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You all miss one important point:
"I'll have the (n-words) voting Democrat for the next 100 years."...LBJ
And of course the 'white (n-word)' comments of Senator Robert 'Sheets' Byrd.
Of course the rhetoric against a certain Hispanic circuit court nominee...
None of which made a big fuss.
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First of all, you really have to be pretty stupid to use the race card to attack the left's objection to a "certain Hispanic circuit court nominee", because few, if any, on the left are objecting to his appointment simply because he is Hispanic. It's the Republicans using race in this instance to avoid discussing relevant issues.
Second, Senator Byrd - like Senator Helms, Governor Wallace, and any number of politicians from that era, evolved past their Klan heritage into something else entirely. I've read a little bit on the accusations against Byrd. Many of them center on letters written to the Klan offering his continuing support
after he resigned from the Klan in the 1940s. There are others that reference his opposition to the desegregation of the military
under President Truman. Hardly relevant, considering that Lott was pandering to the Klan and the White Citizen's Council-type folks well into the 1990s, some 50 years or so after Bryd's so-called Klan activities.
LBJ and Byrd used the N word. Whoopie-fucking-doo. Let's see ... a Texan born in 1908, a West Virginian born in 1917 - how suprising is that? I had a pair of grandfathers born in the 1890s, and great-uncles born anywhere from the early 1880s until the early 1900s, and they all used the word. My father and my uncles all used the word, although less frequently than my grandfathers did.
And Colin - I agree with you that people should be free to say what they want. I guess my point is that when someone like Lott comes out and says the world sure would have been better if we would have elected this bigot and kept them n****rs in their place, I would hope the general public reacts with the same outcry we would see if a Senator proposed making Joseph Gobel's birthday a national holiday.