NewsMax.com 6/24/00 Dan Frisa "……..The traveling sideshow of the Rev. Jesse Jackson pulled into Texas and the national media spotlight Thursday evening to cavort at the long-delayed execution of the convicted racist murderer Gary Graham. For an entire week in 1981 Graham inflicted murder, armed assault and mayhem on numerous victims while taunting them as "honkies" and threatening to send several to "honky heaven" as he shot, raped and robbed them. ……… This, then, is the animal who has attracted the support of the usual crowd of media hounds and rabble rousers: a racist murderer who has availed himself - for 19 years, 30-odd judges, 20-odd proceedings and countless lawyers - of every possible benefit of the protections afforded by our legal system. ………Enter the Rev. Jackson, the Rev Al Sharpton, actress Susan Sarandon, Bianca Jagger and a host of Democratic Party activists, all working in concert to stoke the fires of racism for political purposes. In fact, their feeding frenzy got so out of control and outrageous that racist murderer Graham was compared to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in one giant leap of lunacy by Jackson. ......... Ironically, and thankfully, their over-the-top hyperbole has worked to marginalize them even further from the mainstream of rational thought on such a serious issue. To witness these antics is to understand their agenda is an attempt to divide people in furtherance of their narrow personal and political agenda, to enhance themselves while tearing down society. ………An intellectual discussion, in fact even an aggressively and passionately argued one, is to be encouraged, because it is such a necessary and integral part of our process. However, the shameful sideshow in Texas, in the name of a racist murderer, serves only to widen the gulf between us - which, it now seems apparent, is their ultimate aim......."

National Review Online 6/22/00 John Derbyshire "……Suppose every adult commits precisely ten crimes a month. Suppose also that every crime has one perpetrator and one victim; and that every perp selects his victims at random from among the other 99 townsfolk. How will this community's crime statistics break down by race of perpetrator and victim? You can do the math yourself quite easily, but here are the results:
white on white – 773
black on white – 107
white on black - 107
black on black - 13
A lot of people find this result counter-intuitive. Since there are so many fewer blacks than whites, shouldn't they be committing fewer of the inter-racial crimes? Ah: But perps of both races have far more white victims to choose from than black: It's 88 versus 11 for black perps, 87 versus 12 for whites. Without any ill intentions at all-without any "hate," in fact-the inter-racial crime rate breaks even. And this is assuming that blacks and whites are equally prone to commit crimes. If in fact, as Department of Justice statistics show, blacks commit crime at a higher per capita rate than whites, we shall have a majority of inter-racial crimes being black-on-white. So it proves. The most recent year for which the National Crime Victimization Survey issued a full report was 1994. In that year blacks committed 1,600,951 violent crimes against whites, while whites committed 165,345 violent crimes against blacks. Less than 15 per cent of these inter-racial crimes had robbery as a motive; the great majority were assaults and rapes. "Hate crime," anyone? ……"

FOX News 6/22/00 "……Gary Graham, the convicted killer scheduled for execution Thursday evening, may not be the only one to face deadly force at the Huntsville State Prison in Texas. Graham has promised to 'fight like hell' on the trip to the death chamber. The New Black Panthers vowed Thursday to use "whatever means necessary" against any groups that might try to thwart the demonstration they have planned for Huntsville. ……. "We will not be the aggressors against anyone, but if anyone is the aggressor against us we will give them all the hell they come looking for," Black Panther spokesperson Quantell X told the Fox News Channel Thursday. ……Calling Texas Gov. George W. Bush the "No. 1 killer of black men in this country," Quantell X said his group was preparing for confrontations with groups like the Ku Klux Klan, who are also expected to have a strong presence at the execution. ….."You don't take a butter knife to a gun fight," Quantell X said, stopping short of saying specifically that his group would be armed. But last week, the New Black Panthers staged an armed protest at the Texas Republican convention. ….."

NewsMax.com 6/22/00 Carl Limbacher "……Surrounded by gun-toting members of the New Black Panther Party, Minister Quanell X warned demonstrators outside the Huntsville, Texas death house that there might be "civil unrest" if Gary Graham is executed Thursday night. …….. "I asked the people to get out of the way because if civil unrest takes place we don't want children to be trampled, children to be hurt. So I asked for anyone with children present to take the children away from the confrontational lines." …….. When asked if his Panther entourage was armed, Minister X said, "You know, I saw the Ku Klux Klan. They were riding in a bus behind us. And they were armed. You're damned right, we're armed." ……Asked if the group's guns were loaded, Quanell X said, "No wise general would come before the whole world and divulge all of his strategic plans to the world. But I would have to be a damned fool to allow men to come up here with empty guns." ……Last Friday Quanell X led 15 AK-47 toting Panthers clad in black paramilitary gear in a march on the Texas state GOP convention in the heart of downtown Houston. …….Tonight, the Panther leader said he didn't know how the protesters would react to Graham's execution, but added, "Whatever happens here, you can't blame anybody here. You have to blame (GOP presidential candidate) George Bush. You have to blame a wicked criminal justice system....." ……"

WBAL 6/22/00 Ron Smith "…….Western intellectuals have a grand time scoffing at the backwardness of religious fundamentalists, particularly Islamic fundamentalists. Secure in their supposed freedom of thought, they worry in their columns and their magazine articles about the threat to honest inquiry and debate posed by the mullahs of the Iran, the insurgents in Algeria, and the militants in Egypt. How retrograde, how unenlightened, how repulsive the enforcement of religious dogma seems to them. …….. The Supreme Court rules that invoking God before high school football games in Texas violates the First Amendment, and that non-believers or believers in other faiths must be protected from the beliefs of the majority being inflicted upon them. …….

WBAL 6/22/00 Ron Smith "……. Our own taboos are enforced as rigorously as those of the Islamic world. But they are not the taboos of the Southern Baptists or the Catholic Church, rather the patchwork quilt of totemic beliefs of the political left. You think, perhaps, I exaggerate. If so, consider this. In Egypt and elsewhere in Muslim nations, writers and others who utter heretical thoughts are harassed and sometimes imprisoned. In Germany, France and Canada, such folks (whose heresy is to question the dogmatic assertions of the leftists) are harassed and sometimes imprisoned. The only thing that keeps Thought Crimes from being similarly punished in the United States is the First Amendment, which is under attack even as you read this. ………. Many devout Christians of our time witness the intelligentsia's relentless attacks on their faith and conclude we live in an age of skepticism and disbelief. But the fact is we humans must have faith because we are wired that way. What changes with time is not the amount of faith, but the direction it takes. Established faiths give way to new ones. And our society is very little different than, say, the Egyptian, in enforcing conformity…….."

The New Australian 6/19/00 "….. My last two articles stressed that one of the consequences of Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign has been a rising crime rate. To undermine Giuliani's support it was necessary for Clinton and her media allies and other liberal supporters to smear his success in combating the city's crime rate. This was done by launching a relentless campaign of vilification against the NYPD which they portrayed as a trigger-happy rogue force permeated with racist attitudes …….. The Clinton campaign had the desired effect. Giuliani and NYPD were successfully demonized and the prejudiced view of most blacks and Puerto Ricans that the police are agents of racist oppression were reinforced further. This resulted in a forced retreat by Giuliani and the demoralization of the police force. Interviews with 28 police officers by the Daily News gave a good indication of how far Clinton has succeeded in her war against the police. These officers contended that the department was forced to unofficially implement a double standard in dealing with minorities. ……… The department's unofficial policy of going light on minority law-breakers gave us the Puerto Rican Day Parade riots in which scores of young blacks and Puerto Ricans threatened and sexually abused women while some police, fearful of accusations of racism and brutality from Clinton and her media troopers, turned away. Even more sickening, we now have the race-baiting Al Sharpton accusing the police of not doing their duty. This is the same shyster who was in the forefront of Clinton's callous anti-police campaign. ……."

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 6/18/00 Eugene Kane "….. Ernest Germanotta, a once-anonymous golfer at Lincoln Park, says I have it wrong. "It was a hate crime!" Germanotta, 62, is a semi-retired electrical contractor who was part of a trio attacked by a group of black youths last month at Lincoln golf course. …… Two cars of black youths shouting racial slurs confronted the group, pelting them with cassette tapes and other objects before getting out of the cars and giving chase. ……The group beat Germanotta while he was on the ground, kicking him in the face, head and torso. One other man was knocked to the ground by the pack, but Germanotta was the only one injured in the attack. …..His partners, Chuck Carter and Bill Ford, are black; Germanotta is white. Which is where the "hate crime" aspect comes into play. …..The column cited the furor over the Lincoln Park golf course incident as an example of how "some people are so anxious to prove their anxieties are well-founded . . . cries of outrage were heard about an imaginary plague of 'hate crimes' committed by blacks even though two of the men attacked were African-Americans!" Germanotta called Friday to take issue with that comment, and to set things straight. "They (black golfers) weren't attacked, I was the only one. Bill Ford was pushed to the ground; I think they pushed him down to get at me!" ……"

AP 6/19/00 Richard Pyle "……As police reported a 17th arrest in last week's Central Park sexual attacks, black spokesmen blamed rap music, President Clinton's personal behavior, and cutbacks in youth programs for helping motivate the wilding. Lonnie Hopson, 18, was picked up early Sunday after acquaintances identified him based on amateur videotape, said Officer Valerie St. Rose, a police spokeswoman. Charges against the Queens youth were pending. …….. Hopson was the latest of 17 young men facing possible criminal charges in the June 11 attacks on women by a swirling mob after the Puerto Rican Day parade. More than 50 women have told police they were doused with water, chased, stripped of clothing, or physically assaulted. …….. At last four women have declared their intention to sue the city on grounds that police failed to come to their aid. At a Central Park news conference, a group calling itself the New York Leadership Alliance announced a campaign to combat violence against women and "restore a greater sense of pride and respect within the black community." ……… Radio personality Bob Law said the group wanted to "pool our resources to combat a serious decline in morality and integrity within our community." "We think the behavior of the police is inexcusable, but the challenge nonetheless remains for responsible black men to step up now and provide a model for what men and fathers should be," said Law, who is black. "To women around the city, this is our pledge to you -- we will launch this campaign that will eliminate domestic violence, that will restore a sense of respect and integrity to the way women are treated . . . particularly in the African-American community." ......"

Reuters – Drudge 6/29/00 "……Hispanic-American leaders demanded Thursday that the U.S. Senate apologize for its treatment of Energy Secretary Bill Richardson at a contentious hearing on security lapses at the Los Alamos nuclear weapons laboratory. Calling Richardson a "national treasure and hero," the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda said senators were insulting to the highest-ranking Latino in the Clinton administration and tried to derail his political career. …… "Without having completed their investigation, members of the U.S. Senate, during an internationally televised hearing, publicly humiliated Secretary Richardson, casting a shadow on his character and smearing his public image," said Manuel Mirabel, chairman of the coalition of some 35 Hispanic-American groups. ……."

New York Resident newspaper 6/13/00 Marc-Yves Tumin "……. In his June 7-13 New York Press open letter to Schools Chancellor Harold Levy, Doug Ireland spells out his program to proselytize for sodomy in the guise of HIV/AIDS education. Ireland objects to parents having a say in condom demonstrations in the city schools: "They're available only in private at the request of students - but since kids are rarely told of this option, they almost never ask, especially since they're afraid of the embarrassment (and there's a parental opt-out)." …….. What a catastrophe - they're ashamed! One of the goals of militant homosexuals is to deracinate any sense of shame through graphic imagery and frank discussions that break down the barriers of modesty. Ireland appeals to the morally bereft: "Waiting until high school to teach kids how to protect themselves just isn't working...." …….. And Ireland wants to urge children in grammar school to sexualize prophylactics: "Unless the importance of condom use is impressed upon these kids before they start having sex, it doesn't take. Indeed, eroticizing the condom as part of sexual play from the beginning is a sine qua non of effective safe-sex education." …….. Describing Harvey Milk High School, dedicated to homosexual propaganda, Ireland ululates that "hundreds of kids [are] desperate to escape from the reign of terror they experience in the other schools." The real reign of terror is organized by politically correct totalitarians who crush any dissent. ……Ireland touts openly gay State Senator Tom Duane, who is promoting the "Dignity For All Students Act," one goal of which is to "create programs to foster harassment-free school environments" - in other words, to brainwash impressionable children. ……. A pernicious aspect of the gay influence is the overwhelming proportion of blacks and Latinos in the public schools, whereas the gay propaganda is fostered by a small white homosexual elite. That the gay-rights movement is disproportionately white and privileged gives the lie to claims of victim-status equivalency to African-Americans who were brought here as slaves. ……"

