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liveoaktx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-06-04 08:02 AM
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Black Commentator Audio: The Myth of GOP Outreach to Blacks
Edited on Mon Sep-06-04 08:05 AM by Dac_76
http://www.blackcommentator.com/radio_bc/090304/gop_blacks.wma

Also front page http://www.blackcommentator.com/103/103_cover_black_attack_dogs.html

Bush's Black Attack Dogs- Goal is Low African-American Turnout
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Meanwhile, the more familiar, down-and-dirty forms of Black voter suppression will run rampant – that’s why African Americans are so determined to vote, so that we can make up for the theft that is certain to be committed. MoveOn.org has joined Jesse Jackson and other Black leaders to demand that the Republican National Committee "disavow all forms of voter suppression, including voter intimidation, misinformation, purges of voter roles that disenfranchise qualified voters, the threat to discount provisional ballots, and other actions that undermine the rights of qualified Americans to vote." According to a paper issued by the NAACP and People for the American Way, The Long Shadow of Jim Crow:

This summer, Michigan state Rep. John Pappageorge (R-Troy) was quoted in the Detroit Free Press as saying, "If we do not suppress the Detroit vote, we're going to have a tough time in this election."
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-06-04 08:10 AM
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1. Pappageorge's quote basically sums up what the GOP thinks of Minorities
I hope everybody hears this
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