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Written by James A. Landrith   
Monday, 25 January 1999

01/25/99 Letter to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott


January 25, 1999

The Honorable Trent Lott
Senate Majority Leader
487 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-2403

Dear Majority Leader Lott:

As the interracially married father of two multiracial children I feel compelled to express my extreme disappointment with your choice of company. For any public servant to have ties with an organization such as the Council of Conservative Citizens, who consider my marriage and the existence of my children as a threat to be eliminated is not only disturbing, it’s infuriating.

In light of the recent discoveries regarding your affiliations with the racist, white supremacist organization known as the Council of Conservative Citizens and your long history of affiliation and advocacy efforts on behalf of other racist organizations such as Bob Jones University, I ask you do the only honorable thing left - RESIGN. Your recent statements disassociating yourself from these types of organizations is a classic case of too little, too late. You should never have become involved with bigots and dangerous extremists in the first place. There is no place in the 106th Congress for a man committed to the principles of segregation and racial intolerance.

 Again I ask, RESIGN.

 Sincerely,



James A. Landrith, Jr.
Editor & Publisher
The Multiracial Activist

 cc:
Charles Michael Byrd, INTERRACIAL VOICE
Deb Brown, INTERracial
Candy Mills, INTERRACE
Matthew Kelley, MAVIN Journal
Colette Lantelme, Metisse Magazine Online
Susan Graham, Project RACE
Ramona Douglass, Association of Multi-Ethnic Americans
Steve White, A Place For Us
David Goldman, HateWatch

 
James Landrith is the notorious editor and publisher of The Multiracial Activist and The Abolitionist Examiner, two cyber-rags dedicated to freedom from oppressive racial categorization. Landrith can be reached by email at: This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it or at his personal website/blog.





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 1 Letter to the Editor
Written by Kai Khon Mong, on 18-08-1999 13:13
Dear Editor, 
 
I do appreciate your letter to the Senator. I am originally from Burma, and a practice lawyer in Burma. I came here to continue my studies, and after finishing my School I have a plan to serve the Lord. I will send you the copy of my complaint to Civil Rights Office in US Department of Education, in Dallas. They don't want to take care of that case, however, I contacted Senator John Warner, and he is trying to help me. When you receive my letter, you will see 
how it is unfair to our Constitutional Law. Thanks in advance. May God bless 
you.
 2 letter to senator lott
Written by Jim Greeenway, on 22-04-1999 09:06
When I read that comment that Senator Lott made it made me so pissed off I could bite nails. I can't believe this man can be a U.S. Senator with his racist views. I am a white man married to a black woman and we have three children. I feel that there is no one in congress that represents our views. We live in Charleston, SC and there is nothing going on here for people involved in interracial marriages. I am going to have to start some kind of orginzation here so families with our 
views will feel more accepted in a Southern racist state. Well I am glad you wrote Lott and I am very ashamed of him. 
 
 
Jim Greeenway 
 
Editor's Response: Starting an organization in your state is an excellent idea! There are many existing organizations that can help you get started. North of you in North Carolina is Triangle Interracial and Multicultural Experience (TIME) run by Marsha Alston which can be accessed at: www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/5315/. Her email address is listed on that page as well. Their website 
hasn't been updated in a while, but I believe they're still active. 
 
For other organizations, check out The Multiracial Activist - Interracial/Multiracial Organizations & Websites at:  
http://www.multiracial.com/links/links-multiracialorgs.html. 
 
Also, in SC, The Multiracial Activist is involved with legislation to remove eligibility for state-funded LIFE 
scholarships from students attending interracially intolerant Bob Jones University in Greenville. Last fall, I inquired about their racist admissions policy and received a letter from BJU which is posted on my site. After that letter, I applied for admission as a test and was denied by email. That email is also posted on the site. Currently, Senator Darrell Jackson, of Columbia is pushing the legislation. For more information on BJU's policies and this legislation see: 
www.multiracial.com/issues/issues-bobjonesuniversity.html.
 3 Thank You Sir.
Written by Charles E. Coleman Jr., on 14-04-1999 20:00
If there was one good thing that came out of the trial of Pres. Clinton was, all the dirty laundry of Bob Barr, Trent Lott & Tom D. We have people in the 106th that have the power to change laws that will effect are childrens furture. Keep up the work Sir. 
 
Charles E. Coleman Jr.
 4 Letter to the Editor
Written by CLDJAGHVD, on 25-09-2000 17:59
Lott, Barr, Byrd, etc..should all resign from their elected posts. I have always believed that they were evil men, each time I look upon their faces on television, I feel as if I'm looking at Satan or his representatives here on Earth. I'm pleased to know that I'm not the only citizen who can see them for what they truly are. They definitely donot represent all the citizens of their individual states. I will keep abreast of your web site diligently.
 5 dump Trent Lott
Written by Joe Harkins, on 15-12-2002 08:00
Please visit "www.dumptrentlott.com
 
Read the articles; Sign a petition; Spread the word to others to do the same.
 6 Letter to the Editor
Written by Sandra Lapierre, on 08-06-1999 19:34
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 18:34:46 -0700 (PDT) 
From: Sandra Lapierre 
Subject: Letter to the Editor 
 
I want to thank you for being unafraid of standing up to Mr. Lott and the other senators and congressmen who hold such a racist view. It is hard enough to 
raise my two biracial sons who we adopted with out having to fight congress and the government to enforce the laws that they have already put on the books. You have featured three different articles about our fight to adopt the last child.  
You are the first group who has wanted to help support this cause of transracial adoption by featuring the articles. He is our son and is the light of my life. Because of what we went through I have become very active in lobbing for changes in the laws and to see that they are enforced. No one should have to go through what our family has been put through. 
 
Sandra Lapierre
 7 Letter to the Editor
Written by a friend, on 18-06-1999 23:43
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1999 22:43:44 (EDT) 
From: a friend 
Subject: Letter to the Editor 
 
Dear Landrith, 
 
I very, very much agree with the statement you issued to Senator 
Lott. I just felt like sending you an E-Mail because I am really trying to 
pin down my identity right now. I often feel uncomfortable being biracial 
and would like some advice on dealing with it. My mother a white American 
married my father a black African immigrant and they divorced when I was 
aprox. a year old. My mother literally went insane (she had had a history of 
mental illness) and could no longer take care of me. Her mother (my 
grandmother) began adoption proceedings when I was 14 months old and 
eventually got custody of me. I haven't seen or heard from my mother in 
years, my father visits once yearly and calls me on the phone. He now lives 
in Arizona, is a pharmacist and has two new kids and an African wife. I have 
been raised by my grandma and love her very much. At times I just hate being 
biracial though. I often which I was just either white or black. I often 
feel too white to be black and too black to be white. Please help me. 
 
 
a friend

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