Senate Majority Leader: I wish the segregationist had won!

[Joseph]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


They tend to make sarcasm more banal.

DD: This isn't about the CCC stuff, this is a fresh example of his racism. He just made this comment.

It does, however, highlight the fact that his comments to the CCC weren't necessarily as harmless as he positioned them. Showing his true colors again, if you will.

since I have been of planet Earth a little longer than you, it does not matter in Mississippi what he said, he will still be reelected. Mississippi is not San Francisco.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Joseph

since I have been of planet Earth a little longer than you, it does not matter in Mississippi what he said, he will still be reelected. Mississippi is not San Francisco.

1) Your length of time on Earth means jack squat, since there are loads of old idiots, particularly in the Republican Party.

2) I never said this would cause him any political damage in Mississippi or hinder his chances of reelection.

3) I don't live in San Francisco, so not sure what the point of that was.

4) Have a nice day.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I still don't think this matters worth a damn. He said a nice thing about Strom and bent over backwards to praise him and didn't realize the hubbub that would be raised over it. When he said it, I BET he did not remember that he ran as a Dixiecrat. The guy turned 100, and Lott says he should have won when he ran for President. BIG DEAL!

Byrd may have been a KKK member, and both Wallace and Thurdmond ran on pro-segregation plankc's, but all of the have also stated they were wrong and have changed their views.

And then Byrd was caught earlier this year saying '******' on the floor.

[Shi Huangdi]

"Oh yeah, anyone who likes Thurdmond, I think, is ipso facto a racist."

So all those Dems who praised Thurmond are racists?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Funny, he was the first Senator to have a black person on his staff. Guess the rest of 'em were even bigger racists that he .

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Funny, he was the first Senator to have a black person on his staff. Guess the rest of 'em were even bigger racists that he .

Yeah, but that's only because none of the rest of the staffers had the heart to tell him that the black guy wasn't a slave.

[Imran Siddiqui]

He had more black people on his staff than LBJ did when he became President. I think Strom was the better friend of the black man than the Dems .

[Rufus T. Firefly]

And this just in...

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I still don't think this matters worth a damn. He said a nice thing about Strom and bent over backwards to praise him and didn't realize the hubbub that would be raised over it. When he said it, I BET he did not remember that he ran as a Dixiecrat. The guy turned 100, and Lott says he should have won when he ran for President. BIG DEAL!

Oh, bull****, Imran. That's one of the lamest stretches I've seen pulled. Lott doesn't remember Thurmond ran as a Dixiecrat? That was the crux of Thurmond's campaign, for christ's sake - remember his platform? "We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race." I don't know Thurmond, wasn't even alive then, and I sure as hell know he ran as a Dixiecrat. Lott isn't retarded.

And Lott said the EXACT same thing at a rally in 1980. So this isn't an off-the-cuff remark, but something he believes, since he's been saying it for 22 years.

And once again, since Thurmond's campaign was dominated with the anti-segregation platform and that was his REASON for running, what ELSE could Lott mean when he says "we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either." He has yet to bother to clarify what he meant there.

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
He has yet to bother to clarify what he meant there.

Is it inconceivable that he was simply praising Strom's leadership abilities and speculating that he would have made a good president? Segregation was not the only policy of the Dixiecrat party, they were also strongly in favor of state's rights.

In the end, all you can do is make accusations based on speculation. You really have no idea whether Lott is a racist or not, so why assume the worst?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Caligastia
You really have no idea whether Lott is a racist or not, so why assume the worst?

He's Republican. It's an old stereotype of the party. That's why Byrd and company get the benefit of the doubt when they make comments like what Imran alluded to and Lott gets hammered.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Caligastia
Is it inconceivable that he was simply praising Strom's leadership abilities and speculating that he would have made a good president? Segregation was not the only policy of the Dixiecrat party, they were also strongly in favor of state's rights.

States rights for the purposes of MAINTAINING SEGREGATION. States' Rights was the mantra of slave-owners in the Civil War and racists during the civil rights movement.

the end, all you can do is make accusations based on speculation. You really have no idea whether Lott is a racist or not, so why assume the worst?

Speculation? First, we have is well-documented and unapologetic involvement with the CCofC, a wonderful organization that is almost as stridently racist as the KKK. At least Byrd has apologized for his involvement with the KKK and says it was a mistake. Throughout the 50s and 60s, Lott stood as an opponent of segregation and has been at the forefront of stalling civil rights legislation. And now we have the incidents (plural) of his praising the campaign (not the man, the campaign) of a Thurmond, who ran expressly to maintain the institutions of American apartheid. Yeah, just speculation.

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
States' Rights was the mantra of slave-owners in the Civil War and racists during the civil rights movement.

Damn 10th Amendment!

[Caligastia]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov Lott stood as an opponent of segregation

What's the problem then?

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Caligastia


What's the problem then?

Typo, typo, typo.

DE-segregation.