National Review 6/27/00 Rich Lowery "…… "I think ownership is freedom." Oh, how I long for politicians to say these words! And how little did I expect ever to hear them from George W. Bush. But there he was, at a dinner for the Congress for Racial Equality last night in New York City, giving one of the best stump performances I've seen from him, trotting out an entirely new (and really quite profound) campaign theme: ownership. …….. I don't know whether it will become part of the permanent Bush arsenal, but it sounded good last night. Bush seemed particularly charged up to be speaking to a black audience, and rather than garbling his applause lines he leaned into them just right, catching the waves of applause and riding them to crescendos of minor passion. Afterwards, a slightly incredulous colleague asked: "Was that his usual stump speech?" Well, it was - just delivered effectively, which makes all the difference in the world. In the current Broadway play, The Real Thing, a writer compares his craft to a cricket bat, composed of multiple pieces of wood. If one of them is just slightly off, a ball will feel like a rock, dead off the bat. But if all of them are perfect, a ball will sail off the bat miraculously, into the distance. The little things make a huge difference……"

AP 6/27/00 Timothy Brown "……A black teen-ager who was found hanging from a tree in his front yard in what investigators ruled a suicide may instead have been killed for dating two white girls, the Rev. Jesse Jackson says. Jackson asked Gov. Ronnie Musgrove and the U.S. Justice Department to launch an investigation into the death of 17-year-old Raynard Johnson. ……. Standing under the pecan tree where Raynard's body was found by his father June 15, the civil rights leader said Tuesday that the death "had the smell of Emmitt Till all around it, and these questions have to answered." Till was a black teen-ager killed in Mississippi in 1955 for supposedly whistling at a white woman. ….."The two young white girls and Johnson had been dating each other; that did not sit well with some people," Jackson said Monday. …..The Marion County Sheriff's Office investigated the hanging and concluded that the honor student took his own life. "He had no marks on him, no other injuries. There were no broken bones, no gunshot wounds, no stab wounds, and he was not beaten up," county Coroner Norma Williamson said. ……"

The Detroit News 6/27/00 "…… DETROIT -- The American Civil Liberties Union plans to file a lawsuit in federal court today seeking to block the state from handing out $100 million in scholarships. The group's attorneys, on behalf of five students who did not qualify for the $2,500 Michigan Merit award, will ask a judge for a temporary restraining order preventing the state from issuing checks in August. Mark Leyda, executive director of the Michigan Merit Awards in Lansing, said about 38,000 Michigan high school students who graduated this spring have qualified for the award. "I'm hopeful we may get to 40,000 when all is said and done," Leyda said. …….. Students can use full $2,500 scholarships if they attend a Michigan college or technical school; $1,000 if they attend an out-of-state school. Those students going out-of-state can use the remaining $1,500 over the next seven years if they later choose to take classes in Michigan. The scholarships are awarded to students who get passing test scores on the Michigan Education Assessment Program tests, under a 1999 state law. ……. The ACLU will argue that the scholarships violate the constitutionally protected civil rights of the students who didn't receive them. ……..State officials denied that charge. "The MEAP test has been checked up, down and sideways. This is not a racially biased test," Leyda said. ……"

The Detroit News 6/28/00 David Guralnick "…..Racial tension heightened Tuesday over last week's death of a shopper at Fairlane Town Center mall as a civil rights group made plans for a town meeting to discuss a possible boycott or other protest. At the same time, Geoffrey Fieger filed a $600-million lawsuit on behalf of the victim's family and a Detroit radio personality demanded black church leaders get involved…….The family of Frederick Demondre Finley, 32, said he died Thursday because he was an African American, a victim of racial profiling by Lord & Taylor department store security guards who accused his family of shoplifting and attempted to steer them back into the department store…….Store executives said they regret the death, but maintain the plain-clothes security guards were doing their job when they stopped Finley and his family on a suspicion of shoplifting on Thursday. During a scuffle, a guard caught Finley in a choke hold, which led him to lose consciousness and,ultimately, die……."

Washington Post 7/2/00 Sue Anne Pressley "……In a historic and hard-fought moment, the Confederate battle flag was finally lowered at noon today from atop the South Carolina Statehouse dome where it had flown since 1962. Minutes later, a group of Civil War reenactors in gray uniforms hoisted a smaller version of the banner onto a 30-foot pole in front of the statehouse, at the Confederate Soldier Monument. An estimated 3,000 onlookers on both sides of the issue reacted with emotion. Opponents of the flag cheered as they watched its descent from the dome, while supporters shouted, "Noooo!" Then the supporters, decked out in Rebel hats, T-shirts and capes, and waving their own Confederate banners, cheered and whistled as the replacement flag was raised in its new spot on the Statehouse grounds…….The brief ceremony was the result of a compromise reached by state lawmakers in May. The compromise fell short, however, of at least one intended effect - bringing a halt to a tourism boycott of the state……."

New York Post 7/3/00 Michael Meyers "….. IT'S not the students but the tests that are dumb, says the ACLU of Michigan and its multiculturalist allies. They're suing to ban the standardized tests exams that are the state's sole criterion for awarding merit scholarships to students going to college. The exams, administered in the spring of 1999, showed pitiable results for minority student test-takers - "adverse racial impact," reads the ACLU's legal complaint in perfect legalese. Only 1 in 14 black test-takers got a scholarship, 1 in 5 Hispanics, and 1 in 5 Native Americans, compared with 1 in 3 white test-takers. …….. So a coalition of civil-rights and civil-liberties groups got mad and sued the state of Michigan, alleging "discrimination." They don't get it: How could 1 in 3 whites get the coveted scholarships but only 1 in 14 blacks, unless something's wrong with the test? Unless the state drops its standardized tests in reading, math, science and writing - or adds more subjective, softer evaluative criteria like recommendations and students' grade-point averages - the ACLU and its coalition of race grievants will proceed, branding the state of Michigan and its scholarship tests as "racist." ……."

AP 7/2/00 Jay Hughes "…….Prior to Benjamin Smith's deadly rampage last Fourth of July, there was little known about -- and little interest in -- the racist church to which he belonged. But over the past year, the World Church of the Creator has found a national platform and has seen its membership increase. Its leader, Matthew Hale, claims to have adherents in most states and says membership to the East Peoria-based group has doubled. …….. The World Church of the Creator has become a ''magnet for young volatile white supremacists,'' the suburban Chicago hate-monitoring group Center for New community said in new report. The report was released to mark the anniversary of the two-state rampage by Smith, who shot 11 people, killing two: former Northwestern basketball coach Ricky Byrdsong, 43, and Won-Joon Yoon, a 26-year-old college student from Korea. ………. Smith, 21, committed suicide as police closed in on him. Eight months before his rampage, he was profiled on the World Church of the Creator's Web site as ''Creator of the Month'' for his efforts to distribute racist literature. …….".

townhall.com 7/3/00 Don Feder "…… I wish to publicly apologize for my whiteness. I realize my pigmentation is a serious transgression, and I am profoundly sorry for it. This confession is prompted by a story in The Boston Globe (multiculturalism's in-house newsletter) concerning a conference on "whiteness" that took place at Simmons College a week ago. The gathering of "100 liberal activists, religious leaders and academics" explored ways of "dismantling racism by focusing on white culture and the privileges that come with it." For the left , racism is always unicultural, the exclusive province of Caucasians. …… The idea seems to be that if whites can be shown how privileged their pigmentation has made them, they will repent and get behind racial quotas, multicultural brainwashing and reparations for slavery. ….. The problem, says conference organizer Paul Marcus, is that many whites don't see themselves primarily as such. He's right. Days, even weeks will go by when I don't think about my whiteness, which really should be foremost in my consciousness. …….Still, all that I've accomplished I owe to my racial identity. I coasted through high school, college and law school. Teachers took one look at my pale face and said this man deserves a B-plus average -- forget homework, tests and final exams. ……And when it came time for my wife and I to buy our first house, we didn't have to scrimp and save for a down payment. I didn't have to pay bills on time to establish a good credit rating. The mortgage loan officer based his decision exclusively on our coloration. ……….Truth be told, that's how I got a job in journalism. I can still recall the words of the editor who hired me: "Fellow white man, welcome aboard. Would you like your own column?" …….."

Reuters 7/5/00 "…..U.S. Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson said on Wednesday he would lead a two-day march in Mississippi this weekend to draw attention to the "mysterious" hanging deaths of black men in the once deeply segregated Southern state. Jackson, president of the civil rights group Rainbow-Push Coalition, said the planned march was prompted by the death of Raynard Johnson, a 17-year-old black teen-ager who was found hanging from a pecan tree outside his family's house in Kokomo, on June 15. Local authorities ruled Johnson's death a suicide, but Jackson said there were suspicions local whites had targeted the teen-ager for dating white girls in the small town, about 150 miles south of the state capital, Jackson……."

Detroit News 7/6/00 Evan Gahr "…….He is not exactly Martin Luther King. But in Spokane, Wash., convicted felon Muhammad Shabazz Farrakhan could emerge a genuine civil rights pioneer. Along with an incarcerated murderer and other criminals he recruited from jail, Farrakhan (who says he has no Nation of Islam ties) claims Washington's criminal disenfranchisement law discriminates against minorities because so many are imprisoned. His federal lawsuit echoes arguments made against similar laws nationwide. Once again, the civil rights cause has been perverted to render individual behavior all but irrelevant. …….After all, if you think criminal disenfranchisement harms "persons of color," there are two obvious solutions: Change the law or change behavior. The civil rights lobby has opted for changing the law. ….."

AP 7/6/00 Libby Quaid "……An audit found the Small Business Administration misspent millions of dollars earmarked to help minority businesses win federal contracts. The agency has promised to repay the money, which came from other agencies. The findings by the SBA's inspector general prompted a strong rebuke from Sen. Christopher Bond, chairman of the Small Business Committee and frequent critic of the agency. The SBA treats the funds for minorities as "a honey pot they can dip into to sweeten other programs," said Bond, R-Mo. …….."If taxpayers ever want to see how a government agency can look the other way while tax money is being used for everything but its intended purpose, all they have to do is read this report," Bond said Thursday. ……"

Los Angeles Times 7/7/00 David Savage "…….President Clinton has tried for seven years to appoint a black jurist to the conservative, all-white U.S. Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va., but none of his nominees has been given even a hearing in the Senate. The struggle illustrates dramatically the conservative hold on power in parts of the South, legal activists said. ……..….."In fairness to the Republicans, they don't see this as a race issue but one of ideology," said University of Massachusetts professor Sheldon Goldman, who studies judicial nominations. Senate Republicans have said that they want to prevent soft-on-crime liberal activists from winning lifetime seats on the federal bench. …….."

RUDGE 7/12/00 John Drake Ellen Sorokin "……Alexandria, Va., investigators kept racially sensitive details of the stabbing death of 8-year-old Kevin Shifflett a secret from their own police officers, law enforcement sources familiar with the case told The Washington Times yesterday. The sources said they were not told that the stabbing of Kevin, who was white, may have been racially motivated - information that could have led officers more quickly to the killer. "The information was held back. That should not happen when this is a serious homicide," said a law enforcement source familiar with the case. …..Alexandria police told The Times early in the homicide investigation that investigators did not believe race played a role in the April 19 killing, and that Kevin's attacker did not say anything during the slaying. But new details recently revealed about the case contradict those statements. ……"

Washington Times 7/12/00 "….Has anyone seen Jesse Jackson around lately? Kweisi Mfume? Al Sharpton? ……..In April, a man armed with a knife attacked and killed an 8-year-old boy named Kevin Shifflett as he played outdoors in the Del Ray section of Alexandria. Then he fled, apparently by cab. Police searching for the suspect initially found the trail cold, then focused their attention on a paroled felon whose DNA matched evidence found in the getaway cab…….As it happens, the so-far-unnamed suspect is black, and Kevin Shifflett was white. The Washington Post has turned up evidence to suggest the suspect had racial motives for the slaying. It seems that a witness to the attack says the suspect was yelling "something to the third-grader about hating white people before slashing his throat." Police previously had not mentioned the racist overtones of the attack…….."

Washington Times 7/12/00 "….There's more. Police have possession of a note found in a hotel room where the suspect had been staying which says, "Kill them raceess whiate kidd's anyway." There's more still. The suspect had previously been convicted of malicious wounding following a 1993 incident in Alexandria in which he brutally attacked a stranger with a hammer. The victim in that assault, Leonard Riddle, says his attacker called him "whitey" before the beating commenced. Sounds like hatred from here……So where are Mr. Jackson and company? Not here. It seems that only white-on-black crime, not the reverse, constitutes a hate crime. …. "

CNS News 7/11/00 Joe Dana "…….Evidence suggests that the slaying of an eight-year old boy in northern Virginia last month was a racially motivated crime. One witness says the murderer shouted racial slurs during the attack and, according to published reports, police found a written note at the suspect's hotel room that contained a threat to kill white children. While many in the nation's capital discuss tolerance for minority and homosexual groups, the Virginia murder of Kevin Shifflett, a white child, is drawing little attention as a hate crime………. In 1998, more than one-third of the victims of race-related hate crimes were white, according to FBI records. The reality causes many to believe that the roles of racism are reversed more often than acknowledged……… When President Bill Clinton invited the families of hate-crime victims to the White House in April, no one was on hand to speak about victims who had been targeted because they were white. The family of Matthew Shepard was present, not because they are white, but because their son was the victim of a homosexual-related hate crime. According to the FBI, in 1998, there were nine racially motivated murders committed in the US; five of the victims were white. "I don't think society is ready to see us as victims yet," says civil rights activist Anastasia Guarnotta, who works in Boston on cases that involve European-American victims. She says she fights not only hatred, but also lethargy, from people who don't acknowledge anti-white violent crime…….."

