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Robert Byrd: Life
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Byrd's work pace increased in 1990, when KTCA selected him to produce in a single year a three-part series on the everyday lives of black, Asian, and Native American Minnesotans. Diary: Black Minnesotans featured people from various walks of life with differing social perspectives. John Lyght, Minnesota's only black sheriff--and one of only a handful nationwide--talks of his acceptance within his rural town and his view that disadvantaged blacks need to earn respect through honest work instead of complaining that society is holding them back. In contrast, Philip True, a Minneapolis computer engineer who gives gang-oriented and at-risk youth training in computer skills and workplace expectations, believes that American society is failing these kids. He agrees... that young people have to take charge of their own future, in spite of the obstacles. The series won awards at international film festivals in New York City, Chicago, and Houston, as well as Regional Emmy awards for editing and camera work.
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Refreshingly, Byrd rejects the modern impulse to emphasize the difficulty and ambiguities of such a life. His focus is on the thrill of questioning, making and thinking. His book exudes an energy that mimics Leonardo's own restless creativity." Read the entire New York Times review here.
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His parents inculcated Byrd in "the typical southern viewpoint of the time," Byrd has written. "Blacks were generally distrusted by many whites, and I suspect they were subliminally feared." [10] His father was a member of the Klu Klux Klan (KKK), a fact that would influence Byrd's later life. [11]
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