Count me not among those who believe that wearing a “racism sucks” t-shirt is an act of praiseworthy morality. I have no trouble with discrimination per se, indeed, the ability to discriminate between the good and the bad, the wise and the foolish, and the worthwhile and the useless is a talent indeed. And as far as superficial things go, I have little doubt that were everyone to have exactly the same shade of skin, we would use eye color, hair texture or the ability to curl one’s tongue to separate ourselves into clannish, warring sub-groups.
Nor do I believe that many of the Senate Majority Leader’s loudest critics are anything but hypocrites. It is tempting, is it not, to defend the man simply on the grounds that irreverent Jesse “The Preacher, The Playa” Jackson is attacking him. Yes, it is the famous lover of “Hymietown” himself who cast the first stone. Beautiful! All we need is Al Sharpton – check!
But the fact that a pack of racist African-American buffoons are baying for Sen. Lott’s hairspray-hardened head does not mean that we should not serve it happily to them on a platter. Consider the man’s long and massively undistinguished record. He has spent his entire career collaborating with the left in feeding Leviathan and urinating upon the principles of freedom, liberty and smaller government for which the party he leads is supposed to stand.
There are those who defend the man on the principle that a single misstep should not sink a career. But there are two problems with this defense. First, this is not the first time that the Senate Majority Leader has inserted his foot into his mouth while speaking on racially charged issues. Second, as I have written before with regards to abortion, life is rife with extremely severe penalties for a single, momentary mistake.
American politics is blood sport, and a senator who is stupid enough to say, in the year 2002, that the country would have been a better place without the civil-rights movement is as dead in the arena as a Roman gladiator sans sword and shield. His fitness for leadership aside, he should be disqualified on the grounds of sheer political idiocy.
I sincerely hope the senior senator from Mississippi will see fit to do the right thing and resign. A poster boy for sham Republicanism, he is a statist in sheep’s clothing, and the American people would be much better off without this unprincipled political prostitute holding any position of leadership in their government.
One suspects that Sen. Lott will find, like Lady Macbeth, that the taint of that which is unseemly will cling inexorably to him, a deadly spot which cannot be washed away.
Out, damned Lott! Out, I say! – One apology: two: why, then, ’tis time to do’t. – Hell is murky! – Fie, my lord, fie! a senator, and afeard?
