Dirty arabs pay NO taxes + set up drug shops in poor Black neighborhoods

From: Harry Hope (rivrvu_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 10/11/04 

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 12:24:11 -0400

Dirty arabs pay NO taxes + set up drug shops in poor Black neighborhoods

African-Africans can blame Ted KKKennedy and John "FlipFlopper" KKKerry
for sponsoring and voting for the "Arab Tax Relief Act of 1988," whereby
dirty arab immigrants are allowed tax free breaks to set up their
drug-dealing and money-laundering shops in the inner city.

Thanks to the Bush administration's war on terrorism, the U.S.
Department of Justice has intercepted billions of dollars that dirty
arabs have tried to smuggle out to their dirty arab brothers in the
Sudan -- money that is used in the genocide of Black Africans.

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Black Boycott Targets Arabs

Minister wants African Americans to buy gasoline from businesses owned
by blacks

By Joel Kurth, and Delores Patterson / The Detroit News

DEARBORN -- A proposed boycott by blacks of all Arab-American gasoline
stations has drawn swift rebukes from ethnic leaders, who call it an
opportunistic move doomed to failure.

The Rev. Horace L. Sheffield III, president of the Michigan chapter of
Al Sharpton's National Action Network, called for the "Strategic Buying
Campaign" on Tuesday in response to a handful of recent assaults at
convenience stores owned by Arab Americans.

"We need to let people know we want to be treated in the proper fashion
in places where we spend our money," said Sheffield, a Baptist minister
from Detroit. "The ill treatment and disrespect that African Americans
have been exposed to for far too long must come to an end."

Arab-American leaders condemned Sheffield for, in their view,
exacerbating tensions.

"He's taking a few bad incidents and playing on the anxieties and
emotions of people in trying to build a name for himself," said Nassar
Beydoun, executive director of the American Arab Chamber of Commerce. "A
lot of Arab-American owners have great relations with their black
neighbors, and Horace Sheffield's boycott isn't going to change that."

Imad Hamad, director of the Michigan chapter of the Arab-American
Anti-Discrimination Committee, called the attempt at a boycott "out of
line and out of touch."

"This will only escalate tensions and will not help any of the
challenges we face," Hamad said. "This definitely sends the wrong
message and adds fuel to the fire. It doesn't serve the interests of the
Arab-American or African-American community."

Sheffield is calling for blacks to patronize about 50 black-owned
service stations in Detroit.

Sheffield and about 50 others rallied Tuesday in Detroit in front of an
Arab American-owned Clark station on Gratiot and Conner, where a
sexagenarian grandmother claimed she was assaulted the day before.

Also on Monday, a Southfield gas station attendant, Adeeb J. Haddad, 58,
of Sterling Heights, was charged with assaulting a 13-year-old
African-American boy he thought stole a pop.

In another recent incident, a black customer was locked in a Ferndale
gas station after an argument with an Arab-American attendant.

Sheffield is planning a forum at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in his church, New
Galilee Missionary Baptist Church, 11241 Gunston, Detroit. He's also
planning a summit to discuss the complaints with Arab-American leaders
and gas-station owners.

The protest is the latest in a series for Sheffield. In the last year,
he also has rallied against deaths of suspected shoplifters who were
subdued by security guards at both Fairlane Town Center in Dearborn and
a Kroger grocery store in Royal Oak Township.

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GOP Black Professionals : Dr. William H. Cosby :: Ghetto Blacks : Al
Qaeda Sharpton

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KKKerry disses Dr. Cosby ~ Why Black Professionals will vote for
BUSH/CHENEY

"John Kerry has called for an increase in the minimum wage. He said
people out there are struggling, and you can't always fix the problem by
marrying a rich woman." -- Jay Leno

Again displaying his true KKKondescending racist colors, witness John
KKKerry telling an educated, successful, and philantropic Black man what
Blacks need to do and think.

Witness KKKerry -- the ugly rich White guy who marries an ugly rich
foreign ketchup heiress -- tell Blacks that only welfare will uplift
them.

