Terry in Crapchester wrote:88 wrote:LTS TRN 2 wrote:The KKK chapter of his life is totally irrelevant.
That he was a member of an organization that advocated the the lynching of blacks means nothing. Now, if he had done something as depraved as praising a dying Strom Thurmond at his birthday party or something, we'd have been dealing with a whole different situation.

Of course, it was a little bit more than that. Lott was asserting that the country would have been better off had it elected Thurmond on his segregationist platform.
no, dumbfukk, he did not. he was simply trying to make some old fukk feel good on his birthday. he was blowing smoke like all politicians do 24/7. he was trying to be nice. what he actually was being , was stupid, but, that seems to be a bipartisan effort.
you and every other fukk that crucified lott over this know this to be true, but don't give a fukk. then you look the other way for a demonstrated racist. byrd was not some lowly local who signed up 'cause his daddy and brothers did. he was a higher up type. he was a fukking recruiter!!!