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I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side. . . Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.
klan member and future liberal icon robert byrdin 1945 on the integration of the armed services
and since the phony charge of "racist" is tossed about with such facile, promiscuous abandon by the left these days, i thought it might be instructive to use the occasion of the good senator's passing to remind everyone of what the real thing looks like.
