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Senator Trent Lott’s calamitous experience last month illustrates the extent to which race??and speaking about race??still poses a dark, incendiary threat in American life. At issue in Lott’s case, of course, was his wistful allusion to a time when the races were separate, and when real feelings were harbored but not openly expressed, a time when what we now call “hate speech” showed itself infrequently in the “marketplace of ideas...
...100th birthday party last week should have debunked this notion once and for all. That a man who ran for president in 1948 as a “Dixiecrat” pledging to “stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race?? should still sit in the Senate is a national disgrace. Thurmond is indeed a living legend—a potent reminder of America’s most disgusting historical legacy of slavery and segregation. The Senate will be a far better place after his imminent retirement...
However, a fifth place finish in the final race??one spot behind Tufts—dashed the tandem’s hopes of victory within the division, but still secured second place...
Unfortunately, negative campaigning from both sides has obscured the issues in what has become a very tight race??a true tragedy in an election where substantive campaigns could have illuminated the important issues at stake...
Ranked second, the Black and White fell 25 seconds off the lead by the end of the first leg, a deficit which grew to just over 60 seconds by race??s end, placing the Black and White in a disappointing 15th place...