Author Topic: Trent Lott?? (Read 2075 times)

Krusher · « **Reply #45 on:** December 13, 2002, 07:09:41 AM »

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Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Who was it who referred to NYC as Himeytown?

Naw, that wasn't a blatantly racist remark....

Almost as good as Al Sharpton screaming about whiteboys taking over the neighborhood.

Eagler · « **Reply #46 on:** December 13, 2002, 07:37:43 AM »

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Originally posted by StSanta
Eagler, I'd say getting a blowjob is less morally offensive than supporting lynching.

It's beside the point though. Clinton has nothing to do with this issue. You gotta recognize that Lott has screwed up, right? And that most conservatives writing editorials agree that he isn't very good as his job, either. And that he has done damage to the GOP.

So why not replace him? Not impeach him, but replace him.

Actions are FAR worse than words
A few sentences at a birthday party are not as serious an issue as the prez commiting adultery in the Oval office with an employee IMO.
Yep, I think the Reps could have a much better leader than Lott - so do many Reps - the reason some of them are jumping on this remove lott bandwagon. But his stupid statement should not be reason enough to remove him if prior leaders didn't step down for far worse "slips" in judgement

midnight Target · « **Reply #47 on:** December 13, 2002, 09:57:50 AM »

Buncha children!

"Yea but so and so did something just as baaad!"

sheesh.

Lott said something incredibly stupid. That is all.

Kieran · « **Reply #48 on:** December 13, 2002, 10:04:20 AM »

MT-

I'm simply sick to death of the race card being played. If it's ok for one side to be racist, it should be ok for the other. Agreed?

Don't even try to argue the left isn't full of racists, because it most certainly is.

Rude · « **Reply #49 on:** December 13, 2002, 10:08:18 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Buncha children!

"Yea but so and so did something just as baaad!"

sheesh.

Lott said something incredibly stupid. That is all.

Agreed.

midnight Target · « **Reply #50 on:** December 13, 2002, 10:39:03 AM »

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Originally posted by Kieran
MT-

I'm simply sick to death of the race card being played. If it's ok for one side to be racist, it should be ok for the other. Agreed?

Don't even try to argue the left isn't full of racists, because it most certainly is.

The "Race Card" seems to be the new euphamism for anything the left mentions about racism on the right, but is rarely used as a euphamism for the opposite.

Racism exists in all shapes and sizes and political affiliations. It is always wrong.

Just hard for me to hear about the poor oppressed white men of America and keep a straight face.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #51 on:** December 13, 2002, 10:43:32 AM »

I missed the news this week due to "crashing" for a G.W.U. class exam. Anyone care to catch me up? I'm going to assume that something (a joke?)in this PC world was taken exception too, and that joke was meant to be between two individuals.

H. Godwineson · « **Reply #52 on:** December 13, 2002, 10:44:28 AM »

Lott's remarks were made at a birthday party. If you're asked to say a few words about the "birthday boy" you're supposed to say stupid, vapid things about him. It's in the rules. If you don't, you don't get any cake.

Much has been said about Lott's remarks containing thinly veiled references to racism. Lott said, "I tell ya...if Strom Thurmond had been elected president the country would be a lot better off today..."! I still maintain that this is a perfectly innocuous statement that one hears at almost any birthday party. What was he supposed to say? Can't you see Lott standing up and telling the audience..."Well Strom here once ran for president on a racist platform...more than forty years ago. And even though the voters have seen fit to reelect him time and again to Congress over the last several decades I still think he's secretly a Klansman who keeps his sheet hidden in the closet. Strom has convinced many people that he's changed since that day, but I don't buy that for an instant. I don't know why we're here honoring this man."

That would have gone over really well, wouldn't it?

Shuckins

midnight Target · « **Reply #53 on:** December 13, 2002, 10:59:30 AM »

Or maybe he really feels that way, and the alcohol just let his true feelings flow.....

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Senate Republican leader Trent Lott tried to help Bob Jones University keep its federal tax-exempt status despite the school's policy prohibiting interracial dating two decades before his recent comments stirred a race controversy.

"Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy," Lott, then a congressman from Mississippi, wrote in a 1981 friend of the court brief that unsuccessfully urged the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the Internal Revenue Service from stripping the university's tax exemption.

hmmmmm?

popeye · « **Reply #54 on:** December 13, 2002, 11:06:26 AM »

Lott is a politician, and has to play according to the rules of his game -- even at birthday parties.

Kieran · « **Reply #55 on:** December 13, 2002, 11:34:02 AM »

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Just hard for me to hear about the poor oppressed white men of America and keep a straight face.

Funny, replace "white" with "black" and it makes no difference to me.

midnight Target · « **Reply #56 on:** December 13, 2002, 11:38:53 AM »

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Originally posted by Kieran
Funny, replace "white" with "black" and it makes no difference to me.

naw.... this can't be real.

lord dolf vader · « **Reply #57 on:** December 13, 2002, 11:44:14 AM »

The man is a racist, he has done this toejam twice. doesn't matter where in public a public servant makes his public comments about being pro racist ( even in a sort of diguised way, the main party line at the time was racism/segregation (if you know souther history at the time then you know that is what he was referring to ) i am from the south and the old jedi mind trick that there is a non racist (strict definition :believes races are different and white is superior) conservative republican under the age of 40 just wont fly. i have met probly 3 in my whole life, its not an oppinion its a cold hard fact.

haven't read bushes remarks but i will bet you my last dime it falls short of calling for his resignation. they would lose power inconceivable to them judging by previous actions.

eagle your obsessiveness on a single man getting a blowjob is now boardering on the homosexual. give it up you sound like a idiot.

Kieran · « **Reply #58 on:** December 13, 2002, 12:06:42 PM »

You bet it's real.

Towd-
I think the Repubs would come out ahead by ditching Lott, but that's my opinion as well.

Montezuma · « **Reply #59 on:** December 13, 2002, 12:38:42 PM »

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Originally posted by Kieran
The point of my post is that only minorities are allowed to make blatantly racist comments in public and get away with it, and you damn well know it.

Jessie Jackson's political career, pathetic as it was, ended at 'Hymietown'. Whatever spews out of Al Sharpton's or Farrakan's (sp) mouths is their own business, they are not elected to represent anyone.

Myabe if you search, you can find a rasicst statement made by some black congressional back-bencher, but how many blacks have even approached Lott's level of national power? I can think of maybe a dozen cabinet members and the two Supreme Court justices. And I can't recall any of them making 'blatantly racist comments', nevermind 'getting away with it'.