Wizbang posts this letter from the NAACP regarding Sen. Byrd's filibuster of the Civil Rights Amendment in 1964:
"The one-man talkathon staged by Sen. Byrd for 14 hours last night and this morning indicates the extent to which a mind warped with hate and prejudice will go -- even in the hallowed halls of Congress.
"Sen. Byrd has not only done his state and our nation a great disservice, but has in addition exposed his family and friends to great embarrassment. The shame and stigma that attaches to his continuing acts against civil rights legislation is positive evidence that he is still a present-day advocate of the principles of the Ku Klux Klan.
"The sooner he is removed from the public and political scene, the better chance democracy will have to survive in America and the free world."
Willard Brown
President
NAACP
Charleston, WV
June 10, 1964
(emphasis added: the part about him being an impediment to a democratic and free world are as apt today as they were then).
It's just plain amazing that the krazy left has turned to krazy Sen. Byrd to be one of its spokesmen considering his history of intolerance and twisted hate.
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