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...still refers to the world's most populous country as "Red" China. He stuck up for the architects of apartheid over the black majority in South Africa and once accused Reagan-era Secretary of State George Shultz of "playing footsie with the communists." Last year, after debating Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, the first black woman in the Senate, about the virtues of the Confederate flag, he said, "I'm going to sing Dixie to her until she cries." When Clinton nominated Roberta Achtenberg, a gay-rights activist, to a post at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Helms said...
Which is why, as they head toward this year's midterm elections, incumbents worry about fallout from the Rostenkowski indictment. Former Illinois Senator Alan Dixon remembers how, just weeks before his unsuccessful 1992 primary bid against Carol Moseley-Braun, the House banking scandal erupted onto Chicago's front pages. "My polls dropped 7 points in one day, and we didn't even have a bank in the Senate...
...legal arcana, the bill inspired fierce rhetoric in the Senate last week. The act, said Orrin Hatch of Nevada, "has nothing to do with racial justice and everything to do with abolishing the death penalty" by employing "unreliable and manipulable statistical quota." To the act's defense came Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois -- with statistics. Since 1988, she said, the government has sought the death penalty for drug kingpins in 36 cases involving four whites, four Hispanics and 28 blacks. Said Moseley-Braun: "Keep in mind that 75% of the defendants charged under this statute have been white." The Senate...
...Carol Moseley-Braun (D.-Illinois...
Mayo's main objection to Council member Tom E. Woods' selection--the United Daughters of the Confederacy--was much loftier. Dredging up the whole Confederate flag ordeal, Mayo suggests that these ladies exist to offend the likes of Senator Carol Moseley-Braun, rather than to preserve Southern culture. Mayo responds to Woods' description of Moseley-Braun as an "arrogant elite" by suggesting that Peninsula is presumptuous in suggesting that a Black female could actually be an elite. I hope all of those who feel black women are unqualified to be members of the elite are, like Mayo, no longer part...