OOOOhhhhh Trent Lott. The senator has just become top Republican in the Senate replacing Senator Bill Frist who is returning to Tennessee to "the house he was born in". In America there is always a second act, well not always but most of us get a second chance. Being white, rich, and well connected usually provides fellows such as Trent Lott with several second chances in business, higher education, lobbying or political leadership.
A 100th birthday party removed Senator Trent Lott from the Republican party leadership. At the celebration honoring ,segregationist,Senator Strom Thurmond, Trent Lott said if Strom had won his Dixiecrat bid for President back in 1948 , "we wouldn't have had all these problems over these years,either."
Like Mel Gibson every excuse and explanation was made, Senator Lott was not drunk. He said of himself and other Mississpians "we voted for him". We're proud of it". It was finally excused as one son of the South, making another very old, son of the South feel good about the good/bad(Jim Crow) old days. If Senator Strom Thurmond had become president, the entire US might be still segregated.
Lott returns to the Republican leadership in the senate and the country goes backward not because of what is coming out of his lips but because of what is in his heart and mind. There is no law that can control the feelings inside each of us nor should there be such a law.
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