So, Byron de la Beckwith is finally dead and no longer poisoning this planet with his putrid existence. All I can say is: "Good riddance you fucking piece of shit." In case you are not familiar with the man, this is the white supremacist fuck who assassinated NAACP leader Medgar Evers back in 1963. It took about 30 years to actually convict the bastard, after several mistrials had previously been achieved, thanks to the assistance of such pro-segregation groups as the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission and the Citizens' Council.
Byron de la Beckwith is quoted from an interview in 1990 as saying: "There are only three kinds of people that live in Mississippi: whites, colored and trash, and there's very little trash in Mississippi." By "trash", de la Beckwith was referring to Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Japanese, Indonesians, Mexicans, South Americans, Native Americans, Jews, Arabs, Indians, etc. - in fact, any old human being who was defined in his terms as being "non-white".
If only I had such divine power that I could take 20 years off the life of someone like Byron de la Beckwith, to add those 20 years to the life of someone like David Brower.