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Quote of the Day: White supremacist Byron De La Beckwith

Ron Ribiat

“If you write positive things about white Caucasian Christians, God will bless you. If you write negative things about white Caucasian Christians, God will punish you. If God does not punish you directly, several individuals will do it for him.”

– The late white supremacist Byron De La Beckwith, before he was convicted in 1994 of the murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963. Jerry Mitchell, investigative reporter for The Clarion-Ledger, recalled his words at a Newseum forum in Washington.

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