Trent Lott, a republican from mississippi who is the incoming majority leader in the senate, has recetnly been labeled a racist. At the birthday party for outgoing senator Strom Thurmond, he made the comment saying of mississippi's voting for strom, “If the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn’t have had all these problems over all these years, either.”. Thurmond ran for president in 1948 on a states’ rights, segregationist platform and carried four states, losing the election to President Harry Truman.
Lott has repeatedly apologized for that comment and said he did not intend to endorse segregation.
First off, Strom Thurmond is the shit. This guy is 100 years old and still in the senate. By far the oldest senator ever. You talk about a guy standing up for his beliefs, he voted for segregation up into the 70's. One time, he held the floor of the senate for 24 straight hours. On a side note, his wife is about 50 years younger than him. But enough about strom.
I personally find all of this hilarious. Politicians say dumb shit all the time (see the thread on Dubya in reviews...) They give speeches so much, they're bound to say something dumb once in a while. What he said though, isn't even that bad. All he was doing was throwing in his support for good ol' half dead strom thurmond. In all honestly, strom is the one they should be on, i'm betting he still has slaves!
In short, American politics should be more like British politics. They fuckin' scream and yell at each other all the time, campaigns are short, and they aren't a bunch of fairy pussies...
But what do you think? Is Lott a racist? Does it even matter?
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