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Originally posted by Eclipse
Personnally, neither party speaks to me. The article said
Bush's speech to the Urban League, his third since becoming president, came as a new poll showed African-Americans overwhelmingly support John Kerry. The poll also showed black voters have yet to entirely warm up to Bush's Democratic challenger.
This to me says there are MANY religious, increasingly conservative Black folks (like me) who are looking for a reason to support someone other than Kerry. Unfortunately, my brand of "compassionate conservatism" does not look like what I see coming from the Republican party. Equally unfortunate, however, my brand of "liberalism" does not always match the Dems either.
What to do, what to do....
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There are many blacks (whether they will admit it or not) in this predictament as well.
I personally am not a fan of Kerry for my reasons and on the flip side, I am not a big fan of Bush for other reasons, but what is the REAL alternative? For me, it will be moral issues that will be my deciding factor, as will it may be for others that are in the same predicament. If I could just combine what I liked in each candidate (a conservative with a good head for money and the underserved, then there would be no problem.
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The deterioration of the Black family can not be fixed by any ONE party nor has it been caused by any ONE party. The question is still how will we save us? Can we put aside blind loyalty to a party to help our kids?
This quote from an editorial by Clarence Page says it best to me
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That’s why I find it interesting to imagine party leaders who, on an issue like this one, are willing to open the door, at least wide enough for some experimentation. When old ideas have played out, it makes sense to try some news ones, even if they come from your political opponents.
After all, as John F. Kennedy once said, sometimes party loyalty asks too much.
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By Clarence Page
Since we are now talking about education, what's wrong with holding people accountable for their actions? (in this case, underperforming schools). Education spending increases, but a student's progress doesn't? Somethings wrong here. Maybe the NCLB act will reveal who REALLY is preventing our kids from achieving academic success (and not the teachers as a lot of people tend to believe).
And on a final note....
No one needs to put disclaimers on their post IF your intentions is to participate in a discussion and not a Verbal Smackdown 2004. We all can come from different points of view and still discuss the topic at hand.