--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> In a message dated 6/30/07 2:16:37 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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> 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?
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> _Kevin L. Martin_
> (http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/9/30/170651) ,
government and political affairs director of the _African American
> Republican Leadership Council_
(http://www.aarlc.com/about/advisory.shtml) ,
> said people were overreacting to the remarks. "By no means was he
endorsing
> segregation or anything like that. It was lighthearted, it was
humorous." Martin
> said Lott captures 25 percent of the black vote in Mississippi,
which he
> said couldn't happen if Lott were a racist.
I'd like to see a different objective source for that since Kevin L.
Martin is government and political affairs director of the African
American Republican Leadership Council and the article appeared in the
right wing rag, Newsmax. And BTW, only 25% of the black vote, if it's
true, is quite pathetic and telling all by itself.
> Lott apologized for the misunderstanding which was fanned
> by the media. You still haven't answered my question which you keep
dodging.
> Is Robert Byrd or Joe Beiden racist?
Whether they are or not has no bearing on Trent Lott. Right wingers
like to play the "somebody else is a scumbag like our guy" card and
try to make it a partisan issue. As if that somehow justifies or
exonerates the actual person being discussed.
