Judging from all the blogs and news articles, an Important Event has occurred. Apparently, some really old guy who once thought it fine to string black men up by their necks until they died, but later thought differently, and who always had enough money to sit in a Senate seat for a modern eternity, has died.
A ruling class white man who hated black men until he didn't hate them anymore, and then used his change of heart to stay a ruling class white man, eh?
Whatever will Bill Clinton do now that he's the most prominent southron gentlestooge with that modus operandi?
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Don't you go dissing Bobby Byrd. He was just responding appropriately to a patriarchal power-structure-based culture.
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Rosie O'Donnell.
Worth a look: Byrd's 2002 floor speeches regarding the upcoming "war" in Iraq...
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Byrd is within the tradition of people like Gore Vidal, Chalmers Johnson and Pat Buchanan, who, despite their differences on contemporary social issues, believe that the US was a "republic" highjacked by those insistent upon using the power of the federal government to launch a global imperial enterprise
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Great insight.
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