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There was a nice interview with Will Byrd a couple episodes ago on the Cognicast (Cognitect's Podcast).

Several prominent racists of the KKK era, including people like Robert Byrd and George Wallace, ultimately renounced their earlier views.

If you're near Boston/Cambridge, the Clojure Meetup Group is showing a live video of William Byrd talking about this tonight.

Was there ever a movement to force Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) to resign?

So here's something to think about: Why do people find it so easy to forgive Robert Byrd yet so hard to forgive George Wallace?

Senator Byrd was in hospital for much of 2009.

Also Friedman and Byrd did show up to a few clojure talks and seemed, from the online videos, to be highly entertaining - I remember their using miniKanren to automatically generate scheme programs that evaluated to 6 being particularly fun.

If funny you say that, because one of the highest ranking Democrats in the Senate until his death in 2010, Sen Robert Byrd was an actual klansman with a long history of blatant racism, from fighting against racial integration in the military to filibustering the Civil Rights Act.

Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Peyton Manning, Michael Phelps, Michael Jordan, Michael Tyson, Tiger Woods, and Larry Byrd would not have done the things they did without ads - no one would have paid them to.

Byrd and Dan Friedman introduce miniKanren, from the basic building blocks to the methodology for translating regular programs to relational program, which can run "backwards".

I can't erase what happened." By acknowledging his past racism so candidly and emphatically, Byrd salvaged not just his career but also his dignity.

What I'm saying is that Jack Byrd had an idea of me pursuing the automated offsite backup services that I had-- Alex Blumberg: Chris Crawford then launches into a rather surprising explanation for how the sentencing that this business was, quote, "Jack Byrd's idea," doesn't actually mean that the business was Jack Byrd's idea.

>> "But the only KKK member to be elected to the Senate, Robert Byrd, was Democrat, and he retired in 2010, not 1960." Not exactly true.

My first introduction to miniKanren was Dan Friedman and Will Byrd's joint presentation at Strange Loop 2012 – what a blast!

Byrd dropped his membership in 1952, as he was running for the House, where he served from 1953 until 1959, when he ran for the Senate.

But the only KKK member to be elected to the Senate, Robert Byrd, was Democrat, and he retired in 2010, not 1960.