Electronic Telegraph 7/5/00 Ben Fenton "…… WHITES will cease to be the majority in California next year, a portent for the future of America, demographers said yesterday. Figures gathered by the California Department of Finance indicate that the proportion of the population counted as white - non-Hispanic people of European or Middle Eastern origin - will fall below 50 per cent in the next 12 months. …… It will make California the only mainland state to have a white minority. Hawaii has a majority of Asians and Polynesians. With Texas, Florida, New York and Illinois all becoming racially mixed at a rapid rate, it is thought that America will lose its majority of white people by about 2070 at current rates. ……"

Sun Hearld Online 7/12/00 Alex Rodriguez "…….For many black Americans, the hanging death of 17-year-old Raynard Johnson from a pecan tree in his own front yard evokes not only memories of a terrible era, but also suspicions of a modern-day lynching even after two separate autopsies concluded the black youth committed suicide. Johnson's family and other local residents of this tiny Mississippi town suspect foul play, and they are joined by Rev. Jesse Jackson and other civil rights activists demanding a federal investigation into the death. Officials said Raynard Johnson's mother and brother will meet with Attorney General Janet Reno in Washington today. ……Although two autopsies, including one commissioned by Johnson's family, found no evidence of foul play, his relatives and friends insist his personality and behavior in the days leading up to his death do not point to suicide. ……."

newsday.com 7/12/00 David Royse "……An administrative hearing judge upheld a state plan to ban consideration of race in college admissions Wednesday, rejecting a challenge by the NAACP. The ban was part of an overhaul of Florida's affirmative action programs announced earlier this year by Gov. Jeb Bush, who said the programs weren't working. The replacement plan Bush offered can be put in place immediately, university officials said. ………Bush's ''Talented 20'' plan guarantees college admission to the top 20 percent of each graduating class at Florida's public high schools, something the governor has said should boost minority enrollment. …….The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People challenged the change on behalf of a black Miami high school sophomore. It argued the rules were invalid because only individual universities can make admissions decisions. ……"

The State 7/12/00 AP "…..South Carolina Attorney General Charlie Condon says he will continue investigating a possible lawsuit against the NAACP, which has vowed to expand economic sanctions against the state because the Confederate flag still flies on Statehouse grounds. ……… "I am very disappointed to hear of the NAACP's decision to extend and expand its secondary boycott of South Carolina," Condon said Wednesday. ……Condon said he had taken no formal action against the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People other than having lawyers in his office review laws on boycotts. ….."

National Review Online 6/19/00 Brett M. Decker, editor of the American Sentinel "…..Considering diverse levels of compensation, one alderman, Carrie Austin, weighed in that "there's not enough money in this world that would be satisfactory." Nevertheless, quite a few civil-rights leaders are willing to take a stab at a number. Demands include a multibillion-dollar economic-development fund for urban and rural blacks, $10 billion for all-black universities and the current market value of the 40 acres and a mule that Union authorities guaranteed former slaves at the end of the Civil War. Approximating the value of the latter real estate at $25,000 per head, the tab to cover this nation's 35 million blacks would easily reach into the trillions. ......,, Those who think the coming November election is a low-stakes affair, should consider the fact that Detroit Rep. John Conyers has vowed that reparations will be the first legislative item he will pursue if Democrats regain the House this fall. Conyers, who has introduced reparations bills every year since 1989, is the ranking member on Judiciary and will become its Chairman if the elections go south for the GOP. ……"

Washington Post 7/7/00 Josh White Patricia Davis "…… A handwritten note saying "Kill them raceess whiate kidd's anyway" was left behind in the hotel room rented by a suspect in the slaying of Kevin Shifflett two days before the 8-year-old boy was fatally stabbed in Alexandria, hotel and law enforcement officials said. ...... The note, written on the back of a Virginia Department of Corrections memo, is believed to have been penned by the 29-year-old suspect and may prove to be key evidence linking him to the killing, a law enforcement source said........A witness to the April 19 attack told police that the killer, who was yelling as he headed toward Kevin, said something to the third-grader about hating white people before slashing his throat, a source said. The suspect is African American, and Kevin was white……"

Tampa Bay Online 6/9/00 AP "…..Community activists trying to lure black voters are planning a drive to provide ballots to more than 4,000 jailed inmates. Members of the Miami-Dade County chapter of the Democratic Black Caucus of Florida met Saturday to discuss ways to encourage nonvoting blacks to make their voices heard. In addition to the idea of a voting drive at the jails, the group discussed plans to distribute voter registration forms in black neighborhoods and offer voting literature at welfare locations. The initiative is part of a voting drive headed by State Sen. Kendrick Meek, D-Miami, and outgoing state Rep. Tony Hill, D-Jacksonville. …….."

NY Times - Associated Press 7/9/00 "…..An open coffin at a funeral displayed the battered body of a gay black man who was beaten to death and then repeatedly struck by a car. The father of Arthur ``J.R.'' Warren Jr. ordered the open coffin Saturday at Mount Beulah Baptist Church ``so they could see what they had done to his son,'' said mourner Rick Ravenscroft. ……. Gay rights groups have demanded that police and prosecutors say whether the murder is a hate crime. However, Marion County Sheriff Ron Watkins has downplayed speculation the murder was linked to Warren's sexuality and said there was ``no indication'' it was a hate crime. ...... Two white 17-year-olds allegedly confessed and are charged with first-degree murder, but authorities have refused to divulge their motive. Their names were not released because of their ages; the prosecutor has not yet decided whether to try them as adults. ...... Investigators thought it was a hit-and-run case until a third teen-ager told them he had helped clean up the crime scene. ….."

NewsMax.com 6/30/00 "…… There's nothing the left does better or enjoys more than playing the race card against conservatives, who are inevitably labeled as facists, Nazis, racists and worse as soon as they appear to be headed for victory. On Thursday it was Texas Gov. George W. Bush's turn, who's up 13 points against Vice President Al Gore in the latest CNN-Gallup presidential poll and who suddenly finds himself a target of media race baiters like New York Times columnist Bob Herbert. …… After Bush wowed the crowd at Monday night's Congress of Racial Equality dinner with a stunningly good speech, Herbert swung into action in a column titled "A Different Republican?" …..Is Bush really so different from the old-style Republicans, the columnist wondered -- folks who he and most other liberals suspect are nothing more than closet KKK members? But Bush is harder to smear on this count, with "compassionate conservatism" on his lips and record support in his home state from blacks and Hispanics. Time for plan B: guilt by association. And so Herbert asks, "What about the company he keeps?" ….."

Greeley Tribune 7/2/00 Angie De Vine "…… This Fourth of July weekend, one Greeley woman is fighting for her First Amendment right to fly the Confederate flag. Jessie Jacobs has hung the symbol of the Confederacy during the Civil War, along with the American flag, on her front porch for the past five years without any problems. She hangs the two flags on Memorial Day and the Fourth of July, she said, because she had relatives who fought for both the North and the South during the Civil War. But on Friday, someone lit her Confederate flag on fire, melting its nylon material. The American flag in front of her home in the 1600 block of 11th Avenue was untouched. …… "I'm very angry," Jacobs said, adding that whoever vandalized the flag had to climb over her fence to reach the flag. "How dare they come onto my property and destroy my flag." Jacobs said the flag was burned sometime between 12:30 and 4 p.m. Friday. She was inside her home during that period of time but did not hear anything. ……South Carolina was criticized earlier this year for flying the Confederate banner, which some say is a symbol of slavery and oppression, above its state capitol. The NAACP boycotted the state and tourism numbers dropped. …….."

Jewish World Review 6/28/00 Amity Shlaes "……. Increased racial integration of pupils is finally being achieved by raising standards in schools for both black and white. America has failed repeatedly over the decades in its attempts to integrate schools, and some of the more spectacular of those failures have taken place in Arkansas. All the more interesting, then, that Arkansas is the setting for a school that is fast becoming a new national model of integration. The school is Portland Elementary, located in poor, catfish farm country. ….. The reason for this change can be summed up in a single word - standards. ……"

CNSNEws 6/29/00 Jerry Miller "…..When it comes to hiring, the all-Democratic, 12-member Massachusetts Congressional delegation, the most liberal in the nation, does poorly in terms of affirmative action. According to a survey done by the Boston Herald, not a single House or Senate staff is led by member of a minority group, while all senior aides are Caucasian. ……. Combined, the Bay State House members employ only 15 out of a total of 151 staffers - less than ten percent. Similar surveys done in 1991 and 1994 revealed a 10 percent minority-staffing pattern. Then, like now, minorities occupied virtually none of the senior level positions......."

LewRockwell.Com 6/29/00 William L Anderson "……. My student still smolders with resentment as he tells me his story. He was driving on the freeway, being passed by other cars, when the dreaded blue lights appear behind him. He pulls to the side of the road and is approached by a police officer. The officer looks inside my student's BMW and sees the young man's mother sleeping in the back seat. After writing the speeding ticket, the officer leaves the pair alone………The young man has a friend who was traveling to Atlanta for an early morning job interview, driving a Ford Explorer. Near the Tennessee-Georgia border, state troopers pull him over and begin to search his vehicle. During the search, in which they pull off door panels and do other damage to the interior, they constantly ask him how he could afford such an expensive automobile. After finding nothing, they drive away, the vehicle's interior a shambles. The driver, shaking uncontrollably, sits in the driver's seat and weeps following this humiliation……..Both men are black and seem to be part of a national law enforcement trend called racial profiling. Police records show that large numbers of blacks and Hispanics find themselves pulled over on highways for various moving violations. In fact, statistics have shown that when compared to white drivers, blacks and Hispanics have a higher probability of being stopped by police, who invariably want to search their cars for drugs……."

CNSNews.coom 6/29/00 John Nowacki "……I seem to recall President Clinton having called for an end to racial divisiveness at some point in the past six years. If I remember correctly, he has also suggested that he'd like political discourse to be a little more civil. If that could happen, it would be a wonderful thing. But as to whether he was actually in earnest . . . well, I'm feeling a bit skeptical………. Clinton and the members of his party have found race baiting to be a useful tactic in their efforts to cow Republicans into confirming some of his activist judicial nominees. After the one and only defeat of a Clinton judicial nominee in October, the Democrats went all out to paint the vote as being racially motivated……… The result? Some Republicans are even more frightened to oppose a nominee because of his judicial philosophy, when that nominee comes from a certain ethnic background. They got burned, badly, and they don't want to go through that again…….Of course, Clinton and the Democrats know this. Clinton favors judicial activists, and he has deliberately selected activist minority nominees whenever possible. ….."

Raymond Kent 6/29/00 "…..
TO: Strobe Talbott, Undersecretary of State, Department of State, Washington , D.C.
FROM: Raymond K. Kent Emeritus Professor of History, University of California,
Several news services have quoted your statement that the Greeks are a nation of "hysterics." This is a racist statement. It confuses the indignation of Greek People against war crime, crime against peace and humanity perpetrated through 78 days of bombing Yugoslvia by the U.S. dominated NATO. No amount of official and mediatic propaganda will be able to whitwash the crimes. You pretend to be beyond passion and apparently think that what we did in Yugoslavia is so astute and noble that, say, the Greeks had nothing but imaginary grounds for a misguided and misdirtected anger. Would you like to debate Kosovo with me? A widely televised public forum acceptable to both would be just the ticket. I am a historian by craft, fluent in Serbo-Croat, and have followed the details of Yugoslavia's deconstruction for the past decade. The record of Mr. Clinton's foreign policy team in Yugoslavia is so despicable that a mere open and undoctored debate on it would render huge service to the American People, so savagely manipulated by both our government and corporate media. I will even spell-out the Appendix B of the Rambouillet "Peace"Plan. I have a printed copy.

My second point is rather different. You were once Mr. Clinton's room-mate as a Rhodes Scholar. You have thus had an extended access to him over the years of his Presidency. More than that, you are one of those unelected officials who shape our foreign policy behind closed doors, never accountable to the American People. I am obviously not privy to the geo-political and strategic stupidities to which you are attached. Yet, I am aware that these often end-up hurting innocent civilians in far-away places. I think a time is coming when people like you will not be able to get their secret jollies and get away with egregious foreign-policy errors. Some forms of serious follow-ups can and should be worked out for each individual case. I thus ask you to aplogize to the Greek People in public for a really offensive remark Should you refuse to retract and apologize in some meaningful fashion I will get in- touch with Greek-American and Philhellenic organizations and suggest to them to demand that you be dismissed from service in our Federal Government. If Mr. Clinton does not respond by firing you I will lobby for all American Orthodox votes against Al Gore. They run into millions, especially in the electorally pivotal states. Why would I do all this and why am I contacting you? Well, I do not want my neighbors' growing children to be exposed to terrorist attacks with portable toxins or mini-atomic devices because you and other influential foreign-policy people cannot keep the arrogant mouths shut, to say nothing else. My first pre-lobbying step is to post this letter on several germane E-mail networks and it is only fair to let you know in advance.

