Reply #124: Let's Dissect This [View All]

- at Howard U., he said that carring about higher black incarceration rates is "liberal and weepy" and said that drug treatment programs is the way to deal with them (huh?)

Drug treatment instead of putting people in jail over drug use. It works for Republican drug users, it will work for minority drug users.

- for a long time, he said that he was the only candidate to talk about race in front of white audiences. When proven a lie, he only changed to say that he and Clinton were the only politicians to talk bluntly about race.

I don't know how this makes him racist or weak on race issues.

- Dean's blunt talk about race in his conference call actually turns out to be not-so-blunt talk about gender discrimination

I know nothing about this, please elucidate.

- Dean think class is an adequate proxy for race in AA programs

He never said that, you infered that.

- Dean says that civil rights legislation has gone as far as it can and the solution to the problem of racism is to change subconscious feelings.

Jesse Jackson Sr. said the essentially the same thing, except in 1995 Dean saw this and starting thinking that we should start exploring other avenues ('ought to look at') for Affirmative Action.