico admires.

And Biden, of course, best friends with the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Robert Byrd, and then when he died, eulogized him.

There aren't many Republicans that would get away with eulogizing the imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

The media would go on self-destruct mode.