winterbadger

Everyone's been heaping encomia on the late Robert Byrd this week. But I'm watching the American Experience "Roads to Memphis" program this evening about the murder of Dr King, and they had a clip of a speech by Senator Byrd, a speech that showed what I believe were always his true colours--white, white, and white. He condemns King's Poor People's Campaign, suggests that King is a coward, and calls him a troublemaker who gets other people into trouble and runs away.

He may have had second thoughts late in life, but I have trouble believing that a man as steeped in racism and hatred as he was for so long ever truly changed.