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Lott Apolgizes Anew-In Talks to Deliver Hour Long Address to Black Entertainment TV Next Week
CNN.com ^ | December 13, 2002 | Wire Report

Posted on 12/13/2002 3:59:31 PM PST by ewing

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:01:46 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Lott, 61 announced [during the speech] that he was in talks with Black Entertainment Television to deliever and hour long speech next week to talk about 'his hopes and dreams for people' regardless of their race.

Lott, who was greeted with hearty cheers from supporters at the start of the news conference, vowed not to step down from his leadership post, rejecting the suggestion by some that he is bigoted against minorities.


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To: Hildy
bingo!
321 posted on 12/14/2002 7:43:48 AM PST by demosthenes the elder
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To: ewing
Apology number 28 and 3/4 (written with the help of the black separatist-segregated caucus)

I Trent Lott hereby declare that am indeed a racist and that the entire republican party is incorrigibly racist, while the democratic party is as pure as the driven snow. And I hereby declare my support for every democrat in the next election, and until that election I will work to enact every bit of the democrats legislative agenda.

322 posted on 12/14/2002 7:47:00 AM PST by republicman
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To: ewing
Didn't Robert Johnson sell BET out to "whitey" and about as white as OJ Simpson?

Seems to me it is now owned by either Viacom or AOL Time Warner.

Old Trent needs to meet with Shug Knight, Dre, Eminem and Snoop Dog- even tour with them.

Perhaps Trent could star in a black barber shop movie.

Hey, its the hubris, stupid.

323 posted on 12/14/2002 8:28:09 AM PST by Helms
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To: AvgWhiteMale
I find your views disgusting.
324 posted on 12/14/2002 9:03:19 AM PST by Endeavor
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To: TexKat
Thank you. Lott is a bigot. Your impressions of him are well-founded.
325 posted on 12/14/2002 9:07:41 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative
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To: AvgWhiteMale; Endeavor
Welcome, DU troll.
326 posted on 12/14/2002 9:08:35 AM PST by GraniteStateConservative
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To: ewing
I will not watch Trent Lott make yet another fool of himself on BET. Trent Lott seems incompetent, but Jesse Helms says Lott is the best of all the Senate leaders under whom he served for 30 years. It is very hard to get the 51 "Republican" senators together on anything, because some of these people have suspect "Republican" credentials. Yet the 49 Democrats will march in lockstep nearly all the time, with one or two exceptions. But for Trent to keep up these apologies is nauseating to me.
327 posted on 12/14/2002 9:50:42 AM PST by Theodore R.
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To: mhking
BTW, did you perchance hear Roy Innis of CORE on WMAL last night?

what he said about the "oh, so sensitive" DIMocRATS like kennedy,sharpton,jackson,mckinney,cummings, et.al. was NOT what the management of WMAL wanted him to say! i was PROUD of him, for whatever that is worth.

free dixie,sw

328 posted on 12/14/2002 9:58:20 AM PST by stand watie
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To: ewing
I think he should just fess up and say he 'is' predjudiced against the black progressive leftist communistic caucus in which the Clinton's have made of the VERY HARD LEFT, democratic party.
329 posted on 12/14/2002 12:24:33 PM PST by TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!
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To: Cicero
So Senator Trent Lott is a Racist, Sexist, Homophobe? What else is new, he’s a Republican! What did he say? That if the Rat’s most hated man in the Senate made it through his term and Lott said the US would be a better place if he were President in ‘48 coming from the Segregation Party. I suppose according to the Liberals that means that he would enforce all of the DemocRat’s Jim Crow Laws. Let us not forget that the entire south was run by Dems at the time and Strom Thurman was one of their stars. So, Trent was really saying if the South would have stayed the same, basically with the super Democrat Party; the Segregation Party, which is redundant this would have been a better country. Perhaps we might not have had this giant welfare state we have now? Not likely, we would still have the Rats in control of the house and Senate for most of the century. What are the Rats doing for the Blacks now??

If Strom was elected we would have never had Martin Luther King? We would have never had Rosa Parks? We would have never had the movement to give Blacks Civil Rights? How rediculous an argument can you have? The Rats have one thing that they do well and that name calling and the politics of personal destruction. Because a Republican says something that can in any way be construed as racist, he is a racist, sexist, homophobe which of course a Capitol offense.

Who should really be guilty of racism is NAALCP and NOW for the lynching of The Honorable Clarence Thomas for the crime of being Colored Conservative. If he were a white man does anyone think he would have gone through that lynching. No because he was a Blackman who made the Capitol offense of being a Republican. The NAACP has used trumped up charges of making two unsubstantiated statements about porn and pubic hair and has had his public life destroyed over and over and over and over.... The NAALCP claims that he is a racist and has left his affirmative action plantation. If this isn’t racism when Trent Lott is, please explain what racism is other than a political weapon?

