Black Democrat Forgiveness for sale...The Phony Otrage over Trent Lott's Statements

The SunHeareld ^ | 12 December 2002 | Trueblackman

[Trueblackman]

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Posted on Wed, Dec. 11, 2002

Lott urged to apologize to Senate, resign By BEN BRYANT THE SUN HERALD

Criticism from all quarters continued to hit Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott on Tuesday, one day after the Pascagoula Republican issued an apology for praising Sen. Strom Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign.

Some said he should apologize in a speech for saying the nation would be better off had Thurmond, then a fervent segregationist, won the presidency. Others called on Lott to resign as majority leader.

"It's politics, and anything is possible, but it's certainly not probable" that Lott would resign as majority leader, said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia who saw Lott's televised remarks from Thurmond's 100th birthday party.

Calling the senator's statement "a major, major mistake," Sabato said Lott might have to deliver a "heartfelt, personal mea culpa" on the Senate floor to quell critics who are calling him racially insensitive.

"This story isn't going to go away unless he does that," Sabato said.

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, for instance, said Lott's first apology didn't go far enough. Kweisi Mfume, the president of the NAACP, called on Lott to resign.

Lee Youngblood, a spokesman for Lott, declined to comment, referring a reporter to a statement Lott issued late Monday: "A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embraced the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by the statement."

At Thurmond's party last week, Lott said Mississippi was proud to have cast its electoral votes for Thurmond when he ran for president as a segregationist "Dixiecrat" in 1948. "And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either," Lott said.

Lott expressed a nearly identical sentiment two decades ago, the New York Times reported.

After a fiery speech by Thurmond at a Mississippi campaign rally for Ronald Reagan in November 1980, 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."

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said Lott could make up for his statement by opening the door to legislation favored by the Black Caucus, pushing for a minimum wage increase, expanded affordable housing and a prescription drug benefit.

[Trueblackman]

Bennie Thompson has let the cat out the bag. If Trent caves to the CBC then all this will simply go away. Media driven outrage at the cost of the Republican Majority.

[ElectricStrawberry]

Kweisi Mfume, the president of the NAACP, called on Lott to resign.

and I'm sure that Mr. Mfume doesn't say overtly negative things about the white man in HIS speeches.

Dems are just gonna use this to label ALL Republicans as racists so they can get Kerry into the big house.

[ex-Texan]

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Lott is the Major Contributing Cause of All this Nonsense

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[Howlin]

I wonder what Mr. Mfume had to say about all those nasty remarks that Julian Bond made about Bush at the NAACP convention.

[mrsmith]

"let the cat out the bag"

Well, partly.
What the black Democrat caucus most wants is for the Republicans not to replace the Democrat black patronage programs with Republican black patronage programs.
Those programs are their power.

[concerned about politics]

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said Lott could make up for his statement by opening the door to legislation favored by the Black Caucus, pushing for a minimum wage increase, expanded affordable housing and a prescription drug benefit.

Blackmail. "Anti-Constitutional legislation or we'll destroy you."
They want Lott, if the Supreme Court denies Affermative Action, to bring it to congress and make it law anyway as well.
Considering the democrat history of preserving slavery in this country, they sure have a lot of room to talk about race issues.
BTW, what has KKK Byrd said about this,anyway?
The wisest thing the Republicans can do is to drop this non-subject. By even discussing it, we're keeping the issue alive. Heck, the democrats already have the black vote tied up anyway, so what does it matter?
Lott apologized numerous times. That's more than most democrats do when they use racism. They're simply blatant about it, and give themselves a free pass!
Honestly. Most Americans are smarter than this. They know a political scam when they see it. Ignore this,because nobody even cares but the extreme democrats.

[uncbob]

Of course it is Phony and of course Lott wasn't referring to segregation but the fact remains he is a complete DOLT

Wonder how he likes it now that his friend Tommy Daschle is all over him for it

[Trueblackman]

Can any of you freepers post that link to the DSA

[BMC1]

U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., said Lott could make up for his statement by opening the door to legislation favored by the Black Caucus, pushing for a minimum wage increase, expanded affordable housing and a prescription drug benefit.


What this amounts to is Jesse Jackson type blackmail. It's also socialist democrat policy of personal destruction on those who don't agree with their policies.

Let's not forget, the democrats were the party of slavery and blacks today have been convinced their only help comes from the socialist democrats. They haven't figured out that self-reliance is more beneficial than waiting for government handouts.

I for one am tired of blacks calling us racists because we don’t grovel at their feet. I have heard far more racist comments coming from the black community than I have from the white community and it’s coming more from the blacks who can’t let go of the past and work to make this country better for ALL PEOPLE, not the g’me crowd.

I personally would like Lott to step down, but not because of his comments. What he said was wrong but he has apologized. SO MUCH FOR FORGIVENESS. I guess forgiveness is only given to the criminals in the socialist democrat party.

[Delphinium]

The wisest thing the Republicans can do is to drop this non-subject

I agree. This is ridicules; it could happen to any of them. They are playing right into the black socialists hands. If Trent falls for it, it means we need a stronger, bolder leader who won't cower to this kind of thing.

[kcvl]

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[kcvl]

Progressives and their institutions must organize themselves to bring even more public pressure to bear on Congress immediately.

History also tells us that Bush should be a one-term president. All previous presidents who won the office while losing the popular vote have lost the next election.

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National Director
Democratic Socialists of America

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

When you think about it;

1. How fast would Emfume bounce Lott...
2. How much legislation would Thompson require Lott to make-up for...
3. How many more apologies would Congressional Black Caucus members consider necessary...

If Lott did a Jim Jeffords?

[kcvl]

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[stand watie]

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[Republican_Strategist]

The Lott Problem & A Solution

[panther33]

I'm tired of this crap about Lott. Too many people are twisting his words around and making him out to be a racist white boy.

Bullsh-t. Everybody knows what he was referring to with Thurmond's 1948 campaign, and it wasn't segregation. While I realize that he has to at least soothe some people, if I were him I wouldn't have even apologized for my remarks. I would have explained them instead. If that isn't good enough, then I wouldn't want your vote anyway.

Lott should remain Senate Majority Leader!

[No dems 2002]

What bothers me the most about this whole thing is the motive behind the attacks on Senator Lott.

To be frank, I'm not wild about Trent Lott, but I think that the CBC and the democrats in general are guilty of massive hypocrisy in all this. Most of the same people who are hounding Lott very quickly accepted the apology of Senator Byrd a year or 2 ago when he used the word "nigger" to describe people. That sounds a whole lot more offensive to me than anything Lott said. Byrd's history is far more sensational than Lott's, considering that Byrd belonged to the KKK.

If conservatives cave to this it will be a sad day in America. Lott may not be a great guy, but he shouldn't have to go for this. If the GOP tapdances to the CBC's "racist" tune, what does the GOP stand for? Truth is, I expect that MANY white southerners (who knows, maybe even some blacks?), not just in Mississippi, are offended to the extent the liberals are hounding Lott about this.

This shows that the democrats are keeping up with their racial hysteria as the centrepiece of their crumbling party.

If Trent Lott shouldn't be the SML anymore, it should come for a different reason, because this is a shameful thing the way it's been handled.