An Exclusive Interview With Trent Lott [Dec 11, 2002]
Trent Lott uncorked a media blitz yesterday that included interviews with Sean Hannity of Fox News, CNN's Larry King, Summer Sanders of NBA Inside Stuff, and me. The Senator has, in the past, spoken out about how bloggers are leading the way in the fight against Islamofascism. Plus, he's an old friend. At the end of a long, hard day, we sat down for an exclusive web conversation.
He arrived wearing a long white robe, which he said he was wearing to a "meeting" later. He didn't explain the pitchfork. After a platonic hug, we got to work. He spoke with the honesty reserved for talking to an old friend.
NP: Well, Trent, you've come under a lot of fire lately for making the following statement at Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party: "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either." What were you talking about?
TL: You know.
NP: No, I don't.
TL: Well, sure you do. Race-mixing. Miscegenation. Shared drinking fountains. Black children getting educated alongside white children. It's just not right.
NP: So you think integration has caused problems?
TL: Look, I'm not for reinstating slavery--it's too late for that--but it wouldn't take that much work to resegregate America. Just take the black people who don't already live in the black neighborhoods, and move them back. And just slap a couple of extra restrooms out back of every restaurant and gas station. Also, we'd have to build new white-only airplanes, because the ones we have now are contaminated. It would work fine. The darker races prefer being with their own kind anyway.
NP: What if they don't want to be resegregated?
TL: We've got a saying in Mississippi. "If you smack a nigra down once, he'll smack you back. Smack him down twice, he'll look at you defiantly, like Denzel Washington in Glory. But if you smack him down three times, you'll be his master forever." So I'm not too concerned.
NP: There's an important case before the Supreme Court right now regarding cross-burning. Do you believe that act is protected by the First Amendment?
TL: Sure I do! Hell, I've participated in more cross-burnings that I can count, and they've been great!
NP: So they should be allowed to continue?
TL: You bet! In fact, I'm heading to one right after this interview. Seems like an uppity Nigra boy's been lookin' at a white woman askance, and we're gonna teach him a lesson.
NP: Aren't you afraid black people will react negatively to your views?
TL: What people?
NP: Black people.
TL: That's what YOU call them. And I don't care what they think. Just like the homosexuals, they're an aberration of God, and there is no place for them in God's America.
NP: Aren't you afraid of being censured?
TL: Let 'em come. All my enemies. Jesus will protect me.
NP: Trent Lott, I know you have to get to your cross-burning, so I won't keep you. Let me just say that that you are a DELIGHT, and I look forward to you becoming Senate Majority Leader.
TL: Thank you, Neal. I just want to ask you a question before I go.
NP: Sure!
TL: Are you a Jew?
NP: Pardon me?
