Trent Lott's Disgrace
Letter to the Editor:
The recent disgrace of Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott
explains why 90% of blacks in Florida voted for Al Gore, and why
Florida's Secretary of State Katharine Harris, who was also
chairwoman of George W. Bush's presidential campaign, prevented
94,000 primarily black voters from voting in the 2000 election by
claiming they were ex-felons, an accusation that wasn't true for at
least 10,000 of them. Had these 10,000 blacks not been denied their
constitutional right to vote Gore would have easily won the state
of Florida.
And so the sordid cycle continues. Republicans prevent blacks from
voting in order to get elected so they can continue their
oppression of blacks. Republicans have a long history of
disfranchising those who won't vote for them.
Trent Lott's proposed replacement, Sen. Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), also
received a grade of "F" on the NAACP Congressional Report Card, as
did other mentioned candidates, senators Mitch McConnell of
Kentucky, Don Nickles of Oklahoma and Rick Santorum of
Pennsylvania. The "F" grade means they voted more than 60 percent
against legislation supported by the NAACP.
-David W. Deley
January 2, 2003
For more information see
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
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