December 13, 2002

The Company Lott Keeps

We've all had a crash course over the past week in Trent Lott's long and shameful record of cozying up to, if not explicitly embracing, racist sentiments. In particular, we've heard of his association with the Council of Conservative Citizens -- he's spoken at the organization's meetings and written for its newsletter. In a 1992 speech before the group, he reportedly stated that "the people in this room stand for the right principles and the right philosophy."

So I decided to check out the group's website. Let's put it this way: It ain't subtle. At the top of the homepage is a Confederate battle flag. Elsewhere there's a link to an anti-Martin Luther King Day tract, a link to a headline "Caucasian Skull Oldest Found in Americas," and a photo of a black Vanderbilt professor, identified in the caption as an "affirmative action hireling," posing in front of a Che Guevara banner, under the headline "Vanderbilt University 'Professor' Shows His Colors!"

Do you get what this group's "principles" and "philosophy" are? There's no coyness here: These guys wear their race hatred like a badge of honor.

The website features a defense of Lott. It's a real doozy -- a rambling, crankish, creepy diatribe. Here's a taste:

Sad, sicko raciopaths rule the day, dear friends, and they roil about like maggots in a garbage can eating the flesh of aracial whites who are too stupid to even know they're being repressed and exterminated by those who hate all whites and who seek high profile examples such as Trent Lott to condemn any expressions of white identity. And, the whites who have been weakened by years of trying not to be white, lest any non-white people be offended by their whiteness and white ways, go happily to their genocide rather than standing up and demanding the right to their own self-determination and identity.

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