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Another smear job, GSC?

Hey Sarah, what about "Sheets" Byrd??

***After all, if Noonan and friends are really "tired of being embarrassed" by this kind of racial insensitivity, they can't just start yelling once the news hits the stands.***

The New Republic, huh? Fair and balanced - NOT!

Same goes for your bunch too, Ms. Wildman! If you must dig, dig, dig, then why don't you do some snooping in Arkansas for starters, say around 1988? Keyword: Clinton.

And since you are giving a history lesson, taking us back to a 1959 paper written by Charles Pickering, why not do some sniffing in West Virginia around, say, that same year? Keyword: Robert Byrd.

Guess if you vote like a liberal, do what the NAACP mandates and bow to Hillary, you can avoid being labeled 'racially insensitive' by the likes of you.

By the way, Ms. Wildman (what a vision that conjures up), Senator Sessions was just re-elected. I'm sure he appreciates your efforts on his behalf, but I'm afraid he will not need your support again for another six years. sarcasm/

Senator Sessions supports issuing vouchers to Black schoolchildren so that they can attend elite White private schools. That's hardly anti-Black or racist.

Senator Sessions also supports privatizing Social Security. By privatizing part or all of Social Security, something wonderful happens; beneficiaries can pass down to their heirs the "privatized" part of their federal retirement.

But without privatizing Social Security, no one can pass any of their benefits along to their heirs. This is because Social Security payouts END when the beneficiary dies. However, the PRIVATIZED part of Social Security (i.e. the stocks and/or bonds in your account) CAN be passed to your heirs.

And since the retirement age for GETTING social security is AFTER the average date that Black males die off at, this means that Senator Sessions is championing a way for Blacks to actually get back part of the Social Security payments that they have been having withheld from their paychecks during their entire working careers.

That's hardly a racist or anti-Black or "segregationist" position for the good Senator to take, either.

But tellingly, the New Republic in general, and the author of this article in particular, are AGAINST both of those pro-Black positions.

So tell me, who is the REAL RACIST?!

So when's Hillary Bitchgate leaving???

Sessions sounds like my kind of man!

White, conservative Christian! What else could a man want?

Armstrong Williams is, also, my kind of man! Black, conservative Christian.

Race don't make a damned but political persuasion do! No leftists for me, regardless of race!

His voting record in the Senate has earned him consistent "F"s from the NAACP.

Has any Republican ever gotten anything but an "F" from the NAACP?

I can't speak for Jeff Sessions' actions or words. I don't recall any reports of them at the time. But I can speak from experience as a resident (1985-93) of Alabama's so-called "black belt". The area is named for the soil type, by the way, not the skin color of its inhabitants. It is located in the area west of Montgomery, toward the Mississippi line.

I lived in a rural community in the "black belt". An integrated rural community, I should specify.

And was there black voting fraud in the area? You bet. Massively so. For the most part, undertaken by one black candidate against other black candidates. One black candidate in particular -- who is still prominent in the state legislature.

It wasn't much of a secret. So, as a federal judge, Sessions didn't have to dig very deep to find it. If there were "fourteen allegedly tampered ballots", he could readily have found fourteen hundred more.

"He further admitted to calling the Voting Rights Act of 1965 a "piece of intrusive legislation," a phrase he stood behind even in his confirmation hearings."

And, in the way in which it is administered, it damn sure is intrusive. There are federal officials from the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ overseeing every election that takes place in the affected states (and only the affected states). No matter how minor.

In order to hold a city council election in our small town (pop. 219), we had to jump through hoops every four years. In a town with about eighty voters, we were actually told to change from "at large" to "single member district" representation -- so as to ensure the election of at least one black to the city council (the town was split 172 white- 47 black, 79/21%).

But there was no way to draw districts that insured a so-called majority-minority district -- the blacks were scattered through every quadrant of the town.

When we finally got agreement to continue the election on an at-large basis, it was privately decided that one of the three existing members would choose not to run. And we asked Clovis, one of the blacks, to run for a seat. He agreed -- so long as he didn't have any other responsibilities beyond casting a vote (he had a business to run, the other two members were retired gentlemen). And we got another white, Bobby, to also run for a seat -- so the election would appear to be contested.

And, then, we instructed everybody in town, black and white, about what we were doing and why. And who to vote for -- so that it would look like a contested election, and insure that Bobby came in 4th.

It went off without a hitch. And the DOJ representative was sent back to Montgomery satisfied. But what a lot of work (and expense) to no purpose.

And the frustrating thing about it was that we had to go through this tedious experience in Alabama knowing that people in New Hampshire were exempt from it...