This is no surprise as whitey Demo-KKK-Rats are always dissing Blacks
like National Security Adviser Dr. Condaleezza Rice and U.S. Secretary
of State Colin L. Powell because they only want to see unqualified
whiteys like Sandy "National Archives Burglar" Berger and step-n-fetchit
ghetto blacks like Al Qaeda Sharpton in the "Whitey" House. See:
http://tinyurl.com/3sb3j

My fellow well-educated, middle-class and/or professional
African-Americans, we've studied and worked hard for our money. Let's
keep our eyes on the prize: The American Dream.

As Dr. William H. Cosby said, don't let racist Demon-KKK-Rats like John
KKKerry TAX and TAX and TAX all your hard-earned money away to give to
Al Qaeda Sharpton and his lazy welfare ghetto "knucklehead thugs"!

President George W. Bush and the Party of Lincoln passed the "Leave No
Child Behind Act" because Demon-KKK-Rats and their racist and
incompetent whitey teachers unions have doomed our African-American,
Latino-American, and Native-American children by placing them in
"special ed" classes with racist low expectations!

Racist Demon-KKK-Rats have devastated the Black Christian Family with
their national socialist = nazi welfare systems. Get up! Stand up for
your rights! Get on the GOP bus and vote Bush/Cheney and the Party of
Lincoln!

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Natalie P. McNeal. The Miami Herald. "Black congregation embraces GOP
message." 2003/02/03.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/5091701.htm

Gov. Jeb Bush could have chosen any of a thousand places in Florida to
make a Martin Luther King Day speech. But he chose Worldwide Christian
Center in Pompano Beach, where he received hugs and cheers.

The 1,300-member congregation at 450 N. Powerline Rd. is predominantly
black and predominantly Republican -- a rare combination in
overwhelmingly Democratic Broward County.

"Years ago, I took a closer look at the platform of both parties," said
the Rev. O'Neal Dozier, the church founder, who freely mixes politics
and religion. "The [Republican] platform is more in line with the word
of God. I am Republican because of conviction."

Republicans are hoping such institutions will become less rare.

Blacks have long been a core constituency of the Democratic Party. But
the foundation has shown cracks, especially when Democratic members of
the Broward County Commission called for the suspension of Supervisor of
Elections Miriam Oliphant, a black Democrat. Many blacks felt she was
being unfairly singled out.

Bush, the Republican governor, refused to suspend Oliphant. Three days
later, on Martin Luther King Day, he appeared at Worldwide Christian and
basked in the cheers.

Bush's relationship with blacks in Florida has often been strained,
going back to his One Florida initiative, which rolled back affirmative
action as it applied to the state university system's admission
policies.

Many blacks blamed Jeb Bush for the chaotic 2000 ballot count in Florida
that resulted in his brother becoming president.

CHURCHES HAVE A ROLE

Dorsey Miller, a longtime Republican and Bush appointee to the North
Broward Hospital District, said blacks need to have representation in
both parties if they want to improve their status.

"Things are never going to change if we continue to be all one party and
not the other," he said.

Republican Party leaders say black churches can play a role.

"The black churches are a wonderful source of political activity," said
Kevin Tynan, chairman of the Broward Republican Party. "It's not always
for my party, but they do a wonderful job of getting people interested
in a race and going out and voting."

In Dozier's case, that political activism has been controversial. He has
been a vocal opponent of gay rights in a county that has been at the
vanguard of gay rights. Dozier has referred to homosexuality as a
"sickness." He is also active in the antiabortion movement.

Dozier started his church in 1985. The congregation met in the
cafetorium at North Fork Elementary School. After two years, it was time
to find a new home.

He looked at what were at the time the mostly white suburbs of
Plantation, Lauderdale Lakes and Lauderhill.

"I felt that the blacks were not willing to accept what I was teaching,"
Dozier said. "I didn't want to go to an all-black community."

But he had a hard time finding a landlord who would rent him space.

Dozier said he prayed about the issue and decided to return to where he
grew up: Pompano Beach, the Collier City neighborhood.

He started in a strip mall. Membership grew. He served free barbecue and
an abundance of dinners to lure members.

Soon, he had enough members to move to his current location, off
Powerline Road, near Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, a pawnshop, and
an abandoned apartment complex. In 1996, the church moved into its
10,000-square-foot space.

WAS MET WITH BOOS

Dozier estimates that 90 percent of the congregation votes for
Republicans.

