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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: RON BL who wrote (327292)	12/10/2002 1:40:48 AM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) of 769670

As far as I am concerned, this is quite irrelevant. Byrd's comments, despite his racist history, were given to demonstrate the improvement in race relations. He took liberty to use the word "nigger" to show how the word today not only applies to blacks, but also to whites. Lott's comments were quite different and given in a context that had little to do with improvement in race relations. They instead appear as something of a wistful recollection of the "good 'ol days." But even were Byrd's comments patently atrocious, they are yet irrelevant. The issue we seem to have forgotten here is that the Republican Party is alleged to be much better than the Democrat Party. Being the Party of Lincoln, it ought not take its moral examples from the Democrats. Moreover, with repeated gaffs like Lott's and its tough-love posture toward Affirmative Action and other black issues, the Party quite runs the risk of appearing to have ulterior motives toward blacks at a time when many blacks are actually turning away from the Democrats. It is madness.

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