You are also reputed to be a Russian expert (I do not know of any major work that you have penned) and the most influential government official in constructing our relations with Russia There was a moment in time when the American and Russian peoples could have really gotten together. Unfortunately, a lingering cold-war mentality and your inability to shed it and/or turn it around just "blew" that chance. Russia and China are back together. Our repeated slights and humiliations of Yeltsin's Russia have produced Putin. It is a whole new ball-game now. Western Europeans have perceived NATO for what it is -an American hegemon otherwise irrelevant in Europe outside (temporarily) the ex-Yugoslav space. A Russo-German alliance is in the wind. A recent OP-ED article in the New York times from a friendly German pen has warned us to cut out our arrogance abroad which your statement on the Greek people underlines for all to see.

You do not know or else refuse to accept just how much hate is escalating against us abroad, not at governmental levels (where hiding takes place) but underneath them, especially among the middle classes. Mr. Clinton has even assembled a group of our younger Turks to combat abroad opinions and feelings deemed "adverse" to the United States. I have personally spoken to hundreds of Arabs and Africans in Europe as well as many French people leading ordinary lives. There is an anti-American groundswell out there. What we did to the Serbs via NATO is the triggering mechanism of this phenomenon (and noumenon), to use Greek words. We did it by coming to believe our self-inflicted propaganda, slated to mislead the American People into supporting a war without body-bags, propaganda which is proving to have been either very much exaggerated or entirely false. Our obsession with a "disobedient" Milosevic has produced the insane policy of punishing and demonizing with sustained physical and cerebral brutality an entire and honorable people, our former allies who lost some twenty-five percent of its six milliion population in WWII alone. At that time, the Serbs saved and returned to duty some 500 USAF pilots who parachuted from planes damaged during the bombing raids on Roumanian oil fileds.

But, what honor can we expect from a President who plays with a cigar while toying at the same time with Monica and a Congressman on the phone, from a Secratery of State whose family was twice given warm hospitality by the Serbs and who did everything before and during Rambouillet to create a climate allowing her to bomb the Serbs, from a Secretary of Defense who tells the American People that the Serbs had killed a 100,000 Albanians in order to justify a gross violation of our most sacred document, the Constitution, from two American Generals who are throwing tantrums in public for not being allowed by NATO civilian authorities to kill a couiple of million Serbs and reduce" Serbia to ashes" (phrase uttered by Adolf Hitler when the Serbs defied him on 27th April 1941 and by Secretary Cohen during the so-called "air war"), from people in our foreign-policy establishment who worked themselves up into frenzy when Serb police at Kosovo caused some "collateral damage" in fightinon hand. With such company, Mr. Talbott, I can even come to feel sorry for you.
Raymond K. Kent, Emeritus ….."

The American Partisan 6/19/00 Lawrence Henry "….."Yeah," he agreed. "I coulda bought a $550,000 house in Sleepy Hollow. But who'm I gonna sell it to? I'm a black man - you can't take this wrong, now, you understand? - but who would I sell a house like that to? I couldn't find any other black man to buy that house." Unspoken was his conclusion - as I told my wife when I related the story - that a white man or woman wouldn't want to buy the house from him, or wouldn't give him a good price for it. "Why would he think that?" Sally asked. "For whatever reason," I said, "that's what he did think - that's the important thing."………. This man, in other words, had made a rational decision not to buy an expensive house because he expected that, when he sold it, he might lose money, or might not make as much money as he should. He made his decision based on what he saw as a rational estimate of racial characteristics - i.e., that not many other black people had enough money to buy the house, and that some resistance might enter into the transaction if he were to try to sell to a white buyer……… Several things - including the fact that this man drove off from the service station in a late-model S class Mercedes-Benz, and that the figure of $550,000 was quite specific - led me to believe that he wasn't pulling my leg. He really could have afforded a half million dollar house. ……..People make this kind of decision every day. It amounts to a kind of so-called "racial profiling," that pre-judged evaluation of racial characteristics so widely excoriated today in police procedures. Under the rationale that condemns such judgment for the police, my companion ought to be condemned for not taking out a half million dollar mortgage. Does that make sense?……"

Salon 6/23/00 Jonathan Foreman "….. Shocked by the bizarre attacks? Don't be. This was just a small taste of what life is like for black and Hispanic women in many parts of New York. …….. Whether it was New York Police Chief Howard Safir excusing his officers' inaction by saying they couldn't be everywhere or the pages of commentary and punditry that refused to confront the ethnic and cultural dimension of the incident, the orgy of dishonesty in the aftermath of Puerto Rican Day was almost as dismaying as the Central Park "wilding" itself. ……… It became savagely comical as more and more photographs and videos of the alleged perpetrators were published in the papers and on TV. Even as newsfolk waxed concerned about our society's shocking tolerance of violence against women, egged on by gleeful spokespersons from organizations like NOW, everyone pretended not to notice that nearly all the guys who soaked, stripped and molested up to 50 women in the park were Puerto Rican and black. ......,In its patronizing, racist way, the media pretended it had just seen the manifestation of some kind of generalized social problem -- a conclusion unfair both to the wider society and Puerto Ricans and black communities. Much of the behavior caught on video may be shocking stuff for New York Times writers and most of its readers, but it's par for the course in many Manhattan neighborhoods north of Central Park. ….."

Los Angeles Times 6/21/00 Carl Ingram "…….An anti-profiling bill that would require police officers to give their business cards to motorists, pulled over in traffic stops cleared a pivotal Assembly hurdle Tuesday. Proponents of the heavily amended proposal said drivers could use the cards to file complaints against officers who they believe stopped them because of their race or ethnicity. The Assembly Public Safety Committee, dominated by Latino and African ,American Democrats, approved the bill 5 to 0 over the opposition of witnesses from minority communities and the American Civil Liberties Union. ..."

Toogood Reports 6/21/00 Charles Morse "…..An organized, trained, uniformed, and heavily armed Militia marched through the streets of Houston, Fri. June 16, reports the Houston Chronicle, and yet, there has been little national media coverage, no discussion from the usual commentators and savants, and no comment from the White House. The gun control lobby, the anti-militia crowd, and their assorted left-wing camp followers have been silent. Even though this private army was reported to be carrying AK-47s, which have been illegal in the U.S. since the 1930´s, the Houston DA´s office doesn´t expect to file charges. Far less evidence of illegal weaponry resulted in the Waco home invasion and subsequent holocaust in April 1993. Why the double standard? ……. This militia was part of the "New" Black Panther Party. Along with the National Black United Front and the New Black Muslim Movement, the Panthers were "protesting" outside the George R. Brown Convention Center while the State GOP was being addressed by Laura Bush, wife of the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee. The issue, which prompted the Panthers to don their jack-boots and black uniforms, was the death penalty, particularly as it pertains to the scheduled execution of convicted murderer Gary Graham. That the Black Panthers would advocate against the death penalty, given their own well-documented history of executions against "traitors", is in and of itself the epitome of hypocrisy......."

newsmax.com 6/22/00 Carl Limbacher "…… The Houston, Texas contingent of the New Black Panther Party will be armed and ready for a 'gunfight' with the Ku Klux Klan at the site of Thursday's scheduled execution of convicted killer Gary Graham, Panther Information Minister Quanell X told Fox News Channel Wednesday night. "It wouldn't make any sense, sir, for us to take a butter knife to a gunfight," said Minister X, when FNC's Tony Snow asked if the Panthers would be armed during their own death watch protest. ……The Panther spokesman said he had information that an armed group of Klan members planned to travel to Livingston, Texas to demonstrate in favor of Graham's execution. ……On Friday, 15 AK-47-toting Black Panthers emerged from a stretch Humvee limousine in downtown Houston and marched on the Texas state GOP convention. …..The armed protest took place just yards from the podium where Texas First Lady Laura Bush addressed the convention 90 minutes later. ……"

Jewish World Review 6/22/00 Jeff Jacoby "…….TEXAS HAD NO HATE CRIMES LAW on the books when James Byrd Jr. was dragged to his death behind a pickup truck. Nor did Wyoming when Matthew Shepard was tied to a fence and beaten to death. And that, Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy and others claim, is why a federal hate crimes law must be enacted. ……..Perhaps Clinton and Kennedy believe that an applicable hate crimes law might have prevented the Byrd and Shepard murders. How then do they explain Buford Furrow? California, like 41 other states, already has a hate crimes law, but that didn't stop Furrow from opening fire last August on a group of Jewish children in a Los Angeles community center, then killing a Filipino-American letter carrier. Illinois's hate crime law didn't deter Benjamin Smith from a shooting spree that left nine people wounded and two dead -- all Jewish, black, or Asian. ……..Perhaps Clinton and Kennedy keep invoking Byrd and Shepard because they believe that a hate crimes law would have ensured that the murderers in those cases were vigorously prosecuted. …..But that can't be it, either. Of the three men who so savagely killed Byrd, two have been sentenced to death and one is to spend the rest of his life behind bars. Both of Shepard's killers have also been sentenced to life. One of them, Aaron McKinney, was facing a death sentence when Shepard's parents proposed a deal -- two life sentences in exchange for a permanent gag order that prevents McKinney or his lawyers from ever appealing the verdict or discussing the case in public. In the Buford Furrow case, meanwhile, federal prosecutors in California are seeking the death penalty. …….."

Jewish World Review 6/22/00 Jeff Jacoby "…….There is no way around it: A law that cracks down harder on criminals who harm members of certain groups by definition goes easier on those who target victims from other groups. If a gang of skinheads decides to crack some black or Jewish skulls, Kennedy's bill would empower federal prosecutors to go after them. If they decide to simply crack skulls at random -- or to go after illegal immigrants or fat people or dwarfs or businessmen -- Kennedy's bill leaves them alone. ......"Equal protection of the laws must apply to all Americans," Kennedy said during the Senate debate. "That's what this is all about." ……..No, what this is all about is precisely the opposite. Equal protection means telling all would-be criminals that they will be punished fully, regardless of the identity of their victims. The bad bill passed by the Senate declares that some victims are more deserving than others. That is not a message that should be allowed to stand. ........."

NewsMax 6/23/00 Carl Limbacher "……GOP presidential frontrunner George W. Bush will be the guest of honor at the Congress of Racial Equality's "Harmony Awards 2000" dinner Monday in New York, while Vice President Al Gore has apparently snubbed the group's invitation. In a press release about the event, National CORE Chairman Roy Innis said he looked forward to welcoming the Texas Governor and hearing his message on race relations. "The strong support that the Governor receives from minorities in Texas suggests that he knows something about the subject." ……. "We would have welcomed Vice President Al Gore, the Democratic candidate, with equal enthusiasm and courtesy, if he had accepted our invitation," said Innis, who promised that if Gore sends a representative "he or she would be recognized." ……. "Some members of the African and European lines of Jefferson descendants have come together, in mutual reconition, as a family.... For this reason we honor Jefferson's descendants as symbols of racial harmony." ......:

ajc.com 6/24/00 Bill Kaczor "……A federal jury convicted a white man of hate crimes and other charges Friday for setting off two pipe bombs that terrorized predominantly black Florida A&M University. Lawrence Lombardi, 42, was convicted of two counts each of possessing and using bombs, causing destruction with bombs and using bombs to cause harm because of race or color...."

INSIGHT Magazine 6/23/00 Woody West "……. Here is a multipart challenge for urban sociologists to parse. And bear in mind that, while these vignettes involve New York City, trends that wash across the land often have their genesis there. ……… First, the Rev. Al Sharpton, America's most vociferous racial demagogue, continues to promote demonstrations against supposed excessive use of force by New York City police, including the sad and accidental shooting last year of Amadou Diallo, for which four police officers were acquitted of felony charges by a jury. ……. Second, Sharpton, to whom both Hillary Clinton and Vice President Al Gore have paid solemn homage (though Gore initially fibbed about the meeting), was quick to berate New York City police for failure to provide vigorous enforcement during June's vicious "wilding" in Central Park. Sharpton charged that police stood by while dozens of women there were robbed, stripped, groped and assaulted by howling mobs of young men after the Puerto Rican Day parade on Fifth Avenue. ..... The antagonism toward police, the notion that they are repressive, brutal and racist, has become an ideological tenet among enterprising "activists." This despite the fact that in most cities members of racial and ethnic minorities now are significantly represented in law enforcement. ……."