With Republicans in control of the governor's mansion and both chambers
of the Florida Legislature, Dozier finds himself with newfound
connections.

In 2001, the governor appointed Dozier to the 17th Circuit Judicial
Nominating Commission, a board that recommends lawyers for local
judicial openings. He's the only black member of the commission.

The Republican strategy to appeal to blacks is twofold, said David
Bositis, senior researcher of a think tank for black issues, the Joint
Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, D.C.

By welcoming blacks into the party, Republicans not only diversify their
own ranks but make themselves more appealing to white swing voters,
Bositis said.

Although Republicans have had a foothold among Broward's black elite,
black Republicans are still small in number.

In 1998, 6,380 Broward County blacks registered Republican. By 2002, the
number was 7,480.

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Demon-KKK-Rats + KKKerry Oppose Vouchers to Keep Schools Segregated +
Lily-White

Let's take a look at the Demon-KKK-Rats' attitude towards America's
weakest citizens. President George W. Bush supports educational
vouchers. These would help poor people, particularly inner city
African-Americans, to take their children out of dangerous and
dysfunctional school systems and put them in schools where academic
standards are respected and discipline is maintained.

But rich whitey Limousine Liberal Demon-KKK-Rats like Ted KKKennedy and
John KKKerry stridently oppose this policy. This pair not only went to
very expensive private schools, they also gave their own children
equally expensive educations.

Nevertheless, these paragons of Whitey Hypocrisy have ardently worked to
deny similar opportunities to inner city Black kids.

Why? Because Demon-KKK-Rats like Ted KKKennedy and John KKKerry want the
private schools segregated and Lily-White.

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CBS 60 Minutes. "Going Home To The South." 2002/10/27.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/06/12/60minutes/main558375.shtml

Children of many blacks who once fled the South and segregation are now
returning to find better lives than they had in the North.

Reporters who covered the civil rights revolution of the 1960s know the
bitterness felt by those who were back then known as Negroes -
bitterness at the humiliation inflicted on them by Southern whites.

As a result, millions fled North in search of jobs, education, dignity.

But now, millions of their children are finding out that their best
chance of living the American Dream is in the South, in places like the
suburbs around Charlotte, North Carolina; Orlando, Florida; Houston,
Texas; and especially Atlanta, Georgia.

And ironically, while their parents and grandparents may have fought for
integration, many of them have chosen to live in all-black communities.

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Black suburban Atlanta may look like Beverly Hills, but it's Mecca for
many new migrants who are buying homes worth from $200,000 to more than
$2 million. And new subdivisions keep sprouting, marketed especially to
blacks.

Jeff Moten and his wife, Wanda, were in the first wave of this new
migration. Ten years ago, they moved here from outside New York City.
Most of their neighbors are also former Northerners.

"I blazed a trail to get out of New York," says Moten. "I just wanted a
better way for my kids."

That better way includes a lower crime rate than up North, easy access
to athletic facilities and to the arts, and several performances a week
at Atlanta's Chastain Park -- which includes champagne, Chopin and Nancy
Wilson.

It's a marvelous life, one that more blacks can now afford. Black buying
power nationwide has doubled in the last decade. Half of all black
households are now middle and upper income. And more blacks are
graduating from high school and college so they're able to land better
jobs and buy better homes.

Moten's neighbors, Eduard and Shari Weathers, and Keith and Detra
Burrell said moving South brought them the promised land.

"My father used to always say, 'Stop asking for a piece of the pie. Make
your own damn pie.' And this is us making our own pie," says Detra
Burrell.

"This is what we have. This is what we want. We're no different from
anybody else. We want nice homes. All of us have college degrees here.
All of us have white-collar jobs. Why should we have to settle for
anything less than what we have?"

Their white-collar jobs include financial consultant, school principal,
Xerox executive and computer programmer. Plus, high-tech jobs are
attracting blacks and whites to the South. But for blacks, it's coming
back to their roots. Many who've moved South say they feel they've come
home. And more than 3.5 million came home in the '90s - twice as many as
came in the '80s.

They can also find good black public schools, and trendy bars and cafes,
where the only whites are behind the bar.

