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Sen Trent Lott to Address Black Americans - RERUN at 11:30 EST (Comments welcomed)
Black Entertainment Television ^ | December 16, 2002 | Ed Gordon

Posted on 12/16/2002 3:52:58 PM PST by ewing

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: alottawastedspace; answerswerelame; apologizealott; aquanet; bet; cheerleader; edgordon; shellac; showtime; toast
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To: MadIvan
Another shoe is about to drop. Lott has attended two fund raisers, for a local all white school, that was created so the dear children wouldn't have to go to school with blacks.

The school in question is to this day still totally all white. Lott can change his entire position on affirmative action in one week, all he wants, more is coming out.

301 posted on 12/16/2002 5:44:58 PM PST by dogbyte12
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To: dogbyte12
Trent Lott has already been sending pork back to Mississippi to help EVERYONE not just whites, blacks, reds, blues and greens. That's what politicians do. DUH! He has helped bring jobs, a new highway through the Mississippi and Arkansas Delta area where they NEED them. It is a very poor area and he's trying to help them.

There is nothing that he can do to please some of you because on this thread alone most of you have been more racist than he has ever been. Hypocrites!

302 posted on 12/16/2002 5:45:10 PM PST by kcvl
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To: roses of sharon
He doesn't have to resign from the Senate or even from ML. Just hold a new vote (a vote for confidence) for ML as Nickles has suggested. Why would Lott oppose such a vote? If he won it, he would be in a stronger position.
303 posted on 12/16/2002 5:45:14 PM PST by Austin Willard Wright
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To: Austin Willard Wright
the problem is that Lott *can't* play hardball,

once more

I say that it is not about Lott. It is about a spineless bunch of girly men - a.k.a. the Republican Party, who shrink from a fight.

Jessee Jackson apologized for Hymietown, and all was forgiven.

Why is this Lott thing still a story"

Answer: Because the pubbies are willing to "assume the position."

Bend over and grease up.

304 posted on 12/16/2002 5:46:15 PM PST by don-o
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To: Austin Willard Wright
Lott can stay BUT he cannot be SML...that's the issue now...
305 posted on 12/16/2002 5:46:38 PM PST by GRRRRR
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To: AGreatPer
Yes, affirmative action based on race comes mostly from condescension and pity. It's insulting.

However, I am all for scholarships and entry-level jobs open to help kids of lesser means (of all kinds) get a leg up.

306 posted on 12/16/2002 5:46:38 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Austin Willard Wright
Lott can stay BUT he cannot be SML...that's the issue now...
307 posted on 12/16/2002 5:46:38 PM PST by GRRRRR
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To: rs79bm
At 8:35pm EST, Meeks stated in regards to Lott, "WE WILL NOT TOLERATE THOSE KINDS OF THOUGHTS."

*&^*&@%#@#*&@#^(*@(%#

308 posted on 12/16/2002 5:46:47 PM PST by jigsaw
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To: TLBSHOW
Are you people aged any over 10? This thread is disgusting.

Is that the best you can manage? Hmm, I suppose it is.

309 posted on 12/16/2002 5:47:05 PM PST by Dan Day
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To: dogbyte12
He is actively trying to bribe blacks into letting him stay, still believing he is a racist, but allowing him to shower them with goodies to overlook their thoughts about him. Truly disgusting

You should get a hold of your bad self. Blacks are not a monolith that can be bribed en masse.

It would be quite easy to infer from this satement that you are a.......

But I won't.

311 posted on 12/16/2002 5:47:23 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: don-o
We agree about this. There are plenty of girly men in the GOP and the Lott is probably the girliest of them all! He has got to go for this reason primarily. He can't help himself.
312 posted on 12/16/2002 5:47:35 PM PST by Austin Willard Wright
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To: dogbyte12
The school in question is to this day still totally all white. Lott can change his entire position on affirmative action in one week, all he wants, more is coming out.

My concern is not that he is changing his position, but is he involving the rest of the party in it - saying that he is going to work for the party as a whole to change its position. If he does that, then any removal of him from office can be painted as evidence of racism in the Republican Party.

He may not be that clever however.

Regards, Ivan

313 posted on 12/16/2002 5:47:51 PM PST by MadIvan
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To: marshmallow
re: This is pitiful.

It would have been nice for Sen Lott to point out the the voting record the interviewer is attacking is relfective of the Republican agenda. Basically, it boils down to this: They're using race to attack the Republican agenda (reflective of those who pay the bills) and to promote their own agenda (more money from "Washington", ergo, from the people that pay the bills).

314 posted on 12/16/2002 5:48:05 PM PST by I_dmc
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To: kcvl
Trent Lott has already been sending pork back to Mississippi to help EVERYONE not just whites, blacks, reds, blues and greens.

Wrong. It hurts me when wasteful uneccessary products get transferred from my bank account to Mississippi, just because Lott has clout. Pork is not conservative. It is a throw back to the machine politics of the democrats, which Lott grew up with of course.

Lott is now going to throw pork around, support affirmative action, and it is only for his job, not for any deep rooted philosophical principle.

315 posted on 12/16/2002 5:48:14 PM PST by dogbyte12
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To: TLBSHOW
"This thread is disgusting"

This is an adult thread, not your normal banter. If you can't handle grown up conversation I suggest you go back to your normal channel.

It is NOT a disgusting thread. I haven't seen anything dirogertory said against blacks. It is just good discussion.

316 posted on 12/16/2002 5:48:16 PM PST by AGreatPer
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To: jwalsh07
I'm always right jwalsh, you know that ;o)

Lot followed his statement that he would reconsider Pickering with a rather bland defense of Pickering as a good man, he knows his heart, etc. All anyone will hear is that he will reconsider Pickering. Just like all people heard was "if we had we wouldn't have had all these problems all these years". The man has a tin ear.

317 posted on 12/16/2002 5:48:18 PM PST by McGavin999
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To: jwalsh07
They can't seem to keep their stories straight but what's new? They are acting like a bunch of teenagers bitching about having to do their homework.

Notice all the racist wording of their replies. Making fun of people seems to be a favorite past time. Nothing anyone could do would please them. Like I said...a bunch of HYPOCRITES!

Did you notice that one little post about all the "deep south" people? No different from what Trent Lott did. ONLY A LITTLE WORSE because she actually SAID IT.

318 posted on 12/16/2002 5:49:01 PM PST by kcvl
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To: mrsmith
I couldn't see it. I would enjoy some commentary from somebody other than the anti-Lottites however for some semblance of objectivity.

Highlights?

319 posted on 12/16/2002 5:49:08 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Torie
Remember when Bush was on the campaign trail, he rarely mentioned Lott in the same breath as retaining control of the Senate.

Lott will be allowed to twist. Most on this forum understand that there was no way Lott was going to make this go away. Bush will not get his hands dirty saving Lott's behind. By the end of the week, the story will be how Lott has lost his "moral authority" to lead.

Good rid. It's of no use to tell Trent to not let the door knob hit him on the way out. He probably enjoys it.

320 posted on 12/16/2002 5:49:11 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter
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