Armstrong Williams takes the GOP to task over Trent Lott's recent case of redneckery:
So far, President Bush has made a considerable attempt to build bridges in the black community. His grassroots support for school vouchers and the diversity of his own cabinet should proclaim to black Americans that they are part of the Republican Party.
But black America's distrust of the Republican Party runs deep. The psychological scars won't just fade away. And whatever gains the president has made (and was poised to make with a GOP-controlled Senate) can be ripped to shreds when just one leading member of the GOP makes remarks as racially insensitive as those offered by Sen. Lott.
Armstrong can sometimes fumble the Hell out of an issue on his talk show, but he's dead on in this column. He and I agreed about Lott during the Council of Conservative Citizens fiasco and we agree about him today.