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Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
I must say that I am VERY surprised at AA's who hold this viewpoint. If one of the back bones of the AA community is the church, what happened to forgiveness? I really wish AA's would come out this strong against the racists in our community i.e. Farrakhan .... and the party that 90% of us vote for time and time again (Sen Byrd)
I really think the situation has been blown wayyyyyyyy out of proportion. I think Senator Lott has done all that he needs to do, which is apologize. He knows he is under a microscope, so regardless of what's in the man's heart, he has to, from this point forward "do right by us" on civil rights issues.
But to call for him to step down is reee-diku-lus! Everybody has skeletons in their closets. And I hope they don't start digging into every black elected officials background, and looking at what he might have said after a few drinks at a birthday party..... You might run across the term "white devil" being thrown around a few times. But I forgot, in the minds of some people, it's ok for AA's to say things like this.
Don't get me wrong, what he said was wrong....but he has apologized, now let's move forward. I mean is this really the most important thing going on right now??
......there i go with that conservative crap again!  
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Correct me if I am wrong, but outside of Tom Joyner and of course Jesse Jackson (
), most of the public outcry is coming from Lott's own political party! THEY are the ones who are making the BIGGEST stink over this because they feel that he is hurting the "new" Republican image. We shouldn't automatically assume that it is african americans asking for all of these apologies, asking him to be on BET, or anything of the sort, because in this instance, it is not us. Most of us are not surprise, or shocked at what he said........or even that he said it in public.