Bill Clinton's remarks at Senator Robert Byrd's funeral should make those who call him "the first black president" regret that sentiment. There is nothing even remotely "black" about a white man that says "it may have been wrong" for someone to have been a member of the KKK. It is explicitly wrong to join a group of racists who lynch & kill folks.
There's no maybe about it for me. But,Bill Clinton seems to think that if "a country boy" can get elected that way,so be it. Join the KKK or any other racist organization if it can further your agenda. I find that line of reasoning to be absolutely deplorable.
And it makes me wonder if Bill Clinton only dealt with blacks so that he could get elected. Because as an Arkansan,that's what "a country boy" would do.
Here's more from Talking Points Memo:
"Former President Bill Clinton referenced the late Sen. Robert Byrd's membership in the Ku Klux Klan as a young man during his eulogy for the longtime senator this afternoon in West Virginia. Clinton was the only speaker to reference this dark chapter of Byrd's history, which has been a topic of much discussion over the years.
Many of Byrd's colleagues have said that Byrd learned from the experience and that he championed civil rights later, and took pride in endorsing Barack Obama in his bid to become the nation's first black president.
Clinton said at the memorial service that Byrd's obituaries have speculated what it meant he was in the KKK.
"I'll tell you what it means. He was a country boy from the hills and hollers of West Virginia, he was trying to get elected," Clinton said. "And maybe he did something he shouldn't have done, and he spent the rest of his life making it up. And that's what a good person does."(END OF EXCERPT) Read more here.
