Senate Majority Leader was Affiliated with White Supremacist Group

[kpete]

Senate Majority Leader was Affiliated with White Supremacist Group
By: Blue Texan Monday January 11, 2010 10:30 am

Pictured: Trent Lott with "the right kind of people."


Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS), that is.
http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/CCCitizens.asp?xpicked
Thomas Edsall revealed that Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott had appeared as the keynote speaker at a 1992 meeting of the CCC in Greenwood, Mississippi. In the article, Edsall cited an issue of The Citizens Informer that featured a large photograph of Senator Lott at a CCC conference and quoted him as telling attendees that “we need more meetings like this.” According to the Informer, Lott asserted that “the people in this room stand for the right principles and the right philosophy. Let’s take it in the right direction and our children will be the beneficiaries.”

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CCC leaders revealed that Lott had spoken to them on more than one occasion ; that his syndicated column regularly ran in The Citizens Informer, and that his uncle, a member of the Council’s Executive Board, called him an “honorary member.”

http://firedoglake.com/2010/01/11/senate-majority-leader-was-affiliated-with-white-supremacist-group/

[sasquatch]

1. Well you can't get elected from the deep south if you aren't

[onehandle]

2. Republican affiliated with White Supremacist Group... By definition. nt

[TheKentuckian]

4. No shit, the Confederate party is a racist organization

They might take on an Uncle Tom or an Uncle Ruckus here and there but slave owners often had slave overseers.

[blondeatlast]

3. I'd fall over in shock--except, I'm not at all surprised. nt

[OffWithTheirHeads]

5. The Senate IS a white, supremacist, racist group

[mopinko]

6. yes, people have short memories.

good to remind them.

[Initech]

7. Right kind of people = racist scumfucks?

[johnlal]

8. Our racists are better than their racists... n/t

[blondeatlast]

9. Only RW talking point spewing dittoheads think they are equivalent.

But of course, you aren't one of those, are you?

Transparent as air.

[johnlal]

10. I never said they were equivalent...

I just implied Harry Reid's comment was racist, too.

[blondeatlast]

12. FAIL. Reid's was dumb. Lott's was wishing for the Old south of Jim Crow

and firehoses.

But of course, in your mamby-pamby think tank world, you wouldn't understand the difference since your leaders haven't told you how to say it properly.

Kiss that internship with your dumbass RRR congresscritter goodbye. Your failure on DU does not speak well of your speechwriting skill.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. Old news, but always worth a reprise for posterity and veracity.