The photo has circulated for years, shared on Twitter feeds and political sites when issues of racism and discrimination dominate the news
And it has popped up lately on social media as people protest against racism and police brutality.
Adjutant Bill Hayes of John Hunt Morgan Camp 1342 told The Courier Journal their camp has very few members left who were around in the early '90s. He once asked an older member about the photo, who told him it was taken at one of their events where McConnell was invited to speak. Looking back on it now, he said:"I don't regret going to speak to a group which at the time was not being considered, you know, a pariah in our society. I, over the years, have probably been to plenty of groups and shaken hands with a whole lot of people who didn’t agree with me."
As an example, he pointed to his tenure as Jefferson County judge-executive in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when he said he agreed to a consent decree in a federal court case concerning racial discrimination in the police department. Under that decree, he said the county government instituted affirmative action policies for hiring Black people.
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