Cornyn: Lott's Comments 'Far More Innocuous' Than Reid's

The difference between Reid and Lott is that when Reid sees a Harvard-educated black man who doesn't speak with a "negro accent," he sees a President. All that Lott sees is another opportunity to say the N-word - the offensive one that ends with an "R" and has two "Gs" in the middle.

John Cornyn apparently thinks that he can fool the public and speaks as if we don't know the history behind Thurman who left the Democratic party to begin a SEGRATION PARTY" to be against intergration!

THurman who had a Black daughter denied this daughter until just befor he died or perhaps after he died it became known as revealed by all news accounts. It was reported that he took care of her for years but refused to acknowledge her

Perhaps Mr. Cornyn should understand that he cannot fool the American public and that we stay up on our history

Republicans a party that has ignored the AFrican American Community and have very few Blacks in the party and thousands who walked out last year have no standing to critize anyone on race relations

BOttom line as George Will said on Sunday and embrassed Liz Chaney when she tried to pretend to jump on Sen. Reid's comment as if she was defending racism, a topic which her party know a lot about but from a negative prospective, said, "Sen. Reid's comments are so far from racism, you cannot call them racist, and what Sen. Reid said was true"

Very surprising coming from George Will but he spoke the truth.

Sen. Reid spoke the truth and Republicans are attempting to use his words for political gain when they have absolutely no standing in the African American Community and have done nothing to earn the respect of the community.

African Americans are laughing out loud at Republicans!

They only elected Micheal Steel for cover since we have an African AAmerican President

Republicans, since Mr. Steel is the most Self Seeking Money Makin for himself, throwing diggs at his own party and trying to recover when you scold him

How's that working for you Republicans?

i started reading TPM when Trent Lott did that krazy thing back in tha day

Cornyn and other racists like him fail to understand that the issue is not, and never has been, whether you see the color of a man's skin. The question is, whether you see anything ELSE?

Spoken like a man with 5 years before re-election in a state that appreciates his rhetoric.

Cornyn is exactly in line with the code of ethics on talking about race in place among most isolated white people (liberal or conservative in the country) -- the thing that is most shameful is to call attention to race at all. Calling attention to attitudes still prevalent about race is equally shameful.

There was an interesting study of elementary school kids who were raised with the "color-blind" approach to race relations, namely saying nothing about racial identity at all. Of children raised in this manner, a majority answered yes to the question "my parents like people of other races less than people of my own race", despite having never been told anything at all about their parents' attitude about race.

Yes, Trent Lott stating that segregation would have prevented a lot of the problems that we have today is totally innocuous! Who on earth, other than hyper-sensitive limousine liberals, could POSSIBLY be offended by that? We know Senators from Texas don't find the idea of segregation offensive at all.

There are lots of things you can say about our President. Harry Reid has his thoughts and expressed them in public. Rep. Reid has also said that you can "Smell" the American tourists when they are in the Halls of Congress.
He is talking about your parent and children.
What makes me sick is the Black Congress men and women that give him the "Pass". Black on "Light colored Black" is the Democrate way in Washington in the Obama Whitehouse.

If I remember correctly, Sen Lott was not thought of highly as Majority leader (was he maj, or Min. leader at thhe time?), within the Republican party, I thought at the time that his remarks were used as a pretext by Republicans to remove him. In other words, they didn't find the words themselves offensive, just the person saying them.

Of course, they rememmber differently, it was those libruls and leftist media that drove him out of the senate.

This is the same John Cornyn, of course, a former Texas Supreme Court Judge (honest), who explicitly condoned the roughing up of judges whose opinions one objected to.

I think they are still scoring some points with the same people who went along with the Bush administration lies that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was responsible for 911. Those people didn't go away. They can't analyze or synthesize or any other kind of higher levels of thinking. We see the obvious here-they don't.

You might be a racist if: You can't see how Reid's comment is nothing like, let alone worse, than Lott's.