Ron Walters
Ron Walters
Ronald W. "Ron" Walterswas an American author, speaker and scholar of African-American politics. He was director of the African American Leadership Institute and Scholar Practitioner Program, Distinguished Leadership Scholar at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, and respected professor in government and politics at the University of Maryland...
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It muddies the water a lot right now. It could go any number of ways.
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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.
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Black people are mad because they feel the reason for the slow response is because those people are black and they didn't support George Bush. And I don't expect that feeling to go away anytime soon.
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And I don't expect that feeling to go away anytime soon.
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This is one situation in which I would not hazard to guess. I wouldn't have a clue.
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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.
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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 doesnt put us in a mobilization mode. And this is a war.
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where the population was predominantly white, where FEMA got cracking in a hurry.