Personally I think I have more of a problem with a 100 year old active senator than what Lott had to say. No offense to his past record but 100? Might be time to step aside and get some fresh ideas in that seat.

 

Believe Strom IS stepping down this year.

As far as what Lott said, it's not so much about what he said or that it was a 'mistake' or 'slip' that he said it, it's that this is what he believes, segregation is good. Not only is it not PC to say it or believe it, it's just wrong, period. We've come so far.

Many of the above points are valid, the country has gone very far the other way in trying to show we are sensitive (BET, NAACP, affirmative action, etc.) in fact we've swung too far the other way. The pendulum needs to swing back the other way to finally (hopefully) land dead-center to where we need to be as human beings as well as fellow citizens.

All that being said, I read in one of the local papers that this is not the first time that Lott has said THESE EXACT WORDS in reference to his buddy Strom, as well as the fact that he was a very staunch support of segregationism when he was a younger man and in running for office. These are HIS beliefs as well, from what I've read.

He simply is not fit to be the Senate Majority Leader for the Republican party. No one is asking him to resign his senatorship from what I've seen, only that he cannot speak for the Republican party with his offensive beliefs being 'outed' as they have been, he's lost credibility with a lot of people, including the President.

zman

 

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 19-Dec-02 AT 04:31 PM (EST)]There are two distinct issues that have come to light here. First the issue of Lott and whether he is a racist. He may well be, but he is no more a racist than Hollings, Byrd, Clinton, Al Gore Sr, and Lyndon Johnson. The Democratic Party is racist in its actions. They are the politicians that have enacted welfare, racial quotas, drug enforcement, and other failed policies that keep the minorities in this country right where they want them. How do the policies of the Democrats help the minorities with respect to helping themselves to a better life here in America? They don't.

The second issue is the Lott affair points to the bigger problem of hypocrisy in the media and the politicians nationwide. How much different is Lott than any of the politicians named above. He is not.
Therefore, all of the media call for his resignation ring hollow when Byrd and Hollings still walk the halls of the Senate. In fact, Byrd is exceedingly far worse in his closet skeletons than Lott. What can be worse than carrying the nickname "sheets" by his fellow Democrats.

Furthermore, the media prove its selectivity when coming down upon these matters. This is why the statements of Jackson, Sharpton, and Farakhan matter. They are sanctioned by the liberal Democrats and the liberal press. This is tacit approval. When was the last time you heard a liberal politician going at it with Jackson. They don't and they won't. Jackson is a master of the shakedown.

So the real issue boils down to racism in America today. Who participates, and who perpetuates. There are the guilty on both sides but the Democrats are leading the parade for sure. They have initiated and enacted the most laws affecting the racial divide of the last 50 years that have not only failed to address the problem, but have also exacerbated the filthy mess beyond what they would care to admit and beyond what the minorities in this country even recognize as their fault.

The Democrats cloak their racism in the form of a helping hand that only strangles all that it touches. Otherwise, why else do we still have a severe racial problem in these United States almost 40 years after it was supposedly solved by Lyndon Johnson and his "Great Society". The media can't wash the political laundry of the Democrats without vigilant citizens recognizing the stains of racism upon the sleeves of the Democratic Party. Their self appointed hand wringers, and finger pointing anointed leaders, can't masquerade from the thinking minority that really knows who is to blame for the racist policies of todays society. The Trent Lott affair will help unmask these hypocrites and hopefully steer the country on a brighter course toward racial harmony through clearer policies born out of conservative roots in social evolution not meddlesome government social engineering.

 

Lott said nothing about segregation in his talk. Some folks just starting trouble, especially the press. Probably many of the southern senators and congress folks have the same feelings of pro segregation, but not speaking out on it in order to keep their cushy jobs.

Who knows, the country may have faired better if Thurman had been elected.


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