http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005 by the authors Sun, 15 Dec 2002 03:13:24 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/12/11/103730.php#comment-2491 You guys are just another bunch of left-wing media radicals trying to stir things up and create more racial division. Although Lott's comments may show his lack of intelligence or communication abilities they dont necessarily show or prove that he is a racist. The democrats are just upset because the republicans are taking the black votes.Without the black votes the democrats have no political future. Calling Lott a racist and the south being full or racists is just part of the typical liberal hysteria that occurs when they want to push some agenda. It would be hard to believe that Lott is a racist after being in politics for so long from a state with a large black population. He was 7 years old when Thurmond was running for president and grew up during the transition from segregation to integration. You got to remember that segregation was the status quo in the south at that time so there will always be remnants of that but things are progressing away from that. Its not perfect but it is getting better. Ive been to the south many times and the people there dont think and act in such harsh racial lines as in 1948. There is a feeling of coming together both white and black and finding a common ground. They are starting to just consider themselves southerners regardless of race. How can the old problems ever be fixed when the past is always dredged up? 2491@blogcritics.org Sun, 15 Dec 2002 03:13:24 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/12/11/103730.php#comment-2490 Rodney, If it was only "redneck," that would be one thing, but aggressively racist is another. At least Thurmond has recanted his past and "changed his mind" - what is Lott's excuse? 2490@blogcritics.org Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:14:15 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2002/12/11/103730.php#comment-2489 As a South Carolinian who has endured more than his share of cornball tributes over the past year to that crumbling piece of parchment known as Strom Thurmond, I must admit to a certain amount of schadenfreude that, in the words of Ben Folds, Thurmond's redneck past is once again nipping at his heels. 2489@blogcritics.org Wed, 11 Dec 2002 22:11:05 EST