Author Topic: Trent Lott?? (Read 2074 times)

Kieran · « **Reply #60 on:** December 13, 2002, 01:21:16 PM »

Somebody ought to let Jackson know his political career is over. You couldn't tell by the way he manages to influence our politics. Likewise Sharpton- or do we forget so quickly Gore making visits to Sharpton prior to the 2000 election?

28sweep · « **Reply #61 on:** December 13, 2002, 01:43:53 PM »

What we need in the South Back then was a Peacekeeping force...like the Dutch force in Bosnia.....

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #62 on:** December 13, 2002, 03:12:32 PM »

Leave it to the AH BBS to take a quote out of context and twist it for their own personal agenda.

Some of you guys should really have been reporters.

midnight Target · « **Reply #63 on:** December 13, 2002, 03:18:11 PM »

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Originally posted by Kieran
You bet it's real.

Naw, you can't possibly think that there is no such thing as discrimination against blacks in todays society. No way. Could you?

Kieran · « **Reply #64 on:** December 13, 2002, 03:19:12 PM »

I didn't say that. I meant there was discrimination against both black and white men. Surely you're not saying there isn't?

Edit: "Meant" for "said" in second sentence.

delta · « **Reply #65 on:** December 13, 2002, 03:19:41 PM »

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Originally posted by H. Godwineson
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

No, it would not have gone over well at all.

It would have been a terrible social "faux pas"

But it would have been closer to the truth.

midnight Target · « **Reply #66 on:** December 13, 2002, 03:22:16 PM »

Anything is possible Kieran, but agreeing that something occurrs doesn't mean that it compares.

Hardly a 2 way street, traffic is much higher in one direction I'm sure you will agree.

Kieran · « **Reply #67 on:** December 13, 2002, 03:34:10 PM »

You ought to take some education courses today. Your eyes might be opened a little.

Thrawn · « **Reply #68 on:** December 13, 2002, 04:06:33 PM »

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Originally posted by Kieran
You ought to take some education courses today. Your eyes might be opened a little.

My, how very cryptic. Is this an equivalent to, "Oh yeah, well you just don't know nothing!"?

midnight Target · « **Reply #69 on:** December 13, 2002, 04:11:11 PM »

Ahh my shield bearer has arrived!!!

Thats exactly what I was thinking Thrawn.

Kieran · « **Reply #70 on:** December 13, 2002, 05:07:42 PM »

No. It means we have a system in place that consistantly tells us how different minorities are, and how they are to be given special treatment. We are not supposed to treat everyone the same.

Now consider that this is being fed to all your little boys and girls.

john9001 · « **Reply #71 on:** December 13, 2002, 05:19:55 PM »

donna brazil , wile working as gores campaign mgr said ""we gona beat them white boys"", that is a racist statement and she should apoligize and resign whatever job she has with the DNC.

Kieran · « **Reply #72 on:** December 13, 2002, 05:28:49 PM »

No, she's oppressed and that makes it ok.

midnight Target · « **Reply #73 on:** December 13, 2002, 05:30:07 PM »

Here's a little analogy for ya;

Lets say you are a school teacher. You have 20 students. You choose 2 of those students to be the whipping boys. For years you slap them in the face whenever they try to answer a question. Then one day you decide that this behavior is wrong, and you stop the slapping.

Do you expect the Whipping Boys to begin to act like everyone else all of the sudden? Do you think it might take some extra effort on your part to build the trust of the Whipping Boys? Do you think maybe the Whipping Boys might need some extra attention just to get to the same level as the rest of the class?

Hortlund · « **Reply #74 on:** December 13, 2002, 05:50:50 PM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Here's a little analogy for ya;

Lets say you are a school teacher. You have 20 students. You choose 2 of those students to be the whipping boys. For years you slap them in the face whenever they try to answer a question. Then one day you decide that this behavior is wrong, and you stop the slapping.

Do you expect the Whipping Boys to begin to act like everyone else all of the sudden? Do you think it might take some extra effort on your part to build the trust of the Whipping Boys? Do you think maybe the Whipping Boys might need some extra attention just to get to the same level as the rest of the class?

OMG this is actually the worst analogy on the suffering of the black man (or whatever) I have ever read.

First Thrawn pulls his "gayest person of the decade"-award winning ode to Animal, and now you post this crap MT...what has happened?