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"I wanna say this about my state. When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of him. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either." - Trent Lott, 2002.
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Excuse me, but if Trent Lott wasn't referring to Strom's segregation, what exactly WAS he referring to? None of his defenders have been able to answer this question.
Think about the quote below. If you defend Trent Lott, then you defend the following idea:
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"I wanna tell you, ladies and gentlemen, that there's not enough troops in the army to force the southern people to break down segregation and admit the nigger race into our theatres into our swimming pools into our homes and into our churches." -Strom Thurmond, 1948
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The following quote has some striking similarities to Strom's:
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"Rational anti-semitism, however, must lead to a systematic legal opposition and elimination of the special privileges which Jews hold, in contrast to the other aliens living among us (aliens' legislation). Its final objective must unswervingly be the removal of the Jews altogether. Only a government of national vitality is capable of doing both, and never a government of national impotence." - Hitler's letter to Adolf Gemlich, 1919
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