Word: lotte
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What Trent Lott tried to do was whitewash the present, not the past [NATION, Dec. 23]. There is no evidence that the Senate's former majority leader finds integration and equal rights any less offensive now than he did years ago. LAURA BILLINGTON Maple Valley, Wash...
...Senator Lott was only giving his friend and colleague Senator Strom Thurmond a good send-off at his 100th birthday party. How can Lott's celebratory remarks be taken as anything serious? JOHNNIE R. GOTHARD San Angelo, Texas...
...African American who has been a Republican since 1980. Lott and his crew promote and prey on the fears (real and imagined) of salt-of-the-earth European Americans. Republicans who are racist promote distrust and hatred of minorities as a way of dealing with the fears of good common folk. When enough progressive citizens decide to join the Republican Party, people like Lott and others who oppose integration will have to find another vehicle for their cowardly ideology. MICHAEL P. BERRY Phoenix, Ariz...
...could Trent Lott's fellow Republicans be ignorant of his racially divisive past? His record on race has been known for decades. Yet those in his party who turned against him are the same ones who elected him their Senate majority leader. To believe that Republicans are sincere about racial inclusiveness, you have to overlook the fact that for years Lott had their full support despite his past indiscretions. Lott may have apologized for his words, but the Republican Party still has a lot of explaining to do. CHRISTOPHER SCAPELLITI New York City...
There's no place in leadership positions for people like Lott or others who espouse racist beliefs. There's no place for them in our government, and there's no place for them in this country. JOE VECCHIO Alpharetta...