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Tue, 10 Dec 2002 03:40:00

Senate Majority leader Trent Lott calls Colin Powell a house slave

Well, by now everyone in the free world except for me has weighed in on Trent Lott and his ridiculous statement. I figured one more opinion couldn’t hurt…

Speaking Thursday at a 100th birthday party and retirement celebration for Sen. Thurmond (R-S.C.) in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, 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.”


Wow.  That’s a really dumb thing to say.  It’s a shitty thing to believe, but it’s REALLY dumb to say it out loud.

Do we really want someone like this as the Majority leader?  I’m not sure I even want this idiot in Congress, much less representing the Republican party to the world.  Is what he said specifically racist?  Maybe, maybe not.  I have the feeling he didn’t mean what it looks like on the face.  I *hope*, anyway, that he was referring to things other than Strom’s blatantly racist ways.

Thurmond, then governor of South Carolina, was the presidential nominee of the breakaway Dixiecrat Party in 1948. He carried Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and his home state. He declared during his campaign against Democrat Harry S. Truman, who supported civil rights legislation, and Republican Thomas Dewey: “All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches.”

On July 17, 1948, delegates from 13 southern states gathered in Birmingham to nominate Thurmond and adopt a platform that said in part, “We stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race.”


Even if it turns out Lott meant say, Thurmond’s economic policies, so what?  Lott has to know what Strom’s 1948 campaign was about.  *I* know what it was about, and my *father* wasn’t even alive in 1948.

So let’s use this opportunity to get rid of Lott as Majority leader.  He doesn’t represent me and the people I know who are conservative and/or Republican.  He has a history of connections to racism...OK, let’s just say it, he’s a white guy from Mississippi.  What are the odds that he’s NOT a racist?  Racial profiling works both ways.

Anyway, I also think he might be Satan.


Posted by JimK at 03:40 AM on December 10, 2002
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#1  Posted by Sean Galbraith United States on 12/10 at 01:55 PM -

C’mon… Can’t you leave Democrats with ONE issue?  Just one?  Man you Republicans are party poopers.

#2  Posted by JimK United States on 12/14 at 12:03 AM -

Hey, I want the guy gone.\r
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I’m at the point where I might vote Democrat in ‘04 if they promise me the head of John Ashcroft, Michael Moore and Trent Lott.  :)


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