Subject: BLACK LEADER TO SEN. TRENT LOTT: "DON'T GIVE IN TO RACIST DEMOCRATS"
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 22:10:54 -0800
From: "Ermias Alemayehu" bond@bondinfo.org
To: a1@bondinfo.org
BOND "Rebuilding the Family by Rebuilding the Man"
Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny
P.O. Box 35090
Los Angeles, CA 90035
Voice: (323) 782-1980
Fax: (323) 782-0122
www.bondinfo.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!!!
December 12, 2002
Contact: Ermias Alemayehu
(323) 782-1980
***STATEMENT OF REV. JESSE LEE PETERSON
REGARDING SENATOR TRENT LOTT: "DON'T
GIVE IN TO RACIST DEMOCRATS!***
"As the head of a nationally recognized nonprofit black organization BOND, the Brotherhood
Organization of A New Destiny, my organization and I accept Senator Trent Lott's apology
regarding his remarks at Senator Strom Thurmond's birthday celebration. I encourage the
Senator to not give into the demands of racists who want to keep blacks on the Democratic
plantation.
Sen. Lott has released a statement and appeared on national media to apologize for his
statements. He has explained his statement and the context in which it was made-enough is
enough!
Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are
hypocrites and they are the real racists.
Jackson has not apologized for his 'Hymie' town comments, nor for his forty years of immoral
leadership; Sharpton has never apologized for his role in the Tawana Brawley disgrace;
members of the Congressional Black Caucus have never asked fellow Democrat Sen. Robert
Byrd to step down for using the word 'nigger' twice on national television.
Black and white Democrats alike who continue to demand that he [Lott] step down are doing so
only for political reasons. And Republicans who fail to support him are displaying cowardice.
Lott should not step down; he should not offer any more apologies-this matter is done! We
should judge people based on their hearts and actions, and unlike many of his detractors, Trent
Lott has no history of being a racist."
I submit it is the latter.
....and he's not just any ol' idiot, but he's a blithering one at that.
So the racists are the people that take Trent Lott's at-least-twice-uttered remarks in support of a segregationist at face value?
Sen. Lott has released a statement and appeared on national media to apologize for his statements. He has explained his statement and the context in which it was made-enough is enough!
Lott clearly doesn't understand the gravity of what he said, the gravity of what the Dixiecrats stood for. He hasn't said anything about any of it and he hasn't said one word about saying the same damn thing last Saturday back in 1980. If Lott isn't a segregation supporter, then he's merely too incompetent to be our Senate leader.
Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, and the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) are hypocrites and they are the real racists.
That may be true, but it's a non-sequitor. It has nothing to do with the issue at hand about Trent Lott.
Jackson has not apologized for his 'Hymie' town comments, nor for his forty years of immoral leadership; Sharpton has never apologized for his role in the Tawana Brawley disgrace; members of the Congressional Black Caucus have never asked fellow Democrat Sen. Robert Byrd to step down for using the word 'nigger' twice on national television.
Those are facts, yes, but that's a non-sequitor still. It has nothing to do with the issue at hand about Trent Lott.
Black and white Democrats alike who continue to demand that he [Lott] step down are doing so only for political reasons. And Republicans who fail to support him are displaying cowardice.
I'm sorry. I thought Lott was a political leader. Maybe Mr. Peterson doesn't realize that examining the politics of political issues is a part of the game. He also is resorting to another fallacy-- Ad Hominem attack: Disregard what Republicans who wish Lott to step down as Leader say for they are cowards.
Lott should not step down; he should not offer any more apologies-this matter is done! We should judge people based on their hearts and actions, and unlike many of his detractors, Trent Lott has no history of being a racist."
Well, this isn't done, Mr. Peterson even if you say it is. He does need to apologize for saying what he said in 1980. He should come clean regarding whether he has said that Thurmond should have been elected in 1948 more than twice. He should apologize to the Republican Party and make it clear that he understands exactly what the Dixiecrat Paryt stood for. He should also resign his leadership position.