Like i said. Things aren’t so simple. Its not a simple case of Lott being a bigot or not. Its a case of him promoting an ugly past.

Now, what did I get called on inventing?

Cute trick, but we did not fall for it.

The fact that we have a leader who said: “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.”

About the candidate who ran on this ticket:

“This means the vicious FEPC — anti-poll tax anti-lynching, and anti-segregation proposals will become the law of the land and our way of life in the South will be gone forever.”

That was the ticket of segregation. Of opposition to lynching laws. Of opposition to federal intervention to destroy the terrorism of jim crow.

It don’t mean Lott is racist. It does mean he is dated and a product of his time. But the fact that a dated product of his time is in power (Lott) makes it unsurprising that a dated product of his time (Wright) is still preaching about that time.

Because apparently there are still leaders who think that it would have been a good idea to keep Jim Crow, keep segregation, and be without federal intervention in the lynching-based terrorist states of the south.

And your proof of this blanket assertion would be … ?

I find it unsurprising that people still fear and decry and are suspicious of Jim Crow at a time when our leaders are still praising and saying we’d be better off by electing people who were running on the Jim Crow ticket.

Obama didn’t say we’d be better off following Wright’s views. Obama didn’t say we’d be better off with Jim Crow. Obama didn’t say we’d be better off with segregation. Obama didn’t say we’d be better off without anti-lynching laws.

If people think those things are ‘nice’ then frankly its not that surprising that Wright still acts as if Jim Crow is alive. Its a problem. Because apparently there are still leaders who think that it would have been a good idea to keep Jim Crow, keep segregation, and be without federal intervention in the lynching-based terrorist states of the south.

Obama on “Words Matter”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgMcht-EW6I

Obama on Words Matter…

You’ve nailed it. Lott, bad; Wright, good.