I said sometime back that I saw one of the principle reasons for this sudden attack on Lott as a racist, if the misconception of many (particular northerner's) that all Southerners are inherently racist.
I am what they call a damn yankee. I have lived in the south for the majority of my 52 years, and I had to overcome the misconceptions taught to me in northern schools and society. Therefore, I can still view both sides of this issue and what I tell you is absolutely true!
Prejudice is and never has been confined to the south. Many northerners believe that the civil war was fought over slavery as the primary issue. A silly thought, but so prevalent!
Do you think for a minute that thousands of poor whites went into battle to protect the interests of a few white slave-owners? Hell NO!
They fought for the freedom to decide what was best for them and not to be bullied by a central government that refused to see their issues and their needs.
Lott is not in any way racist! He grew up in the south with the same issues all Southerners have. That is the unfair federal power over the southern states in the form of forced this and that in order to satisfy the yankee carpet baggers. They still are sensitive to this issue, but we as southerners grew and got past the slavery issue a hundred years ago.
It is the Northerner and the liberal, it is the Jesse jackson's and the Congressional Black Caucus socialists that continue to keep this issue alive and beat southerners over the head with it each and every day.
We have had enough!
If Jessie or Al Sharpton were to quit race baiting and feeding the racial divide , they'd be out of a job.
In order for them to make a living, they need racism to survive.