Word: racists
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...realize that there is nothing—nothing—wrong, or even abnormal, about saying that African-American music is a nice segue into a discussion of African-American language. I am completely baffled, to be honest, that anyone could think otherwise. It wasn’t a racist remark, and it wasn’t, for that matter, a light-hearted joke—it was a perfectly appropriate and unremarkable comment...
...Lott wants to reach out to blacks and is not a racist, why has he addressed segregationist groups and mused about his Confederate heroes? "Part of it's just habit," says a Lott confidante. Lott has seen the "segs" as part of his constituency. But he knows now that the cost of winking at them is very high, not so much among blacks as among white moderate voters and among national G.O.P. leaders...
...festivals of disingenuousness and outright dishonesty. In some ways, the most honest reaction to the brouhaha has been that of Lott himself. His position has been, "Oh, c'mon, I didn't mean it." And surely he didn't mean it, at least consciously. Even if he is a racist, he had no reason to want to say so. Lott must sincerely and understandably feel blindsided. Since when are the fawning remarks of some politician at another politician's birthday party taken seriously? That's cheating! An editorial in the Washington Post asks, If he didn't mean what...
Whatever he now says, Lott's endurance as the Senate's G.O.P. leader is a direct attack on that mission. The issue is not whether Lott is a racist or a segregationist. We cannot know what is in his heart. The issue is Lott's astonishing record of racial obtuseness. This is a man who has twice uttered public statements regretting the end of Jim Crow. He voted against a federal Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. "Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy," he wrote in a 1981 amicus brief defending Bob Jones University's ban on interracial dating...
...President's deliberations were exceptionally deliberate. On Days 5 and 6 after Lott's remarks, the White House shrugged the matter off. On Day 7, Bush declared that Lott's remarks were "offensive." It is hard to understand how anyone can take a week to take offense at a racist remark. A natural suspicion is that the President and the other politicians aren't really as offended as they pretend to be. It is equally possible that they did take offense from the beginning but suppressed it while waiting to see how the story played out. In Gaffeland, there...