Originally posted by Caitlyn
“I want to say this about my state,” Lott said last Thursday. “When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it,” he said to applause. “And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either.”
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“I want to say this about my state,” Lott said last Thursday. “When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it,” he said to applause. “And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either.”
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Actually the first thing that pops in my mind is his military record. Have you ever bothered to check any of that out? He had quite an impressive career but somehow I doubt that is the answer you were looking for…
Granted Lott was a product of the times and the world he grew up in and would at one time have been labeled a racist… but… people can and do change… if he is such a racist now, why did he champion so many black programs in his home state of Mississippi? In your opinion, should people be forever condemned for past actions?
“all these problems”… Now what on earth could he mean by that??? Oh… of course… problems = racism… yes.. that’s it… it has to be racism because that is the only problem Americans have faced in the last 50 + years…. He certainly could not have been talking about the Korean War, the Soviet’s mass production of nuclear bombs that they oh so innocently pointed at the USA, the Bay of Pigs, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Wall, JFK’s assassination, Vietnam, Watergate, Made in the USA being replaced by Made in Japan/Made in China/Made in Everywhere but the USA, Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy’s assassinations, Columbian drug lords, the Iranian Hostage Crisis, the Iran-Contra affair, Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Operation Provide Comfort, Whitewater, America becoming a laughingstock to the rest of the world because of bimbo’s named Paula and Monica, American planes policing no-fly zones in Iraq, Operation Joint Endeavor, September 11th, Anthrax attacks, and America at war against terrorism… just to name a few… No… Trent Lott couldn’t have possibly meant any of those problems because they all pale in comparison to racism…
And now we come to this little gem where once again, you twisted my words around to suit yourself… I never said I knew more about racism than you do nor did I turn it into an issue… I said “MAYBE even more so than you”…. there is a big difference between what I said and what you insinuated but I assume my words hit a nerve somewhere… other wise what I said wouldn’t have made you mad enough to resort to what amounted to a rant that ended with you wanting to measure “dick sizes”… This last paragraph was totally uncalled for and did nothing but reflect your age or lack thereof…
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