[jwalsh07]

I couldn't watch this farce but I would like to address affirmative action and it's original meaning. By that I mean I have no problem with the government reaching out to the needy by advertising for jobs in the local newspapers or whatnot.

As soon as you move into quotas and preferences based on height, weight, skin color or accent, you lose me.

[Austin Willard Wright]

I agree that affirmative action in this limited sense is not a bad thing. I don't think that Lott understands such nuances, however.

[AGreatPer]

I like what Rush Limbaugh said today. "Affirmative action is a slap in the fact to the blacks. It says from the white community, I will help you because you ain't good enough"

[Torie]

Yes of course. The original meaning of AA has long been dead, and that is not the way the word is used in commerce. It is a euphemism for quotas, sometimes by complex structures to hide that, as you well know. But when the conservatives in the Senate revolt, Lott can say he meant the former meaning, and then BET says Lott lied to them, and then Lott says well he didn't mean too, and maybe he would favor the new meaning if that was the only way to prevent it all being whiter and white, and well it just goes on and on. Poor Lott, he is sort of like ClLinton now, but about 30 IQ points short, and simply can't pull this sort of thing off. It is sort of like Paul McCartny trying to write an opera (whidh he in fact tried) rather than rocks songs.