Sen Trent Lott to Address Black Americans - RERUN at 11:30 EST (Comments welcomed)

Black Entertainment Television ^ | December 16, 2002 | Ed Gordon

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Poised to make his case tonight in a Special Prime Time Interview with Ed Gordon on Black Entertainment Cable Television [8PM EST]..

Trent Lott (R-MS) is now facing more calls to replace him as Senate Majority Leaderfrom top republicans

[don-o]

Yeah, this is all Dubya's fault.

I am sure that the President is a very busy man.

And, I am also sure that he is in thrall of the polls. If he had even a bit of principle, he would have used his political capital to assure control of the Senate. Would have laid it out...the blatant hypocrisy that this incident reeks of.

But, Nooooooo

He panders to the PC crap. It turns my stomach

[I_dmc]

Anyone who interpreted Lott's comments at the party to be racist, is themselves a racist. Period.

from BET.com, Leah Y. Latimer:

"All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches."  Strom Thurmond, 1948. 

"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years." Trent Lott, 2002

  © St. Petersburg Times, published March 4, 2001

Editor: I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Doris Kovalick for calling me a "DixieCrat." The definition of a DixieCrat is a Southern Conservative Democrat. Which means that I am not a bleeding-heart liberal. Yes, thank you for putting me in the company of great leaders like President Harry Truman, Majority Leader Sam Rayburn and Gov. Lawton Chiles.

It is important to note that the first name of the party was States Rights Party, which quickly became Dixiecrat, partly in response to the decreasing political power of Southern conservatives in the Democrat Party.

Perhaps this is a case of any statement in public that can be interpreted as racist, is, by many who seek to keep the issue alive.

And, perhaps it is not.  If I could send in a question (interview is already taped) for Sen. Lott, I believe I would ask, "Would you identify exactly what problems you feel we would not have had, if Strom Thurmond had been elected President in 1948"?

Oddly enough, that is the first question asked.

[Aaron0617]

I thought this was an hour AND where's the audience?

Where is Maxine Walters?

[MadIvan]

Did you just steal the tape?

Just an educated guess.

Regards, Ivan

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[marshmallow]

This is pitiful. He's now groveling. The more he grovels the more the blows will rain down on him from the PC Gestapo. Like a bully, once they sense submissive or obsequeous behavior they wade in for the kill.

How mant apologies must one make? If one makes an apology and it isn't accepted, will more apologies do the trick? Of course not.

Lott now looks like a condemned man kneeling before the executioner, pleading for his life. Even if he is spared, the memory of him begging for mercy will live on and render him useless. It should never have gone this far. Either quit or stay, apolgize and tough it out.

[steveegg]

A damn good one.

Lott stammered through the first question ("Just what did you mean by that remark?") badly.

[ctonious]

Somebody ought to post a running cash register as Lott throws out buckets of our money as fast as he can, to bail out his sinking SML position.

[Aaron0617]

Thats it? The only commercial is the George Foreman Grill?

How are those things?

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[Jorge]

....he's name dropping as to who he's talk to (must be all black)

Unreal...now this guy is trying to get him to name all the racists he's known. LOL

[MadIvan]

Lott stammered through the first question ("Just what did you mean by that remark?") badly.

God is finally catching up with Senator Lott. He was stupid during impeachment, now his own stupidity is hanging him.

Regards, Ivan

[Aaron0617]

SHARECROPPER!!!!

Who called it?

[EternalVigilance]

What you said! (In post #128)

[scannell]

Here we go, Trent makes a dumb comment and all of a sudden we must re-consider our national situation. I'd rather that he would just apologize and leave. We don't need him running around the country in Selma and elsewhere making what will seem like pennance for the Republicans when the pennance is due the likes of Byrd, Hollings and yes Bill and Hill with their liberal use of the N word and the Jew B. word, etc.

[OReilly]

Did others notice the tape editing?

[FryingPan101]

"Apparently they handled Lott quite roughly"

I'm sorry to hear that. I always wanted Lott to leave but not for this.

[Austin Willard Wright]

Why not edit a man who wears a kick me sign?

[rs79bm]

I'm watching this right now. Instead of being honest and forthright, he's basically just trying to cover his a$$. He's harming himself as we speak. He just said: "I've made mistakes, and I'm sure I'll make more".

Well, what are people going to think of that? He's going to make more mistakes in this regard? Good grief.

[ctonious]

Yep - a momentary glitch - but I don't know how significant that was. Maybe Trottsky used a four-letter word.