Explaining the Senate's apology for keeping lynching legal for 100 years, the media is blaming "southern conservatives" for blocking civil rights legislation. Here is an example of one of those "southern conservatives".

"Martin Luther King fled the scene. He took to his heels and disappeared, leaving it to others to cope with the destructive forces he had helped to unleash. And I hope that well-meaning negro leaders and individuals in the negro community in Washington will now take a new look at this man who gets other people into trouble and then takes off like a scared rabbit." -- Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd, DEMOCRAT-WVa, in a 1968 speech.