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...friend of President George W. Bush") pointedly noted that the President, a longtime Texan who is expected to move to Dallas and build his library here after he leaves the White House, carried the county with just 50.1% of the vote in 2004. Dallas has long had a large African-American population, and now nearly a third of Dallas County is Latino...
Before the hiring of men’s basketball coach Tommy Amaker in April, the Boston Globe reported that Harvard did not have one African-American among its 32 head coaches—a glaring statistic for any university committed to diversity. But is anyone concerned about the students who actually play the games...
Brown did not enumerate specific percentages, but reported that “6-7 percent” of undergraduates were African-American, compared to “5-6 percent” of student-athletes. Penn’s data, which ranges from 2001 to 2004, shows that 6.9 percent of its students were black, as opposed to 4.9 percent of all student-athletes. Dartmouth declined to delineate between races, but noted that as of 2004, more than 30 percent of its undergraduates were students of color—and yet they represented only 9.8 percent of intercollegiate athletes...
...Rich, a former chief of the voting section in the civil rights division who worked at the Justice Department for 35 years before leaving in 2005, says that from 2001 to 2006, no voting discrimination cases were brought on behalf of African-American or Native American voters. Instead, he alleges, U.S.attorneys were told to give priority to voter-fraud cases, which civil rights groups have long contended are actually meant to depress voter turnout in minority communities...
Simmons insists that his proposal is not about censorship but about “the corporate social responsibility of the industry to voluntarily show respect to African Americans and other people of color, African-American women and to all women in lyrics and images.” But if Simmons truly believes that showing respect to women and minorities should be done “voluntarily,” he seriously needs to check himself. Showing respect for these groups is something that needs to happen all the time, in every medium...