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...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 these people should be expected to have," says Wade Henderson, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, a coalition of civil rights organizations...
...also has the following very incisive comment about the alums’ conversations with each other: “All around there were people mingling and having a good time, talking about the good ole [sic] days that certainly didn’t include people who looked like we did.” Sure, this sounds very plausible. After all, what else is there to talk about at one’s 45th reunion than how great Harvard was when there were no blacks...
Gerald Blessey, who was among the few integrationists at Ole Miss in 1962, declined to discuss Lott's latest troubles but told Time in 1997 that he considered Lott more of a political opportunist than a George Wallace--style hater. "You could say that Trent was representing the views of his constituents" in supporting segregation. Blessey lost to Lott in a congressional race in 1976 and said that while he and Lott have been "often on opposite sides over the years," he believed that on the issue of race, "Trent has a good heart...
...greatest strides up from the bottom, however, have been made in race relations, due to the implementation of Civil Rights laws - all of which Lott has opposed. The term New Mississippi is not just a PR gambit - it's real. Walk into a Burger King or K-Mart or Ole Miss Library and you'll see blacks and whites eating, shopping and studying together. "Forty years ago when the state was first integrated, blacks had no rights," veteran journalist Curtis Wilke recently noted. "Today they politically control the Delta. White people are living with that reality just fine. Today nobody...
Lott was a witness to one of the pivotal episodes in that past. During his senior year at Ole Miss, violence erupted there when U.S. marshals moved to install Air Force veteran James Meredith as its first African-American student. Lott was not among the students advocating integration, but did succeed in persuading his fraternity brothers not to join in the rioting. In 1997, Lott told TIME: "Yes, you could say I favored segregation then. I don't now. ? The main thing was, I felt the federal government had no business sending in troops to tell the state what...