I watched some of the celebration for Strom Thurmonds 100TH b'day. Trent Lott remarked that it would have been nice for Strom Thurmond to be elected president back in the 1940's. At the time thats the way things were. Except for being a segregationist we may have had better luck in other areas. Even in the area of segregation blacks of that time could have been better off for the period segregation lasted. I don't know his intentions for the country back then but you never know if it may have come out better or worse. Whites and blacks of that time could hardly get along together. Some of both races still can't get along now. You can't even say good things about what people have done in the past or could have done without getting attacked by the NAACP. The NAACP wants equal rights for all races. (I believe thats their goal). There is the United Negro college fund. An equal to that would be the United Caucasion college fund. Yet if somebody were to come up with it they would raise hell over that. I don't mean to get people offended but I think Trent Lott should keep his job and say screw you to those that want him gone.

 

Does anybody support Trent Lott?

Yes,everyone that pays taxes.

 

Yes he should keep his job. The media puts a spin on just about everything they report and are real bad at it when it comes to politics. My local paper supported candidates this year and tried to tell their readership why they should vote for them. Funny naive me, I thought the media was supposed to be unbiased and fact based .
Lott has been doing a good job IMO, so unless they find laws and legislation he has worked on that are racist I say let it be. The media tends to be a little more liberal than I am and love to beat somebody when they are down.
Howabout this one--BET/WET.
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I don't mean to get people offended but I
>think Trent Lott should keep his job and say screw you to
>those that want him gone.

Ditto

You didn't see a democrat step down when they said something stupid or racist. Bill Clinton, Maxine Waters, Tony Jackson Lee, Ted Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, the list is endless.

Must be my far right wing idealogy blinding me and preventing me from see the Truth of the far left.

 

Lott should stay. The voters elected him, not some other guy.

 

Absolutely not. He should resign immediately. I think he is going to spend his next four years trying to prove he is not what he is.

 

We need another LEADER of the Senate, so Lott should step down, but he should definitely remain as a representative of Miss. :*

 

I have no problem with Lott. All he did was say that a Strom would've been a good president. Now you can fuss and moan all you want about Strom being racist, but fact is, he was one of the first big name polititians to have blacks on his staff, was a big supporter of blacks in federal judgeships, and enrolled his daughter in an integrated school when he could easily have afforded to send her where only white folks would be. To me at least, actions speak louder than words. People can get bent out of shape all they want about what Lott "could have" meant, but I have no problem with him speaking highly of a very respected man.

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I am not sure what his exact words were, but I think that they were probably no different than what the average person would let slip out on occasion. I am by no way supporting what he said, but when you are a politician, celebrity, sports star, etc. you really have to watch what you say. The media will analyze every word and sentence that comes out of your mouth.

 

I'm glad to see that he is finally standing up for himself, and not resigning from the senate or as majority leader. I always thought he was a little to willing to compromise with the democrats on sensitive issues. Just goes to show that no matter how much you try to appease the hard line liberals, they will come back and stab you in the back when they get a chance.
May be now he will learn his lesson that appeasing them doesn't work and he will stand up for us conservatives a little better. I'd rather have him in there now that he has experienced this than someone else who will just have to learn the lesson all over again. If he resigns as leader, he didn't learn anything and we don't want him there. If he fights to keep the post and the republicans vote in a new leader then I think we have wasted a valuable learning opportunity.

 

I say leave him alone. If he is doing as good as anyone else, let him stay. Everybody slips up and says things they shouldn't. He is human.

 

canada had a similar insident with the person who just recieved the order of canada. i cant remember his name, but man, what a ruckus that is still creating

 

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 19-Dec-02 AT 11:06 AM (EST)]I just heard that Louis Farakahn and Al Sharton were going to appear on WET (White entertainment Network) to apologize for their anti white remarks. oh on second thought that can't be as there is no WET because that would be considered discrimination? hmmmm how come it's only oneway?

 

This has spun out of control. Lott should have shut up immediately after he mis spoke, if that is what he did. But no, he goes out of his way to placate the liberal whining politicos and press. That said, he should, along with the entire Republican Party, expose these hypocrites from the Democratic Party for what they really are: racists.

For example: Sen Fritz Hollings sponsors a law to fly the Stars & Bars over the State Capital in SC. If that is a racist act, as some have claimed, then where is the outrage with regard to Hollings?

For example: Senator Byrd of West Va was/is, a card carring member of the KKK. His nickname in the Senate was "sheets". Where is the outrage over that?

For example: The Democratic Party sponsored a campaign ad in the election of 2000 painting Goorge W as a racist condoning the awful death of a black man dragged to death behind a pick up in chains? Where was the outrage for that?

The "Reverend" Jackson referred to NYC as "Hymietown". Where was the outrage over that?

These type of examples prove the Democrats to be the hypocrites they really are. The Lott affair is going to rear up and bite them in the backside BIGTIME. It will expose the Democratic Party to the black community and show them who the racists really are. The Democratic Party is going to be held accountable for the welfare program that destroyed the poor families that were tethered to the Federal pipeline of dependence.

The Democratic Party is going to have to answer for racial quotas that
placed unqualified students in schools where they were certain to fail.

The Democratic Party is going to have to explain their vehement opposition to school vouchers. The minority community sees that the Democrats put their kids in private schools and yet relegate the minorities to the failed public schools.

The failed racist policies of the past Democratic Party are now becomming apparent to the thinking minority. This can only increase the membership of the Republican Party. I look to see the Lott affair as a big benefit to the Republican Party, in terms of recruitment of minorities, not the millstone that the liberal hypocrites make it out. I say let the Democrats continue their self destruction.

 

You know I tend to agree with most conservatives most of the time, but after hearing a few snipets of Strom Thurmond's campaign speaches I wouldn't be so quick to back someone who thought that his was the right direction for the country in 1948.
Thormond's speaches sound an awful lot like a klan meeting. what with all the "Wake Up....(white people) we're not gonna let the gov'ment shove these ...(N-words)... down our throats."
I have paraphrased but this was the general tone of his 1948 campaign.

Now I understand that Lott was just trying to give an atta boy to Thurmond on his B-day, but to actually say that the country would have been better off under the leadership of an actively racist politicain who would have won the presidency on the segragationist ticket is completely inexcusible.
Let the country decide- via the special meetings of our elected officals planed for january.


BTW, comparing Jesse, louis or Al to Lott doesn't work because none of them are elected officials with responsibilities to their elctorate.

Non-elected white leaders make racist remarks all the time- no big deal.