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...only 6% of younger blacks say they are Republicans, but those numbers could grow if Republicans made a real effort to expand their outreach. One step would be for Bill Frist, Lott's successor as Senate Republican leader, to sit down with Henderson and the Congressional Black Caucus to find areas of agreement. It's probably too much to expect the Republicans to abandon their opposition to affirmative action, but they might be willing to talk the President out of some ultraconservative judicial appointments. Even better, on the theory that confession is the first step to redemption, Bush could deliver...
...quotation also describes the hostility Ford's bid to lead House Democrats provoked from backward-looking members of the older generation of black activists and politicians, including some of his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus. The sheer meanness - and downright stupidity - of the vituperation is an indication of the intellectual bankruptcy of what currently passes for black leadership. Ford is too shrewd to talk openly about the insults himself, but they obviously stung him. Not content to criticize Ford on the legitimate grounds of his callowness and lack of legislative accomplishments, some dredged up his "high yellow" skin color...
...there were a political version of the color-coded terrorism-alert system, Senate Republican leader Trent Lott would have gone to orange last week as he braced for an emergency Republican caucus. Several G.O.P. Senators were in revolt over news that House Republicans had tinkered with legislation creating a Homeland Security Department, slipping in provisions that had little to do with making the country safer but a lot to do with making special-interest groups happy. Lott figured he could get House leaders to delete the most egregious items when Congress returns in January, so he had his staff hang...
...role as assistant dean, Viggiani started the College’s first gay, lesbian and bisexual caucus that included administrators, faculty members and students...
...race would have been drastically different had the Democratic Party supported Senator-Elect Coleman when he was one of their own. Coleman was elected and served as Mayor of St. Paul as a Democrat. He and other elected officials, such as Co-Chair of the House Pro-Life Caucus Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), left the Democratic Party because of the party’s rigid intolerance of opponents of abortion...