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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (27886)	1/14/1999 12:21:00 PM
From: Borzou Daragahi	Respond to of 67261

Well, at least we know where Trent Lott is coming from. And conservatives wonder why blacks support Clinton so much. Lott is also the guy who steadfastly supported the Senatorial campaign of admitted perjury and paper-shredder Ollie North. How's that for respecting the rule of law? JACKSON, Miss. -- If, as Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott has insisted for a month, he has "no first-hand knowledge" of the views of the Council of Conservative Citizens, which calls itself pro-white, it comes as news to a lot of people back home, including his Uncle Arnie. "Trent is an honorary member," said Arnie Watson, a former state senator, tax assessor and currently a member of the council's executive board. "We're a rather large organization in Mississippi," Baum said, sounding somewhat aggrieved at the slight. "I would assume someone as astute as Mr. Lott would have a pretty good grasp of us."..... The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, issued a report Dec. 18 contending that the council, which it described as having 15,000 members in 22 states was "the incarnation of the infamous white Citizens Councils," which helped enforce segregation in Mississippi and other Southern states in the 1950s and '60s." "The CCC has tried for years to pass itself off as a respectable, mainstream organization," said Joe Roy, director of the center's Intelligence Project. "But the fact is, this group is shot through with white supremacist views, members and political positions." Mark Potok, the Law Center's spokesman, added that the old white Citizens Councils were "the white-collar Ku Klux Klan," noting that they were composed of respected local business and civic leaders and government officials who sometimes backed violence, including murder, against blacks seeking civil rights...... "We're a rather large organization in Mississippi," Baum said, sounding somewhat aggrieved at the slight. "I would assume someone as astute as Mr. Lott would have a pretty good grasp of us."