Pictured: the pride of Mississippi.
In the latest racially charged incident in his home state, Haley Barbour on Tuesday drew fire when he refused to condemn a proposal honoring a Ku Klux Klan leader and Confederate general on a state license plate.
"I don't go around denouncing people. That's not going to happen," Barbour, who is considering a run for the White House in 2012, said when asked about the plate, the Associated Press reported. "I know there's not a chance it'll become law."
In case you hadn't heard, the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a pretty nasty group of bigots, are behind this proposal to lionize Nathan Bedford Forrest, a slave trader, the first Grand Wizard of the KKK — and a vicious domestic terrorist.
Needless to say, Forrest is a pretty easy guy to denounce. This was a political gift, in a way, to Barbour.
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