Ah yes, the ex-Kleagle lecturing a black woman from Birmingham whose childhood friend, eleven-year-old Denise McNair, was blown to bits by a dynamite bomb with three other girls in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church one year before Byrd voted against the Civil Rights Act.

And he’s applauded in “progressive” circles for deriding her. Hey, his votes against Marshall and Thomas never cost him a thing. Can you possibly imagine if the party affiliations were reversed? Say a Republican ex-Bundist voting against Madeline Albright? Or even Strom Thurmond compiling an anti-black track record like Byrd’s. Amazing how that (D) after your name gives you a halo. Over your hood.

Shame.