Clinton LeSueur, a black Republican who ran for Congress in Mississippi this year, responds to Lottgate in this morning's USA Today by approvingly quoting outgoing congressman J. C. Watts, another black Republican: according to Watts, Lott's remarks were "appropriate to the forum."

I guess that puts Watts and LeSueur on the same side as the unabashed segregationists at nationalist.org, who think Lott's original remarks were appropriate, too.

And, incidentally, these folks weren't particularly happy about LeSueur's candidacy.