http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/09/lott.comment/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Incoming Senate Majority Leader
Trent Lott issued a written apology Monday evening
over his comment that the United States would have
avoided "all these problems" if then-segregationist
Strom Thurmond had been elected president in 1948.
...
Thurmond ran as the presidential nominee of the
breakaway Dixiecrat Party in the 1948 presidential
race against Democrat Harry Truman and Republican
Thomas Dewey. He carried Alabama, Louisiana,
Mississippi and his home state of South Carolina, of
which he was governor at the time.
During the campaign, he said, "All the laws of
Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot
force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our
churches."
Thurmond's party ran under a platform that declared in
part, "We stand for the segregation of the races and
the racial integrity of each race."
what kind of gigatard do you have to be to say
something that stupid?
P.S. Al Gore, you shut the fuck up too. No one
needs your defender-of-the-Negroes, opportunistic
whining.
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Incoming Senate Majority Leader
Trent Lott issued a written apology Monday evening
over his comment that the United States would have
avoided "all these problems" if then-segregationist
Strom Thurmond had been elected president in 1948.
...
Thurmond ran as the presidential nominee of the
breakaway Dixiecrat Party in the 1948 presidential
race against Democrat Harry Truman and Republican
Thomas Dewey. He carried Alabama, Louisiana,
Mississippi and his home state of South Carolina, of
which he was governor at the time.
During the campaign, he said, "All the laws of
Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot
force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our
churches."
Thurmond's party ran under a platform that declared in
part, "We stand for the segregation of the races and
the racial integrity of each race."
what kind of gigatard do you have to be to say
something that stupid?
P.S. Al Gore, you shut the fuck up too. No one
needs your defender-of-the-Negroes, opportunistic
whining.