Civil Rights Group Seeks Kerry Apology

[lazydaze]

``John Kerry is not a black man - he is a privileged white man who has no idea what it is in this country to be a poor white in this country, let alone a black man,'' said Paula Diane Harris, founder of the Andrew Young National Center for Social Change.

Harris also criticized civil rights leaders who ``sit back and ignore these types of comments, a practice that further insults African Americans.''

``It seems that all these leaders care about is their personal agendas in how a 'John Kerry' will keep up their personal causes,'' she said.

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Originally posted by lazydaze@Mar 10 2004, 11:20 AM
``John Kerry is not a black man - he is a privileged white man who has no idea what it is in this country to be a poor white in this country, let alone a black man,'' said Paula Diane Harris, founder of the Andrew Young National Center for Social Change.

Harris also criticized civil rights leaders who ``sit back and ignore these types of comments, a practice that further insults African Americans.''

``It seems that all these leaders care about is their personal agendas in how a 'John Kerry' will keep up their personal causes,'' she said.

good, that comment was stupid

[BringBackZezel]

I LOVE BLACK PEOPLE!!!!!!

[kah2523]

Except that it wasn't a civil rights group, and no real civil rights group has protested.

BLACK LIKE WHO? I'm not going to pretend John Kerry's remark about hoping to be the next black president wasn't clumsy. But you have to be a P.C. dolt not to grasp what he was trying to say, which was: "I want to be really, really good on issues that matter to the black community." He was pandering! (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) And it appears most of the civil rights groups got the message loud and clear. How far did Associated Press reporter Siohban McDonough have to page through her Rolodex to find a "civil rights group" willing to slap Kerry for his remark? Pretty far: McDonough's entire story, headlined "Civil Rights Group Seeks Kerry Apology," rests on quotes from one Paula Diane Harris, founder of the Andrew Young National Center for Social Change -- which is not a civil rights group, but rather "a web-based for-profit corporation" which "provides a range of human service products nationally." It's not exactly clear what connection Young himself, who has quite a distinguished civil rights resume (and is also a prominent backer of President Bush's faith-based initiatives) has to the center, besides its being named after him.
Harris complains: "John Kerry is not a black man -- he is a privileged white man who has no idea what it is in this country to be a poor white in this country, let alone a black man." (Did no one else tell Kerry this? Someone's head is gonna role!) I note that at the top of the company's Web site is Harris's motto, "There's only one race and that's the Human Race." Pity she abandoned that sentiment for some cheap mau-mauing aimed at getting her law firm a little press.

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[Damtoft]

LOL

[CSD]

Originally posted by BringBackZezel@Mar 10 2004, 11:24 AM


I LOVE BLACK PEOPLE!!!!!!

LOL!

[Bleacher Creature]

Ann Coulter - Diane Harris. Put them both into a boat, and set it adrift in the Pacific.

Why do you even care what they say?