"My younger brother's in the Navy, in San Diego, and he was here for
about a week," says Eduard Weathers. "And I rode him around the
neighborhood, and I said, 'Yeah, and it's just about all black out
here.' And he looked at me, he said, 'You're kidding? Those houses we
saw, black people live in those houses?' I said, 'Yeah.'"

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Renee Thomas found it hard to be black in a white neighborhood, so her
family left Philadelphia and moved to a black community outside Atlanta.
Up north, they'd been the only African-Americans in a neighborhood of
100 white families.

"We were the first blacks that our neighbors' children had ever seen,"
says Thomas. "You often feel like you don't fit in."

But this is what really shocked her. Their son, Shay, the only black on
his school football team, was scared because he was about to play a team
that was all black.

"It really bothered me," says Thomas. "Because here my son, who's
African-American himself, was very afraid of the other team."

The football incident convinced Shay's parents they had a problem.

"Our children really identified with Caucasian children, but were very
uncomfortable around African-American children," says Thomas. "I hate to
say it, but yes. But I really wanted an African-American boy. I didn't
want a white child."

Three months after that football game, the Thomas family moved south.
Now, Shay's in a black public school making new friends.

Laurie Beard also grew up in a white neighborhood, in Milwaukee. But her
parents sent her to an all-black college, Spelman, in Atlanta, to learn
more about her own culture.

"It was just unbelievable because being from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, you
know, you're one of, you know, a few," says Beard. "And then when I got
off the flight, it was like, 'Oh, my God.' I just never realized there
were so many black people in one setting."

But Beard says she'd never move back north. In Atlanta, she got her
college degree, got married, and convinced her parents to leave
Milwaukee and come live nearby. Her parents, Israel and Gwen Beard
needed convincing because they had been part of the original migration
north, and had bad memories of the South.

Back in the '50s, Israel Beard had been a teacher in Tennessee, but he
got fed up when his white supervisor kept calling him and the school's
other black teacher "boy" in front of their students.

"I thought that that was a little debasing," remembers Israel, who says
without question that it was better in the North at that time. "The
overtness of the racism, the bigotry was not present."

He says he never expected to come back, but visiting his daughter and
seeing the change made him change his mind. Now, he says the new South
has won him over.

The South that he left was segregated effectively by force, but in the
new South, blacks can have segregation by choice.

"When we first moved here, we had the opportunity to pretty much move on
any side of town," says Moten. "And it was important to me for my kids
to see black families, mothers and fathers, households, you know, doing
well. I want them to think, 'Well, this is the norm.' I've arrived here
in my lovely black neighborhood."

"Why even move to a white neighborhood when you have a nice black
neighborhood you can move into," adds Keith Burrell, who says that white
families are welcome to move into his neighborhood.

"Everybody's welcome to move here. Wouldn't have a black power sign on
their door or their yard. No. Wouldn't bother us at all."

"I think that's the misconception, and I think that's because when we
move into their neighborhoods, it's like, 'Oh, my God. Put the house on
the market. Lock the doors.' And I hate to say it, but if they came in,
I would wonder ... One of the things you'd say, 'Well, what's up your
sleeve?' 'What is it that you want? Are you selling drugs?'"

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Now, there are a lot of grown black people who wear braces on their
teeth.

"That's our badge of courage. We've arrived," says Burrell. "Growing up,
the only kids that had braces were those kids that had money. Everybody
we grew up with had the little bent-up teeth, going in different
directions. And now, we're 40 years old. I have arrived. Look at my
braces."

But not everyone can afford them. Nationwide, one in five blacks still
lives in poverty - one in five, even in Atlanta. But that's a dramatic
improvement from 10 years ago when the poverty rate was one in three.

"You understand that you are middle class, so that you might help
somebody," says Cynthia Hale, who launched her church 16 years ago with
just four people. Now, she preaches to more than 6,000 people, and most
of them live in all-black, middle and upper class neighborhoods.

"I was so excited about being at a place where I could just kind of be
myself and let my hair down," remembers Hale. "I didn't have to prove
anything to anybody. And I think that's what causes people of any race,
any culture, to self-segregate."

Alex Wilkerson agrees. He says he was the last person who ever expected
to move back south. During World War II, he trained combat pilots in
Tuskegee, Ala. But after the war, he couldn't land a decent job in the
South.

