<p>J.B. Stoner, an anti-Semite and white supremacist who drew notoriety for his racist views in the civil rights era, holds onto his views at the age of 80, partially paralyzed and bedridden in a northwest Georgia nursing home.</p><p>"If I was active, I'd still be the same. I'd like to go out and make a speech," Stoner said in an interview published Friday in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.</p><p>"Some thought coming into this institution would change me. But a person isn't supposed to apologize for being right," Stoner said.</p><p>Stoner suffered a stroke three years ago, partly paralyzing his left side. He weighs about 110 pounds, and the sharp, jackhammer voice that incited crowds decades ago is now just a raspy whisper, the newspaper said.</p><p>He was one of the angriest voices in opposition to the civil rights movement.</p><p>In 1964, Stoner arrived in St. Augustine, Fla., on the heels of Martin Luther King Jr. to organize a counter-demonstration. His rhetoric inflamed passions, which led to mobs of whites attacking blacks.</p><p>Stoner later became the appeals attorney for James Earl Ray, King's assassin, and long tried to get his case reversed.</p><p>In 1970, Stoner ran for governor in a race Jimmy Carter eventually won. In 1972, he ran for the U.S. Senate. In 1974, he drew 73,000 votes, almost 10 percent, in a race for lieutenant governor.</p><p>In 1977, Stoner was indicted in the 1958 bombing of an empty church in Birmingham, Ala. He was convicted in 1980.</p><p>In 1986, he was paroled from an Alabama prison at the age of 62. He ran for lieutenant governor in 1990 and got 31,000 votes, or 3 percent of the total.</p><p>Stoner, who was raised Methodist, feels no guilt for his life.</p><p>"I guess God will put his hand on my head and bless me," he said.</p><p>But while he has not changed his views, Stoner admits his side lost.</p><p>"History is written by the victors: You win, you write it," Stoner said. "Society has changed. It was changed by defeat _ defeat of the white people against race-mixing."</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x28658b8)</p>
