Not Your Sweetie

Gore calls Lott's Statements Racist


Gore offered no criticism of Thurmond, saying the
retiring senator has since
"repudiated" those views. But he said Lott's
remarks are "divisive" and fit the
"definition of a racist comment."

"To say that the problems that we have in America
today, some of them, stem from
not electing a segregationist candidate for
president ... is fundamentally racist," Gore
said.

Asked if he believes Lott is a racist, Gore said,
"Trent Lott made a statement that I
think is a racist statement, yes. That's why I
think he should withdraw those
comments or I think the United States Senate
should undertake a censure of those
comments.

"It is not a small thing, Judy, for one of the
half dozen most prominent political
leaders in America to say that our problems are
caused by integration and that we
should have had a segregationist candidate. That
is divisive and it is divisive along
racial lines. That's the definition of a racist
comment," Gore said.