The Anti-Defamation League criticized recent comments of Senate Republican leader Trent Lott as “irresponsible and unacceptable.” The ADL issued its criticism after Lott said last week, at a birthday party for retiring Sen. Strom Thurmond, that the nation would have been better off had then-segregationist candidate Thurmond won the presidency in 1948.
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