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2002-12-10 - 10:51 a.m.

From ABCNEWS.com:

"At a party celebrating retiring Sen. Thurmond's 100th birthday, attended by hundreds of Thurmond's family members and friends from South Carolina, Senate colleagues and members of the Supreme Court, Lott said that when Thurmond ran for president on a states' rights, anti-integration ticket in 1948, Mississippi voted for him.

"'We're proud of it,' Lott said to applause. 'And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either.'

"Kevin Martin, government and political affairs director of the African American Republican Leadership Council, said people were overreacting. 'By no means was [Lott] endorsing segregation or anything like that,' Martin said. 'It was lighthearted. It was humorous.'"

I sure am laughing. Gee, that is certainly (not) very funny. He actually said that? To applause? And people are willing to excuse it?

Megan the Red Queen

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