Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) distanced himself from a racist political group he has been linked to. Responding to a letter from the Anti- Defamation League asking him to clarify his views toward the Council of Conservative Christians, Lott said last week that although he once spoke to the group, he had never been a member of the group and “can’t imagine being associated with an organization that promotes any form of racial supremacy.” The ADL welcomed Lott’s letter, but said he and other government officials had a “responsibility to prevent such groups from gaining the imprimatur of legitimacy they clearly seek through any kind of association” with political officials.
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