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By the 1950s, he was no longer publicly involved with the Ku Klux Klan. In recent years Byrd has made public statements about poor choices he made, and like [[Strom Thurmond]], (who at one time ran on a segregationist platform) says he regrets being involved with the group. However, he was involved in a controversy in 2001 over his use of a racial epithet as part of a metaphor during an interview on race relations by [[Tony Snow]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0</ref>
By the 1950s, he was no longer publicly involved with the Ku Klux Klan. In recent years Byrd has made public statements about poor choices he made, and like [[Strom Thurmond]], (who at one time ran on a segregationist platform) says he regrets being involved with the group. However, he was involved in a controversy in 2001 over his use of a racial epithet as part of a metaphor during an interview on race relations by [[Tony Snow]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0</ref>
Alex Knepper commented, {{Quotebox|The moral of the story is that you can always make up for being a racist SOB. But the real subtext of the story is: being a Democrat means that you can promote segregation, join the KKK, vote against both black [[Supreme Court]] nominees, and use the word “n****r” on national television — and still be remembered as a promoter of black interests.<ref>http://frumforum.com/remembering-robert-byrds-racism</ref>}}
==Congressional Service==
==Congressional Service==