Toogood Reports 6/24/00 Nicholas Stix "….. As I write this, the number of women claiming to have been attacked during the June 11 wilding spree in New York City's Central Park has risen to 53, while the number of perpetrators has fluctuated from an estimated 60 at one point, to 33, and presently back up to 42. Nineteen men have so far been arrested, one of whom was eventually cleared and released from custody. Amidst the charges and counter-charges that have flown back and forth, one has been notable by its absence: That the attacks were racially motivated. Race is the 800-pound gorilla no one wants to talk about……… Every single one of the 33 suspects -- those under arrest, as well as those still at large -- is black or Hispanic. A decisive majority is black. (Odd, considering the event was Puerto Rican.) So naturally, the first New York Times dispatch spoke of an "excess of testosterone." Had a white mob set upon black women, we would be hearing about many things, but testosterone would not be one of them. And in the case of a white mob, the Times would not have initially refused to publish the photographs of suspects still at large that the police had released, along with a plea by Police Commissioner Howard Safir for help from the public in bringing the suspects to justice. It must have been short on space that day. The "newspaper of record" only deigned to publish the photographs after every other New York daily already had……….At this point, the story is that the men went on a wilding spree from about 2:00 p.m. until 6:30 or so, in broad daylight, in a park full of tens of thousands of visitors, with a thousand or so police officers within shouting distance (4,000 of New York's Finest, or ten percent of the entire department, were on hand for that day's Puerto Rican Day Parade). The perpetrators sprayed women with water, before proceeding to rob them, rip their clothes off of their bodies, grope their genitalia, and in several cases, manually rape them (forcing their fingers into unwilling women's vaginas). In the case of a French couple visiting the city, the mob held down the husband, who could see half-a-dozen members strip his wife naked, and then take turns jamming their fingers into her......."

CNSNews.com 6/23/00 Edward Blum Marc Levin "......The membership crisis that has plagued mainstream Christian and Jewish denominations for the last 25 years may be spreading to inner city black churches as well. ........ According to Carl Ellis, president of Project Joseph, a Tennessee-based Christian ministry, about two and one-half million American blacks classify themselves as Muslims. He believes that if the conversion rate continues unchanged, Islam could become the dominant religion in black urban areas by the year 2020.......... Considering that in the early 1930's there were only a few dozen black Muslims in the United States, Islam's growth has proven to be nothing short of incredible. Throughout the country, one cannot attend a black community event without the acolytes of the Nation of Islam visibly in attendance; well-dressed young men, arms folded, at attention, awaiting orders from their leader---the imam. In nearly every major American inner city, one can find a mosque, Islamic cultural center and school, and a halal butcher shop. ........ According to Muhammad, blacks once ruled the world, but were overturned 6000 years ago, when a renegade black scientist---Mr. Yakub---created the white race. ..... The new white race's reign over blacks was to end in 1914. Pipes speculates in a brilliant article published this month in Commentary magazine that this "history" offers blacks a palpable reason for their underachievement and weakness: white evil. It has the benefit also of "motivating blacks to prepare themselves through discipline and hard work to seize power." ......... Ellis believes that the traditional black church may have grown too Eurocentric and in the process, abandoned the strict moral and cultural leadership it once championed. ......For the great majority of young men in America's black ghettos, a father is tragically absent from family life. It has been estimated that over seventy percent of black births are out-of wedlock and the pathologies that exist in our inner cities find their genesis here. The Nation of Islam fills that void with an external discipline that young men of all races typically need........"

Drudge 7/14/00 ".....**World Exclusive** **Contains Graphic Description** ......Hillary Clinton has angered Jewish voters in New York and nationally with her controversial support of a Palestinian State, and her startling embrace of Yasser Arafat's wife. ......... Now, as the race comes down to the wire, a new book is set to explore the first lady's feelings about Jews and anti-Semitic sentiments held by certain Rodham family members........ Biographer Jerry Oppenheimer's new book STATE OF A UNION: INSIDE THE COMPLEX MARRIAGE OF BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON will not be released by HARPERCOLLINS until Tuesday, but the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal: In one particularly shocking passage in the book, Oppenheimer quotes a campaign official who describes an angry attack by Hillary in which she screams at him, "You fucking Jew bastard!" ......Two sourced eyewitnesses confirmed to Oppenheimer that they heard the verbal assault........"One anti-Semitic slur slung in anger hardly defines a person, and Hillary has always had a tendency when angry to go for the gut," Oppenheimer writes........But, unfortunately, according to UNION, that was neither the first nor the last time Hillary had used such a slur. And there is a darker side to the story......."

New York Post 7/16/00 Gregg Birnbaum "…….Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Jewish problem" just got worse. The Democratic candidate's alleged anti-Semitic outburst in 1974 - which surfaced Friday - could damage her Senate run by "freezing" or reducing her already-weak support from Jews, experts said yesterday. ……The charge that Clinton unleashed a slur is made by three named eyewitness sources in a soon-to-be-published book, "State of a Union," by Jerry Oppenheimer, a celebrity biographer who was a reporter for the National Enquirer. ...... In the book, and in an interview on Friday with The Post, Mary Lee Fray claims an enraged Hillary Clinton called Fray's husband, Paul, a "f-ing Jew bastard" during a heated argument after Bill Clinton had lost his bid for Congress in Arkansas. Paul Fray was the campaign manager. ......"

Charleston-Gazette 7/14/00 AP "…..A gay black man was beaten to death because he wanted to reveal a sexual relationship he claimed to have had with the teen-agers accused of his murder, sources told The Associated Press on Thursday. David Allen Parker of Grant Town and Jared Wilson of Fairview, both 17, are charged with first-degree murder. They are accused of beating Arthur "J.R.'' Warren to death last week, then running over his body in a staged hit-and-run. …. "

Paul Farhi 7/15/00 Washington Post Staff Writer "…….As a hovering news helicopter watched, a throng of officers - some with guns drawn - punched, kicked and grappled with a burly black man in Philadelphia. The melee Wednesday went on for 28 seconds before the stunned and bloodied suspect, Thomas Jones, was led away in handcuffs. Within hours, television footage of the incident was broadcast around the world…….In the Philadelphia arrest, it's not clear how much resistance Jones - who police said is 6-foot-2 and 245 pounds - is giving because he is obscured in the video by police. One eyewitness told the Philadelphia Inquirer that Jones struggled with arresting officers. Another witness said Jones refused orders to get out of the police cruiser he had commandeered earlier. Both may have been factors in the police response……."

New York Daily News 7/16/00 Edward Lewine "…….A former campaign worker confirmed to the Daily News yesterday that he overheard Hillary Rodham Clinton call a fellow staffer a "Jew bastard" in 1974, as quoted in an upcoming book. But he also thinks it was a comment made in anger not a reflection of anti-Semitism. "It was the heat of battle," said Dallas businessman and former campaign worker Neill McDonald. "She was just PO'd." The Clinton campaign was quick to blast the story and provided a parade of local Jewish Democrats in support of the embattled First Lady………. Apparently, Hillary Rodham - who was not yet married - blamed campaign manager Paul Fray for losing the race and used the slur in front of Fray, Fray's wife and McDonald, all of whom are quoted in the book……. "I was right outside the door, making sure no one else entered," McDonald said. "I heard basically what's been reported."…….This fight has been recounted in at least six books on the Clinton, but without the detail about the alleged slur. ……"

NewsMax.com 7/20/00 Carl Limbacher "…………..The memo sent to Clinton's "Jewish Advisory Committee" by campaign aide Karen Adler also included talking points on how to trash Paul Fray, his wife Mary Lee and Neill McDonald -- the three witnesses who say they heard Hillary call Fray, a "f - - king Jew bastard" in 1974. ……….. "There were some talking points included with the memo -- basically stuff that was outlined from newspaper reports about Hillary's accsuers," Jewish Week reporter Adam Dickter, one of the journalists targeted in the memo, told WABC-NY radio host Steve Malzberg late Wednesday. …….The memo itself urged supporters to conceal the Clinton campaign's role in the effort: ……… Dickter told Malzberg, "I received seven or eight phone calls from people saying that they wanted to go on the record on this subject," adding that he found the rapid succession of the messages left on his answering machine Monday night "suspicious." ...... Of the Clinton strategy to deceive reporters Dickter said: "It probably wasn't a smart move.... The picture that comes out of it is that of being very, very concerned about the impression being left by the alleged slur, and frankly, the appearance of not having confidence that people would take (Hillary's denials) at face value." ……."

Washington Post 7/21/00 Helen Dewar "….. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), under fire from President Clinton and the Congressional Black Caucus for his handling of minority and female nominees to the federal bench, lashed back yesterday at what he called "race-baiting politics." …..Clinton sharply criticized Senate Republicans for blocking the nominations of five black and Latino judges to federal appeals courts. "The president's reckless and unfounded accusation of bias has encouraged others to make even more reckless and more unfounded charges," Hatch said, referring to the black caucus, which earlier this week said Senate Republicans' treatment of nominees demonstrated racist and sexist tendencies………"

Newsday.com 7/17/00 Beth Harpaz AP "…The Anti-Defamation League Monday defended Hillary Rodham Clinton from an accusation that she used an anti-Semitic slur 26 years ago while conservative Jewish leaders lashed out at her and her Republican opponent for Senate, Rep. Rick Lazio, said he didn't know whom to believe. ……. The ADL said in a statement that it takes Clinton at her word that the accusation is false. ''Her public record shows no evidence of anti-Semitism and we do not believe her to hold negative views about Jews,'' it said. ……But Assemblyman Dov Hikind, a leader of Brooklyn's Orthodox Jewish community, said, ''There is no statute of limitations for racism or anti-Semitism or bigotry.'' ….."

AP Wire 7/20/00 "……..Civil-rights and gay-rights leaders and the family of a murdered gay black man urged the No. 2 official at the Justice Department on Thursday to bring the federal government into the case in which two 17-year-olds are charged. If tried as juveniles by local authorities in West Virginia, white cousins David Parker and Jared Wilson "could walk out of prison in three years" in a killing that was fueled by racism and sparked by hatred for the fact that victim Arthur "J.R." Warren, 26, was gay, said David Smith of the Human Rights Campaign. ……… "

NewsMax 7/20/00 "…… Fifteen months before she was accused of calling a former campaign aide a "Jew bastard," First Lady Hillary Clinton publicly urged Americans to confront those who would dare to slur others on the basis of race or religion. "It isn't enough to look deep into our own hearts and say we find them free of hatred," the first lady said at an April 12, 1999 Millenium dinner at the White House. "We have to do more. Every time we let a religious or racial slur go unchallenged or an indignity go unanswered, we are making a choice to be indifferent, a choice to constrict the circle of human dignity; a choice, I believe, to ignore history at our children's peril." ….."

Tampa Bay Online via Drudge 7/18/00 Chris kahn AP "…..Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Tuesday the Confederate flag was an integral part of American history and removing it from public places doesn't cure the country of racial problems. "The people of the South are bigger than the Confederate flag," Farrakhan said. "But the Confederate flag is a part of the history of the South." The Confederate flag represents the "America of yesterday," Farrakhan said. …… "If we are upset as black people they're flying the Confederate flag, you should be upset about flying the American flag," Farrakhan said. "Because all the hell (that slaves) caught, we got on the next flag." ……."

NewsMax.com 7/18/00 Carl Limbacher "…… Sources in Arkansas told mainstream reporters at least a year ago about Hillary Clinton's use of anti-Semitic language, but they and their editors decided to withhold the bombshell revelation from the American people. "The State of a Union," a new book by former UPI reporter Jerry Oppenheimer on Bill and Hillary Clinton's marriage, has forced new scrutiny on 26 year-old allegations that the first lady called former campaign aide Paul Fray a "F--king Jew Bastard." But it turns out that Oppenheimer was far from the first reporter to get the story. ……. NBC's Andrea Mitchell admitted Monday night that Fray recounted the incident, complete with Hillary's anti-Semitic slur, during an interview for the network's "Dateline NBC" program in 1999. …..But NBC News editors decided to kill the report on the sensational allegation because there were "too many questions about Fray's credibility," Mitchell said. …."

CNS News 7/18/00 Paul Weyrich "……. The Senate has passed a so-called hate crimes bill which, should it become law, endangers the liberties of all who are not part of a protected class. In fact, the legislation, pushed by Senators Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, a Democrat, and Republican Gordon Smith of Oregon, so expands the number of protected classes in this country that the only group not now covered is white males who are not handicapped. …… That's right. Every other group, including racial minorities, the handicapped, homosexuals, and women all belong to a protected class. ………So for the first time in American history there are two classes of people before the law in the United States. Those who are of a protected class whose crimes will be regarded just as they are - and those white males, who under this theory are the oppressors, and who therefore must be guilty of hate if they commit a crime against any one of the protected class. The only way a white male can now escape being charged with committing a hate crime is to commit the crime against another white male. Then the crime will be judged solely on its merits. …….."

Newsmax 7/17/00 Carl Limbacher "…… In an deal that could be spell doom for Hillary Rodham Clinton's political career, her husband's former key advisor Dick Morris has agreed to help one-time Clinton bodyguard Larry Patterson encourage other witnesses to the first lady's bigoted outbursts to come forward. …….. Last year Patterson told NewsMax.com exclusively that he heard both Bill and Hillary Clinton use derogatory terms for Jews such as "Jew Bastard" and "Jew Mother F - - ker" during the six and a half years he guarded them in Arkansas. ……. Over the weekend the ugly story caught fire with the mainstream press, when three former Clinton aides told reporters Mrs. Clinton called one of them a "Jew Bastard" in 1974. ……Patterson's charges involve multiple incidents and are much more recent. ……..The first lady issued an angry and emotional denial on Sunday. But if even one more witness surfaces to corroborate Patterson's claims, Hillary's Senate bid could be toast in a New York minute. ……."

