What year is this?
It's a question that I have to ask myself sometimes. I know I am a couple days late with this one but I just could not let this one go by without mentioning it.
At least one Republican Senator, who happens to be from Mississippi, and leader of the Republican Party apparently holds the belief that if the American public had elected one of the most recognized segregationist (I could use another word) that our country would have been a lot better off. This is apparently a quote conveyed by Senator Trent Lott at Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday celebration... "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."
For anyone that needs some refreshing. Senator Thurmond ran for the presidency in 1948 against Democrat, Harry Truman. Not surprisingly he carried Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina and Louisiana. His much touted anti-civil rights position can be summed up with at least one of his quotes - "All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches."
And to think that Trent Lott believes that we would have all be better off.
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