Racism never dies in America

The racism never dies in America
December 14, 2002

“When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We are 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.”—The US Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi at the 100th birthday party for Strom Thurmond, another oldest Senator from South Carolina

Critics, pundits, talkingheads, and politicians in drove have trashed Mr. Lott over his remark, requesting he resigns from his Republican leadership, and the Senator duly apologized for his “terrible” words during his appearances at the talk shows and the press conferences but insisted to keep his job.
Even George Jr. joined the chorus of uproar and showed his discomfort on the Senator’s ill-timed and ill-conceived speech.

Who is this popular (?) centenarian Senator that the South Carolinians have sent him year after year to Washington?

The Dixiecrats Senator, Strom Thurmond was nominated in 1948 for the presidential candidate by the State Rights Party, which declared: “we stand for the segregation of the races and the racial integrity of each race”, and he pledged that “ no niggers would ever swim in the same pools as white, or drink from the same fountains or eat in the same restaurant.”

When Thurmond was born, blacks in South Carolina could not vote, go to school with whites, or work at jobs reserved for whites.
And he was spending his whole legislative life trying to maintain the status quo of the slavery system and Trent Lott is an heir to his politics.

You can imagine how many more innocent blacks would have been hanged in the South, if Thurmond were succeeded to grab the US presidency, as Mr. Lott wished
However, there are many politicians who dribble the fawning accolade over him…
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah: he is not only a great man, he is done great things in his life.
Joe Lieberman, D-Conn: he is a man of iron with a heart of gold.
Chris Dodd, D-Conn: he is not just a witness to the entire 20th century, he was a full participant.

The case in point here is not what the Senator Lott has made an inadvertent slip of tongue, but how, in the world of 21st Century, he, as the leader of the Republican Party, still could have been nurturing and supporting the erstwhile Southern culture that endorsed the racial segregation and white supremacy over black people for over two hundreds years past.
Were his remarks “a mistake of the head and not a heart” as he exonerates himself as an empty-headed cracker?

It would hardly be difficult for anyone to know that his remarks were not an aberration but he still lives in a Southern Palladium where “Herrenvolk Democracy” was the theme of the American institution of slavery, if one glances over his heinous rhetoric and voting records on the racial issues, and the hand-in-glove association with the white-color KKK Group like the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC).

Mr. Trent Lott is, according to the New York Times report, an honorary member of the CCC, that embraces a range of conservative causes, including opposition to unfettered immigration and busing for school desegregation, and promotes “Southern cultural issues.”
In the keynote address to the board member of the council in 1992, the Senator said: “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.”

The Senator also fought in the court to keep the racist Bob Jones University exempt from taxation, submitting the petition that “Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.”
The university has been notorious to prohibit the inter-racial dating between white and black students on the campus.

The slavery is the most unacknowledged story in America’s history, even though no race or ethnic group has suffered as much as blacks have at the hands of white people with the complicity of the US Governments for long span of time.And Mr. Lott and many other politicians from the South are still romanticizing over the Old Confederate settings where religious bigotry, vicious lynching, and inhumane exploitation on the blacks were the basic values of the white man’s society