The Weekly Standard 7/24/00 Roger Clegg /Glynn Custred "…….California voters outlawed discrimination in public employment, education, and contracting. At least they thought they did. On November 5, 1996, voters in California passed Proposition 209, a statewide ballot initiative that ended affirmative action preferences there. The initiative amended the state constitution to provide: "The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting." ………The wording of Proposition 209 closely tracks the language of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, reaffirming the intent of that landmark federal legislation. But the grievance industry, also known as the civil rights establishment, and the academic intelligentsia fought hard against the ballot initiative. Immediately after its passage, a variety of groups challenged its constitutionality in court, arguing that it amounted to illegal discrimination for the state to ban, uh, discrimination. They lost. But for them, the battle had only begun. ……..Jesse Jackson called on California officials to "defy, challenge, resist" the law. He bused in supporters and led an anti-209 march across the Golden Gate Bridge. The vice mayor of Oakland promised to "chip away" at the law until its effectiveness was negated. Across the bay, when San Francisco mayor Willie Brown was asked on local television whether he would obey the law, he answered flatly, "No." In fact, the city expanded its municipal contracting preferences. A Los Angeles County affirmative action officer told USA Today, "I am very defiant when it comes to something that had no business being voted on." ……."

New York Daily News 7/19/00 Richard Cohen "…….Is Hillary Rodham Clinton an anti-Semite? That is the gist of an accusation that dates to 1974 when, furious about her future husband's loss in his first race for Congress, she allegedly excoriated Bill Clinton's campaign manager, Paul Fray, calling him a "Jew bastard." Fray is backed in his accusation by his wife, Mary Lee, and another campaign worker, Neill McDonald, who was standing outside the door and insists he heard everything. ……… As usual with a Clinton scandal, contradictions and loose ends abound. Fray, for instance, isn't Jewish. His paternal great-grandmother was, but he himself is a Baptist. To use a Jewish slur on a Baptist is both inexplicable and a sheer waste of anti-Semitic invective………"

WorldNetDaily.com 7/19/00 Jon Dougherty "……The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is interested in "advancing" the cause of blacks. Well, some blacks, anyway. But not all blacks; only those who toe the NAACP's political line get NAACP "support" and praise. Like "women's rights" groups who, ironically, defended President Bill Clinton when his trysts with Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers and Monica Lewinsky were made public, the NAACP is also picking and choosing -- hypocritically -- the "causes" it will take up on behalf of blacks. …….. For example, black lawmakers who supported a South Carolina measure removing the Confederate battle flag from atop the capitol building in Columbia to a "place of honor" elsewhere on statehouse grounds were labeled "weak-kneed, shifty-eyed, back-bending" legislators by the NAACP's leader, Kwesi Mfume. Could you imagine the outcry from the establishment leftist media if someone like David Duke had made such remarks? The outcry of "racist!" would still be reverberating throughout the countryside. …….Yet, those comments can be equally equated with racism as it condemns people because of their ethnic makeup, albeit in a back-door manner. ….."

AP 7/20/00 AP "…….A white female professor has sued Florida A&M University in a tenure dispute, claiming black men are favored in promotion to top faculty jobs at the historically black school. Gloria Horning, a journalism professor, alleged in the civil rights suit that she was hired on a tenure track in 1993 and was not told until last year that a doctorate was required. …….. Horning, who has a master's degree and 10 years experience as a television producer, said in the suit she was denied tenure because she is a white women employed at the predominantly black university. ……"

Reuters 7/19/00 Solomon Kane "…….GALVESTON, Texas (Reuters) - A Ku Klux Klansman who was beaten up by black inmates while behind bars has been awarded $55,000 in damages by a jury in federal court, officials said Wednesday. Larry Webster, 42, who acted as his own attorney in the case, said jailers in Galveston County endangered him by putting him in a cell with blacks even though his Klan affiliation was well known. Webster was kicked in the face and suffered an elbow injury when his fellow inmates ganged up on him in a 1993 attack he said was racially motivated, said Galveston County attorney Don Glywasky. ......... "He said he should be in an all-white cell...he thought the jailers were being deliberately indifferent to his safety," Glywasky told Reuters. ……."

New York Post 7/20/00 "……"Yesterday, Clinton campaign staffers committed to paper, and then faxed around town, a solicitation to dissemble on behalf of the first lady. In more formal circumstances, the memo might be termed subornation of perjury. …..The memo urged members of the campaign's "Jewish Advisory Group" to call reporters at Jewish newspapers and "let them know that you know Hillary and you know that she would never make these kinds of anti-Semitic or racist comments. "Attached are Talking Points on this issue" - presumably to guide those who don't "know Hillary" as well as they might let on. ……. "I would appreciate it if you would call these people as concerned citizens," wrote campaign aide Karen Adler. "It is important that you do not say that you [are] calling because the [Hillary] campaign asked you to, but because you are outraged with what was said about her." Spontaneity can seem so genuine, don't you know. …..The memo bore the fax stamp "HRC for Senate, Inc.," so it will be tough for the campaign to fib its way out of responsibility for it. So look for the blame to be assigned to overanxious, very junior staff members……."

NewsMax.com 9/21/99 "…….Hillary Clinton, a candidate for U.S. Senator from New York, has been courting the Jewish vote and has even suggested she has Jewish ancestors. Hillary's desire to woo the Jewish community is understandable, but retired Arkansas state trooper Larry Patterson says Hillary Clinton is no friend of the Jewish community. During the six years Patterson guarded the Clintons, he said their deep-seated anti-Semitism became apparent in slurs they hurled at each other. Bill Clinton also frequently told Jewish jokes. Patterson made the revelations in a new two-hour audiotape More than Sex: The Secrets of Bill and Hillary Clinton Revealed! published by NewsMax.com. …….."

The Detroit News 7/30/00 "…….The National Urban League's annual State of Black America report confirmed the existence of a divided black America . The report noted continued growth in the number of solid black families that can be called middle class. But it also recorded a widening gap between high-income and low-income blacks. Bridging this chasm will require a greater emphasis on families and educational attainment. ……. The Urban League report is not the first to show encouraging economic news for blacks in home ownership, employment and business growth. The latest figures from the Census Bureau show median black household income in 1998, the latest figures available, was $25,351, up from $21,027 in 1994. In the past five years alone, affluent black household income has grown almost three times as fast as the overall rate of growth in upper income brackets. The most financially successful homes are comprised of a mother and father. ……."

The Washington Times 7/27/00 Kenneth Smith "……It wasn't enough that Jennifer Gratz had to take on the University of Michigan and much of the civil rights establishment to try to fulfill a dream. Now one of the biggest corporations in the world, mighty General Motors Corp. (GM), is standing in the way. Why? Apparently it's because Miss Gratz, who happens to be white, has the wrong skin color……… The school first put her on the waiting list, then rejected her. She was stunned. She was also skeptical because she believed her academic record was better than that of persons she knew had been accepted…… Although she didn't know it at the time, others were also suspicious of Michigan admissions practices. Working with professors at the school who had obtained admissions records through Freedom of Information Act requests, lawyers with the Washington-based Center for Individual Rights (CIR) discovered that the school was actually running a segregated admissions system: If minorities - African-Americans, Hispanics and others - obtained certain scores, they were automatically accepted. If members of disfavored ethnic groups achieved the same scores, they enjoyed no such guarantee. Many would go onto a waiting list to be admitted only if no minority candidate was available to fill the slot. In 1997, CIR filed a class-action lawsuit against the school on behalf of Miss Gratz and others who had suffered from Michigan's racial manipulations, charging the school with illegal discrimination…….."

Newsday Online 7/28/00 Laura Meckler AP "…..Vice President Al Gore has never spoken out about memorials in his home state honoring a Confederate war hero and former Ku Klux Klan leader, leading some Republicans to whisper about a double standard. …….Nathan Bedford Forrest is honored across Tennessee, including a bust in the state capitol, a state park in his name and a large statue in Memphis over his grave. ''We could not find any indication that Gore has said anything or taken a position on it,'' said Doug Hattaway, spokesman for Gore. …..Supporters of George W. Bush point to Gore's silence on Forrest in suggesting a double standard. …….Forrest, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, is believed to be the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, though he ordered it disbanded in 1869 because of the group's excessive violence……."

ABCNEWS 7/28/00 Andrea Robinson "…….Emboldened by its multimillion-dollar tourism boycott in South Carolina, the NAACP is stepping up pressure against other government-sanctioned displays of Old Dixie symbolism, targeting state flags that bear the Confederate emblem in Mississippi and Georgia. Beyond those states, the NAACP also is reviewing pedigrees of other Southern state flags, including those in Florida, Alabama and Arkansas. Florida still retains and enforces a law that protects the Confederate flag from mutilation...."

CNN 7/28/00 Sean Loughlin "……African Americans will make up 4.1 percent of the total number of delegates at the Republican National Convention, an increase when compared to the last GOP gathering, but still far behind minority representation at Democratic conventions. A report by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a think tank in Washington, found that 85 of the 2,066 delegates at the Republican convention, which kicks off Monday, are black. ..."

NewsMax.com 7/29/00 "….. Vice President Al Gore has never spoken against memorials in his home state honoring a former Ku Klux Klan leader, leading to charges of hypocrisy and a double standard. Tennessee honors KKK and Confederate war hero Nathan Bedford Forrest with a bust in the state capitol, a state park and a large statue in Memphis over his grave, the Associated Press noted. …… And the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is illustrating how it long ago became a tool of the Democratic Party. While it has attacked Bush's silence on the flag, the Memphis chapter admits it has never targeted Gore in its occasional protests of Forrest memorials. ``I can't blame him. We didn't ask,'' said Johnnie Turner, executive director of the Memphis chapter of the NAACP. ``We voiced our opposition on the local level.'' ……… Now the issue is out in the open, and the ball is in Gore's court. But he wasn't talking Friday. Reuters reported he was in "vacation mode" in Wrightsville Beach, N.C., and all he would say is, ``Everything's going fine.''……"

UPI 7/28/00 Lou Marano "…..An orthodox rabbi believes political bias caused a Jewish "watchdog" group to play down a charge that U.S. Senate candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton hurled an ethnic slur at a campaign aide during President Bill Clinton's failed run for the House of Representatives in 1974…….. Rabbi Daniel Lapin is president of Toward Tradition, a faith-based conservative group with headquarters in Mercer Island, Wa. On Thursday he said: "Three eyewitnesses have made a credible allegation in a book by a best-selling popular biographer that the First Lady once used an anti-Semitic slur. Other witnesses add that she often used such language. Yet the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) immediately issued a press release accepting her denials."……."

CBSNews.com 8/1/00 Dan Rather "…..Onstage Monday in Philadelphia's First Union Center, a striking tableau: People with disabilities. Women. And minorities galore - a sea of black and brown faces. ……In the audience, a sea of white faces. In what quick glimpses one could catch of the Republican congressional candidates, a decidedly white, middle-aged, and male demographic. ……Welcome to the 2000 Republican National Convention, a study in contrasts and paradoxes. A place where rhetoric does a careful pas de deux with reality. …….. That's what the Republicans' Philadelphia show is all about: Acting liberal so that moderates won't think they're extremists......."

