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Originally Posted by pinkies up
Lord, ya'll know I live in Mississippi, home of Good Ole Boy Trent Lott, so this is nothing new to me. However, I think that a lot of things have changed for the better. I'd much rather know if someone is a racist than for them to act like they like me. Soror Maya said it best when she said "When people show you who they are, believe them." As far as mixin' it up and making some bi-racial babies, let 'em go ahead because we turn into some fine people.
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now dont even go there on Trent Lott, i have met trent lott and talked to him and he is a admirable man that actually stands up for what he believes in whats the matter with trying to make a 100 year old man feel better. I dont think it was out of line for him to say that at all. He was just stating the truth, Mississippi voted for Strom Thurman in the election of 1948. And the whole part about us being better off if he was elected, well we might have been - he was a States Rights Democrat. they basically were republicans. They thought the government was over stepping their boundries by telling the states they have to do this or that. The federal government only has the power that is given to them in the constitution and the 10th amendment states says the powers not given to the federal government were given to the states to decide - all he was wanting was for the states to decide for themselves if they wanted to go on with the civil rights act. this type of view would help alot today with abortion, stem cell, gay marriage - let each state decide for themselves b/c its the federal government over stepping their boundries