GOP sends message with Lott as whip

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Sat, Nov. 25, 2006
NO JUSTICE
GOP sends message with Lott as whip
BARBARA RANSBY

The selection of Trent Lott, R-Miss., as Senate minority whip removes any illusion that the Republican Party has even the faintest commitment to racial justice. In recent years, the GOP had hinted that it wanted to reform its longstanding reputation among blacks as a racist organization. But the appointment of Lott as whip suggests quite the opposite.

In fact, it's a slap in the face to all Americans who embrace the spirit of the civil rights movement and the greater inclusion it celebrated.

The controversy comes after Lott, in toasting the late Strom Thurmond at a birthday party in 2002, remarked: "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of him. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead (in 1948), we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."

Thurmond, and the States' Rights Democratic Party he helped to form in 1948, not only opposed integration. He even opposed a federal anti-lynching law.
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http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/news/opinion/16094771.htm

[rpannier]

1. This may sound terrible but...

Lott...whip...the two words seem to go well together.

My apologies to anyone offended.

[Judi Lynn]

2. You're right. Sounds natural.

[pretzel4gore]

i'd love to horsewhip lott!

wow! the howls of injured innocence=music to the ear! hahaha

[pretzel4gore]

3. injured innocence?

trent's howls wouldn't be injured innocence (imagine what buried in his basement! if he acts in public like he do, imagine what his private antics are!)

[Demeter]

4. And This Is Different How?

It's always been that way--the party of Lincoln abandoned minorities after Lincoln was shot.

I've never been deceived or convinced by the pious rhetoric (false advertising) of recent campaigns.

[classysassy]

5. The KKK poster boy

The republicans racists are a sad,sick bunch unamerican cowards.