--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 6/30/07 11:08:04 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Call for references for this "high percentage of black votes". > > A racist wouldn't have apologized let alone apologized multiple times > > even on BET for any offense taken. > > Sure they would, especially if it's politically expedient. > > > Let me ask you, is Robert Byrd a racist or > > Joe Beiden or were they just misunderstood when their "slips of the > tongue" > > were much more direct and to the point? So for you to assume Trent > Lott is a > > racist without any more proof than what you have sited make you > prejudice. > > Again, any other person's racism doesn't exonerate Trent Lott > > > I'll provide a source in the near future but I had heard he had received > about 25% of the black vote.
Here's what I found: "Lott neglects to mention his 2000 re-election, when he got 11 percent of the black ballots." http://www.reason.com/news/show/33261.html I don't know about subsequent elections, but I doubt it improved much. > Quite high for a Republican. You still haven't said > what Lott said that was racist. What did Lott apologize for? > You only assume that because he spoke kindly > of a Strom Thurmond at his birthday party that he was racist. You assumed > that when he said "had Thurmond been elected we wouldn't have had all these > problems" was directed specifically towards race when Thurmond was a strong > proponent of law and order, avid anti-communist and fiscal conservative . You > never answered my question, is Robert Byrd or Joe Beiden a racist? Your attempt to bring other's possible racism into the discussion is a typical ploy of right wingers to distract attention from themselves. Anyone elses possible guilt for racism doesn't exonerate Trent Lott.
