Yes and he never mentioned segregation. If what is important is how others take what he said then Hoo Rah Political Correctness. Bow to Je$$e God Jack$on!
If he actually meant it the way it came out, he's an evil bastard and should not be the Majority Leader.
If he didn't mean it, then he's an [expletive deleted] fool and should not be the Majority Leader.
If? If? Let's can his career and lose the majority in the senate and give the racecard credibility on ...IF! If everyone knew he was such a fool before (and we did) then WHY didn't we demand a new ML a few weeks ago when the Senate voted on it? No! All you damn fools want to do it NOW! Now that the Dem's want it. Now that the Big Media wants it. It's a matter of not having the balls to sack him for being incompetent. This is letting the opposition call the shots.
To come to that conclusion requires you to take Lott's remarks grossly out of context, which is supposedly quite abhorrent. Lott spoke how proud Mississippi was to have voted for Thurmond in 1948, when he was running on an explicitly segregationist platform, and how the rest of the country should have done as Mississippi did.
Now, that's either endorsing segregation (assuming Lott has a minimal understanding of 20th-century American political history), or it's being a complete fool.