WHIT PISTOL Trent Lott on BET, making black Americans wistful for white icon Vanilla Ice.

It was a stark contrast to Monday night’s appearance, where Lott was reserved, even self-effacing as he made an on-air apology directed to African-Americans. In addition to that apology, in which Lott claimed his remarks had been misconstrued as pro-segregationist when they were not intended that way, Lott tried to explain his long history of voting against legislation supported by African- Americans, including affirmative action and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.

On Friday, Lott was decidedly more in-your-face, despite claims he was “just chillin’ on the B to the E.T.” Though in his previous interview with Ed Gordon Trent claimed he was not a racist because he did not feel superior to Gordon, the Trent Lott in attendance Friday did suggest he was the mack daddy of riches and bitches.

“Yo, Ed G., it ain’t no secret—T-Lo pulls all the fine bitches like motherfuckin’ gravity. The honies love power and T-Lo’s got it. You down with G.O.P.? Yeah, you know me.”

When pressed about his voting record, Lott was less apologetic than Monday’s interview.

“It’s all good, Ed G. The plain truth is I ain’t up in them cap-hill offices readin’ all day like Muhammad or sumptin’. I’m just there to get pizzaid, and I just click the buttons until the checks is wrote and I get the fuck out for the weekend. Know what I’m sayin’? Just up there, trying to keep it real.”

Interviewer Gordon questioned Lott on his strange new attitude, but Lott insisted the change was not inspired by polls stating his apologies were ineffective.

“It’s all me, G. The real T-Lo got tired of puttin’ on that whack suit-and-tie bullshit. That ain’t the real Trent Lott, know what I’m sayin’? That was just frontin’ ‘cause I thought white America wasn’t down wit’ me otherwise. But, y’know, fuck all y’all who don’t like the real T-Lo. Y’all just weak-ass perpetrators.”

As for his earlier pro-segregationist remarks, Lott was quick to dismiss them.

“Yo, yo, yo, Ed G., that was some crazy-ass shit I said, I know that. But what you expect me to do? They asked me to say somethin’ at this old-ass Strom Thurmond motherfucker’s birthday and I had to come up with somethin’ fast. Everybody’d be all pissed at me if I said he looked like Redd Fox’s nutsack, right? So I just spun some mad bullshit about supportin’ his presidential bid and shit—I ain’t know what fuckin’ ‘segregationist’ mean, sounds like the name of Prince’s new band or somethin’. I said the shit, I’m truly sizzorry, homeslice, what you want from me? This shit done blown all outta proportion.”

Lott stressed that he has drastic plans for change when he returns to Washington, including hiring an entourage of 10 leather-clad bodyguards, shaving his initials into his hair, and “tryin’ to hook up wit’ that fine-ass Beyoncé.” As for legislature, Lott promises all his future Senate- floor speeches will be freestyle rhymes and he promises to have a joint holiday for Biggie and Tupac on the national calendar before the end of 2003.

Officials in the black community, in the meantime, have stressed that they liked Lott much better when he was on the clearly opposing side.

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