National Review 8/2/00 Jay Nordlinger "…..It's not every day that a behind-the-scenes foreign-policy adviser is asked to speak during prime time at a national convention. But then, if you have Condoleezza Rice, you don't keep her behind the scenes. You do what George W. Bush did - thrust her into the spotlight. Bush is no dummy; he knows a star when he sees one. ….. The story is told of a man who was attending a symphonic concert for the first time. The soloist was Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, the German soprano who was once known as "the most glamorous woman in Europe." When Schwarzkopf took the stage, the man gasped, "And she sings, too?" The same can be said for "Dr. Rice." To put it bluntly - and what is the Internet for, if not to put things bluntly? - she is a drop-dead, traffic-stopping, ten-alarm beauty. ….. Dizzyingly enough, she was even better on content. She hit every right note. She spoke of the "power of truth and honor." She explained why her father, in the Jim Crow South, became a Republican: The Democrats made it too difficult to register to vote, and the Republicans were happy to have him. (She did not relate something she told me, last summer: Her mother was so beautiful and gracious, even the horrid Democrats gave her a pass.) ......In accounting for her own affiliation with the Republican party, she uttered what may prove to be the most thrilling line of the entire season: The GOP "sees me as an individual, not as part of a group." If only other Republicans would emphasize this vital quality! They would hardly ever lose. And Rice's words were a refreshing contrast to Colin Powell's heavily group-conscious speech of the night before. ......When Rice had finished, you could practically hear the entire hall - and the country outside it - sighing over her. A year ago, I predicted that, if George W. Bush is elected president, Condi Rice will be "rock-star big." She has taken a little ribbing over that. But nothing could be easier to predict. ……"

St. Louis Post-Dispatch 7/20/00 Clarence Page "……IS there an undercount of white hate-crime victims? It is easy to be skeptical about that charge. After all, it tends to be voiced most often and loudly by those who never wanted hate-crime laws to be passed in the first place. …….Nevertheless, I, for one, take the charge seriously. As an African-American, one of the groups that hate-crime laws were written to protect, I have a vested interest in making sure everyone, including white people, is equally protected by them. ……. ………… For example, the FBI's annual hate-crime reports list "Hispanics" as a victim category, but not as a perpetrator category. As a result, Calabro points out, "A Hispanic victim is counted as Hispanic, but a Hispanic perpetrator is counted as white." Maybe. Or, as I pointed out, a Hispanic perpetrator might wind up being counted as black, if the label fits. "Hispanics" come in all colors.. ……. Nevertheless, Calabro's complaint led me to think about the biases police, the press and politicians may have about who commits hate crimes. ………"

St. Louis Post-Dispatch 7/20/00 Clarence Page "……For example, a white immigration lawyer went berserk and killed five people - a Jewish woman, an Indian man, two Asian men and one black man - in a late April shooting spree in Pittsburgh. Police found a typewritten note, and media labeled the killings a possible "hate crime" within 24 hours. But media and police seemed much less eager to attach the "hate crime" label to a similar killing spree two months earlier by a black man, Ronald Taylor, who shot five whites, killing three, in the Pittsburgh suburbs. Police found "hate writings" in Taylor's apartment that were aimed at Jews, Asians, Italians and "the media," news reports said, but they omitted the term "hate crime" from most reports. I had to call the country prosecutor's office to confirm that, indeed, Taylor had been charged under Pennsylvania's version of laws that enhance penalties for hate-motivated crimes…….."

St. Louis Post-Dispatch 7/20/00 Clarence Page "……Talk shows and Web sites have been buzzing more recently regarding the fatal stabbing of a white 8-year-old, Kevin Shifflett, by a black man, while the boy was playing in front of his great-grandparents' home in Alexandria, Va., in April. Witnesses said the man made comments about killing white people during the attack. A note was later found with the phrase "Kill them racist white kids" in broken and misspelled English in a hotel room where the prime suspect had stayed. Yet, more than a week after the note was found, authorities were reluctant to call the crime a hate crime, even in media interviews. ...... Suspicions were further inflamed when The Washington Times reported that investigators had withheld racially sensitive information from their fellow officers, as well as the public. How come? Given how hypersensitive issues of race and ethnicity can be, I am not quick to fault officials who want to downplay the issue when it is not germane. But, with hate crimes, it is the whole point of the law. ......"

National Review 8/1/00 John J. Miller & Ramesh Ponnuru "……. George W. Bush can't exploit race in this election the way Republicans have in previous years, writes Judis, because - grab hold of your seat! - "over the last eight years, Clinton has substantially defused race issues." Surely Judis can't mean the man who played the race card on Sunday at a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago: "I'm worried about the people now that I've tried to put on the court of appeals, who are African- American or Hispanic, who are being held in political jail because they can't get a hearing from this Republican Senate." …….. Political jail. Interesting term - and politically loaded. Clinton had just finished attacking Dick Cheney for opposing a 1986 House vote that called for the release of Nelson Mandela from his South African prison - and official U.S. recognition of the African National Congress. Cheney has explained that he opposed the resolution because of the ANC provision. Clinton left that part out, railing against "an amazing vote cast by [Cheney] when he was in Congress against letting Nelson Mandela out of jail." He added, "That takes your breath away." ……Far from substantially defusing race issues, Clinton may be America's slickest race baiter. Just last month, at his talk to the NAACP, he blamed Jesse Helms for blocking his attempts "to integrate" the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. In May, he criticized Texas senators Phil Gramm and Kay Bailey Hutchison for their opposition to one of his court nominees, a man who happens to be Hispanic. Someone asked Clinton if that makes them racists. "I'm not saying that. You have to ask them, and people can draw their own conclusions," replied Clinton. ……"

Reuters 7/31/00 Anthony Boadle "……Reaching out to Hispanics like no previous Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. George W. Bush (news - web sites) is making inroads into the United States' fastest-growing ethnic electoral group, Latino supporters said on Monday. …..Bush has rid the Republican Party of its anti-immigrant stance of the 1990s and is drawing Hispanic voters away from their traditional Democratic allegiance, they said. …..``They are listening to Bush because they see him as a different kind of Republican,'' said Raul Romero, the party's National Hispanic Outreach coordinator and a Texas delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. ……."

Washington Times 8/1/00 Bill Sammon "…..Colin Powell, who was one of the only black faces on the dais at the 1996 Republican convention, was surrounded by so many minorities and women yesterday that it looked like a Democratic convention. …… Liberals were skeptical of what they called a calculated display of diversity by a party they routinely demonize as intolerant and even racist. But speaker after speaker in and around the GOP convention hall yesterday insisted that Mr. Bush's "compassionate conservatism" is far more appealing to minorities and women than the big-government paternalism of liberal Democrats……The most politically potent testimonial came from Mr. Powell, the only black to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Although the Gulf War commander differs with Mr. Bush on abortion and affirmative action, he hailed the Texas governor's politics of inclusion. "He has been successful in bringing more and more minorities inside the tent by responding to their deepest needs," Mr. Powell said in remarks prepared for delivery. "He will bring to the White House that same passion of inclusion. I know he can help bridge our racial divides."……."

Washington Times 8/1/00 Bill Sammon "…..Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colarado, a Democrat-turned-Republican, was among the speakers at yesterday's "diversity lunch." The American Indian lamented that his old party solves problems by creating government programs. "Democrats tend to say, 'We are going to help you,' " Mr. Campbell said. " 'We're going to take care of you poor folks because we know you can't take care of yourselves.' "…….He contrasted this paternalism to the Republican agenda of "empowering folks. It's telling people like American Indians, 'We're going to help you create an atmosphere in which you can be a success like everybody else.' "….."

Jewish World Review 8/7/00 Ann Coulter "……YOU NEVER BECOME so aware of race as when reading a New York Times news report on a Republican gathering. (It's funny how the people who are most vociferous about race are always upper middle-class Manhattanites who hire black women to clean their toilets.) In a typical New York Times observation about a George Bush rally, one sentence began: "Like all the crowds Mr. Bush has drawn during the last five days, the ones today were overwhelmingly white ..." ......Needless to say, the Times was duly indignant about all the blacks at the Republican Convention, denouncing the Republicans for their "strategic deployment of blacks as props," calling it a "form of minstrelsy" and "dressing up in blackface." Republicans may not be winning huge majorities of black votes, but at least we don't think we own them. ………. The real oddity about the parties is that the Democrats can't get white men to vote for them. Except in the landslide election in 1964, Democrats haven't been able to get a majority of men to vote for their candidate in any presidential election since 1944. ……"

Times/U.K. 8/10/00 Ian Brodie "……A SPATE of anti-Semitic slurs appeared on the Internet after the choice of Joseph Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, as Al Gore's running-mate on the Democratic presidential ticket Mr Lieberman said that despite the slurs he was convinced that Americans would vote for him based on what they thought of him as a person and whether he could do the job. "I don't kid myself, I'm sure there are some anti-Semites out there, but the American people are so tolerant," he told CNN. His answer was clearly intended to stifle any suggestion that Mr Gore may have stirred up an anti-Semitic problem that could put the Democrats at a disadvantage. ……"

CBSNEWS 8/9/00 "…….The president of the Dallas NAACP branch has resigned under fire following his suspension for making what the organization called "anti-Semitic" comments about Al Gore's running mate, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the first Jew named to a major national party ticket. "I can't support the leadership of the NAACP. Large amounts of money are being given to them by large corporations that I have a problem with," said Lee Alcorn, who said he had been anticipating a break with the NAACP and announced he has formed his own civil rights organization, the Coalition for the Advancement of Civil Rights. NAACP President Kweisi Mfume suspended Alcorn on Wednesday, saying he found his comments on a Gospel talk show about Lieberman to be "replusive" and anti-NAACP." ……… "

Jewish World Review 8/7/00 Nat Hentoff "……JUST AS the New Haven, Conn., train was leaving New York's Grand Central terminal, a white woman sitting next to me turned around sharply to listen to a conversation. The black conductor, who had been genially collecting tickets, was now standing next to a middle-aged white woman who looked confused. The conductor was trying to explain to her that if she didn't have a ticket, or didn't have the money to buy one, he'd have to put her off at the next station -- 125th Street. That thoroughfare is in the center of Harlem. "It's the rule," the conductor said. "I have no choice." The white woman beside me put down the romance novel she had been reading and said, to no one in particular, "He can't put her off on 125th Street!" ……… "Tell me," the conductor said to the woman, who saw herself as a good samaritan, "would you be saying this if I were letting a black woman off at 125th Street?" ……… "Would you," the conductor said again to the good samaritan, "have any objection if I were to put a black woman off at 125th Street? Why don't you answer that?" The concerned passenger snapped back, "Yes, I would!" "Really?" the conductor said derisively. "What you are really saying is that because 125th Street is in a black neighborhood, it's a dangerous neighborhood." Without answering that question, the samaritan, looking down at the woman at the center of the discussion, asked the conductor, "How much is her ticket?" …….Frowning, one of them handed her, without a word, a five-dollar bill. I hadn't noticed anyone else, including me, volunteering. It was as if we were all paralyzed in acute embarrassment. The samaritan marched over to the conductor and thrust the fare at him. He punched out a ticket and handed it to the woman from Darien, who let it fall in her lap. …….. Getting off the train, I asked myself why I hadn't stood and backed up the sole samaritan. Well, because I knew why the conductor had been so angry. He felt that his entire community, his family and his friends, were being stereotyped. But the good samaritan didn't understand that. And that was why the conductor wasn't able to acknowledge that the samaritan's fear of what might happen to the woman from Darien -- wandering drunk in Harlem -- wasn't necessarily due to racism, though it could have been. He, because of his life experiences, believed that it surely was. But why had I been silent? Because I didn't want him to think that I was a racist?….."

Washington Times 8/10/00 Ralph Hallow "……Mr. Alcorn defended his comments yesterday, saying they weren't intended to be anti-Semitic but rather to convey his political disagreement with Mr. Lieberman's positions. In an interview with The Washington Times, he said: "The larger question . . . is this: If you have a Jewish candidate, can you then be critical of his political positions and not be accused of anti-Semitism?
"Some in the African-American community feel uneasy with this relationship. They feel the Jewish community has benefited from the black community, which hasn't shown reciprocity," he said………Mr. Alcorn said he works closely with Jewish organizations and that "there is a history of friendship between the two communities." Still, he said, "It's generally known the Jewish community has the money."…….NAACP national Chairman Kweisi Mfume yesterday called Mr. Alcorn's comments "repulsive, anti-Semitic, anti-NAACP and anti-American."……….Mr. Alcorn said he has received many telephone calls from blacks and whites who said they agree with him and who ask whether one purpose of having Mr. Lieberman on the Gore ticket is to elicit guilt among voters for considering opposition to the Gore-Lieberman team. Hours later, though, Mr. Alcorn resigned and said he had anticipated breaking with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He continued to defend his remarks as legitimate political criticism and blamed "certain elements" for the furor…….."

Washington Times 8/10/00 Ralph Hallow "……Blacks and Jews have a long history, sometimes antagonistic, sometimes friendly. A generation ago, Jews were the strongest black allies on civil rights.
However, a survey last year of 900 blacks and 850 whites found 37 percent of blacks saying Jews had "too much influence," while 19 percent of whites held that view, according to David Bositis, pollster for the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a black research organization. Current black leaders have stoked the flames of animosity between the two groups……….. Former NAACP national Chairman Benjamin Chavis invited Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to a summit of black leaders. Mr. Farrakhan has described Judaism as a "gutter religion," praised Adolf Hitler and condemned Jewish power brokers in Hollywood for being the "greatest controllers of black minds, black intelligence." A poll two years ago found 49 percent of blacks gave a "favorable" rating to Mr. Farrakhan, while 61 percent of Jews had an "unfavorable" opinion of him…….The Rev. Al Sharpton, a black political leader courted by top Democrats including Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mr. Gore, once led a violent campaign against a Jewish store owner that resulted in fire bombings and deaths. He has derided Jews as "interlopers" and "diamond merchants."
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a White House ceremony yesterday, referred to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York as "Hymietown" during his 1984 presidential campaign……."

New York Times 8/10/00 Frank Bruni "...... Making his seventh campaign trip to California since he won the state's Republican primary early this year, Gov. George W. Bush today spoke a little Spanish, described his education and tax proposals as efforts to help less affluent Americans and headed straight for counties with relatively large percentages of moveable, malleable voters in the center of the political spectrum. ....... It was more than a glimpse into how Mr. Bush, the Republican presidential nominee, planned to challenge, or at least seem to challenge, Vice President Al Gore for California's 54 electoral votes. It also illuminated the Bush campaign's strategy from this point forward: to select the places that, and seduce the people who, tilted Democratic in the last two presidential elections but could be made to lean in the other direction this time around. ......."El sueño Americano es para todos," Mr. Bush said at the train station in Oxnard, north of Los Angeles, where he began a ride on the rails up the California coast. The Texas governor was saying that the American dream is for everybody. ......"