"I realized that there were no opportunities, regardless of what skills
I could have acquired," says Wilkerson.

He moved north in disgust. But last year, he and his wife moved back
south to be near their daughter, Isabella Wilkerson, a Pulitzer
prize-winning reporter for The New York Times who moved to Atlanta to
research a book on the original migration north.

She told us that now many northern blacks are drawn to the South because
this is their mother country, the cradle of their culture.

"There's always a searching to find out what -- where did this begin,
and why do we eat the food that we eat? Why do we listen to the music
that we listen to? Why do we speak the way that we do? And this is a way
to find that out," says Isabella Wilkerson, who admits she really didn't
want to come back.

Isabella Wilkerson says she got a scare recently when she came out of an
Atlanta bagel shop. It was raining so hard she couldn't make it back to
her car.

"While I was waiting, a man came towards me. He was a gaunt, tall man
who had a white goatee, and he looked as if he might have been in
another time and place -- a Confederate general," she says. "And I
immediately had this visceral reaction to him, just at how he looked."

The man, who had an umbrella, offered to walk her to her car in the
pouring rain. "I was amazed that this was happening. I had sized him up
as a Southerner that I should probably steer clear of, and he showed
this Southern hospitality that you hear so much about but don't believe
exists," says Isabella Wilkerson. "It had never happened to me in all
the years I've lived in the north."

If Martin Luther King Jr. were alive, what would he say about what was
going on in Atlanta today?

"Even he might be speechless," says Isabella Wilkerson.

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Sen. Zell Miller: Why Demon-KKK-Rats Lost the New South

Melanie Eversley. "Miller takes swipe at Dean: Comments on South
criticized." The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. 2003/11/03.

WASHINGTON -- Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean "knows about
as much about the South as a hog knows about Sunday," Democratic Sen.
Zell Miller of Georgia said on Sunday's "Meet the Press" -- part of his
talk-show tour to publicize his new book.

Miller was reacting to a statement made the day before by Dean, the
former governor of Vermont, that he wanted to appeal to Southerners with
Confederate battle flags on their pickup trucks.

Miller was on the show to explain the philosophy of his book, "A
National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat," as
well as answer to the many Democrats who question why he supports tax
cuts, the war with Iraq and other measures they view as Republican.

Miller said Dean's statement proves he knows little about people in
Georgia and other Southern states.

"That's the same kind of caricature that I write about in this book,"
Miller said. "I write about . . . in 1988 [Democratic presidential
candidate] Michael Dukakis coming to Georgia and having this rally, and
they had all these bales of hay stashed around here and there, like it
was some kind of set from the television show 'Hee Haw.' That's not what
the South is."

Instead, Miller said, the South is a progressive place where people work
hard and are concerned about making ends meet. "In Georgia, we have
several statewide elected officials who are African-American . . . they
were being elected in a state that's 70 percent white," he said. "This
is not the South that Howard Dean thinks it is. Sure, we drive pickups.
But on the back of those pickups you see a lot of American flags. It's
the most patriotic region in the country. And you see hardworking
individuals that want to instill values in their children."

Dean's statement has also been attacked by several of his presidential
rivals, who said the reference to Rebel flags sounded like an appeal to
racism.

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Detroit Free Press: Demon-KKK-Rats' Genocide of Black Babies

The Detroit Free Press. Eye on Politics: Blacks' abortions tragically
ignored. September 13, 2004.

By Dawson Bell (Detroit Free Press Staff Writer)

One of the familiar features of a political rally in any urban area in
Michigan is the recitation of ills and injustice that befall many black
citizens.

They are, of course, legion. Dysfunctional schools. [Blame
Demon-KKK-Rats' racist and incompetent teachers unions. Ed.] High crime.
[Blame Demon-KKK-Rats' liberal "let criminals loose in the Black
community" judges. Ed.] Low employment. [Blame Demon-KKK-Rats' high
taxes + racist and incompetent trade unions. Ed.] More African-American
men in prison than college. [Blame Demon-KKK-Rats' racist and
incompetent teachers unions + liberal "let criminals loose in the Black
community" judges + high taxes + racist and incompetent trade unions.
Ed.]

