It's time to end this dog and pony show.
Bush won't do that. He sees that Lott will weather the worst the race pimps can throw at the GOP.
Oh I disagree! The more times a Republican can talk directly to black people without the filter of the media, black or white, it is a good thing.
I like the idea of him talking about how he changed with the South. So many people, not hating black people, but just accepting the situation as it was because they had never known anything else, changed greatly in the 60s. These people became much more tolerant of blacks than folks in other parts of the country; witness the riots in South Boston when bussing first arrived there! One reason was that many white people had known and loved some black people as they were coming up, so acceptance was easy. Those black people who witnessed these changes will understand, and if they have open hearts will accept his words.
Of course there were some low class whites who needed someone on whom they could look down who continued the overt, ugly racism. The majority of whites did NOT, and I count Trent, Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and other well known Southern Republicans in that number. I read the other day that Strom Thurmond was the FIRST Senator to hire a black person in his Congressional offices. Where were those oh so diverse Democrats then?
I had read years ago that James Meredith, the man who had to have the help of the Mississippi National Guard to attend Ole Miss, later worked as a staffer on Capitol Hill. Was he in the office of one of those well known Democrats who always puts down the Republicans as racist hatemongerers? Nope!
He worked in JESSE HELM'S office!!!