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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jerrel Peters who wrote (377367)	3/23/2003 11:28:35 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

No double-standard. If Byrd had said what Lott did he'd be just as villified by Democrats. Segregation is just plain wrong. Saying "white n*gger" though is not a slur on blacks. It's a very politically incorrect and impolite but a valid statement, in private at least. In other words, what Byrd meant was that the N word, which no one but blacks are allowed to utter, could also be applied to whites. It means "dirty low-down" or whatever. And Byrd dared to say many whites are dirty lowdown and have no business judging blacks. He just said it wrong, proving he's a little senile. Byrd is a elderly man who ought to retire. Just as Thurmond and Helms should have retired decades before their mental capacities left them. Byrd is serving his last term I'm sure. s a result of his age, he is not afraid to sound politically-incorrect and speak what a lot of people think but are not allowed to say. Such is the privilege of an elderly man. Byrd, Helms and Thurmond stuck around way too long.