I stand by what I said.
Strom Thurmond is/was a politician, and would have gone whatever direction the political wind blew.
What difference 4 years, or even 8, if he succeeded in getting re-elected?
Truman's forced integration of the military had already taken place, and it wouldn't be until 1960 that the Civil Rights movement really began.
I know, Brown vs Board of Education Topeka (54) Little Rock (57)
But it really began in '60.
Strom would have been well out of it by then.
But Strom was a sideline, a thought about "what if" he had actually won.
My point was, Lott never said, "Those Race Problems", or "Those integration problems".
Lott simply said "some of the problems".
I am not a mind reader, and never claimed to be.
I have no idea what problems Lott was referring to.
Liberals and Lott detractors all must be claiming the power of telepathy, as they all claim to know exactly what Lott meant.
That is my whole and only argument.
I myself am a Lott Detractor.
But not on the basis of his comment, or even his poor record on Civil Rights as recently recounted ad nauseum.
( had I been more familiar with that record, I might have been more inclined however, to "assume" a racial reference to the remark.)
I don't like Trent Lott because he is spineless.
His failure to stand against Democrats and their Liberal (Socialist) agenda is the sole reason for my wishing Trent Lott to step down as Majority Leader.
We need somebody with backbone that will promote and defend Conservative Values, Conservative Legislation.