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Originally posted by subz
And the anti-Cynthia roadshow carries on.
She is being demonized here, if she told her webmaster to edit out public comments she would be accused of censorship and all the other connotations that surround that slur.
It's really quite pathetic that this is being used to some how paint Cynthia in a bad light.
Originally posted by jsobecky
Originally posted by subz
And the anti-Cynthia roadshow carries on.
She is being demonized here, if she told her webmaster to edit out public comments she would be accused of censorship and all the other connotations that surround that slur.
No she wouldn't. She would be recognized as not tolerating racial slurs on her website.
Only dingbats would cry censorship.
Originally posted by jsobecky
No she wouldn't. She would be recognized as not tolerating racial slurs on her website.
Only dingbats would cry censorship.
Originally posted by jsobecky
No, it's pathetic that a politician would allow racial slurs on their re-election website. Who could she possibly be appealing to by tolerating those comments?
Originally posted by dgtempe
Well, here's a first. I agree with those who say she consistently plays the race card at any given opportunity. I think she's an arrogant ding bat.
I dont care what her political affiliation is, she's still a ding bat.
Originally posted by dgtempe
I dont know what you're talking about, Subz. Sorry i dont agree. Its ok not to agree once in awhile. Just an opinion-
Originally posted by subz
Henry Kissinger is on the record saying that food should be used as a weapon against developing countries. That's a really evil thing to say, yet President Bush appoints this guy as the head of the 9/11 commission.
Who's he appealing to by putting a genocidal war criminal on the 9/11 commission. If you believe in guilt by association what does that tell you about your beloved Prez?
Originally posted by subz
Are you sure the website is a private website? If it's a website paid for by public funds she would have no right to edit out an American citizens post.
The terms "cracker-crat" and "oreo" are not illegal are they?
Originally posted by jsobecky
No, it's pathetic that a politician would allow racial slurs on their re-election website. Who could she possibly be appealing to by tolerating those comments?
How could she be appealing to some one with those comments? They are not her words, they were posted by a third party. If you have a problem here it is with Greg Palast.
Trent Lott's Segregationist College Days
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott helped lead a successful battle to prevent his college fraternity from admitting blacks to any of its chapters, in a little-known incident now four decades old. At a time when racial issues were roiling campuses across the South, some chapters of Sigma Nu fraternity in the Northeast were considering admitting African-American members, a move that would have sent a powerful statement through the tradition-bound world of sororities and fraternities. At the time, Lott was president of the intra-fraternity council at the University of Mississippi. When the issue came to a head at Sigma Nu's national convention — known as a "Grand Chapter" — in the early 1960s, "Trent was one of the strongest leaders in resisting the integration of the national fraternity in any of the chapters," recalls former CNN President Tom Johnson, then a Sigma Nu member at the University of Georgia.
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Lott has been under fire since last week, when he declared that his state was proud to have voted for Strom Thurmond's segregationist ticket in 1948. "And if the rest of the country had followed our lead," Lott added in remarks at Thurmond's 100th birthday party, "we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years either."
Trent Lott's "Uptown Klan"
* In 1978, after his election to the US House, Lott led a successful campaign to have the US citizenship of Jefferson Davis restored. Davis lost his citizenship when he became president of the Confederate States of America when southern states were in open revolt against the US government.
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Despite the fact that he represents the state with the largest percentage of African-American citizens in the US, Lott has throughout his career been an active supporter of the Sons of the Confederacy, a group that celebrates the soldiers who fought to defend the "right" of Mississippians to own African-Americans as slaves." Lott even appears in recruitment videos for the group.
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Lott gave the keynote address at a 1992 national executive board meeting of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a successor organization to the old white Citizens Councils, segregation-era groups the Southern Poverty Law Center refers to as "the white-collar Ku Klux Klan. The C of CC may have changed its name, but it remains a passionate "white racialist" group that condemns intermarriage, integration and immigration by non-whites.
Trent Lott
He successfully ran for the U.S. Senate in 1988, filling the seat formerly held by retiring John C. Stennis. He was re-elected in 1994 and 2000 with no substantive Democratic opposition. He gave some thought to retirement for much of 2005, especially after his house was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina (see below)He was among the first people to receive help from FEMA.