Of course we have the Klansman Senator using the term White Blackman which in Jim Crow era was the ultimate putdown. Now the term is White Trash or what he really says is Blacks are trash....nice non-racist statement. Did not hear a peep from the NAALCP or the other racist blacks??

Now is the time to expose the NAACP and Natinonl Old Women for the real political action committees that they are. Their agenda is to take their marching orders from the DNC and use PradABC as their amplifiers. Ask some hard questions about why they will still protest any speeches that Justice Thomas wants to give. How valuable is a decenting voice in the Black community, yet it is censored the same as a Black at a KKK parade? There is only one real reason that they want to censor Justice Thomas and that is because he is the wrong type of Black. How more racist can you get. Kind of makes Lott look black???

Take a look at the name NAAColored People. Colored is a name right out of Jim Crow. Does the NAACP want to go back to Jim Crow and segregating the races?? Are they really a extremust racist organization?? What is worse The Segregation Party or the NAACP? Now like in 1948 instead of blacks only drinking fountains we have colored only or approved speech. When has the NAACP recognized conservative blacks for their accomplishments? By every appearance there is no difference to the division of the Segregation Party and the NAACPs, Jesse Jacksons and the rest of the race baiters. What was worse, Dennis Byrd’s horrific crime or the horrific political ad that was used to divide the races?? One was done by an escaped criminal who met justice and the other by the NAACP that didn’t.

No matter what happens to Trent it is time to expose these racists on both sides of the color spectrum. It will take courage and finesse, but this would be a better country without racists on either side.Not all words that come out of white mouths are black putdowns! I don’t remember who said it and it doesn’t matter, but we need a country that sees people for the content of their character rather than the color of their skin.

Pray for W and the Truth

330 posted on 12/14/2002 12:27:20 PM PST by bray
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To: Cicero
If Lott speaks to a black audience, it could be pretty good-- assuming he gets some help writing his speech and some good prep on answering questions.

He's already prepping.

331 posted on 12/14/2002 12:38:24 PM PST by NonZeroSum
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To: dfwgator
He's got nothing to gain, and the GOP has everything to lose by this.

Oh I disagree! The more times a Republican can talk directly to black people without the filter of the media, black or white, it is a good thing.

I like the idea of him talking about how he changed with the South. So many people, not hating black people, but just accepting the situation as it was because they had never known anything else, changed greatly in the 60s. These people became much more tolerant of blacks than folks in other parts of the country; witness the riots in South Boston when bussing first arrived there! One reason was that many white people had known and loved some black people as they were coming up, so acceptance was easy. Those black people who witnessed these changes will understand, and if they have open hearts will accept his words.

Of course there were some low class whites who needed someone on whom they could look down who continued the overt, ugly racism. The majority of whites did NOT, and I count Trent, Strom Thurmond, Jesse Helms and other well known Southern Republicans in that number. I read the other day that Strom Thurmond was the FIRST Senator to hire a black person in his Congressional offices. Where were those oh so diverse Democrats then?

I had read years ago that James Meredith, the man who had to have the help of the Mississippi National Guard to attend Ole Miss, later worked as a staffer on Capitol Hill. Was he in the office of one of those well known Democrats who always puts down the Republicans as racist hatemongerers? Nope!
He worked in JESSE HELM'S office!!!

332 posted on 12/14/2002 3:43:49 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: ewing
If Lott continues groveling before the minions of the politically correct, then he should resign. In any case, I believe his "helmet hair" will afford him some protection against the likes of JJ and "Reverend" Al Zeppelin.
333 posted on 12/14/2002 6:37:35 PM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: Red Barr
The Dems should renounce Byrd who was one of "the boys in the hoods", as well as the seafaring senator from Hyenasport, Ted Kennedy!
334 posted on 12/14/2002 6:39:05 PM PST by sheik yerbouty
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To: Theodore R.
Here, Here. I just want to add one thing, especially to you freepers who think Lott should stay. It is not so much that Lott should resign as majority leader for what he is or is not, rather he should resign for what he's become--a burden to our party.

The most recent election demonstrated how the GOP could do well among hispanics. Look at the numbers for Jeb Bush and Rick Perry. They're incredible. I refuse to believe that this could not apply to blacks. It is this increasing political reality, and the efforts of so many (lead by our great President) in the party to work toward this effort, that makes our goal of a truly equal opportunity society so achievable (the end of affirmative action, a color-blind society, school choice, etc.).

Lott's mouth has helped undermine this effort, and now I'm absolutely disgusted by him. Remember, unlike the Dems, we actually have higher standards for our leaders. The very idea that now Liberals will be even more mobilized to beat fine judges, like Pickering of Mississippi and Owens of Texas, further incenses me, because we may very well lose these nominations. Either Lott is politically stupid or racist; in either case, he is a huge burden, and therefore should resign.
335 posted on 12/14/2002 10:47:39 PM PST by tango7799
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To: ewing
If Rove is writing any speech for Lott, it damn well better be a resignation speech!
336 posted on 12/15/2002 5:28:55 AM PST by InspiredPath1
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