Would Sen. Byrd Have Used the Mendi Bible?
On Thursday, January 4, 2007, Mr. Deval Patrick was sworn in as the 71st governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He placed his hand on the Mendi Bible as he took his oath of office. Mr. Patrick is an African-American.
Close to the same time, maybe 500 miles south, in Washington, D.C., former Ku Klux Klan member, Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D, WV) was being sworn in as President Pro Tempore of the Senate thus making him third in the line of succession for the Presidency after the Vice President and Speaker of the House.
Oh, the Mendi Bible was formerly owned by Africans sold as slaves in the mid 1800s. John Quincy Adams won the freedom of the slaves in a case argued before the United States Supreme Court. The freed Africans gave Mr. Adams the Bible as thanks.
Double oh, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate is elected in a vote by members of his own party.
The letter:
Editor,
In no article or column of the January 5 edition of the Boston Globe that covered the transfer of power from Republicans to Democrats in the United States Senate did the Boston Globe report that Senate Democrats elected former Ku Klux Klan member, Sen. Robert Byrd as President Pro Tempore making him third in the line of succession to the Presidency.
The omission of this fact in the same issue of a liberal newspaper that trumpeted the gubernatorial inauguration of a Democrat African-American is outrageous yet not surprising at all.
No doubt Sen. Byrd was relieved the Mendi Bible was in Boston on Thursday and not at the U.S. Capitol where he took his oath of office. (End of letter.)
On Thursday, January 4, 2007, Mr. Deval Patrick was sworn in as the 71st governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He placed his hand on the Mendi Bible as he took his oath of office. Mr. Patrick is an African-American.
Close to the same time, maybe 500 miles south, in Washington, D.C., former Ku Klux Klan member, Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D, WV) was being sworn in as President Pro Tempore of the Senate thus making him third in the line of succession for the Presidency after the Vice President and Speaker of the House.
Oh, the Mendi Bible was formerly owned by Africans sold as slaves in the mid 1800s. John Quincy Adams won the freedom of the slaves in a case argued before the United States Supreme Court. The freed Africans gave Mr. Adams the Bible as thanks.
Double oh, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate is elected in a vote by members of his own party.
The letter:
Editor,
In no article or column of the January 5 edition of the Boston Globe that covered the transfer of power from Republicans to Democrats in the United States Senate did the Boston Globe report that Senate Democrats elected former Ku Klux Klan member, Sen. Robert Byrd as President Pro Tempore making him third in the line of succession to the Presidency.
The omission of this fact in the same issue of a liberal newspaper that trumpeted the gubernatorial inauguration of a Democrat African-American is outrageous yet not surprising at all.
No doubt Sen. Byrd was relieved the Mendi Bible was in Boston on Thursday and not at the U.S. Capitol where he took his oath of office. (End of letter.)
posted by Zack at 5:35 PM
1 Comments:
Nice to see that someone is paying attention. Thanks for once again pointing out the hypocrisy of the Globe and its ilk.
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