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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 2899
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 20, 2008 - 09:08 pm: | 
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http://www.essence.com/essence/lifestyle/voices/0,16109,1807698-1,00.html
...When the 71-year-old Arizona senator, wearing khaki pants and a dark blazer, finally walks into the suite where we are to conduct our interview, he seems every bit the military man he is—rigid in his bearing, gracious, serious, respectful. He thanks ESSENCE for taking the time to talk to him and stops me when I begin to tell him about our 8 million readers.
“I know the magazine well,” he says.
...ESSENCE: Republican Newt Gingrich said the Republicans should not ignore the African-American and Latino community, but this election year Republican candidates Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani didn’t bother to address the Black community. As the Republican nominee, how will you reach out to the Black community, not only in this election, but afterward?
McCain: Go to places and venues that would allow me to continue a dialogue with the African-American community. I will go to the NAACP convention.
ESSENCE: You will?
McCain: Oh, yeah. I don’t know any reason why not. I went to Selma and stood at the Edmund Pettus Bridge and talked about the need to include “forgotten Americans.” I will never as long as I live forget the beautiful women of Gees Bend, Alabama, with the quilts. They were singing spirituals. On the first occasion I could find in the White House I would have them sing again. It was so moving. There was a woman there who was 91 years old. Can you imagine the environment she lived in when she was 21? And yet, this woman was full of hope, compassion and forgiveness. But does that mean in my campaign I am going to get a majority of the African-American vote? Probably not. But what it does mean, what I’ve committed to, is assuring and promising all Americans whether they vote for me or not, I am going to be their president. Americans are sick and tired of partisanship and divisions along party lines that cause gridlock and frustration and lack of addressing the issues that confront America... |
Ntfs_encryption
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Username: Ntfs_encryption
Post Number: 3147
Registered: 10-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 04:57 am: |
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I won't vote for the man for obvious reasons but I do respect him for trying (unlike Rudy and Mitt whose contempt for blacks could not be disguised and neither attempted to do so). By attempting to have a dialogue or at least recognize there are other types of people in this country besides whites, I will give him credit for doing so. His attempt to recognize or at least address blacks goes against the Republican credo. As I have stated before, the Republican party recognizes and panders to three groups; 1.) Big business, 2.) Class (anything but working and lower) and 3.) Whites. John McCain cannot change that. But he has made his decision to be a member of the club. So be it.... |
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