still has an opportunity to reach out to blacks during the reconstruction, giving the displaced people a role in the project. But there is a problem. Already, he has made some mistakes. No-bid contracts are going to firms with close ties to Bush, and those don't tend to be minority-owned businesses. |
The cost of running that operation in Massachusetts is horrendous in comparison to running a business here. We are in a rural area here (in Pennsylvania) and most people who work here live close. |
The geographical politics of this makes a whole lot of sense. |
The question in my mind is whether the civil rights community acted fast enough, ... Here we are at the deadline, and how many black people know what we know about his record? It doesn’t put us in a mobilization mode. And this is a war. |
There are so many candidates in the race. Whoever can get a critical mass of voters will win the race. |
There is so much anger out there, I think it is going to be very difficult for Republicans to break through to African Americans. |
This is one situation in which I would not hazard to guess. I wouldn't have a clue. |
where the population was predominantly white, where FEMA got cracking in a hurry. |