New York Posts 8/9/00 "…..Al Gore's choice of a Jewish running mate, Sen. Joe Lieberman, won't cost him votes, because anti-Semites vote Republican anyway. That is what some on the left want us to believe. It's nonsense, of course. The left has long tried to portray the GOP as a nest of racists and anti-Semites, suggesting that its own ranks are as pure as the driven snow. But the truth is quite different. …… Sure, there are Jew-haters on the right. But there are enough on the left, too. For years, the Anti-Defamation League has called attention to bigotry on both sides of the political spectrum. …… Indeed, it is the left, not the right, that backs policies with racist underpinnings and anti-Semitic outcomes. What else is affirmative action if not a belief that minorities can't compete with whites unless given a government boost? Meanwhile, Jews - only 2 percent of Americans - are never considered "minorities" for affirmative-action purposes. ......So the quotas and "goals" the left seeks come, in large measure, at their expense - plus that of non-Jewish whites in general, and non-Jewish white men in particular, and ... "

New York Post 8/9/00 Deborah Orin David Seifman "…….Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton - both of whom have had tensions with Jews - yesterday hailed Al Gore's choice of Joe Lieberman for vice president as a sign that barriers are falling for all. …… Sharpton - who in the past has sparked controversy with verbal attacks on "diamond merchants" and "white interlopers" - also sent Gore a letter hailing him for a choice "that transcends the nation's history of exclusionary politics." Jackson said the choice shows that "another barrier has fallen and a new opportunity has risen," adding that "fascists" have been both anti-Semitic and anti-black. But Jackson also told The Wall Street Journal that Lieberman must convince Arab-Americans that he'll be "fair" on the Mideast and "convince [voters] that he puts public policy and law above religion." …….. In 1984, when Jackson first ran for president, he touched off a firestorm by referring to New York as "Hymietown." Later that year, he charged that Democratic nominee Walter Mondale didn't even interview him for veep because Jewish leaders wanted "to make me a pariah." ….. The efforts by Sharpton and Jackson to energize black support for Lieberman came as some analysts wondered if Gore's veep pick risks decreasing black turnout this fall because of past black-Jewish tensions. ….."

Washington Times 8/9/00 Greg Pierce "……Newspapers and TV alike are hailing the selection of of Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut Democrat, as the first Jew on a major-party presidential ticket, which is true as far as it goes. But it should be noted that the first candidate of Jewish ethnicity to appear on a major-party ticket was Barry Goldwater, the 1964 Republican presidential nominee. Mr. Goldwater's father, Baron, was raised and died in the Jewish faith. His ancestors were Polish Jews named Wasserman - the name was changed by Barry Goldwater's grandfather, the first to arrive on these shores. However, Baron Goldwater married an Episcopalian named Josephine Williams. …….."Since there was no organized Jewish religion [in Arizona then], Baron followed the Jewish custom of allowing the children to be raised in the faith of their mother," Lee Edwards writes in his book "Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution." ……"

AP 8/9/00 "……The NAACP is considering suspending its Dallas branch president for the words he used in criticizing Sen. Joseph Lieberman, the first Jew named to a major national party ticket. Lee Alcorn, Dallas NAACP president, said Vice President Al Gore's selection of Lieberman as a running mate was suspicious. The comment sparked outrage from the Jewish and black communities. Speaking on a KHVN talk radio show Monday, Lee Alcorn, president of the Dallas NAACP, said: ``If we get a Jew person, then what I'm wondering is, I mean, what is this movement for, you know? Does it have anything to do with the failed peace talks?'' Alcorn continued, ``So I think we need to be very suspicious of any kind of partnerships between the Jews at that kind of level because we know that their interest primarily has to do with money and these kind of things.'' Kweisi Mfume, national president of the NAACP, condemned the remarks as ``repulsive, anti-Semitic, anti-NAACP and anti-American.'' ….."

Fort Worth Star-Telegram 8/10/00 Kathleen Parker ".....There's a fabled maxim among journalists: "If your mother says she loves you, check it out." Which is to say, there's no better profession for cynics, though most don't start out that way. Most enter the field as idealists certain they can save the world, or at least compel the occasional political indictment........... Experience disabuses most of such noble notions. Long hours, low pay and few friends outside the newsroom eventually produce a different kind of creature. After 23 years with newspapers, I understand the cynicism. The trick is to prevent cynicism from interfering with fairness. Unfortunately, most of us fail at least some of the time. Most covering the Republican Convention may have failed entirely......... To say the media are biased against the Republican Party is like saying Hitler was anti-Semitic. A majority of journalists are at least Democrat-sympathizers. In the 1992 presidential election, 89 percent of journalists voted for Bill Clinton, according to a 1995 study by The Roper Center and The Freedom Forum. Do reporters let their personal biases influence the way they cover politics? Um, let's see: Are reporters human? Never mind........It's easy to understand the cynicism. Where is the diversity? The better question may be, where are the reporters when diversity happens? Where were they when Rep. J.C. Watts, R-Okla., called a press conference Thursday afternoon? At a convention criticized for its pale complexion, Watts' appearance with a few dozen fellow African-Americans had the visual impact of a spontaneous oasis.......Suddenly in the midst of White Wonderland (the media, not the convention) materialized a crowd of black people eager to talk about conservatism and their man, George. Did you see the story? Didn't think so. Why? Because J.C. Watts is a black conservative, which constitutes non-news in the media tents. Perhaps the same non-news perspective is what kept the networks from covering Watts' speech before the 1996 Republican Convention. Cynicism or censorship? ......."

Fort Worth Star-Telegram 8/10/00 Frank del Olmo "..... Now that the Republican Party--or to be more precise, Texas Gov. George W. Bush's presidential campaign--has laid on its "We Love Latinos" shtick at the GOP convention, expect to hear a lot more about the so-called "Latino vote" as the Democrats prepare to open their convention here next week......... In the 2000 campaign, many in the news media have focused on Latinos as the "new" voter bloc that might decide a close election between Bush and Vice President Al Gore........ It's going to be more complicated than that. What could determine how Latinos cast their presidential ballots is the difference between the "Los Lobos vote" and the "Vicente Fernandez vote." And right now the Bush campaign seems to grasp the distinction better than the Democrats........ The Republicans even went so far as to have Fernandez, the popular Mexican singer who is the best-known interpreter of traditional ranchera music, sing at their Philadelphia convention the same night Bush gave his acceptance speech.

It was a remarkable gesture that the English-language media largely missed. However, it boggled the minds of Spanish-speaking reporters who were there. .....This brings me back to the important distinction between the Los Lobos vote and the Vicente Fernandez vote. ......Los Lobos, the popular Chicano rockers from East L.A., are among the entertainers who will be featured at the Democratic convention. Their most loyal fans are second- and third-generation Mexican Americans. About two-thirds of these assimilated citizens always vote for Democrats. ....... But after the fiesta his people put on in Philadelphia, Bush can start whittling away at the two-thirds of the Latino vote that usually goes to Democrats. He began doing that by reaching out to the Latino voters who are naturalized immigrants--people for whom Vicente Fernandez's traditional music is a warm reminder of home......."

NewsMax.com 8/9/00 Carl Limbacher "……..With relations sometimes strained between black and Jewish Americans in recent years, Vice President Al Gore's decision to pick Sen. Joseph Lieberman as his running mate prompts a key question: Will African-Americans enthusiastically vote for a Jew on a presidential ticket? While generally effusive in his praise for Lieberman, Rev. Jesse Jackson reminded Fox News Channel's Paula Zahn Tuesday night that the Lieberman pick could backfire. ZAHN: How much anti-Semitism do you think still exists in this country? JACKSON: Alot. I think that the challenge in this instance, you know, ultimately when blacks are under attack, the attack is very open and people gain from attacking blacks and using code words that are sometimes not so coded. …….. But to attack Jewish people in the same way is to in fact get a real response. So many people won't say a thing openly about (Lieberman's) religion. They'll say it in another way -- maybe at the polls. ……But I do hope that the moral challenge of removing the religious barriers, or race and gender barriers, I hope America will rise to that high ethical standard in this campaign...... "

Todd Purdum 3/10/95 New York Times "…….Joining the growing political debate over affirmative action, the Senator who is the new head of a centrist Democratic group with close ties to President Clinton said today that preferential policies based on race and sex were "patently unfair" and had helped lead to a breakdown in society. "When we have such policies, we have the effect of breaking some of those ties in civil society that have held us together, because they're patently unfair."……… "You can't defend policies that are based on group preferences as opposed to individual opportunities, which is what America has always been about," said Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, the new chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council. "When we have such policies, we have the effect of breaking some of those ties in civil society that have held us together, because they're patently unfair," he added. "And those who are the victims of them and lose out when choices are made based on group preferences as opposed to individual ability naturally become disaffected from the process." ……."

Todd Purdum 3/10/95 New York Times "…….Mr. Lieberman, who has known Mr. Clinton since the President's days at Yale Law School, said that "this business of deciding by group, in a sense, is the flip side of the argument that has flared up here in the last year about genetics, if you will, and the argument that some make that some groups are genetically less able than others. "That's an un-American argument," he added. "And it's an un-American argument because it's based on averages, not on individuals. And that's the same when we come to group preferences and quotas. America's about individuals, not about averages or groups……"

The Las Vegas Sun 8/8/00 AP "…..Seven white police sergeants in a Miami suburb who sued the Hispanic chief of police for reverse discrimination have been awarded $1.4 million by a federal jury. The suit claimed Hialeah Police Chief Rolando Bolanos favored Hispanic officers over whites when staffing prized units such as homicide and narcotics. The officers who sued were assigned to patrol and dispatch duty. The officers on Monday were each awarded $200,000 for lost wages and benefits since 1996. All but one officer waived claims for pain and suffering, and that officer was awarded $10,000. "The jury recognized that discrimination is discrimination, no matter what form it takes," said Michael Feiler, attorney for the sergeants. "These officers risked a lot by coming forward while still with the force." ……"

San Jose Mercury News 8/2/00 Dion Nissenbaum "…….Were it not for a stalled building permit, Abel Maldonado -- the baby-faced son of California farmworkers -- might not be stepping onto the national stage Thursday as a new voice in the Republican Party's efforts to woo Latino voters. Bureaucratic barriers to his expansion plans so frustrated the young Santa Maria farmer that he decided to take his gripe to City Hall: He became a city councilman. Fueled by family money, Maldonado quickly conquered politics in the central coast city. In five years, he climbed from city councilman to mayor to state assemblyman. Now, the 32-year-old son of Mexican immigrants is taking on his biggest challenge. Thursday, Maldonado will deliver the first-ever convention speech in Spanish to Republicans gathered in Philadelphia. ……"

Time Daily Online 8/2/00 Jessica Reaves "…… It's tough to upstage a lovingly prepared video retrospective of Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George Bush. But Condoleezza Rice may have done just that Tuesday night, when she took the floor at the GOP convention to tout George W. Bush's heretofore invisible foreign policy prowess. The former Stanford provost (she took a leave of absence to serve as Dubya's unofficial foreign policy adviser) gave a rousing speech, bringing the delegates to their feet and cementing her place in a Bush Cabinet. ......... It's generally understood that Rice is first in line to become W.'s national security adviser, and tonight's speech showed everyone why. Her fierce, articulate message, namely that the United States' interests abroad and at home would be best served by Bush's sensible leadership, was punctuated with personal Bush anecdotes: She's seen the governor interact with Mexican, Russian and Chinese leaders, and she was pleased with the results. And if anyone can convince the American people that George W. Bush is capable of defending America's place in the world, it's probably Rice. A Republican superstar even before Tuesday's speech, Rice, 45, has precisely the kind of inspiring American success story that has served as a thread through the proceedings in Philadelphia this week. ….."

Daily Express (U.K.) 8/6/00 Tim Shipman "….. HER name is an Italian musical term for sweetness but it is Condoleeza Rice's clinical intellect rather than her prowess at the piano that has shot her to international attention. Dubbed a "steel magnolia", 45-year-old Ms Rice is likely to become the first black person or woman to hold the crucial post of National Security Adviser to the world's most powerful man if her boss George W Bush wins the race for the White House in November. After emerging from the shadows this week to address the Republican Party convention in Philadelphia, her next grand stage could be as the US President's fireman at times of international crisis. A university professor at 26, Ms Rice's story tells how ability can triumph over racism and sexism in the stuffy, patrician world of American politics. ……. At the age of 10, during a family trip to Washington, she stared through the White House gate and told her father: "One day, I'll be in that house." She was right. Her rise has been meteoric. Having been taught by Josef Korbel, father of US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, she became a Professor at Stanford, then an adviser on Russian affairs under Bush's father. She returned to Stanford as their youngest ev