Lott is just so tactically retarded. He has 1 member of his staff of 65 who is black. Bragging to BET that he practices and believes in Affirmative Action is going to make his 1 guy feel swell.
So now conservatives are going to be ticked about Lott abandoning his position on AA, and liberal blacks are going to see through him. 1 black member on staff out of 65 in a state with 36% black people is not something to umm (Jim) Crow about Trent. Keep your mouth shut, or promise to do better. Instead, he hands out some free bullets.
I think Lott was trying to explain that if he hired strictly on merit, his staff would be all white. That is the only explanation that makes any sense given that he has one black employee.
Cultural Revolution: Red Guard Terror UNUECO'S CHINA GLOSSARY As a result of the humiliation he had suffered after the fiasco of the Great Leap Forward campaign, Mao sought a way to regain his former stature. He devised a scheme whereby all the ills that China was suffering at the time were blamed on "closet capitalists" who were hiding in government posts and within the CCP itself. In reality, the target for Mao's wrath were those he saw as his political enemies. Eventually, the campaign spread to include targeting members of the scientists and influential professors of universities who were accused of putting "technical expertise" ahead of "correct political thinking". Thus began the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Mao made his appeal directly to the people, enlisting grass roots support. He urged students turn against their teachers and laborers to turn against their managers. This, he claimed, was necessary to remove the last vestiges of the "bourgeoisie" from modern Chinese society. High school students were organized into what became known as the "Red Guard". Red Guard students had as their assigned task the job of insuring the political purity of what was being taught by the teachers of their school. The the result was chaos. Entire schools were closed by units of Red Guard students flush with their new found power. Soon, the movement spread from the classroom out onto the streets. Red Guard factions became little more than roving gangs, looting shops whose owners supposedly had not conformed to "proper Maoist doctrine". Entire universities were shut down and the professors paraded in through the streets as examples of "wrong-headed intellectuals". In some villages, even the wearing of eyeglasses could get one branded as an "intellectual" which was equivalent to being called "bourgeois anti-communist", a grave sin. The Cultural Revolution had a disastrous effect on the educational systems and the scientific community within China; an effect that it was felt well into the late 80's. Those people in China who were between the ages of 15 to 25 during the period of the revolution are now referred to as the "lost generation". This is because they are the ones who lost out: losing the chance for an an education, loosing the chance for a normal youth.
Just change some of the entities in this story and you have America today. We are dealing with our own "lost generation"....the liberal elites who destroy anyone who dares to disagree with them. Mark my word. It won't stop now.