I take it you're for Affirmative Action "across the board?"
Posted on 12/18/2002 8:46:50 PM PST by clintonbaiter
Which brings us -- believe it or not -- to the subject of Senator Trent "I Put My Foot In My Mouth Again" Lott. The notorious 'Thee-Stooges-In-One' Senator decided to use the occasion of Senator Strom Thurmond's hundredth birthday to condemn Americans for not having the wisdom to elect this once-stalwart Southern racist as President when the dedicated Dixiecrat-Democrat ran for president on an independent ticket dedicated to preserving racial segregation and rolling back the civil-rights reforms of Republicans and fellow Democrat Hubert Humphrey. If only Americans had voted for Strom in 1948, Senator Lott seemed to be saying, all those wonderful Southern traditions of Jim Crow laws, lynchings and crossburnings would have been preserved and still be a vibrant part of contemporary American culture.
Why if only good old Strom had had his way, Senator Big Mouth seemed to be saying, Jackie Robinson wouldn't have integrated Major League baseball, Michael Jordan could have actualized his inner "negro" working on a plantation and eating watermelon, and Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice might have known their place, happily working in the service industries as a railway porter and hotel cleaning woman respectively.
Actually, it doesn't really matter what Trent Lott meant by his ill-chosen remarks anymore. The fact is that he opened his big mouth and fell into the "evil racist stereotype" trap. They -- the likes of the New York Times, Washington Post, NAACP, NOW, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Nancy Pelosi, Tom Daschle and the rest of the liberal establishment -- have got poor Trent on the ropes. No matter how many times the good Senator apologizes or denies he's a racist, he knows he's still political dead meat unless he does something to appease his ever-vocal critics.
You can see it in poor Trent's eyes as he appears on various TV talk shows in his desperate effort to secure "forgiveness." Like the proverbial deer caught in the car headlights, Trent Lott appears terrified of the liberal mob. And he's increasingly giving off signals that he will do anything to avoid a symbolic lynching at their hands.
"I'm a changed man," he says. "I'm for affirmative action," he grovels. And as his voice trails off, we can just barely hear the ultimate words of frightened capitulation: "If I am allowed to remain Senate Majority Leader, there are so many things we can do to eliminate racism in America..."
In other words, "Tell me what you want me to do, and I'll do it, if you'll only get off my back!." And already his tormenters are responding, slowly upping the ante on what kinds of political acts would signify Trent Lott's "authentic" redemption and rehabilitation.
Yes, that's right folks. We're talking about Trent lending his support to the usual left-liberal social-engineering shibboleths about eliminating systemic racism in America -- and the usual left-liberal social remedies: more racial quotas in education, more "progressive" interventionists in the judiciary, more government-subsidized health care, an increased minimum wage, and more government social programs for the racially disadvantaged......
(Excerpt) Read more at intellectualconservative.com ...
Why if only good old Strom had had his way, Senator Big Mouth seemed to be saying, Jackie Robinson wouldn't have integrated Major League baseball, Michael Jordan could have actualized his inner "negro" working on a plantation and eating watermelon, and Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice might have known their place, happily working in the service industries as a railway porter and hotel cleaning woman respectively.
This is just not "intellectual" writing, IMHO, nor does it reflect "conservative" thinking (or thinking of any other ilk, for that matter)...
No offense intended to you, cb, of course...!
I take it you're for Affirmative Action "across the board?"
Getting tired? Ony one capped word as a ubstitute for substance on that post.
Grima Wormtongue was banished from the court and the kingdom.
Seems he'd filling the old man's ears with some bad nonsense.
I bet that YOU are getting tired and worried , becuase secretly, you know that you are whistling in the dark, dear. :-)
I'll put my political knowledge / savvy / understanding against your's, any day of the week and win, dear. :-)
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