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    LL>>> Republican Party.  Even Michael Steel admitted the GOP goofed.   
      
   BM>>Agreed.... which only enhances their commitment to a segregated   
   BM>>America (My reference here is poor [black & white] vs. the affluent.)   
      
    LL> Not all blacks are poor.  Not all whites are rich.   
    LL> However, an economic argument can be made, and strongly   
    LL> supported.  Bob Dole, as a candidate for president, tried   
    LL> to make that argument in reference to affirmative action,   
    LL> and actually had Bill Clinton on the defensive (and on the   
      
    The point of affirmative action is to insure success is   
    distributed regardless of race. Only those who oppose AA must   
    believe there is no racial compenent to poverty.   
      
    LL> ropes).  Dole's mistake was not having a viable plan of his   
    LL> own to replace affirmative action. Clinton managed to get   
    LL> up off the canvas, making a comeback by suggesting   
    LL> affirmative action needed to be "fixed" rather than   
    LL> "scrapped" - thus winning his bid for a second term.   
      
    Which is true. We need affirmative action for all the poor in   
    America.   
      
    ...   
      
    LL> Black folks are more discriminatory of their own than any   
    LL> other race. There are dark-skinned blacks, light-skinned   
    LL> blacks, blacks who pass for white ...   
      
    When you are reduced to survival level your competitors are not   
    those well off, but those like you scrambling to survive.   
      
    When I was young they could tell us, if we succeeded in school   
    we would have jobs. Now they tell kids, if they succeed in   
    school it's less likely they will be the ones without jobs,   
    someone else will be. Not much of a guarantee.   
      
    ...   
      
   BM>>LOL.... irony as it's best... vote for the man who doesn't give a   
   BM>>rat's ass about you.   
      
    LL> You have to remember - we boil our crawfish LIVE.  :)   
      
    Hmmm... that seems a bit... disturbing...   
      
   BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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