But there is another that almost never gets mentioned by politicians
black or white. Some are even reluctant to call it an ill or an
injustice. But it is hard to think of it as anything other than a
tragedy.

It is the shockingly high number of African-American women who have had
abortions. In Michigan last year alone, black women had 10,911
abortions. (For the sake of comparison, 1,283 Michiganders of all ages
and races died in traffic accidents in 2003).

The numbers are highlighted in a new report produced by Right to Life of
Michigan from state Department of Community Health data, which is broken
down by race for the first time this year.

The report shows that African-American women of childbearing age were
three times as likely to have had an abortion last year as were women of
other races. Black women, who comprise less than 16 percent of the
female population in Michigan, obtained more than 38 percent of all
abortions.

According to the RTLM report, if African Americans in Michigan had
abortions at a rate comparable to women of other races, the number of
abortions overall in Michigan would be 25 percent lower.

One can argue that the high rate of abortion among African Americans is
not an ill unto itself, but a symptom of underlying problems like
poverty and family breakdown.

Thus, if young, black, pregnant women had the kind of financial and
family support available to women of other races, they would be no more
likely to terminate their pregnancies.

In its report, Right to Life, the state's leading abortion opponent,
cites economic pressures as the likely culprit for a slight but steady
rise in the overall number of abortions since 1999, and its officials
concede that those pressures are more acute for urban blacks.

But we can cite the same underlying causes for high rates of violence or
illiteracy among urban African Americans. No one uses that as an excuse
to ignore either (that we seem to make so little progress with remedies
is a separate issue).

One explanation is the increasingly partisan nature of the abortion
debate.

As it stands now, Democrats are overwhelmingly opposed to limits on
abortion. African Americans are overwhelmingly Democratic. [Gam zeh
ya'avor - This too shall pass. Ed.]

Hence, the people most likely to share Right to Life's view that there
is an "abortion crisis in the black community" don't speak at political
rallies in the inner city.

Maybe that will change over time. [Vote for Black Christian Family
Values! Vote for the Party of Lincoln! Vote Bush/Cheney! Ed.] Right to
Life is scheduled to open its first Detroit office soon.

More and more young people describe themselves as pro-life.

In the meantime, the number of unborn black babies speaks for itself.
[Black Churches, get on the GOP bus! Ed.]

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Demon-KKK-Rats Turning White Like Their Sheets

Lynette Clemetson. "Democrats worry as young blacks drift from party."
The New York Times. 2003/08/08.

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas -- The debate had become a familiar one for
LaShannon Spencer. As director of political affairs for the Democratic
Party of Arkansas, Spencer, 30, is charged with taking the pulse of
voters and keeping them connected to the party. But at Cajun's Wharf, a
restaurant and bar on the banks of the Arkansas River that is popular
with young professionals, Spencer's political pitch was met with
skepticism.

"Democrats just assume my political affiliation, based on my ZIP code or
voting precinct," said Khayyam Eddings, a 31, a labor lawyer, referring
to his predominantly black neighborhood. He was one of three
African-American men engaged with Spencer in an animated discussion. "I
don't cast my ballot based on learned behavior."

Eddings's comments were emblematic of what some Democratic strategists
fear may be a growing problem: The party is perilously out of touch with
a large swath of black voters - those aged 18 to 35, who grew up after
the groundbreaking years of the civil rights movement.

It is a group too important and complex to ignore, many caution, when
analysts are predicting another close election in which every vote
counts.

Democrats have traditionally counted on more than 90 percent of the
black vote. Post-civil-rights-era blacks make up roughly 40 percent of
the black voting-age population, but turnout among young blacks was so
low in the 2000 elections that they made up only 2 percent of the entire
vote.

Democratic leaders are expressing concern about the disengagement. Young
blacks are responding by warning the party not to take their votes for
granted.

"Not only do I not see myself as part of the base," Nnamdi Thompson, 30,
an investment banker, told Spencer at the restaurant, "I wish the
Democratic Party would stop seeing me as part of its base. We have more
power as voters if they have to come and court us."

A 32-year-old lawyer, a friend of the other two who did not want to give
his name because of his involvement in state politics, also offered his
take.

"I question whether the party sees us at all," he said.

