feedback: race, ethnicity, equality
Monday, October 18, 2004 - 07:54 AM
Whether affirmative action is a "dead issue" among people of color is not the issue. Disennfranchisement, lack of empowerment, are issues that resonate among people of color which indeed are important to all Americans.
Removal of various self help programs from head start to legal aid are all being chiseled away incrementally by Bush.
While two of your radio participants may feel that issues of "blackness" are no longer important, the Republicans tried to pay friends of mine to sit in the Republican Convention to show there were indeed black faces.
-JA
How can any minority voter support a president who chose the arch-segregationist John Ashcroft to enforce the laws of the land?
-AH
even today with the reports of the widening gaps in incomes between
racial groups i do not think that the candidates will touch this
issue...what are minority groups supposed to think when they see
"whites" recovering their economic advantage and their positon
worsening.
-MT
Please ask your guests about a "new school" phenomenom - the
nonidentity of minority interests. For example, the influx of hispanic
immigrants directly compete with American Blacks for jobs. Yet leaders
like your guests paper over these fundmental differences.
-NP
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