GOP unity is strained by attacks
“Honestly, it’s a little tougher than I thought it was going to be,” Lott said. In a sign of frustration, he offered an unorthodox military solution: “If we have to, we just mow the whole place down, see what happens. You’re dealing with insane suicide bombers who are killing our people, and we need to be very aggressive in taking them out.”
The Reality of the United Statesmen: Trent Lott, Politics and the Council of Conservative Citizens
Trent Lott addressed the national conference of the CCC in Greenwood, Mississippi on April 11, 1992—as Senator, not while a member of the House of Representatives.[...]After urging those at the gathering to increase their recruiting efforts for the "conservative" cause, Lott concluded his address praising CCC members stating, "The people in this room stand for the right principles and the right philosophy. Let's take it in the right direction and our children will be the beneficiaries!"
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According to their sources, Lott is "one of the leading political figures promoting the Neo-Confederate cause—a movement said to be filled with racism and other forms of bigotry."
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Additionally, Mr. Lott is just one of many elected officials involved with the CCC who hold the same views. Rep. Bob Barr (R-Georgia) Gov. Kirk Fordice (R-Mississippi) and Gov. Guy Hunt (R-Alabama) just to name a few, have ties to the CCC. In fact, Bob Barr was the keynote speaker at the CCC's national conference last June, and was pictured in the group's newsletter, addressing the CCC’s governing board and posing with several CCC leaders.*
Trent Lott
* Voted NO on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes. (Jun 2002)
* Voted YES on loosening restrictions on cell phone wiretapping. (Oct 2001)
* Voted NO on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation. (Jun 2000)
* Voted NO on setting aside 10% of highway funds for minorities & women. (Mar 1998)
* Voted YES on ending special funding for minority & women-owned business. (Oct 1997)
* Voted YES on prohibiting same-sex marriage. (Sep 1996)
* Voted NO on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation. (Sep 1996)
* Voted YES on Amendment to prohibit flag burning. (Dec 1995)
* Voted YES on banning affirmative action hiring with federal funds. (Jul 1995)
* Supports anti-flag desecration amendment. (Mar 2001)
* Rated 20% by the ACLU, indicating an anti-civil rights voting record. (Dec 2002)
The Real Distractions of Trent Lott
According to Lott's defenders and apologists, his critics are "overreacting" and "hurting America"; they "prevent Americans from focusing on important issues" and "obviously fail to understand Southern culture" or fail to understand "the informal context" of Lott's racist comments. Pat Buchanan said that Lott's comments were "innocuous"; Senator Shelby of Alabama even suggested that Lott shouldn't be "lynched".
Lott's critics would have been accused of race baiting, too, if his comments hadn't been so plain and so hateful. Lott's chief accomplishment so far is to have been so insensitive and crude that it was impossible for his defenders to accuse his critics of race baiting.[...]What lies behind this maddening spasm of unconvincing excuses and empty defenses is the idea that the material conditions of racism have withered under the harsh sun of racial reform. Lott and his defenders, indeed most Republicans and Democrats, suggest that racism is largely, if not entirely a thing of the past. Have you noticed that prominent white politicians are comfortable criticizing racism harshly only insofar as everyone consents to the idea that it's a thing of the past?
I suggest in all due fairness, that the author of this piece about Ms. McKinney channels his abilities to speak out about these other transgressors as well since he is so concerned about issues of race. If he is brave enough to highlight the transgressions of the Georgia Congresswoman, then he possesses the same sinew and courage when exposing this horrible epidemic of bias across the halls of the House and the Senate regardless of race.
I'm sure he will--if he takes up the challenge. But if not, his silence in being complicit with the behaviors of some politicians as opposed to others speaks loudly about his hypocritical approach to singling out Ms. McKinney and not thoroughly examining others who fall under these lines.
Originally posted by semperfortis
I'll have to concur with jsobecky,
What does Lott have to do with McKenny's racist website?
Semper
Originally posted by semperfortis
What does Lott have to do with McKenny's racist website?
Semper