First they calculate who they do not want to alienate, he said, adding:
"Then they decide on acceptable losses. We seem to fall into the
acceptable losses."

Spencer, who is also African-American, said these frustrations are not
unusual.

"These are the concerns I hear over and over," she said. "These are
people who care, people the party needs. If we could only convince them
of that."

Over the years, blacks have proved a reliable source of support for
Democrats, whom they viewed as more responsive than Republicans to their
issues and concerns.

But members of generations X and Y, raised on hip-hop and the Internet,
in a niche-marketed culture, are proving to be a tougher sell.

[P]olls show that younger blacks are more open to at least exploring
initiatives shunned by the Democratic Party, like school vouchers and
the partial privatization of Social Security.

....

In 2000, 74 percent of African-Americans identified themselves as
Democrats. By last year, that number had dropped to 63 percent,
according to a recent survey by the Joint Center for Political and
Economic Studies, an organization devoted to African-American issues.

[A]n increasing number, especially those between the ages of 18 and 35,
are identifying as independents. Some 24 percent of black adults now
characterize themselves that way. Among those 35 and under, said David
Bositis, a senior researcher at the Joint Center who conducted the
survey, the figures run between 30 and 35 percent, with men leaning more
heavily independent than women.

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When muslims attack ... dirty muslims back Kerry

http://www.aim.org/media_monitor/1816_0_2_0_C/

Cliff Kincaid | July 27, 2004

The prospect of big money being spent abroad could buy some crucial
votes for Kerry here in the U.S.

It wasn't front-page news, but John Kerry got some significant backing
recently. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reported that
54 percent of eligible Muslim voters said they would vote for Kerry,
while 26 percent favored Nader. The survey results were covered by
CNSNews.com, UPI wire service, and newspapers as far away as India. But
the major media in the U.S. did not report the results, perhaps because
they are potentially embarrassing to Kerry.

Fifty-five percent of these respondents said they voted for President
Bush in the 2000 election. So why have they bailed on Bush? Why do they
dislike Bush after liberating Afghanistan and Iraq? It would appear that
these American Muslims do not appreciate a U.S. foreign policy of
freedom and democracy in the Middle East. Speakers at the CAIR event to
release the survey included Nader himself, former Iraq Chief of Mission
Edward Peck, as well as representatives from the Muslim Public Affairs
Council and the Council for the National Interest.

Kari Huss of MSNBC did a fascinating story on anti-Bush sentiment in the
Arab-American community. Referring to CAIR's voter registration
campaign, she reported, "To the extent that the get-out-the-Muslim-vote
effort succeeds, it will largely benefit the Democrats because it is
energized by anger over the Bush administration's Patriot Act and what
is perceived as an anti-Muslim bias behind the Iraq war and
Israeli-Palestinian policy."

In April, [ARAB] pollster John Zogby noted that a survey of
Arab-American voters in four critical states--Florida, Michigan, Ohio
and Pennsylvania--found that only 30 percent approved of Bush's job
performance. The same figure would vote for Bush for president, with
Kerry getting 49 percent of the Arab-American vote.

Writing in the Dallas Morning News, William McKenzie said that his
discussions with local Muslims found that, "It doesn't matter that the
president has gone out of his way to say the war against terror is not a
fight against Islam. The battle against terrorism feels that way to this
group." He added, "After an hour of listening, it was no surprise to
learn very few of these registered voters plan to support the President.
The administration could dismiss this as an unscientific group. But
their preferences track an April [ARAB] Zogby poll in the four states
with the greatest Muslim populations."

In a pitch for Muslim votes, it is reported that a draft of the
Democratic Party platform, to be presented at the party's convention,
calls for the development of a new American strategy for "public
diplomacy" in the Arab and Muslim worlds to alleviate distrust of
America. Congressional Democrats backing Kerry have released a 90-page
document that includes a "Marshall Plan" for the Middle East "to create
a middle class and a regional common market," a $10 billion "global
alliance for improving education for Arab children," and a $200 billion
"Renaissance Partnership" for the Arabs in the Middle East. The U.S.
would put up $100 billion for this. The prospect of big money being
spent abroad could buy some crucial votes for Kerry here in the U.S.

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