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Lott's apparent nostalgia for the days of Jim Crow segregation was denounced as "fundamentally racist" by former Vice President Al Gore. In a terse written statement, Lott apologized to "anybody who was offended" by his "poor choice of words." But the Washington Post reported that Lott had used almost identical words in praise of Thurmond's segregationist campaign during comments in Mississippi in 1980. A slip of the lip suddenly looked like a pattern and opened a public exhumation of Lott's long record of votes and statements hostile to the civil rights movement...
Most of those who know him best, foes as well as friends, say they don't consider Lott a racist in the sense of someone who hates blacks and plots to hold them down. His brother-in-law Scruggs, a longtime civil rights proponent and major financial contributor to Democratic politicians, says, "Trent and I disagree about almost everything in term of politics. But he's a fair-minded man who I've known well 32 years, and I've never seen anything remotely suggesting racial animus in him." Rather, friends say, Lott has believed--at least until last week...
...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...
...meantime, the American public is forming its own views on Lott; some are sympathetic, but the majority, according to a new CNN/TIME poll, feel Lott's comments make him appear at best irresponsible, and at worst, a racist. Twenty-two percent of the respondents believe Lott's statement was intentionally racist, while 49 percent say it was racist, but not intentionally so. Far more Democrats (33 percent) agreed with the former characterization than Republicans (9 percent), but there was more agreement on the latter option (43 percent of Democrats and 58 percent of Republicans). Bad news for Lott: only fourteen...
Imagine that Pappin had advocated the expulsion of African-Americans from the College—or Jews, or Muslims, or women—and grounded his argument in hateful racist, ethnic or sexist stereotypes. If this had been the case, I question not only whether people’s response to the letter would have been the same, but whether The Crimson would have published such a piece at all. The problem is that homophobia—of which Pappin’s letter is a particularly insidious example—is not being put on the same platform...