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Do you see why that short statement caused Trent Lott to resign as Senate Majority Leader?  Think about this before reading the answer in the next paragraph.

Do you see why that short statement caused Trent Lott to resign as Senate Majority Leader?  Think about this before reading the answer in the next paragraph.

Strom Thurmond ran for president in 1948, before ''Brown v. Board of Education'' ended racial segregation in public schools, and Strom Thurmond support racial segregation in schools as part of his campaign positions.  The media then accused Lott of being a racist by saying the Nation would have been better off if Thurmond had won.  Lott apologized repeatedly and profusely for his statement, and did not mean fo it to be a racist remark, but the media attention and controversy forced him to resign his leadership position, and about five years later he resigned fromthe Senate altogether.

Strom Thurmond ran for president in 1948, before ''Brown v. Board of Education'' ended racial segregation in public schools, and Strom Thurmond support racial segregation in schools as part of his campaign positions.  The media then accused Lott of being a racist by saying the Nation would have been better off if Thurmond had won.  Lott apologized repeatedly and profusely for his statement, and did not mean fo it to be a racist remark, but the media attention and controversy forced him to resign his leadership position, and about five years later he resigned from the Senate altogether.

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