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Robert "KKK" Byrd is holding up Dr. Rice's nomination to be Secretary of State. |
The Congress of Racial Equality blasted Sen. Robert Byrd on Thursday for holding up full Senate confirmation for Secretary of State-nominee Condoleezza Rice, denouncing the former Ku Klux Klansman as an unreconstructed "racist.""It's not surprising," CORE spokesman Niger Innis told NewsMax. "Byrd was a racist 50 years ago under the guise of leading the Dixiecrats and he's a non-reformed Dixiecrat today."
Innis said the only difference between the Robert Byrd of the 1950s and now is, "He's got black colleagues in the House and the Senate who apologize for him."
The Senate had been poised to confirm Dr. Rice on Thursday when Byrd and Sen. Barbara Boxer threatened to extend debate and force a postponement, CNN reported Thursday morning.With that, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid asked the Republican Majority for nine hours of debate on Rice's nomination, now scheduled for Tuesday.
Innis also shed some light on a report Tuesday that White House political guru Karl Rove was a no show at CORE's annual Martin Luther King Day dinner in New York, where he was slated to be the guest of honor.
He also didn't like Martin Luther King either.
During King's life Byrd urged "well-meaning Negro leaders" to reconsider King. He explained that [King] " was a coward who got other people into trouble."
Of course he said it in that charming southern accent that makes words like Negro sound so quant. Suddenly I have the urge to watch Mississippi Burning to see if there are any other connnections between Byrd and King.
And you wonder what kind of people live in "E I E I O land" (West Virgina) to elect this idiot.
The only ones holding up Rice's nomination are Democrats. The same Democratic party that claims to be for racial equity. (unless they are black Repuplicans)
Posted by psugrad98 at January 25, 2005 01:53 PM
