re: #168 tradewind

That seems like a false equivalency to me, Trent Lott said that “And if the rest of the country had followed our lead [voting for Strom Thurmond and segregation], we wouldn’t have had all these problems over the years, either.” (washingtonpost.com)

Reid said that people would be more willing to vote for a black candidate if he wasn’t all that dark of skin and didn’t sound like a sterotypical black person.

Both of those are racist, but one of them is speculating on people’s views, the other is advocating we return to Jim Crow….