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On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:34:05 -0000, Monte <GeeDubya@aol.com>
wrote:

>http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/11/politics/11LOTT.html
>
>below are some excerpts from the article.  Particular note 
>should be made of the fact that some moderate republicans are 
>becoming disenchanted with the overt racism bubbling to the 
>top in this administration.  
An article from one of the most proliberal anti democracy papers
in the world outside the UK.  BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, you have got to
be fucking kidding.
>
>It is becoming quite evident that blacks and other minorities 
>are okay as underlings, but they must know their 'place'.  
>Sadly Harry Bellafonte not the brightest entertainer may have 
>been correct in his assessment of Colin Powell as a 'house 
>slave'.
Unlike liberals and democrats that tell them they are unable to
make a living in the US without a federal teat to suckat.  No
wonder black males are violent, liberals and the alleged black
leadership have clipped ther manliness for decades and it is their
only way to lash out.
>
>The term racist and racism have been widely abused in the last 
>few years, and most Americans I honestly believe do not think 
>that the old fashioned segregationist racist still exists.  
>They are wrong, the South is still as racist as ever, it is 
>just kept under the sheets better. ;(   Does these bastards 
>exist outside of the South?  Of course they do.  But if you 
>find yourself in California and overhear a racist slur, odds 
>oare two to one the speaker has a suthrin' accent, sometimes a 
>phoney wannabe but accent none the less.
>
>It's time for the Republican Party to clean out the closets 
>and rid itself of every last Dixiecrat in its ranks.  As for 
>the Democratic Party it is way past time for it to rid itself 
>of the influence of self serving pariahs such as Jesse Jackson 
>and Al Sharpton.  For it is those types who keep pouring on 
>the fuel necessary to keep racist fires burning.
>
>Monte
>
>(excerpts)
>New York Times
>December 11, 2002
>Lott's Praise for Thurmond Echoed His Words of 1980
>By CARL HULSE
>
> 
>WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 � Trent Lott, the Republican Senate leader 
>who faces mounting criticism for his comment last week that 
>the nation would have been better off had Strom Thurmond been 
>elected president in 1948, expressed a nearly identical 
>sentiment two decades ago.
>
>After a fiery speech by Mr. Thurmond at a campaign rally in 
>Mississippi for Ronald Reagan in November 1980, Mr. Lott, then 
>a congressman, told a crowd in Jackson, "You know, if we had 
>elected this man 30 years ago, we wouldn't be in the mess we 
>are today."
>
>Last week, in remarks he later characterized as spontaneous 
>and a poor choice of words, Mr. Lott repeated his opinion 
>about Mr. Thurmond, who ran for president on a Dixiecrat 
>platform opposing "social intermingling of the races."
>
>At the party for Mr. Thurmond's 100th birthday, Mr. Lott said: 
>"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran 
>for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the 
>rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have 
>had all these problems over all these years, either."
>...
>But the senator from Mississippi was attacked today with fresh 
>complaints about his comments, as well as calls to step aside 
>as Republican leader. Even some conservatives suggested that 
>Mr. Lott had become a detriment to the Republican Party. 
>
>The White House press secretary, Ari Fleischer, found himself 
>having to defend Mr. Lott, saying President Bush has 
>"confidence in him as the Republican leader, unquestionably." 
>
>The fact that Mr. Lott uttered similar comments in 1980 
>threatened to intensify the controversy. The quotation was in 
>a report on Nov. 3, 1980, in The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson and 
>was cited in the introduction of a dissertation by a 
>historian, Joseph Crespino, who is writing a book on civil 
>rights and political culture in Mississippi.
>
>...
>Even without knowing of the earlier quotation, critics of Mr. 
>Lott called on him to quit his post, saying this was not his 
>first misstep. They recalled that he appeared in the 90's 
>before the Council of Conservative Citizens, a group whose 
>leaders have expressed extremist racial views.
>
>"If Senator Lott's remarks last week were an isolated 
>incident, we would be willing to accept his apology as truly 
>genuine," said a statement by Wade Henderson, executive 
>director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. "His 
>record, however, speaks far more loudly than his words alone."
>
>...
>Some conservatives, who have had disputes with Mr. Lott, said 
>his statements would feed the impression among some minorities 
>that Republicans are intolerant. The president of the Family 
>Research Council, Kenneth Conner, said Mr. Lott's remarks had 
>done considerable damage.
>
>Besides the White House, other Republicans went to Mr. Lott's 
>defense, including Representative J. C. Watts of Oklahoma, the 
>lone black Republican in Congress. Mr. Watts, who was in the 
>leadership before retiring this year, said he did not believe 
>that Mr. Lott needed to relinquish his position. "We should 
>not trivialize the issue of race for political gain," he said.
>
>Mr. Crespino, a fellow at George Mason University in Fairfax, 
>Va., ..."I couldn't believe he said it in 1980, let alone 
>2002," he said. "These kinds of appeals to the racist right 
>have been the G.O.P.'s dirty little secret for years."
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