Trent Lott and his comments

[Cossack]

I am sure many of you have heard of Lotts comments. I personally thought they were taken outta term when I first heard them. After all it was at a birthday party. Then I heard what someone older than me said. "It is hard for young people to understand this, for at that time Strom Thurmand was a Dixiecrat who ran on segregation during a time when Jim Crow and linchings were happening." This made me think a little, and I am disgusted at Trent Lott's comments. I personally think he should watch what he says. After all, I have heard that Trent had made past "contraversial" comments.

[tasty]

I found his comments to be disgusting, as Strom Thurmond has never apologized to anyone for his malicious comments and racist stance toward non-whites when he ran for senate in the fifties and sixties. By his comments, Trent Lott gave tacit approval of those prehistoric policies and the pain they caused. As far as I'm concerned nobody anywhere should be honoring Strom Thurmond, for any reason, even on his birthday, and he should die a lonely old man. The most pathetic thing Thurmond ever did: when asked about his segregationist past, he said "I have never supported segregation, now or ever."

[KoS PY.nq.ict]

You have to understand that the man (Strom Thurmond) is 100 years old. A whole damn century old. He grew up during the time of slavery when people hated "non-whites". Those types of comments were common back then. Besides...he's probably becoming senile so we really can't expect much from him.

[tasty]

Just because something was socially acceptable didn't make it right. It's not like alternative views to Thurmond's didnt exist either, because there were white abolitionists dating back to 75 years before Thurmond was born. And we couldn't expect much from him when he was functional (notice that I use this term loosely in this case), as he was never a very good senator or person. Rumor from Washington was that for the last 3 or 4 years Thurmond was in office, Thurmond's hearing wasn't even good enough to hear the topic on the senate floor, so his aides transcribed the important parts and told him what to say later. The fact that the people of South Carolina voted him in so many times defies reason? and really worries me  

[jn.loudnotes]

The key word there tasty is "South Carolina"

Ok, well it's two words but you get the point. . .

[EUR_Zaitsev]

It is impossible for him to say it was a mistake, he said the same thing 22 years ago its clear to me that he is a racist pig. However as a liberal i wont complain, he represents his party in the correct light they should be viewed in.