Here's the quote: "I'm for that," Lott said when asked by Gordon again. "I'm for affirmative action and I've practiced it. I've had African Americans on my staff and other minorities, but particularly African Americans, since the mid-1970s."
Isn't Bush for it as well?
Bush Backs Race-Based Program Justice Dept. urges the Supreme Court to uphold affirmative action for contractors
ÊBy ERIC LICHTBLAU, Times Staff Writer
August 11, 2001
WASHINGTON -- In the most closely watched affirmative action case in recent years, the Bush administration on Friday defended a federal program that uses race as a factor to create a "level playing field" in doling out billions of dollars in government contracts. The Justice Department's position, coming in a case that the U.S. Supreme Court will hear in the fall, marked a departure from President Bush's past opposition to government racial preferences.
http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/docs/litchblau.html