Word: lotte
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...Democrats. Black turnout was low in some states during the midterm elections because few Democrats offered bold alternatives to Bush's economic and international policies. We noticed that it was Republican conservatives like Charles Krauthammer--not leading Democrats like Senate leader Tom Daschle--who offered unprompted condemnation of Lott's praise for Thurmond's Dixiecrat presidential campaign. Daschle initially accepted Lott's half-hearted apology, adopting a tougher stance only after an outcry from black politicians. His delayed reaction "was an example of the collegiality fostered by the good-ole-boy network in the Senate overcoming the ordinary sensitivities that...
...wish I could be a Republican. Seriously. Given my radical tendencies, of course, there's little chance that if I joined a party, it would be the G.O.P. Even so, I wish the Republicans would seize the opportunity presented to them by the Trent Lott fiasco to kick their 40-year addiction to race-baiting politics, make good on George W. Bush's promise to reach out to minorities and compel black voters like me to consider the G.O.P. I'm convinced that the Democratic Party's virtual monopoly on the black vote is bad for African Americans...
...this bind since the 1960s, when militants proposed the creation of a black third party that could deliver our votes to the party that offered us most. Nothing ever came of the idea, because the "party of Lincoln" was transforming itself into the party of Lott, Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, leaving self-respecting blacks no choice but to run to the Democrats. Yet the movement's battle cry--"We have no permanent friends, no permanent enemies, only permanent interests"--is as valid today as it was then, even if the prospects for an independent black party are still unrealistic...
...identify themselves as Democrats, compared with more than 80% of blacks older than 35. So far, only 6% of younger blacks say they are Republicans, but those numbers could grow if Republicans made a real effort to expand their outreach. One step would be for Bill Frist, Lott's successor as Senate Republican leader, to sit down with Henderson and the Congressional Black Caucus to find areas of agreement. It's probably too much to expect the Republicans to abandon their opposition to affirmative action, but they might be willing to talk the President out of some ultraconservative judicial appointments...
...Chicago Tribune: Top 10 Trent Lott Apologies. Pulling in at No. 3: "I don't accept those policies of the past at all... I'm the son of a sharecropper myself...