{"id":7777,"date":"2002-12-18T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-18T01:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=7777"},"modified":"2021-07-03T01:49:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T01:49:36","slug":"trent-lott-espy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2002\/12\/18\/trent-lott-espy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trent Lott & Espy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Date: Wed, December 18, 2002 1:31 am
From: Valerie Wilkins-Godbee
To: hannity@foxnews.com, oreilly@foxnews.com, editor@multiracial.com Subject: re: TRENT LOTT & ESPY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOX NEWS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Mr. Hannity and Mr. O\u2019Reilly;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RE: Senator Trent Lott and Espy (as a possible replacement).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

INTERRACIAL WOMEN\u2019S POLITICAL CONSORTIUM, as their president, read today a story about the possibility of former agricultural secretary Espy being replaced should Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) step down in January 2003. What disturbed me more then the tragic \u201crace-baiting\u201d, and hypocritical stance the opposite party is engaged in is the comment that the Governor of Mississippi made. That \u201cEspy\u201d would be good, \u201chands down\u201d, for a \u201cbiracial\u201d coalition in Washington, D.C.. Impossible!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The minute the word \u201cbiracial\u201d was used a red-flag went up. The democrats who have challenged us, especially with regards to the Census 2000 changes on the question of race, but LOST the battle and war on Directive 15, have the un-unmitigated gaul to even use the word \u201cbiracial\u201d seriously. But, now suddenly they\u2019re desperately trying to usurp our mission. Biracial, multiethnic and multiracial\u2026. If anyone decides to use the term, \u201cbiracial\u201d loosely, again in the democratic party, the very party that mostly fought us leaders tooth-and-nail, to obliterate our biracial causes, will have done so FOOLISHLY! They will be ousted for the very race-mongering, past and present, they are immersed in. We will challenge any\/all who think they can decide, after all the works been accomplished, to suddenly put on the happy face of \u201cbiracial\u201d \u201cmultiethnic\u201d and\/or \u201cmultiracial\u201d leadership that they will be EXPOSED before the world of their utter crippling race-hating hypocrisy! It will NOT go un-challenged, so help me God. Enough is enough. When Ms. Karen Hunter of the NY Daily News wrote in her column, a couple years ago, stating Rev. Al Sharpton was the \u201cnew\u201d multiracial\/multiethnic leader, I wrote her, and she wrote back enlightened. This time I won\u2019t be so kind in my criticism should the Governor of Mississippi make the same idiotic mistake, in a widely public forum. I hope that you will also shade light on the \u201creal\u201d multiracial leadership as does C-Span, Washington Post, AP, The Detroit Free Press, and many others in the past. Some, sadly, when they had no other historical journalistic choice. We appreciate any support you can lend us interracial leaders in the United States. Thank you for reading my e-mail today. Happy Holidays!!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sincerely,
\u2013
Valerie Wilkins-Godbee
President, and
former dep. chief national
director of
A PLACE FOR US\/National
a 501 (c) (3) advocacy
group for interracial
couples, families,
& ind., est. 1984!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

cc: Interracial Leaders in the U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: For more on some exciting news about this \u201cnewly\u201d forming group see The Multiracial Activist & *The Abolitionist Examiner (*bottom page), website: www.multiracial.com<\/a> \u2013 go to \u201cpress releases\u201d Sept. 28, 2001 and Nov. 11 or 12, 2001 announcements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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