Trent Lott said:
"I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're 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."
Published in Wednesday's New York Observer, Joe Biden said:
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
Tell me why Lott's comments are so much worse that they were all over the news until he resigned from his leadership post, while I haven't heard anything about Biden's statements in the mainstream media? Arguably, Lott may have said what he did because he happened to agree with some of Thurmond's domestic or foreign policies, regardless of Thurmond's racial opinions. On the other hand, I don't see how Biden's remarks can be seen as anything other than offensive. Why isn't Biden's quote all over the news like Lott's was?
2007-01-31
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