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by Jesse Lee
OpEdNews.com
In 1948, Strom Thurmond, the late Republican Senator from South Carolina, ran for president. Trent Lott recently lost his position as Senate Majority Leader for reminiscing fondly of that campaign, because the platform was explicitly and inflamingly racist. The campaign sought to portray the black man as a sexual monster (think of King Kong), and argued that equal rights would allow the beast to run rampant.
But the portrayal of Strom Thurmond
